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Real shooting stars look a lot different than you’d expect

Idan Ginsburg is academic faculty in Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University. This story originally published in The Conversation. “I see thy glory like a shooting star.” So says the Earl of Salisbury as he ruminates about the future in Shakespeare’s “Richard II.” During the English Renaissance, people believed shooting stars were luminaries falling from…
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Nashville shooting leaves ATF agent seriously wounded; suspect dead

An agent with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) was seriously wounded by gunfire Tuesday afternoon during a shootout near Metro Police headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee, authorities said. The exchange of gunfire took place around 2:15 p.m. as authorities attempted to take the suspect, identified as Corey Daniel Wellman, 40, into custody on…
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Fatal shooting in Croydon

News   •   Oct 02, 2021&nbsp11:00&nbspBST Detectives are appealing for anyone who was at a house party in the Birdhurst Road area of Croydon on Saturday morning to get in touch as they investigate a fatal shooting.Police were called shortly before 0500hrs on Saturday, 2 October, to reports of a male shot in Birdhurst…
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