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Anecdotes
Weddings
• Frank Benson was the manager of a traveling Shakespearean troupe and a man who enjoyed sports. Once, he heard a rumor that one of his actors, Harold Large, was expected to ask a certain woman to marry him. Mr. Benson asked his wife, Constance, if she thought the woman would accept the marriage proposal. She replied, “I don’t know. He hasn’t made his fortune yet.” This shocked Mr. Benson: “Good Heavens! I don’t know what she wants — the fellow is one of the finest half-backs in England!”
• One of Dini von Mueffling’s best friends was Alison Gertz, who had contracted HIV, which developed into AIDS. Dini met a man, they fell in love, he asked her to marry him, and she accepted. However, Dini was worried about what Alison would say when she told her. She needn’t have worried. After learning that the man, Richard, had asked Dini to marry him after knowing her for only three months, Alison asked, “What took him so long?”
• Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach once wrote the wedding invitation for two of his friends, promising them, “It’ll be the holiest wedding invitation in the world!” The invitation read, “The whole world is invited to the wedding of Ne’eman Rosen and Malka Gorman.” The invitations were given out all through the Haight-Ashbury district, and attending the wedding were many people whom Mr. Rosen and Ms. Gorman didn’t know.
• In the late 1890s and early 1900s, educated women were rare. For example, Ernestine Carey was educated in college at a time when few women were and those few were looked at somewhat strangely. When she married Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr., a newspaper reported, “Although a graduate of the University of California, the bride is nonetheless an extremely attractive young woman.”
• A woman walked into a fabric shop and asked for a fabric that would rustle when she walked. The proprietor found a suitable fabric for her, then out of curiosity asked what she wanted it for. The woman replied, “I am getting married to a blind man, and I want to make a wedding dress that rustles when I walk down the aisle so my fiancé will know when I’ve arrived at the altar.”
• Sonja Ely’s five-year-old granddaughter was holding a wedding for two of her dolls. At one point, she spoke for the groom, saying to the minister, “Now you can read us our rights.” Speaking for the minister, she then said, “You have the right to remain silent, anything you say can be held against you, you have the right to have an attorney present. You may kiss the bride.”
• In 1982, figure skater Dorothy Hamill married Dean Paul Martin, the son of entertainer Dean Martin. President Ronald Reagan was one of her neighbors at the time, but she didn’t invite him to the wedding because she feared that the presence of the Secret Service guards would interfere with the wedding and with the enjoyment of the guests.
• Tom Cahill used to be the coach of the Army football team. He played his college football at Niagara, where he was once caught sneaking into bed at 3 a.m. His punishment for breaking training was to copy the text of an entire book. He chose Selecting a Mate in Marriage and copied it from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m.
• Richard Vaux, a Quaker, was secretary to a legation that appeared at the English court. He fit in well at court and wrote home that he had danced with Princess Victoria (who later became Queen of England). His mother read the letter, then remarked, “I do hope Richard won’t marry out of meeting.”
• A Harvard football star was getting married. As he knelt before the bishop, the guests started laughing. The ushers — all of whom were football fans — had printed on the sole of his left shoe “TO HELL” and on the sole of his right shoe “WITH YALE.”
Widows
• Dipa Ma started studying meditation after she fell into a deep depression after the sudden death of her husband, which followed the deaths of two of her children. She asked herself, “What can I take with me when I die?” Looking around, she saw many material possessions and her daughter, but nothing she could take with her when she died. She then thought, “Let me go to the meditation center. Maybe I can find something there I can take with me when I die.” In meditation, she found peace.
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Investigation
Shireen Abu Akleh
The Palestinian Authority on Saturday said it has given the bullet that killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to American forensic experts, taking a step toward resolving a standoff with Israel over the investigation into her death.
The announcement came just over a week before President Joe Biden is to visit Israel and the occupied West Bank for meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. It signaled that both sides may be working to find a solution to the deadlock.
Abu Akleh, a veteran correspondent who was well known throughout the Arab world, was fatally shot while covering an Israeli military raid on May 11 in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinians, along with Abu Akleh’s colleagues who were with her at the time, say she was killed by Israeli fire. The Israeli army says that she was caught in the crossfire of a battle with Palestinian gunmen, and that it is impossible to determine which side killed her without analyzing the bullet.
Israel says it has identified the rifle that may have shot her, but that it cannot draw any conclusions unless it is compared to the bullet. The Palestinians have refused to turn over the bullet, saying they don’t trust Israel. Rights groups say Israel has a poor record investigating shootings of Palestinians by its troops, with probes languishing for months or years before they are quietly closed.
Shireen Abu Akleh
Smithsonian’s Traveling Exhibit
Green Book
A look at how African Americans traveled during the Jim Crow era in the U.S. is on display at the Two Mississippi Museums in downtown Jackson.
The Negro Motorist Green Book, a Smithsonian traveling exhibition, opened Saturday at the venue, which is part of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, a Smithsonian affiliate.
It includes artifacts from business signs and postcards to historic footage, images and firsthand accounts to convey not only the apprehension felt by Black travelers but also the resilience, innovation and elegance of people choosing to live a full American existence, officials said. Mississippi artifacts include items from the historic Riverside Hotel in Clarksdale and Hotel E.F. Young Jr. in Meridian.
Green’s guidebook was published from 1936 to 1966 and was “an indispensable resource” for the nation’s rising African American middle class, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History said in a news release.
Green Book
Files for Divorce
Jerry Hall
Jerry Hall has officially filed for divorce from Rupert Murdoch (R-Evil Incarnate).
Hall, 65, filed in the Superior Court of California in L.A. County per court documents obtained by PEOPLE on Friday. She cited irreconcilable differences and is asking for spousal support.
