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☆ Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, study finds
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-13 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

The 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, Spanish scientists said on Saturday, after using DNA analysis to tackle a centuries-old mystery. Other theories range from him being a Spanish Jew or a Greek, to Basque, Portuguese or British. They compared them with those of known relatives and descendants and their findings were announced in a documentary titled “Columbus DNA: The true origin” on Spain’s national broadcaster TVE on Saturday. After analysing 25 possible places, Lorente said it was only possible to say Columbus was born in Western Europe. On Thursday, Lorente said they had confirmed previous theories that the remains in Seville Cathedral belonged to Columbus.

Persons: Christopher Columbus, Columbus, Miguel Lorente, “, Hernando Colón, ” Lorente, Reyes Catolicos ’, Isabella, Ferdinand, Lorente Organizations: Spain’s, TVE, Columbus . Research, Columbus Locations: Western Europe, Spanish, Americas, Genoa, Italy, Basque, Seville Cathedral, Columbus, Hernando, Spain, Hebrew, Valladolid, Hispaniola, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba, Seville

☆ Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, study reveals
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-13 | by ( Story Reuters | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Reuters —The 15th-century explorer Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Western Europe, Spanish scientists said on Saturday, after using DNA analysis to tackle a centuries-old mystery. “We have DNA from Christopher Columbus, very partial, but sufficient. People visit the mausoleum of Christopher Columbus in the cathedral of Seville, Spain October 11, 2024. Marcelo del Pozo/ReutersAfter analyzing 25 possible places, Lorente said it was only possible to say Columbus was born in Western Europe. On Thursday, Lorente said they had confirmed previous theories that the remains in Seville Cathedral belonged to Columbus.

Persons: Christopher Columbus, Columbus, Miguel Lorente, “, Hernando Colón, ” Lorente, Reyes, Isabella, Ferdinand, Marcelo del Pozo, Lorente Organizations: Reuters, Spain’s, TVE, Columbus . Research, Columbus Locations: Western Europe, Spanish, Americas, Genoa, Italy, Basque, Seville Cathedral, Columbus, Hernando, Spain, Hebrew, Seville, Valladolid, Hispaniola, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Cuba

☆ When Harlem Was ‘as Gay as It Was Black’
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-09 | by ( Derrick Bryson Taylor | Scott Reinhard | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +30 min

Two Black men, in tuxedos, clasp hands and dance in a smoky foreground in a scene from "Looking for Langston," the 1989 film that reevaluated gay and lesbian contributions to the Harlem Renaissance. When Harlem Was ‘as Gay as It Was Black’ Mapping the people, homes and hot spots that transformed the neighborhood during its Renaissance. A map of Harlem with a location labeled “Ma Rainey at the Lincoln Theater” near 135th Street and Lenox Avenue. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ImagesMap with location labeled “Bessie Smith at Hotel Olga” in the northernmost part of Harlem. was often called the living room of the Harlem Renaissance, and over the years provided a safe and affordable space for Black artists, writers and thinkers.

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☆ Walz says Electoral College ‘needs to go’ at California fundraiser
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-08 | by ( Aaron Pellish | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

Tim Walz said the Electoral College “needs to go,” while acknowledging “that’s not the world we live in,” during a campaign fundraiser in California on Tuesday, according to a pool report. “I think all of us know the Electoral College needs to go. We need, we need national popular vote, but that’s not the world we live in. Walz’s call for eliminating the Electoral College is not an official campaign position, a Harris campaign official told CNN. The movement to abolish the Electoral College gained momentum in 2020 amid the United States’ reckoning with its history on race.

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☆ What the 1960 election can teach us about the peaceful transfer of power
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-06 | by ( Chris Wallace | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —Editor’s Note: This essay is adapted from Chris Wallace’s book, “Countdown 1960.”The 1960 presidential election changed everything. Countdown 1960 is the riveting new history by Chris Wallace, bestselling author of Countdown 1945 and Countdown bin Laden, offering a fresh take on 1960 and the dramatic 11 months leading up to a deeply relevant election for the ages. To put it simply: There is good reason to believe the presidential election of 1960 was stolen. And yet, in 1960, the candidate who “lost” refused to contest the results and interfere with the peaceful transfer of power. Kennedy won Illinois and its 27 electoral votes by just 8,858 votes out of more than 4.7 million cast.

