I've got way too many meetings today, but I managed to put this lot together while people were talking about some boring stuff 
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- World War II’s Only Canine POW Survived Shipwrecks, Crocodile Attacks, and Japanese Prison Camps - The story of Judy, a pointer who served in the Royal Navy and RAF among many other wartime exploits: ”She was a courageous and faithful companion, and the only official canine POW of the war. Given credit for saving the lives of many Allied soldiers and sailors, she proved to be the ultimate survivor under conditions that could only be described as horrific, imbuing the men around her with the hope and will to endure as well.”
- Nasa’s Curiosity rover has found the longest chain carbon molecules yet on Mars. It’s a significant finding in the search for alien life - The Martians are coming: ”The organic molecules found by Curiosity consist of carbon atoms linked in long chains, with other elements bonded to them, like hydrogen and oxygen. They come from a 3.7-billion-year-old rock dubbed Cumberland, encountered by the rover at a presumed dried-up lakebed in Mars’s Gale Crater.”
- Greenland’s Icy Surface Has Long Been Hiding A Secret, As New NASA Radar Uncovers The Secret City Hidden 100 Feet Below The Surface - They've rediscovered some of that Arctic Cold War stuff we've read about before: ”The images revealed a mysterious settlement below the surface of the ice sheet… The network of tunnels and dwellings was none other than Camp Century, a US Army base from the Cold War, which was built by tunnelling under the ice sheet.”
- The Time A Black Bear Nearly Set Off A Nuclear War - ”At the height of the Cold War, one adventurous black bear nearly set World War III in motion. With tensions high due to the Cuban missile crisis, the world was teetering on the razor’s edge — and things nearly turned out much worse than many could have imagined.” And it wasn't really the bear's fault.
- tv.garden - The TV equivalent of radio.garden: ”Welcome to tv.garden, your gateway to free live TV streaming from anywhere… Explore a wide range of channels, including international news, live sports, movies, entertainment, and cultural shows.”
- How the Irish Pub Became One of the Emerald Isle’s Greatest Exports - ”The Dublin-based Irish Pub Company has designed upwards of 2,000 pubs in more than 100 countries around the globe.” We had a thing about companies that make "Irish" pubs a few years ago, but this is an interesting look at one of the companies that specialises in making them
- "I don't know where we are." - The story of Flight 19, which went astray and ended up in every book about the Bermuda Triangle: ”There are many myths and conspiracy theories about the disappearance of Flight 19 off the coast of Florida… The Flight’s Avengers appearing in the desert in the film ‘Close encounters of the Third kind’ also draw in the idea of UFOs. I’m not about to say anything about these two theories, all I’m going to do is recount the facts of the disappearance of these aircraft.”
- All About Birds: Bird Cams - A large collection of cameras watching birds, from Cornell University: ”Don’t miss a moment of the Barred Owl breeding season!”
- Clive Sinclair, The Other Author - HT to DoctorStrangelove for this look at the early career of Sir Clive: ”At the end of the 1950s, when the teenage Sinclair was already a prolific producer of electronics and in the early stages of starting his own electronics business, he took the entirely understandable route for a cash-strapped engineer and entrepreneur and began writing for a living. He wrote for electronics and radio magazines, later becoming assistant editor of the trade magazine Instrument Practice, and wrote electronic project books for Bernard’s Radio Manuals, and Bernard Babani Publishing.”
- Старые остановки Капчагайского тракта. Часть 1, Google Translate version: Old stops of the Kapchagai tract. Part 1 - The bus stops of Kazakhstan: ”Iliysk and part of the road were flooded by the filling reservoir. They built a power plant, a new city and a new highway, which was named after the city of Kapchagay (Bag of Winds, if you translate the name ))). On both sides of the road, a fair number of bus stops of various architectures were built.” This one has a mosaic owl on a strange triangular structure
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