Anonymous ID: 11651f Feb. 19, 2025, 10:46 a.m. No.22613498   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3504

>>22613480

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Francis_Gibbs

During the late 1940s and early 1950s, the Gibbs brothers were among the promoters leading the United States government and military to subsidize the cost of building the ultimate ocean liner. In the end, Gibbs and Cox was awarded the contract to design and supervise the building of SS United States, which entered service in 1952. While in the class of the largest liners, it was much lighter and considerably faster than contemporary vessels. It was built with a high emphasis on safety, using a minimum of flammable materials.

Anonymous ID: 11651f Feb. 19, 2025, 11:24 a.m. No.22613756   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4006 >>4248

>>22613742

>https://www.abc15.com/news/region-central-southern-az/tucson/one-confirmed-dead-in-plane-crash-wednesday-morning-at-southern-arizona-airport

Two dead after mid-air plane collision Wednesday at southern Arizona airport

The crash took place at Marana Regional Airport outside Tucson

Two people are dead after two planes collided mid-air Wednesday morning at an airport in southern Arizona.

The crash occurred at Marana Regional Airport, outside Tucson.

Marana Police Department officials say both planes were occupied and at least two people have died. The victims have not been identified.

Officials with the Federal Aviation Administration tell ABC15 a Lancair, with two people on board, collided mid-air with a Cessna 172, with two others on board, at around 8:30 Wednesday morning.

Anonymous ID: 11651f Feb. 19, 2025, noon No.22613995   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ym30v356po

First pharaoh's tomb found in Egypt since Tutankhamun's

Egyptologists have discovered the first tomb of a pharaoh since Tutankhamun's was uncovered over a century ago.

Until recently, King Thutmose II's tomb was the last undiscovered royal tomb of the 18th Egyptian dynasty.

But a British-Egyptian team located it in the Western Valleys of the Theban Necropolis near the city of Luxor. Researchers had thought the burial chambers of the 18th dynasty pharaohs were on the other end of the mountain, near the Valley of the Kings.

The crew found it an area known for the resting places of royal women, but when they got into the burial chamber they found it decorated - the sign of a pharaoh.

"And part of the ceiling was still intact - a blue-painted ceiling with yellow stars on it. And blue-painted ceilings with yellow stars are only found in king's tombs," said the field director of the mission Dr Piers Litherland.

He told the BBC's Newshour programme he felt overwhelmed in the moment.

"When I came out, my wife was waiting outside and the only thing I could do was burst into tears," he said.

"When you come across something that you're not expecting to find, it's emotionally extremely turbulent really."

He said the discovery solved the mystery of where the tombs of early 18th dynasty kings are located.

Researchers found Thutmose II's mummified remains two centuries ago but its original burial site had never been located.

 

"This is the first royal tomb to be discovered since the ground-breaking find of King Tutankhamun's burial chamber in 1922," said Egypt's minister of tourism and antiquities Sherif Fathy.

Anonymous ID: 11651f Feb. 19, 2025, 12:02 p.m. No.22614004   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4248

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3rndygqll7o

'Help us': Hundreds deported from US held in Panama hotel

In a room at the luxury Decápolis Hotel in Panama City, two girls hold a piece of paper to the window with a written message. "Please help us," it reads.

The hotel offers its clients rooms with sea views, has two exclusive restaurants, a swimming pool, a spa and private transportation. But it has now become a "temporary custody" centre housing 299 undocumented migrants deported from the US, the Panamanian government said on Tuesday.

Some migrants raise their arms and cross them at the wrists to indicate that they are deprived of their freedom. Others hang small signs with other messages such as: "We are not safe in our country."

The Trump administration has pledged to deport millions of people who crossed illegally into the US. Those in the Panama City hotel arrived on three flights last week, after President José Raúl Mulino agreed that Panama would become a "bridge" country for deportees.

However, of the 299 undocumented migrants - from India, China, Uzbekistan, Iran, Vietnam, Turkey, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka - only 171 have agreed to return to their countries of origin.

The remainder now face an uncertain future, and it is the Panamanian authorities who are in control of what happens next.

According to the government, this group will be transferred to a camp in the province of Darién, which has temporarily housed migrants crossing the jungle en route to the US.

On a normal day, tourists can enter and leave the Decápolis Hotel with ease, but now heavily armed members of the Panamanian National Aeronaval Service enforce strict security measures inside and outside of the building.

From the street, laundry can be seen hanging in a window. One of the items is a yellow Los Angeles Lakers basketball jersey with the number 24, worn by the legendary player Kobe Bryant.

In another window, a group of adults and three children raise their arms with their thumbs in their palms - the international symbol for those needing assistance. "Help us," is written in red letters on the glass.

And two children with their faces covered hold up sheets of paper against the glass with the message: "Please save the Afghan girls."