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Deep in the waters along a volcanic ridge in the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, sea explorers using a remotely operated vehicle to examine largely unexplored areas found a pattern of holes in the sand. During the dive, north of the Azores, near Portugal\u2019s mainland, on July 23, they saw about a dozen sets of holes resembling a track of lines on the ocean floor<\/a>, at a depth of 1.6 miles. Then about a week later, on Thursday, there were four more sightings on the Azores Plateau, which is underwater terrain where three tectonic plates meet. Those holes were about a mile deep and about 300 miles away from the initial discovery. There is no known cause for the holes, which appear to have been excavated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The super-rich \u2018preppers\u2019 planning to save themselves from the apocalypse<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Author Douglas Rushkoff writes about being invited to speak at an event organized by a group of millionaires and billionaires, who wanted to know how they should save themselves from the coming apocalypse<\/a>. “They started out innocuously and predictably enough. Bitcoin or ethereum? Eventually, they edged into their real topic of concern: New Zealand or Alaska? Which region would be less affected by the coming climate crisis? It only got worse from there. Which was the greater threat: global warming or biological warfare? How long should one plan to be able to survive with no outside help? Should a shelter have its own air supply? What was the likelihood of groundwater contamination?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Is this a sketch of Michelangelo carving his famous statue of David?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

A drawing nestled in the margin of a 15th-century edition of Dante\u2019s Divine Comedy<\/em> shows Michelangelo at work, says author and scholar James Hall who researched the sketch for his new book, The Artist\u2019s Studio: A Cultural History<\/em>. Hall said his interest in the illustration was piqued at a lecture on the Dante book given by Bill Sherman, the director of the Warburg Institute in London, a centre for academic research into the Renaissance. The drawing shows an artist at work sculpting a colossal head, wielding a mallet<\/a>. An armless statuette stands behind him. \u201cYou don\u2019t usually get something that looks naturalistic and human which is telling an extremely interesting story, illustrating a simile in Dante,\u201d Hall said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tending grass and grief on an Iowa tennis court<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Exactly 20 years ago, Mark Kuhn, together with his wife Denise and their two sons, Mason and Alex, began the laborious and experimental undertaking of building a grass tennis court on their farm on the outskirts of Charles City, Iowa. It took more than a year to finish. It was the realization of a dream the reluctant third-generation farmer had held since 1962<\/a>, having become enamored of Wimbledon two years previously when he heard a BBC broadcast on his grandfather\u2019s shortwave radio. Twelve years old and absent-mindedly doing his chores, Mark noticed the cattle feedlot he was standing in was about the size of a regulation tennis court. But it wasn\u2019t until the sudden death of a close friend, some 40 years later, that he was galvanized to try to make his far-fetched daydream a reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last confessions of Italy\u2019s most infamous Mafia murderess<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Author Barbie Nadeau reveals the secret life of a female don who, after avenging her husband’s killing, embarked on a decades-long run as a crime lord<\/a> \u2014 and her counterpart, the woman who married a mobster but became an anti-crime crusader. “Pupetta Maresca \u2014 murderess, mafiosa, diva, film-star wannabe \u2014 would have loved how people remembered her when she died shy of New Year\u2019s Eve 2021. Local authorities banned a public funeral for her, disallowing the celebration of a life so badly lived. She would have reveled in that, I know. She would have thought to herself, \u201cFuck you, bastards, I have the last word.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photographer captures a bear and a wolf, being the best of friends<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Finnish photographer Lassi Rautiainen managed to document an amazing friendship between a male brown bear and a female gray wolf in Finland, who spent their evenings together and even shared a deer carcass for dinner. “No-one can know exactly why or how the young wolf and bear became friends,” he told the Daily Mail<\/a>. “I think that perhaps they were both alone and they were young and a bit unsure of how to survive alone. It seems to me that they feel safe being together, and so every evening met up for their dinner.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The “rocket wars” in Greece<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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It looks weird, but there's a place in Greece where two rival church congregations in the town perform a "rocket war" by firing tens of thousands of home-made rockets across town, with the objective of hitting the bell tower of the church of the other side https:\/\/t.co\/hOso5Cnjoh<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/uXjK1a7b1u<\/a><\/p>— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) September 7, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote>