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Contact Lens of the Future Is Remarkable Ethiopia Planted 353M Trees —in Half a Day Egypt Opens “Bent Pyramid” Meet the New Electric Road Egypt opened two of its oldest pyramids, Ethiopia claims it has smashed a world located about 25 miles south of the capital record in the name of climate change— Cairo, to visitors for the rst time since and the tree planting isn’t even done. 1965. Antiquities Minister Khaled el-Anany More than 353 million tree seedlin told reporters that tourists are now allowed gs were planted across the country in to visit the Bent Pyramid and its satellite pyramid in the Dahshur royal necropolis, which is part of the Memphis Necropolis, You may one day drive down roads charged with electricity that your vehicle automatically detects and sucks up through an automatic arm—if a just 12 hours as part of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s Green Legacy refores tation campaign. e campaign hopes a UNESCO World Heritage Site. e Bent Swedish project gains any headway. Called eRoad- to see 4 billion indigenous trees plant Pyramid, which the AP reports was built during the Old Kingdom of the Pharaoh of Sneferu, in about 2600 BC, is unique in that Arlanda, it has turned 1.2 miles of road outside Stockholm into a kind of slot-car track where electric trucks insert movable arms into a rail to recharge the vehicle’s ba ery while driving. Designed between May and October. Citizens had been encouraged to plant 200 mil lion trees but Ahmed tweeted that 150 it has two internal structures. El-Anany said ers say the technology is weather-proof and the million had been planted a er just hours. At the end of 12 hours, the country’s minster for innovation and te chnology, Getahun Mekuria, announced 353,633,660 seedlings had gone into the ground—more than ve times as many trees as were planted in India over the Bent Pyramid represents a transitional form of pyramid construction between the Djoser Step Pyramid (2667-2648 BC) and arm will rise automatically when one car passes another, Sky News reports. The rails are also said to be safe to the touch. 12 hours in 2017. Some schools and government o ces closed to allow stu dents and civil servants to take part, which notes 2.6 billion trees have now been planted across Ethiopia. e Guardian reports each citizen is asked to plant at least 40 seedlings. e goal is to transform Ethiopia’s landscape, which the Meidum Pyramid (also about 2600 BC). e Guardian notes its "unusual" shape: e rst 160 feet rise at "a steep 54 degree angle, before tapering o towards the top." “One of the most important issues of our time is the question of how to make fossil-free road transportation a reality,” says eRoadArlanda Chairman Hans Säll. “We now have a solution that will make this possible, which is amazing.” Among its pluses, is seeing degradation, soil erosion, deforestation, and droughts and ooding tied to agriculture. About 80% of Ethiopia’s population relies on agriculture to make a living, with the result that just 4% of land is now forested, com pared to 30% at the end of the 19th century, according to Farm Africa. Per El-Anany also announced that Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered a collection of stone, clay, and wooden sarcophagi, some Säll says the electric road lets vehicles have smaller ba eries and therefore makes vehicles cheaper to produce. The $7.7 million project will be tested with a truck fleet for two years, and if the government approves, it could be implemented for $1.9 Al Jazeera, a recent study estimates that 1 trillion new trees could pull al most 750 billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere—or about as much as humans have released in the last 25 years—over several decades of them with mummies, in the area. He said archaeologists also found wooden funerary masks along with instruments used for cutting stones, dating to the Late Period (664million per mile and include buses and cars. “Sweden is at the cu ing edge of this technology, which we now hope to introduce in other areas of the country and the world,” Säll says. US Teen Wins $3M at Fortnite World Cup 332 BC). Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, said they also uncovered large stone blocks teen contestants Emil Bergquist Pe dersen from Sweden and David Wang from Austria shared a $3 million prize. Art Expert Gives Museum Some Really Bad News A museum in southern France suffered a terrible blow when experts declared that over half its paintings are forgeries, The Pennsylvania 16-year-old Kyle along with limestone and granite fragments Terrus museum, dedicated to the work of painter Étienne TerGiersdorf plays 8 to 10 hours of Fortnite a day, but his parents aren’t complaining: Giersdorf, indicating the existence of ancient graves in the area. Egypt has been whipping up publicity for its new historical discoveries in rus, apparently knew nothing of the fakes until an art historian