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Europe is once again in the midst of a historically severe drought. Now an ancient site known as the “Spanish Stonehenge”\u2014submerged underwater by a reservoir for decades\u2014has been fully exposed for the second time<\/a> since 2019 due to low water levels. The site is also known as the Dolmen of Guadalperal, a circular grouping of 150 large vertical granite stones (called orthostats) dating back to between 2000 and 3000 BCE. A team led by German archaeologist Hugo Obermaier discovered it in 1926.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Suspects in Alabama Shooting Posted New Age Conspiracies<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201c2 Goddess and a starseed are stranded in Colorado,\u201d Yasmine Hider wrote in a frantic Instagram post on May 23. \u201cWent to go camping out in the mountains and got snowed in.\u201d She posted a photo of a snowy mountain scene, and then a second image of herself alongside a woman named Krystal Pinkins and Pinkins\u2019 five-year-old son. All three beam into the camera, the women grinning, the boy\u2019s arms outstretched. Four months later, Hider and Pinkins are in custody in county jail in Ashland, Alabama<\/a>, charged with murder, kidnapping, and robbery after a violent alleged attack on two college students in the woods of Alabama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Guessing C every time gets you a passing grade on the New York State algebra exam<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It might seem hard to believe, but Ed Knight has done the math, and he shows his work in this Medium post<\/a>. If you were to pick C for every answer on the New York State algebra exam, you would wind up passing (which, due to grading on a curve, apparently requires a mark of just 26 out of 86). “Because the Regents exams are important, NYSED is very careful to produce high quality tests that challenge the students and accurately measure and report student progress,” he writes. “Ha, just kidding. That car is driving you right off a cliff.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Maybe the TV show ALF looked like fun, but it sounds like hell<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In case you don’t remember it, ALF was a popular prime-time comedy in the late 1980s, and the central character was an alien (his name stood for Alien Life Form) with a sarcastic sense of humour. Anyway, filming the show was apparently incredibly time-consuming<\/a> and complicated, to the point where a half-hour show took more than 24 hours to film. And co-star Max Wright apparently got so frustrated and enraged that he physically attacked the puppet and had to be restrained. When the last show filmed he got in his car and left without a word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brazil receives embalmed heart of Portuguese king<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The embalmed heart of the Portuguese monarch who declared the independence of Brazil from Portugal 200 years ago was received with the military honors of a head of state<\/a> in Brasilia on Tuesday at the start of bicentenary celebrations. The heart, kept in formaldehyde in a glass jar inside a gold urn, arrived at the presidential palace in an open Rolls Royce flanked by a mounted color guard and was received by President Jair Bolsonaro with a gun salute. Air Force planes flew past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Latvia demolished a monument that was erected by Russia<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\ud83d\udd34B\u016bvnieki demont\u0113ju\u0161i pieminek\u013ca kompleksa centr\u0101lo obelisku. pic.twitter.com\/WzeSsFxHZz<\/a><\/p>— LTV Panor\u0101ma (@ltvpanorama) August 25, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote>