A visitor walks by the TV screen showing a news program reporting about North Korea’s missile firing, at Seoul Train Station in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, March 6, 2017. North Korea on Monday fired four banned ballistic missiles that flew about 1,000 kilometers , with three of them landing in Japan’s exclusive economic zone, South Korean and Japanese officials said, in an apparent reaction to huge military drills by Washington and Seoul that Pyongyang insists are an invasion rehearsal.
Category: Watches
Liberace’s jewelry to be part of Paris museum exhibit titled ‘Medusa’
Liberace sits at a piano at his namesake museum when it opened at 1775 E. Tropicana Ave. in 1979 in Las Vegas. Vive la Liberace! Fabulous pieces of jewelry that Mr. Showmanship collected over the years he headlined in Las Vegas and made up The Liberace Collection are to be part of a five-month exhibit at The Museum of Modern Art in Paris, France.
Full Show Audio: Joe Russo’s Almost Dead Shares Official Recording From Dominican Holidaze
On December 4, 2016 Grateful Dead tribute act Joe Russo’s Almost Dead helped close out last year’s installment of Dominican Holidaze at Breathless & New Onyx Resorts in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Today’s Taper Tuesdays features an official recording of JRAD’s performance at the event which is a matrix of on-stage mics and the soundboard feed.
NY bets big on aging nuke plants, balancing jobs, safety
When the Nine Mile Point reactor first went online, Richard Nixon was president, the Beatles were still a band and Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima weren’t yet bywords for the hazards of nuclear power. Almost 50 years later, New York state is betting big on the future of Nine Mile Point, one of the nation’s two oldest nuclear plants.
The Mystery of Part-Time Pulsars
A new discovery has upended the widely held view that all pulsars are orderly ticking clocks of the universe. A survey done at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico has fortuitously discovered two extremely strange pulsars that undergo a “cosmic vanishing act.”
Watchmaker Swatch goes into car batteries as investors question strategy
ZURICH, Dec 22 Three years ago, Swatch Group was riding high. The world’s largest watchmaker, known for its colourful plastic watches as well as upscale brands including Breguet, reported record gross sales.