informed them. “It’s a catastrophe,” the mayor of Elne, where the museum resides, tells the Telegraph. “I put myself in the place of all the people who came to visit the museum, With a total prize pool of $40 million provided by Epic Games, Fortnite’s pa rent company, the tournament broke an better known as ”Bugha,” won the hopes of reviving a devastated tourism who saw fake works of art, who paid an entrance fee. It’s in- e-sports record, though that record is expe a record-breaking $3 million at the inaugural Fortnite World sector still recovering from the turmoil following a 2011 uprising that toppled tolerable and I hope we find those responsible.” Police have taken the fakes and are trying to find those responsible. cted to be broken by an August event cal led “ e International” Giersdorf, the rst longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak. Cup at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York. e contest featured player in the North American East Region to qualify for the tournament, was domi 100 participants out of around nant in the six-game series, beating rivals 40 million who entered the on- including runner-up Harrison “Psalm” line competition. Giersdorf, who Chang, who took home $1.8 million. won the solo event in front of a Giersdorf was hugged by his family a er packed stadium, says he plans to the win. “ is is life-changing for him,” save the prize instead of going mother Darcy Giersdorf says. “He’s been on a spending spree. ”All I want playing video games since he was three, so is a new desk and maybe a desk this is his passion. He told us he could do for my trophy. In the duo event this, he put his mind to it and he did it.”
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15 Years Later, Tsunami’s Toll 12 Year Old Steals Moms Credit Card.. Heads on Vacation France Won’t Let Go of Long-Lost MasterpieceRemains Mind-Boggling It still haunts me.” e line from 28-year-old ai resident Suwanne Maliwan to Reuters expresses a common sentiment ursday, the 15th anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami that claimed 230,000 lives. Maon April 21, 2016, and the heirs can’t quit squabbling. Here’s a look at where things liwan, for instance, lost both her parents and ve other relatives. ”Sometimes I dream that A 12-year-old Australian boy has pulled off a bold feat that drew international headlines: He stole his mom’s credit card and managed to fly to stand: Even though it’s been nearly two years since Prince died, the executor of the estate, Comerica Bank and Trust, can’t split the money among Prince’s six surviving siblings until the Internal Revenue Service and executor agree on the estate’s value a wave is coming,” she says. Vigils and memorials across Asia were commemorating Bali, Indonesia, for a posh, four-day vacation before ge ing caught. As recounted in the Australian program A Current Affair, the boy did some research online and figured out he could fly alone without needing a It’s not clear when that might happen. The IRS and state of Minnesota are entitled the staggering loss of life in what was one of the world’s deadliest natural disasters. A 9.1 le er from a parent on Jetstar Airways. He nabbed his mom’s credit card, tricked his grandmother into giving him his passport, took a train to the airport, and flew to Bali. “They just asked for my student ID and to collect about half, though the estate can stretch out the payments over time. Court magnitude earthquake o Sumatra island passport to prove that I’m over 12 and that I’m in secondary school,” filings several months a er Prince’s death suggested that it was worth around $200 million before taxes. The actual value remains one of the biggest secrets in the case, the morning a er Christmas in 2004 trigsays the boy, identified only as Drew. He then checked into a four-star hotel, having made reservations in advance, telling the clerk that his hidden in sealed and redacted documents. The actual valuation could have gone up gered the tsunami and unleashed waves as older sister would be joining him soon. or down since then. That’s because the various a orneys, accountants, and industry experts at that point had not yet finished appraisals and deals for the use of his music, high as 57 feet. And there he stayed, having a fine time while his panicked mom reportvideos, and assets including his Paisley Park studio. ed him as missing back home. It wasn’t until the boy posted a video of Coastal areas of ailand, Indonesia, India, himself in the hotel pool that his vacation finally came to an end. “I was shocked and disgusted, there’s no emotion to feel what we felt when sentative contacted school officials Thursday about the surprise message, says a spokeswoman for the district. Sri Lanka, and other countries were deluged. One of the rst areas hit was Indonewe found out that he’d le overseas,” says mom, per news.com.au. One reason she’s ticked: Her son had actually tried this stunt twice before, only to be turned