Toroid
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I wonder if that's a weapon or other technology.
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Romanian Skier being Chased by a Bear
A young man skiing in Romania got quite the scare over the weekend when a bear emerged from some nearby woods and began chasing him down the mountain. According to a local media report, the unsettling incident occurred this past Saturday at a resort in the community of Predeal. As some guests were riding the ski lift at the site, they spotted a skier being pursued by a bear and promptly sprung into action, warning him about the worrisome predicament.
Exhorting him to ski faster, the witnesses warned the man that he was being chased by a bear and declared "God forbid, don't look back!" With the message being received, the skier smartly decided to ditch his backpack in the midst of the chase, which drew the animal's attention away from him and allowed him to escape the situation unscathed. Authorities in Predeal say that the bear in question has apparently been seen rather frequently at the resort in recent weeks and, as such, they may be forced to relocate the creature since it appears to be growing more brazen in its behavior.
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French woman spends three years trying to prove she is not dead
In the flesh, Jeanne Pouchain appears very much alive and well. Convincing the French authorities of this has proven another matter. After being declared dead by a court, Pouchain has spent three years trying to have herself officially resuscitated.
The 58-year-old from Saint-Joseph, near Lyon, has not existed in the eyes of France’s administration since 2017, after a long-running legal dispute involving a former employee at her cleaning company.
“I went to see a lawyer who told me it would be quickly resolved as I had been to my doctor who certified that I was very much still alive. But because there had been a [legal] ruling, this wasn’t enough,” Pouchain told local journalists.
Her lawyer, Sylvain Cormier, was also astonished at her greatly exaggerated death. “It’s a crazy story. I couldn’t believe it. I never thought that a judge would declare someone dead without a certificate. But the plaintiff claimed Mrs Pouchain was dead, without providing any proof and everyone believed her. Nobody checked,” he told AFP.
The decision by the court of appeal in Lyon to declare Pouchain no more came in November 2017 after more than a decade of legal battles with a disgruntled former employee.
A 2004 industrial tribunal had ordered Pouchain to pay the former member of staff – reportedly let go from her job when Pouchain’s firm lost a major contract – about €14,000 in damages. As the case was against her company and not Pouchain personally, the ruling was never enforced. In 2009, the employee sued again but the case was thrown out of court.
In 2016, believing Pouchain dead, an appeal court ordered her son and husband to pay the damages. The following year, the employee informed the industrial tribunal her letters to her former boss were unanswered and she had died. Pouchain was scratched from the official records, invalidating her identity card, driving licence, bank account, health insurance and other official documents necessary to prove her existence.
As her lawyer sought this week to have her officially resurrected, Pouchain accused the former employee of inventing her demise in an attempt to win damages from her heirs. The employee’s lawyer counter-argued that Pouchain was the author of her own demise, and had played dead to avoid paying the damages, accusations she has denied.
“I have no identity papers, no health insurance, I cannot prove to the banks that I am alive … I’m nothing,” Pouchain said.
“It’s time someone said ‘stop’. If I don’t fight nobody is going to fight for me. My husband’s grandmother is 102 … she has lived through many things, including the war, but she says she’s never suffered anything as hard as I’ve been through.”
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Toroid
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In 2008, a kayaking tourist spotted a “face” etched into a cliff on a remote island in Canada’s Pacific Rim National Park Reserve. She snapped photographs of the rocky countenance, but when she returned to land, she wasn’t able to pinpoint its exact location. No one has been able to find it since.
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wwkirk
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It seems silly that uncovering a simple cross should excite interest. It's a very basic shape. Some of these could be impressive, though.
Leaving aside the St. Andrews, Plain Latin, St. Peter's (which might not be distinguishable from the Plain Latin), and the St. George's, finding the one of the others could be significant.
wwkirk
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Stargate?
Toroid
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I couldn't find any information on this event. I saw the link on SteveQuayle.com.
