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In April 1985, police officer Julius Schulte was shot and killed. The police account stated that Schulte was responding to a domestic disturbance call at the time. He asked the culprit, Vernon Madison, to leave the property as he looked after the woman he was living with, Cheryl Ann Greene, and…
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We've all had a moment, most of the time in our childhoods, when we have the temptation to break the rules. The one thing you tell yourself is that you can probably get away with it, but this isn't always the case. Last week the Chinese news outlet CGTN shared…
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If anyone was in any doubt as to whether the current President of the United States would try his hand at getting re-elected, it is now known for definite: Donald Trump will be running for office in 2020. In addition to this, he has also announced the appointment of a…
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The US government's "war on terror" was launched in 2001 in response to the 9/11 attacks. The international military campaign was first alluded to by former US President, George W. Bush, and its initial focus was on countries affiliated with al-Qaeda. While the "War of Terror" was thought to have culminated…
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I know very little about advertising, but there are plenty of commercials out there that are, frankly, ridiculous. Especially when it comes down to fashion and perfume ads, often the visuals have very little to do with the brands being sold to you. After all, there are only so many…
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There are shadowy and secretive parts of the internet, in the so-called dark web, where monsters convene. Although it's often exaggerated, it is true that this part of the internet is a separate beast from the world wide web. Here you can expect to find anything illegal: drugs, weapons, hitmen…
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Two weeks ago, a 19-year-old man armed with a semiautomatic weapon shot and killed 17 people at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The incident sparked new debates on gun control, with many pro-gun supporerts dragging out the old "if only there had been a good guy with a gun" argument -…
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Optical illusions are something which we will always struggle to get our heads around and, much like Dr. VS Ramachandran once said, the human visual system is a "bag of tricks." While this may sound like a fairly simplistic way of defining what is an incredibly complex and confusing system that…
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We've seen thousands of people throw marches to raise awareness for issues such as women's rights, police brutality and gun control. There's power in numbers, and when all those voices combine as one, it can have a serious impact. And now people are gathering together for another important cause: to…
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After the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, there has been a fierce debate about what action to take to prevent such an atrocity from happening again. The surviving students have demanded new gun control legislation, which is always difficult since so many lawmakers accept millions of dollars from The NRA.…
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The 2018 winter Olympic games, held in Pyeongchang, South Korea, have provided an invaluable opportunity to cool down the diplomatic tensions which have threatened to boil over into outright war over the last year. President Donald Trump's hardline stance on North Korea, coupled with the totalitarian state's growing nuclear capacity,…
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This weekend, Bollywood fans were shocked to hear that Sridevi Kapoor had passed away at the age of 54. She was often considered to be Hindi cinema's first "female superstar" and was arguably the most popular actress of her era during the '80s and '90s. At first, her death was…
