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Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Politics
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On This Day, May 7: U-boat sinks British liner Lusitania killing 1,200
May 7 (UPI) -- On this date in history: In 1718, the French established the city of New Orleans on land inhabited by the Chitimacha tribe. The actual date of the city's founding is unknown, but the anniversary is traditionally observed May 7. In 1789, the first U.S. presidential inaugural ball, celebrating the inauguration of George Washington, was conducted in New York City. In 1824, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was performed for the first time. In 1913, homemade bombs found under the bishop's throne in St. Paul's Cathedral and opposite the offices of Evening Star in Bouverie Street, were deemed by police to have been the work of suffragettes. A stone bust of Ludwig van Beethoven stands near the Old Playground Pavilion in Tower Grove Park in St. Louis on March 3, 2021. On May 7, 1824, Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony" was performed for the first time. File Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI In 1915, a German U-boat sank the British liner Lusitania off the coast of Ireland, killing nearly 1,200 people. In 1921, in an exclusive interview with the United Press, Sun Yat Sen, president of the Canton Chinese government, outlined his policy proposals as he sought recognition for his fledgling government. The St. Anne Parade marches down Royal St in New Orleans on Fat Tuesday, February 21. On May 7, 1718, the French established the city of New Orleans on land inhabited by the Chitimacha tribe. File Photo by AJ Sisco/UPI File Photo by Stephen Shaver/UPI In 1945, U.S. Army Gen. Dwight Eisenhower accepted the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany from Gen. Alfred Jodl. Germany's Gen. Gustav Jodl (C) signs the unconditional surrender documents on May 7, 1945, in Reims, France, ending the war in Europe. He is flanked by Col. Wilhelm Oxenius (L), his aide, and German Adm. Hans Georg von Friedeburg. UPI File Photo In 1954, rebel Viet Minh forces overran the French stronghold of Dien Bien Phu, bringing about the end of French control in Indochina and creating the division of Vietnam. In 1987, Rep. Stewart McKinney, R-Conn., died at age 56, the first member of Congress identified as a victim of AIDS. McKinney contracted the virus following a tainted blood transfusion. On May 7, 1994, "The Scream," Edvard Munch's famed expressionist painting, was found in a hotel room south of the Norwegian capital of Oslo three months after it was stolen. File Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI In 1994, The Scream, Edvard Munch's famed expressionist painting, was found in a hotel room south of the Norwegian capital of Oslo three months after it was stolen. Thieves stole the painting again in 2004 and it was recovered a second time in 2006. In 2000, Vladimir Putin was sworn in as Russia's second president in the first democratic transfer of executive power in the nation's 1,000-year history. France's newly elected president, Emmanuel Macron, addresses a crowd of well-wishers at the Louvre in Paris on May 7, 2017. Macron won the presidency over nationalist leader Marine. File Photo by Clement Martin/UPI In 2007, officials reported no survivors in the crash of a Kenyan Airlines plane that went down in a Cameroon mangrove swamp with 114 people aboard. In 2014, a Thai court, in an abuse-of-power ruling, removed Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra from office. File Photo by Stephen Shaver/UPI In 2017, France elected Emmanuel Macron, of La République En Marche! Party, president over Marine Le Pen of the National Front. In 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin was inaugurated to his fifth term in office despite much of the Western world boycotting the ceremony because of the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Times
03-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
The Times Saturday Quiz: May 3, 2025
1 The next leap year will be in which year? 2 Which two-digit number describes a cone of ice cream with a chocolate flake in it? 3 In 2024, who became the first London mayor to win a third term? 4 The Borders Railway runs between which capital city and Tweedbank? 5 In 1945, which Casablanca star bought the yacht Santana for $50,000? 6 Begun in 1833, the Oxford Movement was a conservative movement within which church? 7 What number is half a gross? 8 The watercolours in Georgia O'Keeffe's Evening Star series likely depict which planet? 9 Which premium supermarket's long partnership with the online food retailer Ocado ended in 2020? 10 Which English singer released the chart-topping 2014 debut album In the Lonely
Forbes
21-03-2025
- Science
- Forbes
Where Did Brilliant Venus Go? The Science Behind Its Vanishing Act
