Updated
11:15
AM CDT October 10, 2026
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 (Pronounced
''Ees-ah-ee-ahs''). News and weathermen
were scrambling to learn how to pronounce the name of
the 2026 hurricane ''Isaias''. From the Hebrew name
YESHA YAHU meaning ''Yahweh is salvation'', from the
roots ASHA meaning ''to save'' and YAHreferring to the
Hebrew God. Isaiah is one of the four major prophets of
the Old Testament.
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 Americans
hoping to receive the current design can renew by mail even
if their passports still have years of validity. Eligible
applicants must have a 10-year passport issued within the
past 15 years, when they were at least 16. The document must
be undamaged and never reported lost or stolen. Applicants
submit Form DS-82, their current passport, a photograph, and
the $130 renewal fee.
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 On
a tragic night in 1944, the Nazis liquidated the so-called
''Gypsy Family Camp'' in the Auschwitz II-Birkenau
Concentration and Extermination Camp. In the gas chambers of
that concentration camp, despite their active resistance,
4,300 Romani people from 14 countries were murdered.
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  When
disaster strikes, the Red Cross wins the lottery. They are
already flooding the airwaves with requests for money for
Hurricane Isaias. |
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