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Martin Scorsese returns with his best picture since GoodFellas and one of his best films ever. It's a superbly acted, thrillingly shot epic mob procedural about violence, betrayal, dishonesty and emotional bankruptcy starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Al Pacino, set in a time before "toxic masculinity" had been formally diagnosed but when everyone lived with the symptoms.
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The world's first submersible vessel with a documented record of use in combat was built in 1775 by American David Bushnell. What was the name of this vessel?
Turtle (also called American Turtle) was the world's first submersible vessel with a documented record of use in combat. It was built in 1775 by American David Bushnell as a means of attaching explosive charges to ships in a harbor, for use against Royal Navy vessels occupying North American harbors during the American Revolutionary War. Connecticut Governor Jonathan Trumbull recommended the invention to George Washington, who provided funds and support for the development and testing of the machine.
Several attempts were made using Turtle to affix explosives to the undersides of British warships in New York Harbor in 1776. All failed, and her transport ship was sunk later that year by the British with the submarine aboard. Bushnell claimed eventually to have recovered the machine, but its final fate is unknown. Modern replicas of Turtle have been constructed and are on display in the Connecticut River Museum, the U.S. Navy's Submarine Force Library and Museum, the Royal Navy Submarine Museum, and the Oceanographic Museum (Monaco).
The Turtle was the first submersible vessel used for combat and led to the development of what we know today as the modern submarine, forever changing underwater warfare and the face of naval warfare. As such, the Turtle has been replicated many times to show new audience the roots of submarine technology, how much it has changed, and the influence it has had on modern submarines.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Turtle.
Randall wrote:
the Turtle
Dave said:
Turtle. The one man vessel was created in secret and at great expense. After testing, an attempt was made to attach a Bushnell mine with a timer to the flagship, HMS Eagle of the British squadron blockading New York Harbor. The Turtle was able to surface unnoticed close to the stern of the Eagle, but the exhausted crewman was unable to drill into the hull to attach the mine, and abandoned the effort to avoid being discovered. After another attack that was thwarted, after being spotted by a British crewman, the Turtle was loaded onto its tender ship, which sunk after being hit by cannon fire by a Royal Navy ship enforcing the blockade. After that no more funding was available for the underwater project and David Bushnell joined the Continental Army.
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Alan J answered:
The Turtle.
Mac Mac replied:
Turtle
Cal in Vermont responded:
The Turtle. Also known as the Murican Turtle. It didn't work so good.
zorch said:
It was called the Turtle, because it looked like one.
Deborah wrote:
It was called the Turtle, or American Turtle, and was used to put explosives on the hulls of enemy ships during the American Revolution. Genius!
Rosemary in Columbus responded:
He called it Turtle
Dave in Tucson replied:
The craft was known as Bushnell's Turtle. Success in that he made it to the target, planted his "torpedo" and made it back, but did not cause much damage.
David of Moon Valley said:
wasn't that The Turtle?
Roy "Anyone but Trump" in Tyler, TX wrote:
Bushnell's innovative "submarine" was named the Turtle. It doesn't look like something I'd be comfortable operating. I wonder how many British warships it sank?
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame answered:
The answer is Turtle.
Joe S replied:
That would be the Nautilus, a very lethal machine designed to appear to be a sea monster with glowing eyes. It would ram sailing ships and penetrate their hulls at water level and the survivors, if any, would believe they had been attacked by a sea monster. A lot of people have been telling me this. Not everybody knows that.
Actual photo of the Nautilus taken with an under water camera invented by the guy who built the vessel.
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• Spanish artist Salvador Dalí attended Madrid's San Fernando Institute of Fine Arts, where he was a good student. Often, he worked so long and so hard on his art that by the time he showed up at the student dining hall everyone else had eaten and the dining hall had closed. His teachers knew that he was exceptional. To be admitted to the school, he was supposed to turn in a drawing of a certain size to be evaluated. His drawing was the wrong size, but the evaluators knew that his work was exceptional and so they admitted him anyway. Salvador, though young, knew more than his teachers in many ways. He was interested in technique, but his teachers thought that the most important thing in art was emotion. Most of the students agreed with the teachers. One exception to bad teachers was José Carbonero, one of whose students had been Pablo Picasso, but the students did not respect Mr. Carbonero. This shocked Salvador. "The pupils laughed at him," Salvador later wrote. They laughed "at his coat, the black pearl stickpin he wore in his tie, and his white gloves. His skill was unmatched, but no sooner did he turn his back than the little upstarts erased his corrections, which in fact reflected the gifts of a true master. I preferred to keep apart from that bunch of loafers and idiots, and go on with my Cubist experiments." Salvador read art journals and studied contemporary artists whom the teachers knew nothing about. His teachers did not know anything about Cubism! When he had completed his course of study and was supposed to take a final oral exam to get his degree, Salvador showed his contempt for his teachers. The students were supposed to talk intelligently on a topic drawn at random. Salvador was supposed to speak about the Renaissance artist Raphael, whom he had studied in detail, but Salvador did not talk about him. Instead, he told the jury of professors, "Gentlemen, with all due respect it is impossible for me to talk about this in front of these three professors because I know much more about Raphael than all of you put together." Perhaps needless to say, Salvador was not awarded a degree.
