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Daylight savings time comes to Egypt on April 26

Egypt Independent 25 Apr 2024

Daylight saving time is based on advancing the clock by 60 minutes, aiming to rationalize energy in light of economic conditions and changes that the world is witnessing, ...

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Big Ben falls silent as newly restored clock stops working for more than an hour ...

The Daily Mail 24 Apr 2024

The clock was designed ... The clock has rarely stopped - even after a bomb destroyed the Commons chamber during the Second World War, the clock tower survived and Big Ben continued to strike the hours.

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Apr 23 Young Americans should be protesting nuclear weapons

The Hofstra Chronicle 24 Apr 2024

In January 2024, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced the Doomsday Clock is still set ... One treaty led to another, and by 1991, the world had turned the clock back to 17 minutes to midnight.

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Was Harry Jerome the world's fastest man? His 1960 finish is still a mystery

Toronto Sun 24 Apr 2024

“Harry Jerome, the jet-propelled 19-year-old from North Vancouver, became the first Canadian to shatter a world track and field record in 30 years when he sped to victory in the 100-metres with a ...

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Mollie O’Callaghan: Australia’s ‘dolphin in a human body’ set for bumper Olympic haul

Yahoo Daily News 24 Apr 2024

While still in work as she prepares for the Olympic trials in June, O’Callaghan put together a sensational performance, stopping the clock in 1.53.57, the only sub-1.54 mark in the world this year, ...

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Steelhead trout, once thriving in Southern California, are declared endangered

Phys Dot Org 24 Apr 2024

"How do you manage a whole landscape for fish conservation in the middle of one of the biggest urban areas in the world? It's very challenging.". This population of steelhead, he said, is effectively "up against the clock." ... "It's a really cool fish.

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Stellar Blade is more than skin deep

Polygon 24 Apr 2024

Image. Shift Up/Sony Interactive Entertainment ... Automata ... Image. Shift Up/Sony Interactive Entertainment. Image ... My playthrough clocked in at around 24 hours, having done most of the side quests in the first open-world area but barely touching the second.

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Keeping time: One man and his passion for vintage and antique clocks

Vietnam News 23 Apr 2024

It is one of his most prized possessions in his 200-strong collection of mechanical clocks ... The world of clocks is a constant voyage of discovery, as each clock presents its own unique set of puzzles waiting to be solved,” he said.

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NASA is giving the moon its own time zone. Why the clock is ticking.

Usatoday 23 Apr 2024

On Earth, Coordinated Universal Time, or UTC, is the standard used to set all time zones around the world ... Earth's UTC uses a group of 450 highly precise atomic clocks in 85 time laboratories around the world.

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VOA Newscasts

Voa News 23 Apr 2024

Give us 5 minutes, and we'll give you the world. Around the clock, Voice of America keeps you in touch with the latest news. We bring you reports from our correspondents and interviews with newsmakers from across the world ... .

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Secret UK women's codecracking army gets belated recognition for WWII work

Bennington Banner 23 Apr 2024

During World War II, dozens of women Cambridge University students worked around the clock in complete secrecy to crack Nazi codes, but only now are the unsung heroes getting recognition ....

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Doha perfect opportunity to build confidence: Gardiner

The Peninsula 23 Apr 2024

Olympic 400m champion and former world champion Steven Gardiner will return to Qatar for the ... Gardiner clocked a national record of 43.48 with victory at the World Athletics Championships in Doha 2019.

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NASA's Voyager 1 phones home after months

Raw Story 23 Apr 2024

Both Voyager spacecraft carry "Golden Records" -- 12-inch, gold-plated copper disks intended to convey the story of our world to extraterrestrials.

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Ying Yang Twins, Twista and Paul Wall perform for Springfield's Juneteenth. What to know

Springfield News-Leader 23 Apr 2024

Friday, June 14, at the Gillioz ... In 1992, Twista was recognized by the Guinness World Records as the World’s Fastest Rapper, clocking 598 syllables in 55 seconds, according to the Chicago Tribune ... 1 on the Billboard 200 ... 93 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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Secret army of women who broke Nazi codes get belated recognition

Sandhills Express 23 Apr 2024

During World War II, dozens of women students at Cambridge University worked around the clock in complete secrecy to crack Nazi codes, but only now are the unsung heroes getting recognition.