"For decades, each subsequent competition saw an evolution in ball design. Still, most held to a similar format made up of parallel and perpendicular leather strips — that is, until the iconic Telstar ball hit the field..
Developed by ADIDAS , the Telstar was the first World Cup ball to use the now-familiar truncated icosahedron for its design, consisting of 12 black pentagonal and 20 white hexagonal panels. ..
"..one could be forgiven for accepting at face value a widely-circulated claim that Buckminster Fuller designed the modern soccer ball .. In fact, the ball was named after (and looks like) a key communications satellite launched in 1962..
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"A portmanteau of “television” and “star,” this original Telstar transmitted the first live transatlantic TV feed (as well as the first telephone and fix signals) through space." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telstar
"An AT&T spokesman said the idea of an active satellite, which does not simply reflect signals but amplifies and retransmits them, was conceived by science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke in 1945."
"the Foreign Office told Lownie they cannot provide him with information relating to the prince’s visits to Egypt, the UAE, Kuwait, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, partly on the grounds of cost."
"The prince’s visit to Saudi Arabia in 2011 was also rejected due to the fact it would cost the department too much to collect the information for the author."🤔
"Lownie told Declassified: “Over the last four years, I have made over a hundred FOI requests…without eliciting any information on Prince Andrew’s decade as a taxpayer-funded Special Trade Representative.
“Every possible exemption has been deployed to avoid releasing papers"
"The hard-hitting themes of incel culture raised in the hit Netflix series Adolescence are being addressed in a new resource for secondary schools from charity Into Film." sec-ed.co.uk/content/news/a…
"Adolescence tells the story of how a family’s world is turned upside down when 13-year-old Jamie Miller is arrested for the murder of a teenage girl who goes to his school.
The four-part Netflix series includes themes of incel culture, mysogyny, and the treatment of women."
"Through PSHE lessons, boys are taught at increasingly young ages to explore their sexuality and consume pornography “sensibly” – something which drives them further into the darkest parts of sexual violence, addiction and degrading misogyny."
- Catholic Herald
"The show has been so influential that the UK Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, has called for the programme to be shown in schools to raise awareness of the issues."🤔 thecatholicherald.com/adolescence-wh…
"In the show, Jamie commits the murder because he is being bullied by his victim, Katie, who is commenting on Instagram posts, calling him an “incel” (involuntary celibate)."..
Forbes:
"Julio Mario Santo Domingo III, an heir to one of the world's largest beer fortunes, is a disc jockey in New York City for the group Sheik 'N' Beik.".. 🎶
"He inherited his wealth from his late grandfather, who owned a large stake in SABMiller following its 2005 acquisition of family brewer Bavaria." forbes.com/profile/julio-…
'Delfina Blaquier is the daughter of Argentine racing driver Delfina Frers and Eduardo Blaquier, a member of one of the wealthiest families in Argentina. ' ..🎶
"Donald Trump Jr. caused an uproar among some when pictures surfaced of him holding the tail of a dead elephant after a big-game hunt in Africa years ago. Now, new policy changes proposed by his father’s administration may allow Americans to bring the carcasses of elephants &..
and lions killed in Zimbabwe & Zambia back to the US.
The importing of so-called hunting trophies was banned by former President Obama in 2014, but the Fish & Wildlife Service announced that it will allow Americans to bring back elephant & lion trophies."