• Jay Ryan has learned many lessons as a gifted creator of posters, many of them for bands: 1) In college he learned something wonderful from professor Peter Kursel, who found out that Jay had discovered a stack of paper in a dumpster. Peter advised him to sit down and draw on every sheet of paper. Jay says, "I sat down on a Saturday and worked for something like eight or ten hours, and when I was finished I had this big stack of 300 really terrible drawings. But that forced me to actually make a lot of things and not worry about if they're good or not." 2) From working in his basement, Jay learned to work in an area with lots of headroom. The basement had a 6'2" ceiling, and since Jay is 6'4", he hit his head three times each day. 3) Jay once created a poster for a record. The (incorrect) name "Membraphonics" appeared on the poster; the (correct) name that appeared on the record was "MembraNAphonics." What did Jay learn? He says, "It's a good idea to check the spelling of unfamiliar words with the client before printing." 4) He also learned to keep his posters away from pets: A poster for the band Lullaby for the Working Class is rare because his roommate's dog ate most of them.
• When he was in high school, children's book author and illustrator Frank Asch knew that he wanted to be an artist, but he did not know whether he had enough talent to be an artist. Fortunately, one day he walked into his art classroom and discovered a whole bulletin board filled with his art, above which his art teacher had written, "Frank Asch: One Man Show." That was enough for him to think that he could maybe be an artist someday. Of course, he did become an artist - for kids. When he isn't busy creating books for children or adding to his collection of heart-shaped rocks or visiting schools or home-schooling children or visiting his horses or dog, he answers letters from children. For a while, when he wrote them back, he would ask them to finish this sentence: "The Earth and I …." Most children wrote back, "The Earth and I are friends," and he used that sentence as the main idea in a book titled, of course, The Earth and I.
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'The Neighborhood', followed by a FRESH'Bob Hearts Abishola', then a FRESH'All Rise', followed by a FRESH'Bull'.
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Scheduled on a Seth Meyers are Mariska Hargitay, Lizzy Caplan, Sam Fender, and Terence Higgins.
Scheduled on a Lilly Singh are Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger.
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Faux has a FRESH'9-1-1', followed bya FRESH'Prodigal Son'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: SVU', followed by another old 'L&O: SVU'.
A&E has 'Live PD: Police Patrol', another 'Live PD: Police Patrol', followed by a FRESH'Live PD: Police Patrol', then another FRESH'Live PD: Police Patrol', followed by a FRESH'Live Rescue'.
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[6:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 6-The Game
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 7-Unification (Part 1)
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 8-Unification (Part 2)
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 9-A Matter of Time
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 10-New Ground
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 11-Hero Worship
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 12-Violations
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 13-The Masterpiece Society
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 14-Conundrum
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 15-Power Play
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 16-Ethics
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 17-The Outcast
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 18-Cause and Effect
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 19-The First Duty
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A new bulletproof memorial to Emmett Till was dedicated Saturday in Mississippi after previous historical markers were repeatedly vandalized. The brutal slaying of the 14-year-old black teenager helped spur the civil rights movement more than 60 years ago.
Members of Till's family, including a cousin who was there the night Till was kidnapped, attended the ceremony at the site where the teen's body was pulled from the Tallahatchie River.
This is the fourth historical marker at the site. Previous ones became a target for vandals.
The first historical marker was placed in 2008. Someone tossed it in the river. The second and third signs were shot at and left riddled with bullet holes.
The new 500-pound steel sign has a glass bulletproof front.
