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It’s August, 1818, and two British naval ships are dodging icebergs in Baffin Bay on their mission to find the Northwest Passage. John Ross, commanding the HMS
Isabella, and William Parry in the HMS
Alexander are farther north along the western Greenland coast than any previous explorers. They assume this land of glaciers and stark mountains is uninhabited.
But they’re wrong.
They spy several figures running on a hill near shore. Ross assumes they’re shipwrecked sailors in need of rescue, and he steers the
Isabella to get closer. But they turn out to be Native people, a community of Inughuit living farther north than Europeans believed was physically possible.
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An image of a crashed bus being hoisted by a crane has been shared hundreds of times on Facebook with a claim that the accident happened recently in Ethiopiaâs capital, Addis Ababa, leading to the death of 27 people. This is false; AFP Fact Check traced the image to reports of a 2019 accident in the capital in which two people died.Â
The postâs caption begins as a news alert and asks Facebook users to âshare this and help us reunite them with their families.â
Translated from Amharic, the post describes the bus crash in detail, claiming it happened this year (which is 2013, in terms of the Ethiopian calendar). âA lion city bus with registration number A 68377, which was carrying 58 people from Shiro Meda to Kasanchis, collided with another Code 3 private black vehicle today, January 8, 2013 under a bridge near Stephen Church.â
LEGO® builders’ efforts win prizes at new Ridgefield Historical Society exhibit at Town Hall Written by Sharon Dunphy
St. Stephen’s Church was a popular choice for LEGO® builders in the first annual contest sponsored by the Ridgefield Historical Society. This one won the Mixed Age Group Category for Team Zides.
The Ridgefield Historical Society has announced the winners of its first annual LEGO® Sculpture Contest: St. Stephen’s Church was the top subject in two of three categories, with the third featuring Lounsbury House.
Builders could choose among 13 Ridgefield landmarks for their subjects; the structures they created will be at Ridgefield Town Hall in the front lobby exhibit cases Feb. 5 through March 31.