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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…
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…
Fatal shooting in Croydon
News • Oct 02, 2021 11:00 BST 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…
Shooting: Ganemat Sekhon wins women’s skeet silver at Junior World Championship
Rising Indian woman skeet shooter Ganemat Sekhon won a silver medal at the ISSF Junior World Championship here. This was India’s fifth medal of the day. The Chandigarh shooter, who picked up her first senior ISSF World Cup stage medals in New Delhi earlier this year, went down in a shoot-off to American Alisha Fayth…