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☆ Why revived horrors of January 6 may not impact the election
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

But most of all, it’s a testimony to the often-malevolent magnetism that has made Trump a historic and enduring political figure. The special counsel alleged that Trump told family members, “It doesn’t matter if you won or lost the election. As well as the federal election case, the ex-president is facing a similar one in Georgia based on racketeering statutes. The former president refused to accept the result of the 2020 election that he lost. Biden made Trump’s threat to democracy the centerpiece of his now-shelved run for president, warning that his predecessor represents an unprecedented threat to America’s soul.

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☆ Wreck of US warship known as ‘Ghost Ship of the Pacific’ found in ‘exceptional’ condition
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Jack Guy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —The wreck of a US Navy destroyer known as the “Ghost Ship of the Pacific” has been found off the coast of California by undersea investigators. USS Stewart pictured arriving in San Francisco Bay in March 1946. The ship was damaged in combat against Japanese forces in 1942 and was captured by the enemy, becoming the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Patrol Boat No. “Soon, far-ranging Allied pilots began reporting the strange sight of an old American destroyer operating deep behind enemy lines,” reads the statement. “Whether lost in battle or sunk as a target, a warship remains sovereign property in perpetuity,” he said in the statement.

Persons: Stewart, Donald M, McPherson, fourstacker, “, Samuel J, Cox, ” Organizations: CNN, US Navy, Navy, Air Sea Heritage Foundation, Search Inc, Cordell Bank National Marine, Heritage Command, Imperial Japanese, Naval, US, Military Locations: California, San Francisco Bay, Imperial, Kure, Japan, San Francisco

The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a review and evaluation of the 1921 race massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke said. “When we have finished our federal review, we will issue a report analyzing the massacre in light of both modern and then-existing civil rights law,” said Clarke, who oversees the Justice Department’s civil rights enforcement efforts. The review will be conducted under the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act, which allows the Department of Justice to investigate death-resulting civil rights crimes that occurred on or before Dec. 31, 1979. The massacre started after a Black man was accused of assaulting a white woman. “Although a commission, historians, lawyers and others have conducted prior examinations of the Tulsa Massacre, we, the Justice Department, never have.”Clarke said the department is examining available documents, witness accounts, scholarly and historical research and other information related to the massacre.

Persons: Kristen Clarke, Clarke, ”, Emmett, Viola Fletcher, Lessie Benningfield Randle, Hugh Van Ellis, ” Clarke, Damario Solomon Simmons Organizations: U.S . Department of Justice, Justice, Department of Justice, Universal, Getty, Tulsa, Justice Department, NBC News Locations: Tulsa , Oklahoma, Greenwood, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Okla

☆ A junk dealer found a painting in a basement. Experts say it’s an original Picasso
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-02 | by ( Barbie Latza Nadeau | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —A painting discovered by a junk dealer in the basement of an Italian villa six decades ago is actually the work of Pablo Picasso and could sell for millions, according to experts. At just 24, Lo Rosso didn’t appreciate that the signature in the upper left corner of the artwork that read simply “Picasso” meant anything, his son Andrea Lo Rosso told CNN on Tuesday. The older Lo Rosso, who died in 2021, stuck it in a cheap frame and gave it to his wife — much to her chagrin, his son said. Finally, last month Cinzia Altieri, a graphologist for a patrimony court in Milan, was able to certify the Picasso signature as authentic. “I’m happy but let’s wait to toast, there is still one step to take before we consider this incredible story over,” Andrea Lo Rosso said.

