There are parallels between America’s current political situation and the conditions leading to the collapse of the Roman Republic more than 2,000 years ago, according to an International Business Times commentary published on RawStory.com.Ned Resnikoff, political capital reporter for IBT, writes that the Roman Republic was decaying long before Julius Caesar marched on the city in 49 B.C. and toppled it for good ... WN.com, Jim Berrie ....
More than a foot of rain in some places flooded low-lying areas across the Houston region on Monday, forcing officials to suspend bus and rail service, close schools and government offices and urge residents to stay home amid what authorities said were extremely dangerous conditions, CNN reported."This is a life-threatening emergency....
New research suggests that in reality, more dinosaur species were vanishing than new ones were emerging up to 50 million years earlier ... As a result they were unable to recover from the environmental crisis caused by the meteor impact, which blacked out the sun with millions of tons of dust that cooled the global climate and caused widespread vegetation loss, the report said.– WN.com, Jack Durschlag....
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas DarlingNot only is New York State the future face of the two main political parties, but with 400 delegates at stake in Tuesday’s primary race starring presidential hopefuls Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, everything can change in a “New York minute.” Indeed, the Empire State is where millions of immigrants suddenly got a new start in life and fortunes made overnight on Wall Street....
Relief efforts continue in southern Japan following back-to-back strong earthquakes that killed at least 42 people last week and left the country in shambles, the Belfast Telegraph reported Monday.The U.S. military will join rescuers as they redouble efforts for 10 missing people on the southern island of Kyushu, where many area were cut off by landslides and road and bridge damage ... The U.S....
* Freshman Jemima Gregson earned All-SunBeltSecond Team honors at the league's annual banquet on Monday night ... * Georgia State will compete in the final round of the Sun Belt Championship on Tuesday at The RavenGolf Club ... - Georgia State freshman Jemima Gregson was named to the All-Sun Belt Women's Golf Second Team on Monday night at the annual banquet following the second round of the Sun Belt Championship....
Four more families of crew members who died when the El Faro cargo ship sank during an October hurricane have settled wrongful-death claims for $500,000 each with the ship’s operator. Tote Services Inc. and Tote MaritimePuerto Rico, as the ship owner, have reached settlements with the estates of 18 crew members totaling at least $9 million ... read more ... ....
Officials running the Panama Canal on Monday started imposing restrictions on the depth of ships passing through because of lower water levels caused by a severe drought. The measure trims ships’ maximum ......
Previously, the only way to watch Amazon's videos was to pay $99 a year for Prime membership, which includes free two-day shipping on items sold by the site, and other perks.FILE - This Sept....
Bachchan, whose name figured in the PanamaPaper leaks as allegedly having links with offshore entities in two tax havens, has already denied any connection with those companies, saying his name may have been “misused” ... Referring to the report, Bachchan, 73, said, “I do not know any of the companies referred to by Indian Express – Sea Bulk ShippingCompany Ltd, LadyShipping Ltd, TreasureShipping Ltd, and TrampShippingLtd ... ....
As one of its daily deals, That Daily Deal offers the Sona 45-Lumen Headlamp, model no. FL8215, for $4.99 ... With free shipping, that's less than a buck over our mention of just one lamp from three weeks ago and $3 under the best price we could find for a 2-pack of these lamps elsewhere ... They ship randomly in either orange or yellow and require 3 AA batteries each (not included). Deal ends April 19 ... ....
DealsADay offers the SanDisk X400 1TB 2.5" Serial ATA 6Gb/s Internal SSD, model no. SD8SB8U-1T00-1122, for $239.99 with free shipping. That's tied with last week's mention and the lowest total price we could find by $10, although most stores charge $275 or more. It features read speeds of up to 545MB/s and write speeds of up to 520MB/s. A close price. PlatinumMicro via eBay offers it for $240.99 with free shipping... ....
Rio shipped 84 million tonnes from its operations in Australia and Canada, including tonnes owned by joint venture partners like Sinosteel and Gina Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting... Rio was supposed to be shipping 350 million tonnes from the pilbara in 2017, but indicated it would not meet that target because its "autohaul" system of automated trains were running behind schedule....
(Source. Royal Australian Navy) ...Petty OfficerPhysicalTrainerKristianWeldon said the ship's company of Adelaide were ready for the evaluation ... Damage control exercises are a fundamental part of the evaluation process and test a ship's response to major emergencies such as fire and flood sustained by combat damage ... He said the ship was early on in her work-up and had performed 'as expected' in her first test ... OriginalDocument ... (noodl....
A quick prerequisite is that Amazon Prime, although it does offer a video buffet to its subscribers, also offers other benefits such as free 2-day shipping on all Amazon warehouse items, Amazon Prime Music and a few others ... That means no 2-day shipping or Music ... Of course, there is always the option to pay the extra $2 and get the Prime Music and $2.99 shipping each month as well....
With an Amazon PrimeVideo subscription, you only get access to Amazon's video library -- no expedited shipping, no music library ... You get access to expedited shipping, Prime video, Prime Music, and the Kindle Lending Library... ....
(Source. Sun Yat-Sen University) ... The Sun Yat-sen University Center for English-languageCreative Writing welcomed writers from Australia, Indonesia and the Philippines for three workshops on April 12, 2016 ... '1 ... Students from Sun Yat-sen University and other interested members of the community attended the workshops. Sun Yat-Sen University issued this content on 19 April 2016 and is solely responsible for the information contained herein....
See also. See a guy summon his Tesla with an AppleWatch... The company missed its initial November 2015ship date and pushed back pre-order fulfillments to the first quarter of 2016. As of this writing, the company says that anyone intending on using the Apple Watch with system software prior to the watchOS 2.0.1 (the current watchOS is 2.2) will have their order shipped "in the coming weeks." ... That's two missed ship dates ... ....