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Express & Star 

Seismologists said a 4.6 magnitude earthquake shook the island on Wednesday.

Bring back the Halloween tradition of throwing cabbage at people

Boing Boing 

A few years ago, I shared a podcast about the kind-of data generation loss of Halloween traditions, exported from pre-Christian Oíche Shamhna traditions in Ireland and then re-importing back there after they were mutated by American culture. Now, my friend Darach O'Séaghdha — author of Motherfoclóir: Dispatches from a not-so-dead language and Craic Baby: Dispatches from a Rising Language as well as the host of the recently-deceased Motherfoclóir podcast — has shared some other weird old Irish Halloween traditions that... Читать дальше...



Shedding its racist roots, a Mississippi high school football team dominates the state

CBSNews.com 

Greenville Christian Academy, a small private school built to circumvent desegregation laws, is dominating Mississippi high school football. Now boasting a student body that is 70% Black - the team is all Black - the Delta area school is ranked number one, despite being badly outmanned by larger programs. Jan Crawford has the details.

Two killed in group clash during Urs

The Hindu 

Clashes between two groups of the same faith during celebration of Urs festival resulted in the death of two persons and left several injured in Gunda

1000 Warhol drawings were sold at $250 each but only one was real

Boing Boing 

This is a wild story. This week, New York art collective MSCHF sold an original drawing by Andy Warhol, valued at $20,000, for $250. But it also sold 999 forged ones that look just like it, also for $250 each. The buyer of the authentic one may never know if they got the real one. — Read the rest

Clashes with Pakistani Islamists kill several police

Economictimes.indiatimes.com 

​​This is the group's third countrywide protest campaign since 2017 over a series of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad published in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Such caricatures are considered deeply insulting by Muslims. Charlie Hebdo first published the cartoons in 2006 and republished them last year to mark the opening of a trial over a deadly attack on the magazine by Islamist militants in 2015.

West braces for possible expulsion of 10 envoys by Turkey

Independent Online 

Raziye Akkoc and Dmitry Zaks in Istanbul

Ankara - Turkey's relations with Western allies edged Monday toward their deepest crisis of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's 19-year rule as world capitals braced for Ankara's possible expulsion of ambassadors from the US and nine other countries.

The lira touched new historic lows ahead of a cabinet meeting that could prove fateful to Turkey's economic and diplomatic standing for the coming months - and possibly years, analysts say.

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