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The inscription on The Statue of Liberty reads...
The New Colossus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
 
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Few inventions have shaped the course of history more than the wheel, which dates back to roughly 3500 BCE. That may seem ancient (and it is, by definition), but it’s positively fresh-faced compared to what was apparently a higher priority for our ancestors: alcohol, which is at least 9,000 years old. That knowledge comes to us from Qiaotou, China, where pottery containing alcohol residue was discovered in 2021. Also found at the site were two skeletons, suggesting it was a burial pit and that consumption of beer — in this case made from rice, tubers, and pearl barley — has long been a part of funerals.
 
Humans have been identified as the culprits behind a startling shift in Earth's axis by almost 31.5 inches (nearly 80cm), a recent study reveals.
Climate change researchers uncovered this alarming detail, pointing to human extraction of groundwater as a significant factor that can both alter our planet's rotation and contribute to sea level rise.

From their findings, scientists noted the staggering quantity of earth's water resource redistribution caused an average 0.24-inch increase in sea levels. Between the years 1993 and 2010, this resulted in the movement of Earth's mass and a consequent drift of its rotational pole at approximately 4.36cm annually.

Seoul National University geophysicist and leading author Ki-Weon Seo remarked, "Earth's rotational pole actually changes a lot. Our study shows that among climate-related causes, the redistribution of groundwater actually has the largest impact on the drift of the rotational pole."
 
Johnny West said:
View attachment 71400In 1973, a reportedly inebriated truck driver mowed down the acacia. The remains of the tree were relocated to the Niger National Museum in Niamey, and a lonely metal sculpture was put in the tree’s place.

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Many years back I think in 2003, in a Top Gear episode named Killing a Toyota, Jeremy Clarkson drove a Toyota Hilux into an old chestnut tree. That angered the locals and BBC was forced to apologize and pay a fine of 250 GBP.
 
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