Persons: Pablo Picasso, Luigi Lo Rosso, Lo Russo, Andrea LoRosso, Dora Maar, Luca Gentile, Lo Rosso, Andrea Lo Rosso, —, wasn’t, ” Andrea Lo Rosso, Picasso, Picasso’s, Maar ”, Altieri, ”, Marcante, CNN he’s, “, ” CNN’s Organizations: CNN, Arcadia Foundation, Picasso Foundation Locations: Pompeii, Italy, Capri, Swiss, Golfe, Juan, France, Spanish, Milan, Paris

☆ Video: Historians unravel 130-year-old mystery 5 minutes into search
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-01 | by ( Jeremy Roth | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

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In fact, the Biden administration recently imposed its own set of tariffs, while extending ones first levied during the Trump administration. Take the tariffs the Trump Administration imposed on washing machines in 2018. The washing machine tariffs were part of a broad new tariff regime Trump imposed in an effort to protect American workers from anti-competitive Chinese trade practices. It resulted in what is generally viewed as a “trade war” involving retaliatory tariffs imposed on American goods. The White House gave a rationale similar to the Trump administration when it announced its tariffs.

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☆ Ohio police have 'no credible reports' of Haitian immigrants harming pets, contradicting JD Vance's claim
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-09 | by ( David Ingram | David Ingram Is A Tech Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

Police in Springfield, Ohio, said Monday they had received no credible reports of immigrants harming pets, contradicting a claim by Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance. They added that they had no information to support similar assertions about immigrants squatting or disrupting traffic. There is a long history of conservative politicians and pundits denigrating Haitian immigrants in particular, including with baseless allegations of cannibalism, according to historians who have studied the former French colony. “Please vote for Trump so Haitian immigrants don’t eat us,” Cruz wrote on X, as a caption on a photo of cats. “Haitian immigrants are here legally, under the Immigration Parole Program,” the website says, referring to a federal humanitarian program for migrants.

Persons: Sen, JD Vance, Vance, Viles Dorsainvil, “ It’s, ”, ” Dorsainvil, Charlie Kirk, Jack Posobiec, Elon Musk, Ted Cruz, Jim Jordan, “, Trump, don’t, ” Cruz, Kamala Harris, ’, Joe Biden, Harris, that’s, Kirk, Posobiec, Cruz, Jordan, they’ve Organizations: Republican, The Springfield Police, NBC News, denigrating, Facebook, Conservative, X, ”, The New York Times Locations: Springfield , Ohio, Ohio, Haiti, Springfield, Springfield ”, Haitian, Texas, U.S

☆ Tourists are recreating the 'Temple Run' video game in a Cambodian temple. Historians are horrified.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-27 | by ( Geoff Weiss | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

TikTok videos shot at a UNESCO World Heritage Site have some historians concerned. Tourists in the videos recreate the "Temple Run" video game at Angkor Wat, running through the temple. AdvertisementA series of TikTok videos showing tourists reenacting a video game run through a 900-year-old Cambodian temple complex has some conservationists and historians up in arms. Bloomberg first reported on the fresh wave of videos at Cambodia's Angkor Wat, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. TikTokers, Facebookers, and YouTubers are attempting to recreate the "Temple Run" video game in real life, according Bloomberg, with clips of themselves dashing across the ancient grounds set to jaunty sound effects.

Persons: — Organizations: UNESCO, Tourists, Service, Bloomberg, Heritage, Business Locations: Angkor Wat, Wat

☆ CEOs need to embrace a technologist mindset to lead innovation today, the Weber Shandwick's Chris Deri says
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-26 | by ( Julia Hood | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Chris Deri leads Weber Shandwick's corporate-advisory business and is on BI's Workforce Innovation board. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . You can opt-out at any time by visiting our Preferences page or by clicking "unsubscribe" at the bottom of the email. Research conducted by the firm, Deri said, found CEOs were prioritizing AI, even if they didn't yet know how to get started. Is AI really occupying the minds of business leaders as much as we think?

Persons: Chris Deri, Weber, execs, —, Deri, we've, There's, it's, Jamie Dimon Organizations: Service

☆ The battle of Kursk has unchained Ukraine from a failing war strategy
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-24 | by ( Michael Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

At the start of August, Ukraine seemed doomed to remain on the defensive, slowly but relentlessly being ground into retreat by Russian onslaughts. But its successful new Kursk offensive has done more than seize 480 square miles of Russian territory and humiliate Putin. After nearly a year of a grim defensive battle, the Kursk operation has also allowed Ukraine to seize the initiative and force Moscow to dance to Kyiv's tune. The Russians no longer hold the initiative across the entirety of the theater, like they have for most of last year." Which means Ukraine has to find some economical way of keeping up the pressure on Russia, without losing more territory of its own.