Francis Ford Coppola jumped into a controversy over the Marvel superhero movies Saturday, not just backing fellow director Martin Scorsese's critique of the films but denouncing them as "despicable".
Earlier this month Scorsese, director of classics such as "Taxi Driver" and "Goodfellas", described the Marvel universe films as more theme parks than cinema, even if they were well made.
His remarks made waves across social media for days, as fans of his work and the Marvel hits such as the Avengers films, argued the merits.
But Coppola, speaking to journalists in the French city of Lyon, where he has just been awarded the Prix Lumiere for his contribution to cinema, backed his fellow Italian-American Scorsese.
"Martin was kind when he said it's not cinema. He didn't say it's despicable, which I just say it is."
Alphabet (Google) subsidiary Wing has become the first company in the United States to deliver packages by drone.
In Christiansburg, the small Virginia town chosen as Wing's test location, the 22,000 residents can order products normally shipped by FedEx, medicine from Walgreens and a selection of candy from a local business -- all of which will arrive via drone.
Wing, which already operates in two Australian cities as well as Helsinki, announced in a statement that the first drone-powered deliveries had taken place Friday afternoon in Christiansburg, "paving the way for the most advanced drone delivery service in the nation."
One family used the Wing app to order Tylenol, cough drops, Vitamin C tablets, bottled water and tissues, the statement said.
An older resident ordered a birthday present for his wife. Although the majority of the delivery was done by a FedEx truck, the last mile was completed by drone.
In an abandoned mine in southern Spain, there is a room of pure crystal.
To get there, you'll have to descend deep into tunnels, climb a ladder into an inconspicuous hole in the rocks and squeeze through a jagged tube of gypsum crystals barely wide enough for one person. If you make it that far, you'll be standing inside the world's largest geode: the Pulpí Geode, a 390-cubic-foot (11 cubic meters) cavity about the size of a cement mixer drum, studded with crystals as clear as ice and sharp as spears on every surface.
"Many people have little geodes in their home," Juan Manuel García-Ruiz, a geologist at the Spanish National Research Council and co-author of a new paper on the history of the Pulpí Geode, told Live Science. "It's normally defined as an egg-shaped cavity inside a rock, lined with crystals."
Those crystals can form after water seeps through tiny pores in a rock's surface, ferrying even tinier minerals into the hollow interior. Depending on the size of the rock cavity, crystals can continue growing for thousands or millions of years, creating caches of amethyst, quartz and many other shiny minerals.
The crystal columns at Pulpí are made of gypsum - the product of water, calcium sulfate, and lots and lots of time - but not much else has been revealed about them since the geode's unexpected discovery in 2000. In a study published Oct. 15 in the journal Geology, García-Ruiz and his colleagues attempted to shed some new light on the mysterious cave by narrowing down how and when the geode formed.
Prominent liberal Catholics have warned the US attorney general's devout Catholic faith poses a threat to the separation of church and state, after William Barr delivered a fiery speech on religious freedom in which he warned that "militant secularists" were behind a "campaign to destroy the traditional moral order".
The speech last Friday at the University of Notre Dame law school, in which Barr discussed his conservative faith and revealed how it affects his decision-making as the nation's chief law-enforcement officer, has set off a fierce debate among Catholic intellectuals from across the political spectrum, as well as among Catholics inside the justice department.
C Colt Anderson, a Roman Catholic theologian and professor of religion at Jesuit-run Fordham University, said in an interview that he was unaware until this week that Barr was a fellow Catholic. Now, after reading the speech, Anderson believes the attorney general, in revealing his devotion to an especially conservative branch of Catholicism, is a "threat to American democracy".
Barr's speech at Notre Dame was a reminder of a fact often overlooked in analysis of Trump's political base - that while the president enjoys the support of many high-profile right-wing Christian evangelical leaders, he has also surrounded himself with conservative Roman Catholics associated with organizations that some others in the faith consider extreme.
One example: Barr and Patrick Cipollone, Trump's White House counsel, have both served on the board of directors of a Washington-based organization staffed by priests from the secretive, ultra-orthodox Catholic sect Opus Dei.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has revoked an additional protocol to the Geneva Conventions related to the protection of victims of international armed conflicts, a Russian parliamentary website cites a letter from him as saying.
The Additional Protocol I to the 1949 Geneva Convention was ratified by the Soviet Union's Supreme Council, or parliament, in 1989.
