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☆ Meet the Hunt dynasty, owners of the Kansas City chiefs, and one of the richest families in America
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-30 | by ( Rachel Askinasi | Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

He founded Hunt Oil Company in 1936. He saw great success in the oil business and reportedly used profits to invest in other industries like publishing, cosmetics, and even pecan farming. Bettmann/Contributor/Getty ImagesSource: Encyclopedia Britannica, The New York Times

☆ Air India's history as Tata pours in money to revive the airline
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

CHENNAI, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Air India is carving out an ambitious renaissance under the Tata Group conglomerate, which regained control earlier this year after the airline was nationalised nearly seven decades ago. The report came days after Tata announced the merger of Air India with Vistara, a joint venture with Singapore Airlines, to cement itself as the country's largest international carrier and second largest in the domestic market after IndiGo (INGL.NS). The merged Air India entity will have 218 planes and fly to 52 domestic and 38 international destinations. Here is Air India's timeline that includes financial troubles, reputation drop and Tata's plans to restore it. *sourced from Britannica($1 = 82.5650 Indian rupees)Reporting by Praveen Paramasivam in Chennai and Nandan Mandayam in Bengaluru; editing by David EvansOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Fact Check-Red Krampus-design coffee cup created by tattoo artist, not Starbucks, in 2015
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

One Facebook user said: “I don’t participate in Starbucks coffee. Starbucks coffee cups just in time for christmas... A spokesperson for Starbucks told Reuters via email that “this is not a Starbucks cup, nor a cup that we’ve had”. I’m a professional tattoo artist and one day I had a customer reschedule their appointment with me. It was created by an American tattoo artist in 2015.

☆ Travel warnings: What other nations tell their citizens about US violence
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-27 | by ( Forrest Brown | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

After all, the rate of gun-related deaths in the United States has been going up in recent years. CNN Travel keeps a periodic check on what the governments of the United States’ neighbors and closest allies tell their citizens about coming here. It also tells its citizens that “violent crime, including gun crime, rarely involves tourists, but you should take care when traveling in unfamiliar areas. In many states, it is legal for United States citizens to openly carry firearms in public. “Violent crime has targeted individuals and groups from the LGBTQIA+ community and those with diverse ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds.

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☆ Football or soccer? It’s complicated …
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-26 | by ( Allison Rosen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Football, or soccer, has been around for centuries with its roots dating back over 2,000 years ago, but it was not until 1863 that England’s Football Association (the FA) cemented the sport’s full name of Association Football when they established the game’s first rules. Courtesy of U.S. Soccer and National Soccer Hall of FameBy the time association football and its round ball made its way across the Atlantic, American Football was already the popular game claiming the name of football. Unlike association football, American football is a game played mostly with one’s hands and uses an oval ball. Fast forward to 1974 and the United States Soccer Football Association (USSFA) – the sport’s governing body in the US – distanced itself from the word football by changing its name to the United States Soccer Federation, commonly referred to as the USSF (US Soccer). In places where football can be ambiguous, soccer is usefully precise.”In 1994, soccer fever reached a highpoint as the US hosted the World Cup.

☆ Oklahoma couple accused of killing 6 kids in murder-suicide faced financial pressures
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-01 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

BROKEN ARROW, Okla. — An Oklahoma couple considered “primary suspects” in last week’s killings of their six children faced growing financial pressures and the husband experienced recurring pain from a workplace head injury, family members say. “I turned on the 6 o’clock news, and they said there had been a fire near Hickory and Galveston in Broken Arrow. Medical examiners at the scene of a house fire in Broken Arrow, Okla. on Thursday. I just don’t understand why he ended up in that situation. I talk to God all the time — and I just don’t understand.”

☆ SpaceX books another ride for a millionaire around the moon
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Jackie Wattles | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —SpaceX said Wednesday that it has booked yet another mission around the moon for a wealthy thrill-seeker on its forthcoming Starship spacecraft. He declined on Wednesday to share any financial information about the upcoming Starship mission. It’s not clear when the first crewed Starship mission will take off, however. But Starship is far bigger than anything that SpaceX — or any other rocket developer — has ever built. It’s expected to have more thrust than both NASA’s Saturn V rocket, which powered the moon landings of the mid-20th century, and the space agency’s new moon rocket, called SLS, or Space Launch System.

