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Look closely at this 1937 mural and you might find evidence that time travel is possible, at least according to some internet sleuths.The painting depicts a scene from the 17th century and appears to show a man holding something that wouldn’t be available for another few hundred years.The painting, titled “Mr. Pynchon and the Settlement of Springfield,” depicts the founders of what is now the town of Springfield, Massachusetts, surrounded by Native Americans.Can you find your phone? Source: United States Postal ServiceAt the centre of Umberto Romano’s painting is the famous British colonist William Pynchon.But it’s the man immediately to…

Marvel Studios star Samuel L. Jackson is apparently pretty upset about not being invited to star in 2018’s Black Panther.The Hitman’s Bodyguard star said that Nick Fury won’t be appearing in Avengers 3, Avengers 4 or Black Panther, but it seems what annoys him most is his character’s exclusion from Marvel’s Africa-set adventure.”I wasn’t in the ‘Superhero Controversy’ movie. [‘Captain America: Civil War’]”I’m not in Avengers 3 or Avengers 4. Those are filming now, but I haven’t been contacted about them yet,” Jackson told Yahoo Movies.”They wouldn’t let me go in the Black Panther world. It’s like making a black…

After last season’s NBA Championship Finals, the big question for basketball fans was whether the game was entering a new era of single-club dominance.The Golden State Warriors won their second championship in three years after adding Kevin Durant to the team. Durant, along with Stephen Curry and the rest of the team, easily defeated LeBron James’ Cavaliers in the NBA Finals, finishing with a 4-1 series lead.The concern for the Cavs, and the rest of the league, is that the Warriors could become even stronger by adding new players to an already great team.According to Tim Kawakami of The Athletic…

A New Jersey teenager has left a permanent mark in a years-long battle against her high school’s dress code.Victoria DiPaolo, an 18-year-old senior at West Milford High School, chose a black off-the-shoulder top for her senior photo, with a yearbook quote written underneath the picture: “Sorry, is my shoulder making this quote hard to read?”The school said it bans tops that reveal midriffs, shorts or skirts which are deemed distracting, and any clothing with rips or holes which make it more revealing or sexualised.Victoria DiPaolo ended by criticizing her high school’s dress code in a yearbook quote.DiPaolo said she always…

A teenage mountain biker was killed after going off course during a race and being attacked by a black bear.Patrick Cooper was heading back halfway through a popular Alaskan mountain race when he somehow veered off course and became lost, resulting in a rare encounter with a black bear and the death of the 16-year-old Anchorage boy in a rare bird of prey attack.Cooper began running and at one point reportedly made a frantic call to his brother, telling him he was being chased by a bear during Sunday’s Robert Spurr Memorial Hill Climb race south of Anchorage. His brother…

KISS frontman Gene Simmons is known for two signature moves on stage: his extremely long tongue wagging and his iconic “rock on” hand gesture.The rock singer now wants to trademark the hand sign, claiming that the mark applies to “entertainment, specifically live performances by musicians and personal appearances by musicians.”Simmons even included a drawing of the gesture in his application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.KISS frontman Gene Simmons makes the “rock on” hand gesture that he claims to have invented. Credit: APThe gesture closely resembles what’s known as the “sign of the horns,” which is associated with the…

A five-year-old boy in the US walked two blocks to inform his grandfather that his parents had died of a drug overdose, saving his parents and ensuring rescue for his three-month-old sister.According to Middletown, Ohio police, Aidan, 5, walked barefoot around 5 a.m. last Thursday and set off the alarm.”He came in the door and his mommy and daddy didn’t follow him,” the child’s grandfather, Kenny Curry, told FOX8.Ohio parents Lee Johnson and Chelsea Marshall were found dead from a heroin overdose after their 5-year-old child set off the alarm. Photo: Middletown Police Department”All of a sudden he started saying,…

This article originally appeared on the Atlantic Council website.On March 24, Marine Le Pen, French presidential candidate and leader of the French National Front (FN), flew to Moscow for a surprise visit to Russian President Vladimir Putin.While photos of Le Pen’s one-on-one meeting with the Russian president certainly made her look presidential-worthy, the image may not help her popularity among French voters ahead of April’s election, where only 20% of French voters trust Putin.For the Kremlin, its strategy of openly forging ties with far-right European populists could backfire here too.Russia’s interference in the U.S. presidential election last fall has raised…

A US hiker has avoided jail after he discovered a distressed bear cub in the forest and used CPR to save it.Photographer Corey Hancock came across the 3-month-old bear cub while hiking a scenic trail in Oregon on Monday night.The bear is now recovering, but animal experts warned Hancock that removing the animal from its natural habitat was a step too far.The good Samaritan could have faced a $6,000 fine or even a year in jail.”We had no choice – we weren’t going to leave it there,” Hancock told Inside Edition.Photographer Corey Hancock spotted the bear while hiking a scenic…

One of President Donald Trump’s biggest enemies is attacking him again with the astonishing claim that the president was “attached” to the interpreter’s breast during the Japanese prime minister’s recent visit to Japan.Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter makes the case in the magazine’s latest issue.Carter has accused Trump of making inappropriate comments about a young woman who was working as a translator for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during his visit to the United States last month.”The President told acquaintances that he was infatuated with his interpreter’s breasts, but he expressed it in his own mellow way,” Carter wrote.The woman, who…