Steve Quayle - Giants - Dead Scientists - Gold Metals - Radio Host
www.youtube.com/watch?v=02Vmn_geWZc&feature=youtu.be
Steve Quayle - Giants - Dead Scientists - Gold Metals - Radio Host
www.youtube.com/watch?v=02Vmn_geWZc&feature=youtu.be
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pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
Microbiologist traces possible origin of AIDS epidemic to WWI soldier
Microbiologist traces possible origin of AIDS epidemic to WWI soldier
By Isabel Vincent January 30, 2021 | 6:02pm
World War I soldiers train in Cameroon in 1915.
AIDS likely made the leap from chimpanzees to humans because of a starving World War I soldier who was forced to hunt the animals for food, according to a new book.
The unknown “Patient Zero” was part of an invasion force of 1,600 Belgian and French troops who, along with 4,000 African aides, had traveled from Leopoldville in the Belgian Congo to a remote outpost in Cameroon, says Canadian microbiologist Jacques Pepin, who once worked as a bush doctor in central Africa in the 1980s.
Pepin, a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at Universite de Sherbrooke in Quebec, makes the intriguing hypothesis the focus of a new edition of his famed book, “Origins of AIDS.”
“Patient Zero” was likely injured after killing a subspecies of chimp — Pan troglodytes troglodytes — infected with a simian virus that was a precursor to HIV, or Human Immunodeficiency Virus, the virus which causes AIDS, Pepin writes in the tome recently published by Cambridge University Press.
In a 2011 edition of the seminal book, Pepin originally posited HIV leapt from chimps to humans after an injured African hunter killed one of the beasts in 1921, becoming infected in the process. Pepin then chronicles how the virus’ spread was fueled throughout the world by colonization, prostitution, and “well-meaning” public health campaigns which lacked what are now common safety protocols, such as barring the sharing of needles.
In the second edition, released this month, Pepin draws on research in medical archives in Africa and Europe suggesting ‘Patient Zero’ was not a native hunter, but instead a starving World War One soldier forced to hunt chimps for food when his regiment got stuck in the remote forest around Moloundou, Cameroon and ran out of food supplies.
Most books about AIDS begin in 1981, when a group of gay men in the US began to die after contracting a virulent pneumonia. Since then, HIV has gone on to kill 33 million and infect nearly 76 million people around the world.
“Some may say that understanding the past is irrelevant,” writes Pepin in the introduction to the new edition of his book. “We have a moral obligation to the millions of human beings who have died, or will die, from this infection. Second, this tragedy was facilitated (or even caused) by human interventions: colonization, urbanizations and probably well-intentioned public health campaigns.”
Microbiologist traces possible origin of AIDS epidemic to WWI soldier
By Isabel Vincent January 30, 2021 | 6:02pm
World War I soldiers train in Cameroon in 1915.
AIDS likely made the leap from chimpanzees to humans because of a starving World War I soldier who was forced to hunt the animals for food, according to a new book.
The unknown “Patient Zero” was part of an invasion force of 1,600 Belgian and French troops who, along with 4,000 African aides, had traveled from Leopoldville in the Belgian Congo to a remote outpost in Cameroon, says Canadian microbiologist Jacques Pepin, who once worked as a bush doctor in central Africa in the 1980s.
Pepin, a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at Universite de Sherbrooke in Quebec, makes the intriguing hypothesis the focus of a new edition of his famed book, “Origins of AIDS.”
“Patient Zero” was likely injured after killing a subspecies of chimp — Pan troglodytes troglodytes — infected with a simian virus that was a precursor to HIV, or Human Immunodeficiency Virus, the virus which causes AIDS, Pepin writes in the tome recently published by Cambridge University Press.
In a 2011 edition of the seminal book, Pepin originally posited HIV leapt from chimps to humans after an injured African hunter killed one of the beasts in 1921, becoming infected in the process. Pepin then chronicles how the virus’ spread was fueled throughout the world by colonization, prostitution, and “well-meaning” public health campaigns which lacked what are now common safety protocols, such as barring the sharing of needles.
In the second edition, released this month, Pepin draws on research in medical archives in Africa and Europe suggesting ‘Patient Zero’ was not a native hunter, but instead a starving World War One soldier forced to hunt chimps for food when his regiment got stuck in the remote forest around Moloundou, Cameroon and ran out of food supplies.