Persons: Putin, George Barros, Barros, Vladimir Putin, " Barros, Michael Peck Organizations: Service, Defense, Foreign Policy, Rutgers Univ, Twitter, LinkedIn Locations: Ukraine, Russian, Kursk, Moscow, Donetsk, Russia, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Polohy, Zaporizhia, Zabrama, Bryansk, Belgorod, Forbes

☆ Missing pieces of a Byzantine artifact recovered at Sutton Hoo
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-10 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

The incomplete artifact is on display in the High Hall exhibition at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, England. A researcher excavates part of the Bromeswell bucket from the trench at Sutton Hoo. Based on the forms of Greek letters at the top of the artifact, researchers think the vessel was already 100 years old when it arrived at Sutton Hoo, Howarth said. Future research at Sutton Hoo could reveal the broader history of the site and what kept drawing people to inhabit it over time, Howarth said. The aim of this project is to look at the landscape and think about who was inhabiting it and how that fits into the wider Sutton Hoo story.”

Persons: Count, David Brun, ”, Laura Howarth, Howarth, James Dobson, ’ ” Howarth, Angus Wainwright, “, David Brunetti, ” Howarth, Sutton, Edith Pretty Organizations: CNN, Sutton, harrow, National Trust ., National Trust, Field, Specialists, Heritage, Hoo, “, British Museum Locations: Suffolk, England, Hoo, African, Sutton Hoo, Byzantine, Antioch, Turkey, Britain, Sutton, Hampshire, East Anglia, what’s, Sri Lanka

☆ The AI world's most valuable resource is running out, and it's scrambling to find an alternative: 'fake' data
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-09 | by ( Hasan Chowdhury | Hugh Langley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has argued that AI models should eventually produce synthetic data good enough to train themselves effectively. As the well of usable human-generated data dries up, more companies look into using synthetic data. Rather than being pulled from the real world, synthetic data is generated by AI systems that have been trained on real-world data. Synthetic data may help offer some effective "countertuning" to the biases produced by real-world data, too. 'Habsburg AI'While the AI industry found some advantages in synthetic data, it faces serious issues it can't afford to ignore, such as fears synthetic data can wreck AI models.

Persons: —, that's, Sam Altman, Gary Marcus, It's, Nathan Lambert, Gretel, SynthLabs, Meta, Timnit Gebru, Margaret Mitchell, LLMs, Sadowski, Alexandr Wang, AlphaGeometry, Marcus Organizations: Service, Google, Business, Oxford, Gartner, New York University, Allen Institute, AI, Nvidia, Meta's, Anadolu, Getty, Rush, Microsoft, Monash University Locations: Cambridge, Habsburg

☆ Helaena Targaryen has a target on her back by the end of 'House of the Dragon' season 2. Here's what will happen to her if the show follows the book.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-05 | by ( Ayomikun Adekaiyero | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewWarning: Major spoilers ahead for "House of the Dragon" season two and the book "Fire and Blood." Theo Whitman/HBOIn the book, Helaena has three children instead of two. Like in the TV show, Jaehaerys is killed early in the war after Daemon sends assassins into King's Landing. AdvertisementIn the book, Rhaenyra takes over King's Landing, taking Helaena and her mother as prisoners. Rhaenyra could also betrayAlicent after conquering King's Landing and not allowing Alicent or Helaena to leave the city.