UNSPECIFIED - JANUARY 30: This set of images taken from Northampton in May 2004 show Venus as a ... More slowly shrinking crescent. The images were taken with a 180-cm Maksutov-Newtonian telescope. Photograph by Jamie Cooper. (Photo) Every night for the last five months, a bright "star" has been blazing away in the western sky just after sunset. Now it's gone. What's going on? Venus has been slowly getting closer to the sun and will pass roughly between Earth and our star this weekend — something astronomers call "inferior conjunction." On Saturday, March 22, Venus will be completely lost in the sun's glare and impossible to observe — but it's going out with a bang. For the past month, Venus has been sinking lower to the horizon in the post-sunset western sky, appearing closer to the sun with each passing day and rapidly losing latitude — sunlight, from our point of view. As it has done so, the views of Venus have been spectacular, with some even seeing it as a 'rainbow planet.' Since it's an inner planet as seen from Earth (its orbit around the sun takes just 225 days, compared with Earth's 365 days), we've been seeing the phases of Venus as it approached Earth, and it is now undertaking it on the inside. For the last few months, it has become a crescent and, in recent weeks, has become a thin sliver. Something similar happened with the far dimmer Mercury, which was shining with Venus at the beginning of March. Both have now dropped from the night sky, ending the planet parade that caught the attention of many sky-watchers. From Earth's perspective, Venus — for so long earning its nickname the "Evening Star" — will pass into the sun's glare. In the weeks after, it will emerge into the pre-dawn eastern sky and shine brightly as the "Morning Star." It will quickly rise higher into the twilight. Here are a few highlights for Venus-gazing over the next few months: While Venus transits to the morning sky, only two naked-eye planets remain of the "planet parade" — Jupiter and Mars. These two outer planets, which lie farther from the sun than Earth so can't undertake us like Venus and Mercury, are called superior planets by astronomers. Now high in the southern sky after dark, as seen from the Northern hemisphere, Jupiter is in the constellation Taurus, and Mars is in Gemini. The latter will align perfectly with Gemini's two bright stars, Castor and Pollux, on April 10 The next planetary parade — this time featuring six planets, excluding Mars — will be seen before sunrise on August 29, 2025. The moment the inferior conjunction of Venus can, on rare occasions, mean we see it appear to pass across the disk of the sun. That's a transit of Venus, which last happened on June 5 to 6, 2012, and won't happen again until Dec. 10/11, 2117. According to The Planetary Society, the orbits of Venus and Earth are in an 8:13 resonance, so Venus appears to loop around the sun 13 times every eight years from Earth's point of view. Wishing you clear skies and wide eyes.
Yahoo
14-03-2025
- Science
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When's the next eclipse? Will next week's solar eclipse be visible in Texas?
Missed last night's lunar eclipse? Unfortunately, you'll have to wait nearly a year for the next one — and for much of Texas and the Eastern U.S., visibility may not be as clear as it was early this morning. On the bright side, several other astronomical events are coming up this year, including two this month: dual visibility of Venus and a partial solar eclipse. Plus, as Solar Cycle 25 reaches its peak, the chances of seeing the northern lights are higher than usual. Those who missed the solar eclipse that took place last night into early this morning will have more opportunities as astronomical alignments are set to improve in the next few years. From 2025 to 2030, there will be 14 lunar eclipses, and of those, nine will be visible in the U.S., according to NASA. The next lunar eclipse will be visible in the United States on March 3, 2026. The first partial solar eclipse of 2025 will occur on March 29. However, it will not be visible in Texas, reaching only the northeastern portion of the United States. The second partial eclipse of the year will come on Sept. 21, but according to NASA, will not cover any of the United States. Venus, the brightest planet in the Solar System, will put on a rare and enchanting display early next week. From March 18-21, skywatchers in select locations will have the unique opportunity to see Venus twice in a single night — once as the 'Morning Star' before sunrise and again as the 'Evening Star' after sunset. This phenomenon occurs due to Venus's position relative to the Sun and Earth, making it visible on both sides of the horizon within the same 24-hour period. This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: When's the next eclipse? See when the next solar, lunar eclipses are