Most books about AIDS begin in 1981, when a group of gay men in the US began to die after contracting a virulent pneumonia. Since then, HIV has gone on to kill 33 million and infect nearly 76 million people around the world.
“Some may say that understanding the past is irrelevant,” writes Pepin in the introduction to the new edition of his book. “We have a moral obligation to the millions of human beings who have died, or will die, from this infection. Second, this tragedy was facilitated (or even caused) by human interventions: colonization, urbanizations and probably well-intentioned public health campaigns.”
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Woman spots her 'dead' mother, 89, is ALIVE just seconds before she was CREMATED - and manages to avert disaster
A woman in Argentina was shocked to discover that her mother was still alive seconds before she was about to be cremated. The 89-year-old mother, who has not been named, was admitted to a private hospital in Resistencia, a city in northeast Argentina, after complaining of chest pain on Saturday.
The following day, doctors at the facility gave a death certificate to her daughter, 54, stating that the woman had died following a cardiac arrest. As funeral workers prepared to pass the elderly woman through the conveyor belt at a crematorium, her daughter managed to stop the cremation after noticing she still had vital signs.
According to the newspaper Diario Norte, the 89-year-old woman had been in a private clinic since Saturday. When her daughter came to visit the next day, she was told by staff that her mother had died of a cardiorespiratory arrest and was given her death certificate.
The local police said: '(The daughter) went to the sanatorium at 8.45am where she met with a doctor who told her about the death of her mother after suffering cardiorespiratory arrest, for which she was sent to the crematorium on Velez Sarsfield Avenue and hired the funeral and cremation service.'
According to the news site Info Veloz, at the funeral, the daughter noticed that her mother still had vital signs as she was about to enter the incinerator and quickly told employees to stop the cremation.
The woman then sent an audio to one of her relatives saying: 'I just wanted to let you know that mum is still alive. In the end, we were in the cremation room and we saw her with her vital signs. Now we're going to the clinic.'
The patient was returned to the private clinic where she is currently being treated in intensive care. Her daughter has reportedly denounced the clinic to the local authorities who confirmed that they will carry out a full investigation.
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A woman in Argentina was shocked to discover that her mother was still alive seconds before she was about to be cremated. The 89-year-old mother, who has not been named, was admitted to a private hospital in Resistencia, a city in northeast Argentina, after complaining of chest pain on Saturday.
The following day, doctors at the facility gave a death certificate to her daughter, 54, stating that the woman had died following a cardiac arrest. As funeral workers prepared to pass the elderly woman through the conveyor belt at a crematorium, her daughter managed to stop the cremation after noticing she still had vital signs.
According to the newspaper Diario Norte, the 89-year-old woman had been in a private clinic since Saturday. When her daughter came to visit the next day, she was told by staff that her mother had died of a cardiorespiratory arrest and was given her death certificate.
The local police said: '(The daughter) went to the sanatorium at 8.45am where she met with a doctor who told her about the death of her mother after suffering cardiorespiratory arrest, for which she was sent to the crematorium on Velez Sarsfield Avenue and hired the funeral and cremation service.'
According to the news site Info Veloz, at the funeral, the daughter noticed that her mother still had vital signs as she was about to enter the incinerator and quickly told employees to stop the cremation.
The woman then sent an audio to one of her relatives saying: 'I just wanted to let you know that mum is still alive. In the end, we were in the cremation room and we saw her with her vital signs. Now we're going to the clinic.'
The patient was returned to the private clinic where she is currently being treated in intensive care. Her daughter has reportedly denounced the clinic to the local authorities who confirmed that they will carry out a full investigation.
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nivek
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Terrifying moment divers find man alive in sunken tugboat
Dramatic footage emerged, showing the unlikely rescue of a ship’s cook, who survived for almost three days trapped in an air bubble in his sunken ship.
To dive into shipwrecks, at that depth requires some balls.
To recover dead bodies in the ship, balls of steel.
To not completely loose your shit as a hand grasps yours in graveyard ghostship?
That is some epic shit.
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