Persons: —, George R, Martin, Phia Saban, Westeros, Tom Glynn, Carney, Helaena, Aemond, Ewan Mitchell, Emma D'Arcy, Jaehaerys, Olivia Cooke, Halaena's, Theo Whitman, Daemon, Rhaenyra, Maelor, Alicent, Ollie Upton, Daemon Targaryen, Matt Smith Organizations: Service, Aegon, Business, HBO, King's Locations: Bitterbridge, Helaena

☆ Tulsa Creates Commission on Reparations for Race Massacre
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-03 | by ( Kate Selig | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

City officials, historians and the courts acknowledge that the massacre has led to generations of racial inequity in Tulsa. Calls for reparations in Tulsa are longstanding and have resulted in apologies, a scholarship program and other actions, but not direct financial redress. The last two known survivors of the massacre, now centenarians, have pursued reparations through the courts, but the Oklahoma Supreme Court dismissed their case in June. Two reports — one from a commission created by the State Legislature in 2001 and one by a group of Tulsa residents in 2023 — recommended reparations, including financial compensation. The commission announced Thursday, named the Beyond Apology Commission, follows the 2023 report’s calls for the city to create a group to examine and carry out a reparations program.

Persons: Greenwood, —, G.T, Bynum Organizations: Oklahoma Supreme, State Legislature, Republican Locations: Tulsa, Oklahoma

☆ A murderous ghost haunted an exclusive Jamaican resort for centuries. But could she survive a paranormal investigation?
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Jack Bantock | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

Tucked between the towering Blue Mountains and azure Caribbean Sea, the White Witch Golf Course is 6,758 yards of green serenity in one of Jamaica's bubbliest resort towns. Rose Hall Developments Rose Hall Great House is the jewel in the estate's crown, a plantation mansion that had fallen into ruin before American businessman John Rollins purchased the 7,000-acre plot in the 1960s and restored the building to its colonial-era opulence. Rose Hall DevelopmentsAnnie supposedly murdered her husband to assume ownership of Rose Hall, which she went on to run with an iron fist. You can’t miss it.”Palmer's ghost is said to roam the fairways of the White Witch golf course on horseback. The White Witch course – which had cost some $8.5 million to build – was forced into contingency planning, but rebounded over the subsequent decade.

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☆ Not One of Us: Trump Uses Old Tactic to Sow Suspicion About Harris
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-02 | by ( Adam Nagourney | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

She is not one of us. When former President Donald J. Trump challenged Vice President Kamala Harris’s racial identity at a public forum on Wednesday — and again on social media the next day — that was the message at the core of his remarks. It is a tactic that has long been part of the underside of American politics: presenting an opponent as somehow “other” or “not one of us” — someone who cannot be trusted or truly known. But while this has been a recurrent theme in American campaigns for at least a century, Mr. Trump has taken it to a new level, historians and analysts said. Mr. Trump has personally led the effort, explicitly falsifying the biography of his opponent and invoking race and gender in ways no modern major-party leader has done before.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Kamala Harris’s, Trump’s, Barack Obama, Obama’s, Obama —, Hawaii — Locations: Hawaii

Ms. Harris told The Washington Post in 2019 that she had long been comfortable with her racial identity. Ms. Harris joined Alpha Kappa Alpha, a sorority for Black women, at Howard University, a historically Black university. Ms. Harris failed California’s bar exam on her first attempt in July 1989, according to her autobiography, and received a letter in November that she had failed, “to my utter devastation.” While she did not address her subsequent exams in the book, Ms. Harris was admitted to the bar in June 1990. Mr. Trump is taking outsize credit. It is also worth noting that Mr. Trump did not request the increased funding that the schools received.

Persons: Donald J, Trump, Kamala Harris, Harris, Abraham Lincoln, Said, I’ve, ”, Ms, “, Obama ”, ” Mr, Harris’s, Said “, California’s, —, Lyndon B, Johnson, Biden Organizations: Wednesday, National Association of Black Journalists Convention, National Association of Black Journalists, Washington Post, Indian American, Alpha Kappa Alpha, Howard University, Black Law, Association, University of California Hasting College of Law, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Examiner, San, H.B.C.U.s, Democrats, Democratic, Republicans, Civil, Mr, Black Americans, Congressional Research Service, The New York Times, of Labor Statistics, New York Times Locations: Chicago, Indian American, California, San Francisco, American, Black, Los Angeles, Asian, The California, ”

☆ William Calley, officer convicted for his role in My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War, dead at 80
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-30 | by ( Chelsea Bailey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

While multiple officers were charged in connection with the massacre, Calley was the only one convicted. “Calley and his men rounded up these civilians and then Calley ordered his men to kill them.”The massacre lasted for hours. A ditch in My Lai village, Vietnam, where US troops killed Vietnamese civilians on March 16, 1968. Kham/ReutersThe fragile lineThousands of miles away and 30 years later, those who lost loved ones in the My Lai massacre would tell CNN they were never truly able to move on. “There is not a day that goes by that I do not feel remorse for what happened that day in My Lai,” Calley said, according to the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer.

