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#901 Post by Karearea » Mon Apr 22, 2024 8:12 am

More skating:

Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps free programme. Deanna is 40 and most skaters are considered old after 25. She originally skated singles, had a 16-year break from competing, and came back as a pair skater.

Stellato-Dudek / Deschamps (CAN) | Pairs Free Skating | Montréal 2024 | [8:40]

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#902 Post by Karearea » Mon Apr 22, 2024 8:12 am

But there was this well-remembered routine back in 2006, concluding with a display of the Death Stare...

Barbara Fusar-Poli & Maurizio Margaglio, Olympic 2006, OD [5:21]

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#903 Post by probes » Fri Apr 26, 2024 11:07 am

We got problems with the radio here ... That's pretty evident.
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#904 Post by probes » Tue Apr 30, 2024 5:56 am

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What's the object?
‘Great enigma’: Amateur archaeologists unearth mysterious Roman object
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#905 Post by Karearea » Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:16 am

probes wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 30, 2024 5:56 am
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What's the object?
‘Great enigma’: Amateur archaeologists unearth mysterious Roman object
A little about them here: Wikipedia: Roman dodecahedron

Interesting objéts.
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#906 Post by probes » Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:46 am

Karearea wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:16 am
 A little about them here: Wikipedia: Roman dodecahedron
Interesting objéts.
Tnx!
Looks like CNN could do with the hint :) as well.
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#907 Post by Hydromet » Tue Apr 30, 2024 6:59 am

Talking of dodecahedrons...
They are much harder to make than the other platonic solids. My money is on the Roman ones as some sort of guild piece or demonstration of the maker's skill.
Dodecahedron - NAV 1.JPG
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#908 Post by Karearea » Mon May 06, 2024 7:25 am

This was being shown on a screen at Warbirds Over Wanaka, in the display there by the Air Force Museum:

P-3 Orion - The Story of an Extraordinary Aircraft [13:35]

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#909 Post by Karearea » Sat May 11, 2024 12:10 am

Keep calm and carry on... :)

1960: Schoolgirl ARRESTED In EAST GERMANY Returns | BBC News | Voice of the People | BBC Archive [2:54]

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#910 Post by Karearea » Fri May 24, 2024 5:54 am

New York, 1911

X/Twitter video, runs 3:17

https://x.com/RjNol/status/1793349269069479988
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#911 Post by tango15 » Fri May 24, 2024 8:02 am

Karearea wrote: ↑
Sat May 11, 2024 12:10 am
 Keep calm and carry on... :)

1960: Schoolgirl ARRESTED In EAST GERMANY Returns | BBC News | Voice of the People | BBC Archive [2:54]

How well-spoken and intelligent is that young lady? Can you imagine an interview like that today, interspersed with the words 'like' 'OMG' 'totally, really really, etc. If only the UK had kept its educational standards at that level.
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#912 Post by probes » Fri May 24, 2024 10:49 am

Even if slightly virtue-signalling in its title, a heartwarming story:

She was the first Black woman to fly in the US Air Force. Now this trailblazing pilot is making her final flight
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#913 Post by Karearea » Fri May 24, 2024 6:13 pm

Colour films are insanely rare in the 1920s, which makes this 26-part travelogue of the UK exceptional. Filmed in 1924 by Claude Friese-Greene using his father's colour process invention, I've edited a preview for Twitter, but it is now available on DVD, restored by the BFI
2:15 video with glimpses of Plymouth, Aberdeen, Liverpool, Stirling, Market Drayton, Cockington, Cardiff, London:

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#914 Post by Hydromet » Sat May 25, 2024 12:00 am

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 Filmed in 1924 by Claude Friese-Greene using his father's colour process invention...
Nominative determinism?
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