Wednesday, March 28, 2007 The publishing companies Bloomsbury (U.K.) and Scholastic (U.S.) released cover art for the seventh Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. “The structures around Harry show evident destruction and in the shadows behind him, we see outlines of other people,” David Saylor, Scholastic’s art director, said in a statement
Sunday, June 5, 2005 On May 30, 2005, in a “blogswarm”, a massive blog alliance formed. The swarm was fueled by the leak of a secret British memo known as the “Downing Street memo“. Hundreds of blogs formed into the “Big Brass Alliance“, almost overnight, and the alliance is still growing. A blogswarm is when
Submitted by: Mike Reindhart Thinking about Taking your Family on a Christmas Vacation? Although it has long been tradition to wait at home for Santa to arrive, a number of American families spend Christmas away from home each year. Christmas vacations are becoming more and more popular and you will likely find that there is
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 The rescue of the Chilean miners trapped in the San José Mine in Copiapó, codenamed Operación San Lorenzo (San Lorenzo Operation), began on Tuesday night, at around 20:00 local time (23:00 UTC). Florencio Ávalos was the first miner to be rescued, at 00:12 local time (03:12 UTC) on Wednesday. He was
Thursday, December 8, 2016 In findings announced yesterday, scientists from Johns Hopkins University took ordinary commercial drones, swapped out their cameras for coolers and packed them with human plasma, platelets and blood cells. The drones were found to deliver their cargo in usable condition after flights lasting almost half an hour, at distances of up
Wednesday, March 21, 2007 The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed in a news release, March 21, 2007, that two Royal Navy crew members had been killed in an accident aboard nuclear submarine HMS Tireless earlier in the day. The next of kin for both men have been informed. Another submariner had been injured and
Thursday, September 3, 2015 A study published yesterday by Nature estimates the global tree population at just over three trillion. Previous work estimated the total at 400 billion. The international research, led by Yale University in the US, used satellite images to examine over 400,000 plots of land for estimated tree density. Subarctic regions of
Thursday, April 19, 2007 Two fossilized trees with their roots, trunks and heads still attached, and are said to be over 380 million years old, have been found in the state of New York inside a rock quarry near Gilboa, New York in the USA. Researchers call the extinct tree a Wattieza and this particular
Monday, October 1, 2007 Tyler Currie is running as an Progressive Conservative candidate in the Ontario provincial election, in the riding of Trinity-Spadina. Wikinews’ Nick Moreau interviewed him regarding his values, his experience, and his campaign. Stay tuned for further interviews; every candidate from every party is eligible, and will be contacted. Expect interviews from
The Evolution of the Tattoo Machine by Micheline Moreaux To follow the evolution of the modern tattoo machine, it’s necessary to travel back in time to the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This is when when Count Alessandro Antonio Anastasio Volta, an Italian inventor, put himself into chemistry, studying atmospheric electricity and making up