away at the airport by Qantas and Garuda Airlines. Johnson said he admires Kelzenberg's courage but that he won't be able to a end sia’s Aceh province, notes CBS News. In fact, most of those killed were in Indonesia alone, Mom says she was informed her son’s passport would be flagged by federal authorities as a result, but that apparently never happened. In the a ermath, Jetstar promises to tighten up its policies. “He just doesn’t prom because he'll be in Hawaii filming Jungle Cruise. Instead, Johnson rented out a nearby movie theater on Saturday for where 170,000 deaths were registered. ”No words can describe our feelings when we like the word no and that’s what I got, a kid in Indonesia.” Kelzenberg and more than 230 friends and family to watch his latest movie, Rampage. Johnson even covered the cost of snacks tearfully saw thousands of corpses lying on this ground 15 years ago,” said acting Aceh Apparently 82 of the museum’s 140 works are phony, spo ed at times because they contained buildings constructed a er and drinks for the theater. "I couldn't believe it. I was so surprised," Kelzenberg says. "I just kept thinking, 'He saw me! He Gov. Nova Iriansyah at a ceremony in Sigli. ”And now, we can see how people in Aceh Terrus died in 1922. Acclaimed for his landscapes of French Catalonia, Terrus was close with artists Aristide Maillol and Henri Matisse and lived mostly in Elne, a town on the Tech knows who I am!'" Kelzenberg says she became a fan of Johnson's five years ago. Her favorite movies of his include Central were able to overcome su ering and rise again, thanks to assistance from all IndoneRiver that’s less than three miles from the Mediterranean coast of Languedoc-Roussillon. The museum spent over $190,000 acquiring paintings they thought were his. But the Intelligence and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. sians and from people all over the world.” Terrus likely isn’t alone: Art experts say at least one in five paintings in the world’s top museums may well be fake. Shop In RI 5 ShopInRI 7
France is trying to hang onto a medieval painting with a crazy backstory. e nation has blocked the export of a small, 13th-century work by the Italian artist Cimabue, a painting that hung unnoticed for decades above a hotplate in a French woman's kitchen. An auctioneer spotted the painting as the elderly woman was preparing to sell her house, and Christ Mocked then sold for a staggering $26 million at auction earlier this year, recounts the Guardian. e buyers are anonymous, but they're believed to be a group of Chilean collectors based in the US. Now, however, it looks like they won't be able to own the painting a er all. France's culture ministry has declared the work to be a "national treasure" and has at least temporarily overruled the sale, reports USA Today. e ministry hopes to hang the painting permanently in the Louvre, and it now has 30 months to come up with the money to buy it. In the meanti me, the family of the unidenti ed woman who displayed the painting for years, unaware of its origin or its worth, must continue to pay to have it insured. ey also owe a multi-million-dollar inheritance tax, and they'll likely have to work out a deal to pay it a er the sale goes through. Looking to permanently while away your days overlooking the Tasman Sea and sipping on vino while watching "nice animals" with other "nice people"? Karl Reipen wants to hear from you. e Guardian reports the German multimillionaire has placed an ad seeking 10 people up to age 70 to come live in what he calls his "paradise," a 550-acre, $5.6 million estate in Awakino, on New Zealand's North Island. "If you are interested to live a life with a Group of Interesting people it can be a new life for you," reads the ad, which Stu NZ reports was published twice in the New Zealand Herald. Reipen,
who made his fortune in canned iced co ee, notes in the ad that the estate boasts a winery "for social meetings and dining," and that residents "can enjoy walking, shing, shopping, kayaking, bird watching, swimming or looking at the nice animals." ere are also stables and an indoor equestrian center on-site, and Reipen says, "If you would like to bring your own horse it is possible." Interested parties who prefer privacy will like that the property is an hour and a half from the nearest large town or city. e current government under Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern put in place a ban on foreigners owning homes in New Zealand, but Reipen scooped up
Multimillionaire Invites 10 People to Come Live in ’Paradise’ the property years before that manda te. He still had to get the OK from the nation's Overseas Investment O ce, which signed o on his purchase a er it determined he had the experience and means to build the property up and maintain it. "It took me 10 years to bring it to the standard of today," he writes in the ad. It's not clear how fu ture dwellers in Reipen's self-proclai med utopia will be selected.
