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About 80,000 phones were
stolen in the British capital last year. The police are
finally discovering where many of them went. After years in
which phone theft was a low priority for an overstretched
police force, the new operations are revealing the curious
blend of factors behind the epidemic, including steep cuts
to British police budgets in the 2010s and a lucrative black
market for European cellphones in China.
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The
National Shrine Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes is a place of
prayer devoted to the Blessed Mother, Mary. This beautiful
mountainside shrine features the oldest US replica of the
Lourdes shrine in France, built just 17 years after the
apparition of Our Lady to St. Bernadette in 1858. Each year,
the National Shrine Grotto welcomes hundreds of thousands of
pilgrims from all over the world. It is a place of worship,
pilgrimage, evangelization, and reconciliation.
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On 30th December 1952,
Albert Gunter was happily going about his day job, driving
the number 78 bus over Tower Bridge towards Shoreditch. To
his utter surprise, the road in front of him seemed to drop
away. Slamming his foot down on the accelerator, Gunter
managed to jump the rising bascule. He successfully reached
the north side of Tower Bridge, which had not yet begun to
open, getting all his 20 passengers across safely.
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2024: While the Carrington Event may seem like history,
there are many concerns about what might happen if an event as
powerful as, or even more powerful than, the Carrington Event
were to strike Earth today, now that humanity is far more
dependent on electricity. If a solar storm as big as the
Carrington Event struck today, it could lead to years long power
outages.
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