In her filing, she says she is "unaware of the full nature and extent of all assets and debts, and will amend this Petition when the information has been ascertained." The same holds true for community and quasi-community property.
This marks Murdoch's fourth divorce. The media mogul married his first wife Patricia Booker in 1956 before they divorced in 1967. That same year he married Anna Maria Torv. They divorced in 1999, the same year Murdoch married his third wife Wendi Deng; they split in 2013. His marriages resulted in six children.
This was Hall's first marriage. She was in a relationship with rocker Mick Jagger for more than two decades and they share four children together.
Jerry Hall
Wedding News
Lindsay Lohan
Actress is celebrating her 36th birthday on Saturday as a married woman.
The “Freaky Friday” star said she was the “luckiest woman in the world” in an Instagram post Friday that pictured her with financier Bader Shammas, who had been her fiance.
“I am stunned that you are my husband,” Lohan said in the post, adding that “every woman should feel like this everyday.”
The couple had announced their engagement last November. People magazine and Entertainment Tonight confirmed there had been a wedding, but no details were offered.
Lindsay Lohan
10-Year-Old Victim
Ohio
With abortion outlawed after six weeks in Ohio, physicians in neighboring Indiana described an influx of out-of-state patients seeking care. Among them: a pregnant 10-year-old.
Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist, told the Indianapolis Star that just three days after the federal right to an abortion was reversed she received a call from a colleague, a child abuse doctor in Ohio, who needed her help. The physician had a pregnant patient, a 10-year-old, who could no longer legally undergo the procedure in her home state.
In Indiana, for now at least, abortion is legal up to 22 weeks after a pregnant person's last menstrual cycle. However, Indiana politicians have scheduled a special legislative session later this month to address abortion laws. Republican lawmakers, who hold a supermajority in the state, indicate they intend to further restrict the procedure.
Despite the influx of patients seeking care across state lines, with abortion access likely to be restricted in Indiana, Bernard's ability to help those seeking the procedure in the future is uncertain.
Ohio
Fractured Decades of Native American Law
SCOTUS
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling expanding state authority to prosecute some crimes on Native American land is fracturing decades of law built around the hard-fought principle that tribes have the right to govern themselves on their own territory, legal experts say.
The Wednesday ruling is a marked departure from federal Indian law and veers from the push to increase tribes’ ability to prosecute all crimes on reservations — regardless of who is involved. It also cast tribes as part of states, rather than the sovereign nations they are, infuriating many across Indian Country.
“The majority (opinion) is not firmly rooted in the law that I have dedicated my life to studying and the history as I know it to be true,” said Elizabeth Hidalgo Reese, an assistant law professor at Stanford University who is enrolled at Nambé Pueblo in New Mexico. ”And that’s just really concerning,”
Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote a scathing dissent joined by the court’s three liberal members, saying “one can only hope the political branches and future courts will do their duty to honor this Nation’s promises even as we have failed today to do on our own.”
SCOTUS
Deputy Gang
Grim Reaper
Current and former members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department with close ties to Sheriff Alex Villanueva testified Friday about what they know about alleged deputy gangs within the department.
Villanueva's former chief of staff Larry Del Mese made a stunning admission under oath, admitting he belonged to an alleged deputy gang known as the Grim Reapers.
"I was a member of the Grim Reapers," Del Mese testified by video during a public hearing in the Sheriff Civilian Oversight Commission's investigation on deputy gangs.
Villanueva defied a subpoena to testify before the commission for the fifth time, saying he fears for his safety.
"The sheriff fears for his security because he has been informed that members of the public have attended and wear shirts or jackets that say, 'F the sheriff,'" special counsel Bert Deixler announced at the hearing.
Grim Reaper
Bezos' Megayacht
Koningshaven Bridge
The Dutch shipbuilder constructing Jeff Bezos' megayacht scrapped its request that a historic bridge be dismantled to accommodate the Amazon founder's vessel.
Oceanco, a Netherlands-based custom yacht builder, informed the city of Rotterdam that it would no longer be requesting a permit to remove the center portion of the Koningshaven Bridge, known locally as De Hef, to allow Bezos' yacht to reach the North Sea. That is according to a letter written by a city official and translated from Dutch to English using Google Translate.
It seems that Oceanco may have abandoned its plans to take apart the bridge following public outcry earlier this year. Dutch newspaper Trouw obtained documents from the city through a freedom of information request that showed the shipbuilder was taken aback by the uproar and had opted to drop its plans.
Bezos' yacht saga began back in February, when Dutch broadcaster Rijnmond reported that the 417-foot vessel would need to pass through Rotterdam — and underneath De Hef — on its way out to sea.
Koningshaven Bridge
Change Happening to Outer Core
Earth
Most of our knowledge about what sits at the center of our planet comes from the study of seismic waves rolling out from earthquakes. Careful analysis of these waves can reveal the composition of rocks and metal below Earth's surface.
A new study of seismic waves propagating from two different earthquakes – in similar locations but separated by a gap of 20 years – has revealed changes that are happening in Earth's outer core, the swirling layer of liquid iron and nickel between the mantle (the rock underneath the surface) and the inner core (the deepest layer).
The outer core and the iron contained within it directly influence our planet's magnetic field, which in turn provides protection from space and solar radiation that would otherwise make life on Earth impossible.
That makes understanding the outer core and its evolution over time vitally important. The data recorded from four seismic wave monitors across both earthquakes showed that waves from the later event traveled around one second faster when passing through the same region of the outer core.
"Something has changed along the path of that wave, so it can go faster now," says geoscientist Ying Zhou from Virginia Tech. "The material that was there 20 years ago is no longer there."
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