☆ A member of the billionaire Safra family who owns the Encyclopedia Britannica might be about to lose his $204 million Napa Valley vineyard after defaulting on a loan
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-30 | by ( Jack Newsham | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

But one of his top holdings — Spring Mountain Vineyard, valued at $204 million — could be seized. But that may not stop a private lender from grabbing a prized California vineyard owned by Jacob E. "Jaqui" Safra, a colorful investor and member of the family who lives in Switzerland. With interest accruing at 16%, as of late July, the balance on the loan is $192 million, Safra's lawyer Marc Kasowitz said in court papers. Atmosphere at Live In The Vineyard on Day 1 at Spring Mountain Vineyard for music, food and wine on November 6, 2014 in St Helena, California. "Applicant seeks to restrain defendants from exercising their rights…with respect to a California vineyard," he wrote.

☆ The highest quality footage ever of the Titanic shows astonishing close-ups of the underwater wreck. Take a look.
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-04 | by ( Joshua Zitser | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The 'unsinkable' shipThe Titanic 2022 Expedition team's footage has already led to experts identifying astonishing new details about the doomed luxury liner. A screenshot of the 2022 Titanic Expedition footage shows a single-ended boiler that fell to the ocean's floor. Green lights from the laser scaling system on the 2022 Titanic Expedition. An OceanGate Expeditions spokesperson told Insider that the organization worked with NASA to design and engineer it. With the 2022 Titanic Expedition now completed, OceanGate Expeditions is already planning for the next trip to the wreck.

☆ De ce avem sărbători pe „stil vechi” și pe „stil nou” în R. Moldova?
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-14 | by ( Maria Svet | ) www.zdg.md time to read: +6 min

Toată încurcătură cu sărbători pe stil nou și sărbători pe stil vechi s-a creat din cauza diferenței dintre calendarele iulian și gregorian. Între calendarul iulian, numit și cel „pe stil vechi” și calendarul oficial, cel gregorian, este o diferență de 13 zile. Dacă în prezent diferența dintre sărbătorile pe stil nou și cele pe stil vechi este de 13 zile, aceasta va crește tot mai mult. Acest calendar iulian revizuit seamănă destul de mult cu cel gregorian, însă el a fost aprobat doar de o parte dintre Bisericile Otordoxe: Biserica Ortodoxă a Constantinopolului, Biserica Ortodoxă a Alexandriei, Biserica Ortodoxă a Antiohiei, Biserica Ortodoxă Greacă, Biserica Ortodoxă Cipriotă, Biserica Ortodoxă Română, Biserica Ortodoxă Poloneză și Biserica Ortodoxă Bulgară (în 1963). Din acest motiv în prezent mai sunt câteva biserici care nu au adoptat calendarul iulian: Biserica Ortodoxă a Ierusalimului, Biserica Ortodoxă Rusă, Biserica Ortodoxă Sârbă, Biserica Ortodoxă Georgiană, Biserica Ortodoxă Ucrainiană și calendariștii vechi greci.

Persons: Iulius Caesar, lea, Grigore al XIII, Luigi Lilio, ., Natan Organizations: Universitatea din, Biserica, a Alexandriei, Biserica Ortodoxă Locations: Moldova, Alexandria, Universitatea din Perugia, Constantinopol, Constantinopolului, Biserica, Antiohiei, Ortodoxă Greacă, Cipriotă, Biserica Ortodoxă Română, Biserica Ortodoxă Poloneză, Biserica Ortodoxă Bulgară, Ierusalimului, Biserica Ortodoxă Rusă, Biserica Ortodoxă Sârbă, Biserica Ortodoxă Georgiană, Biserica Ortodoxă Ucrainiană, britannica.com

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Persons: Sixtus al V - lea, George Washington, Grigore Vieru, Ion, Doina Aldea - Teodorovici, Eminescu, Hans Christian Andersen, Ali, Bill Bryson, Yoda Organizations: Bayer, EA, HIM Locations: Roma, Germania, Germaniei, SUA, Washington, Bhutanului, Europa, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Republica Democratică Congo, Africii, Maraton

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