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An Englishman whose children returned him to his love of metal detecting now plans to fund their educations with the proceeds from his most valuable nd to date: England’s oldest gold coin. ”I used to be a keen metal detectorist but once I had a family the detector ended up getting buried in a cupboard,” Michael Leigh-Mallory, 52, tells the Guardian. ”One day my wife said to me: ’You realize you promised you’d take the kids metal detecting.’” at day, Emily, 13, and Harry, 10, helped him uncover an Elizabethan coin. ”It really ignited my passion so I
Meet Methuselah, the sh that likes to eat fresh gs, get belly rubs and is believed to be the oldest living aquarium sh in the world. In the Bible, Methuselah was Noah’s grandfather and was said to have lived to be 969 years old. Methuselah the sh is not quite that ancient, but biologists at the California Academy of Sciences believe it is about 90 years old, with no known living peers. Methuselah is a 4-footlong (1.2-meter), 40-pound (18.1-kilogram) Australian lung sh that was brought to the San Francisco museum in 1938 from Australia. A primitive species
Sikka Khan’s family was torn apart during India’s partition in 1947—but a er 74 years, he was nally reunited with his brother. When the British departed India in 1947 and drew a new border to divide its former colony, many Muslims ed to Pakistan while many Hindus and Sikhs came into India, the Washington Post explains. As many as two million people died as some people turned against one another violently. Khan’s family was Muslim, and he was just 6 months old at the time. His 10-year-old brother nearly lost his life escaping to Pakistan, his father did lose his life trying to do the same, and his mother took her own life, leaving Khan alone. A local family of Sikhs took him in and raised him, and he spent years asking Muslims on their way to Pakistan to look for his brother, taking out newspaper ads, scouring the internet, and even posting on social media.Recently, however, younger generations have renewed attempts to reunify families separated during the partition; on one YouTube channel dedicated to doing so, Khan’s brother told his family’s story. A relative of the family that took Khan in as a baby saw the video and thought the story sounded familiar. It wasn’t long before the relationship was con rmed, and the newly reunited siblings were with lungs and gills, Australian lung sh chatting on WhatsApp—sometimes are believed to be the evolutionary link more than once a day. between sh and amphibians. e COVID-19 pandemic delayed their “ ese strange creatures — with green plans to meet in person, but this month, scales looking like fresh artichoke leaves they nally found a way to meet in a — are known to scientists as a possible visa-free passage that allows Indians ‘missing link’ between terrestrial and to visit a Sikh holy site inside Pakistan. aquatic animals.” Video of the two men rushing into each other’s arms to embrace, and cry, went viral locally. ey’re now trying to get visas so they can see each other more o en. Until a few years ago, the oldest Australian lung sh was at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. But that sh, named Granddad, died in 2017 at the age of 95.
invested in a new detector,” says Leigh-Mallory. On Sept. 26, a day a er his new purchase arrived, he was searching a farmer’s eld in Hemyock, 150 miles southwest of London, when he saw a glimmer of gold. It was only a er posting a photo of the coin on social media that he realized it was one of about 52,000 gold pennies struck around 1257 by William of Gloucester, the goldsmith of King Henry III, who is shown on his throne on one side of the coin— and the rst to be found in 260 years, per the BBC. Most of the pennies, made from gold imported from north Africa, were later melted down. Indeed, Leigh-Mallory’s coin—which may have once belonged to the former lord of the manor, John de Hyden—was just the eighth example known to exist and one of four held in private hands, according to Spink & Son auctions. It sold Sunday to a private collector for the equivalent of about $873,000 including fees, a record-breaking sum, per the Guardian. ”Not only does this stand as the most valuable single coin nd in British history, but also the most valuable medieval English coin ever sold at auction,” says Gregory Edmund of Spink & Son. Leigh-Mallory says he’ll split the proceeds with the landowner. ” is really is a life-changing sum of money,” he tells the Guardian, noting his plans to send his children to university. ”Had it not been for a promise I made to my children to go out searching, I do not believe this gold coin would ever have been found,” he adds. ”I really owe it to them … as they were my inspiration to go out prospecting.” History-loving Emily has already joined a local archaeology society and hopes to study archaeology at university down the road.