Putin's letter, dated Oct. 16 and addressed to the speaker of lower house of parliament on the "recall of the statement made at the ratification", said an international commission, set up in order to investigate war crimes against civilians, "has effectively failed to carry out its functions since 1991".
It also said that there was no Russian representative on the commission, while Russia has been regularly paying its fees.
Russia has been accused by critics of causing multiple civilian deaths since its involvement in the Syrian conflict. It was also blamed for killings of civilians during its short war with Georgia in 2008. Moscow denies the allegations.
If Roland Henry had died in a different part of the country, his organs might have been recovered. And lives could have been saved.
But the local organ collection agency said no. It gave no reason, no explanation to his family, though the Connecticut man appeared to be a well-qualified donor despite advancing age: He died in a hospital, on a ventilator, previously healthy until a car crash that led to a stroke.
"It was devastating to be told there was nothing they considered worthy of donation. Nada. Not a kidney, not a liver, not tissue," recalled Henry's daughter, Donna Cryer, president of the nonprofit Global Liver Institute and herself a recipient of a liver transplant.
Henry's case illustrates troubling uncertainty in a transplant system run by government contractors that are under fire for letting potentially usable organs go to waste.
Under U.S. transplant rules, the country is divided into 58 zones, each assigned an "organ procurement organization" in charge of donation at death. Those OPOs are matchmakers with a tough job: get donation consent , collect organs quickly and get them to the right transplant center before they deteriorate, even if a hospital calls with a possible donor at 3 a.m.
For a fiery phenomenon we most commonly associate with magma-spewing mountaintops, it's easy to forget that some 70 percent of all Earth's volcanism takes place under the ocean waves.
That statistic is a problem for scientists eager to learn more about underwater volcanoes, which, due to their submarine environment, are difficult to study.
New research shows a clever workaround, though - as well as revealing an incredible side effect of intense magma eruptions at the bottom of the sea.
In a new study, a team led by geophysicist John Lyons from the US Geological Survey's Alaska Volcano Observatory analysed recordings of low-frequency sound in the atmosphere (called infrasound) produced by over 70 explosive eruptions that took place at the underwater Bogoslof volcano off the coast of Alaska between 2016 and 2017.
An eyewitness account observed from the steamer Albatross in 1908 describes a "colossal soap bubble" rising out of the ocean, with "gigantic clouds of smoke and steam", while another reports a "gigantic dome-like swelling" of water "as large as the dome of the capital at Washington … like a huge bubble pushing its way through the water".
The Walt Disney Co.'s "Maleficent: Mistress of Evil" knocked "Joker" out of the No. 1 spot at the box office, but just barely.
Studios on Sunday say the film starring Angelina Jolie and Elle Fanning grossed an estimated $36 million in North America and $117 million internationally in its first weekend in theaters. The first film had a much stronger domestic showing, opening to nearly $70 million domestically in 2014, and the sequel was expected to earn more stateside.
Although it fell to second place after two weekends at the top, Warner Bros.' "Joker" continues to hold strong at the box office. It added $29.2 million in its third weekend in North America. The villain origin story has grossed over $247 million domestically. Worldwide, it's earned $737.5 million, and has already surpassed the lifetime grosses of "Justice League" and "Suicide Squad."
Third place went to another new sequel, Columbia Pictures' "Zombieland: Double Tap" with $26.7 million. The R-rated comedy comes 10 years after the original, reuniting Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone and Woody Harrelson with director Ruben Fleischer.
And buzzy, awards-friendly indies are continuing to thrive. "Parasite," which opened last weekend, added $1.2 million. This weekend, Taika Waititi's Nazi satire "Jojo Rabbit" opened in five theaters with a strong $350,000, the black and white Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe mindbender "The Lighthouse" earned $419,764 from eight theaters, and "Jay & Silent Bob Reboot" grossed $93,520 from one screen this weekend.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Where available, the latest international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1."Maleficent: Mistress of Evil," $36 million ($117 million international).
2."Joker," $29.5 million ($77.8 million international).
3."Zombieland: Double Tap," $26.7 million ($5.3 million international).
4."The Addams Family," $16.1 million.
5."Gemini Man," $8.5 million ($33.4 million international).
6."Abominable," $3.5 million ($9.2 million international).
7."Downton Abbey," $3.1 million ($2.5 million international).
8."Judy," $2.1 million ($1.3 million international).
9."Hustlers," $2.1 million ($3 million international).
10."It: Chapter Two," $1.5 million.
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