Persons: William L, Calley Jr, Calley, Charlie, Lai, ”, Bill Allison, ” Allison, –, Fred Borch, Borch, Charlie Company –, ” Calley, “, ” Borch, “ Calley, Brad Lendon, Hugh Thompson, Thompson, he’d, “ Thompson, Ron Ridenhour, Seymour, Allison, Fort Moore, Calley’s, Richard Nixon, Nixon, ” Thompson, Lawrence Colburn, Nguyen Chung, Calley –, – Borsh Organizations: CNN, Army, The Washington, Social Security Administration, Charlie Company, Loan, Georgia Southern University, US Army, American Army, US, General’s Corps, House Armed, 11th Brigade, Armed Services Committee, Military, Gallup, The New York Times, Associated Press, Kiwanis Club, Greater, Columbus Ledger Locations: Gainesville , Florida, Vietnam, Saigon, My Lai, South Vietnam, Viet, Geneva, Lai, Fort Benning, Kham, Greater Columbus, Georgia

☆ Surprising element found in traces of Tyco Brahe’s alchemy lab confounds scientists
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-27 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

The covert nature of Brahe’s work was common among alchemists of the Renaissance, who kept their knowledge close to the vest. “Tungsten had not even been described at that time, so what should we infer from its presence on a shard from Tycho Brahe’s alchemy workshop?” Rasmussen said. In addition to serving as Brahe's home, Uraniborg functioned as a scientific center where students across Europe came to live and work. And Brahe himself wrote that the king was eager to support the scientist’s work in both astronomy and alchemy. Given the amount of gold found in Brahe’s remains, he may have also taken medicine containing potable, or drinkable, gold.

Persons: Tycho Brahe, Brahe, Kaare Lund Rasmussen, Poul Grinder, Hansen, Uraniborg, Lund University Gold, Rasmussen, ”, “ Tungsten, ” Rasmussen, Ann Ronan, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Juan José, Fausto d’Elhuyar y de Suvisa, wolfram, Georgius Agricola, Agricola, Lawrence Principe, Drew, ” Principe, King Frederick II of Denmark, De Agostini, Paracelsus, Rudolph II, Emperor, Stjerneborg, “, ” Brahe, Isaac Newton, Johns, King Frederick II’s, Christian IV, Johannes Kepler, Kepler, Newton, Galileo Galilei Organizations: CNN, University of Southern, National Museum of Denmark, Heritage, Lund University, Getty Images, Humanities, Singleton Center, Johns Hopkins University, De Agostini Editorial, Culture, Hulton, Art, Sun, Scientific Locations: Danish, Ven, Sweden, University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen, Europe, Baltimore . Principe, Norway, Uraniborg, Brahe’s, Mercury, Principe, Johns Hopkins

☆ Divers find 19th-century shipwreck laden with unopened bottles of champagne and precious mineral water
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Lianne Kolirin | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A 19th-century shipwreck packed with crates of unopened champagne has been found in the depths of the Baltic Sea. The long-forgotten vessel was brimming with bubbly, according to the team of Polish divers who made the discovery off the coast of Sweden. “The whole wreck is loaded to the brim with crates of champagne, mineral water, and porcelain,” Tomasz Stachura, the leader of the Baltictech diving team that found the wreck, said in a press release sent to CNN. The divers said the wreck was in very good condition. While the champagne certainly provided cause for celebration, it was the bottles of water that perhaps shed most light on the vessel’s history.

Persons: Tomasz Stachura, ”, “, Selters –, Marek Cacaj, ’, Stachura, MARIS, Johan Rönnby Organizations: CNN, Södertörn University Locations: Baltic, Sweden, Swedish, Öland, “, Selters, Hesse

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