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Deadly Earthquake hits Afghanistan
Authorities say more than 1,400 people have died as floods and rubble hinder rescue efforts.
At 11:47pm (19:47 GMT) on Sunday 31st August 2025, the earthquake shook Nangarhar and Kunar provinces in eastern Afghanistan. It was 8km (5 miles) deep, making it a shallow tremor. Shallower earthquakes tend to cause more damage because the epicentre of the quake and seismic waves are closer to the Earth’s surface. Seismic waves from deep earthquakes have to travel a greater distance to get to the surface, which causes them to lose energy.
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Poland's Immigration Playbook
PERSUASION (Human Rights)
In recent years, no issue has posed as much of a problem for Western liberals as immigration. Backlash to immigrants was key to Trump’s two victories, the vote for Brexit in the UK, and much of the right-wing surge that has remade European politics. By and large, the Western establishment has moved away from the approach of leaders like Angela Merkel and Joe Biden, who allowed large numbers of migrants and refugees into their countries and paid a tremendous political price for doing so. In the United Kingdom, France, and Germany, leaders from the political mainstream have started responding to popular pressure by restricting immigration.
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No Compromise from Putin
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The Great American Travel Book
The American Scholar Literature
The book that helped revive a genre, leading to an all-too-brief heydayFifty years ago, The Great Railway Bazaar appeared and dazzlingly lifted travel writing out of its midcentury doldrums. Its opening was perfect—“Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.”
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Greatest Unsolved MysteriesNational Geographic Visual Art |
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From the Mystery of the Disappearing Skyjacker to Dark Secrets of the CIA - The Greatest Unsolved Mysteries of All Time | Undercover History Updates are covered in this Mega 4+ hour video. |
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Quote of The Week
If there were no stairs in my house, I could easily imagine I was still twenty-five.
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Top Stories from our favourite publications to stimulate your curious mind, |
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The Greatest Night In Pop
The Netflix documentary, The Greatest Night In Pop, tells the story of the making of We Are The World, the 1985 charity single featuring (almost) everyone in American pop at the time: Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Diana Ross, Cyndi Lauper, Tina Turner, Billy Joel, Dionne Warwick…the list goes on and on.
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Big Five Publishers Kill Literary Fiction
PERSUASION (Literature)
One hundred years ago, there were dozens of publishing houses and a robust publishing landscape. This is the idea of publishing that so many of us still have stored away in our collective memory—a competitive marketplace in which publishers needed to nurture, court, outbid, and out-promise each other in landing both emerging and established writers. This process gave us—among so many others—Flannery O’Connor, Tom Wolfe, Vladimir Nabokov, and James Baldwin.
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Constantine Cavafy, Poetry’s Inadvertent Influencer
THE NEW REPUBLIC (Philosophy/Literature)
The great, early-twentieth-century Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy much preferred writing about a culture’s end-times rather than all of the times that came before. This was largely because he preferred reflecting on past achievements to enduring the vicissitudes of producing or maintaining new ones. His short, abrupt, almost parable-like lyrics of historical figures and events—such as “The God Abandons Antony” or “Thermopylae”...
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The Secretary of ... jackassery?
Yeah, it matters if it's the Secretary of War versus Defense. It matters a lot. As with all things in the carnival sideshow of Trumpism, subtlety is dead and buried. Everything the man does has all the softness of a sledgehammer blow to the marbles without warning, and all the bravado of an Italian man of 1950. |
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Poet Jane Kenyon on the Art of Letting Go
THE MARGINALIAN (Literature)
We know that the price of love is loss, and yet we love anyway; that our atoms will one day belong to generations of other living creatures who too will die in turn, and yet we press them hard against the body of the world, against each other’s bodies, against the canvas and the keyboard and the cambium of life. |
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The Genesis Engine
Spiny grass and scraggly pines creep amid the arts-and-crafts buildings of the Asilomar Conference Grounds, 100 acres of dune where California's Monterey Peninsula hammerheads into the Pacific. It's a rugged landscape, designed to inspire people to contemplate their evolving place on Earth. So it was natural that 140 scientists gathered here in 1975 for an unprecedented conference.
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James King Blog offers valuable resources for students of Arts and Humanities. Particularly those interested in Environments, Literature, Performing Arts, Visual Art, Philosophy, Travel, and Human Rights. The articles provide insights into complex interactions between humans and their environments, and the ethical and moral dimensions of environmental issues. The Blog is relevant to students of all ages and those who are just fascinated by the Arts and Humanities. |
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 Elements of Earth’s Rocks and Soil – You need to Know
The crust is a diverse and remarkable composition of elements of Earth’s rocks and soil that create the foundation of the planet. These elements are primarily found in the form of minerals, rocks, soil, and water, which interact with each other and play essential roles in supporting life. |
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ALFIE GOES TO THAILAND - SERIES
If you like thought-provoking drama, romantic tragedies, and damaged characters, then you’ll love the tropical sauna and wry humour of POST- IT NOTES and the other books in this Psychological Thriller series. The Series is a story of human challenge, manipulation, rejection, abuse, and a search for peace. |
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THE KENRIGHT CHRONICLES - SERIES
The Kenright Chronicles is a psychological thriller series. Jack Kenright, a young investment banker gets involved in an international art swindle. which cripples his business and threatens his life and his family. He ends up a recluse, working for the FBI undercover and exposes massive corruption in the gambling world. |
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The Secret Life of Jodi Arias By Jane Velez-Mitchell
"Velez-Mitchell cracks the Jodi Arias code—peeling away the lies to reveal the disturbing truth behind this horrific crime of betrayal, deceit, and revenge." —Jim Moret, chief correspondent, Inside Edition On June 9, 2008, the butchered body of Travis Alexander was found in his Mesa, Arizona home. The grisly nature of his death made instant headlines: with twenty-nine knife wounds, his throat slit, and a gunshot to the head, Travis was left to die. The prime suspect in the case was Alexander's ex-girlfriend, the attractive and soft-spoken Jodi Arias.
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The Patriot Attack By Kyle Mills
Robert Ludlum's bestselling Covert-One series continues with an exciting new thriller by New York Times–bestselling author Kyle Mills. An attack on a Japanese warship brings Japan and China to the brink of war. Meanwhile, top Covert-One operative Colonel Jon Smith is sent on a mission to recover mysterious material from the wreckage of the Fukushima nuclear reactor. When Smith fails to return, CIA agent Randi Russell heads off on an unsanctioned mission to find him. She quickly discovers that the missing samples may be evidence that Japan, led by hawkish military chief of staff Masao Takahashi, has been secretly developing next-generation weapon systems in preparation for a conflict with China.
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