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For six months, a petite brunette calling herself “Lena Rigon” quietly appeared at a French airfield and learned to fly helicopters. Her instructors had no idea why. Her real name was Nadine Vaujour. And she was learning so she could fly into a Paris prison and steal her husband back. Michel Vaujour was a convicted armed robber and notorious escape artist serving an 18-year sentence at La Santé Prison. He had already escaped custody several times. But this plan required something neither prison walls nor guards could easily stop. A helicopter. Nadine trained until she earned her pilot's license. She became a regular customer at a helicopter rental company, returning again and again until renting an aircraft no longer seemed suspicious. Then, on May 26, 1986, she was ready. At approximately 10:40 that morning, a white Alouette II suddenly appeared above La Santé. Nadine brought it into a hover over the prison. Below, Michel made his move. With another prisoner helping him, he reached the roof. Nadine held the helicopter steady above one of Paris's most secure prisons while Michel climbed aboard. Then she pulled away. Within minutes, the prison was behind them. Nadine landed on a soccer field near Paris's university district, abandoned the helicopter and disappeared with Michel. France launched a massive manhunt. The escape worked. For four months. In September, Michel was caught after a failed Paris bank robbery ended in gunfire. He was shot in the head and critically wounded. Nadine was arrested shortly afterward. Their extraordinary escape was over. Years later, even their marriage would end. But for one morning in 1986, Nadine Vaujour had done exactly what she had spent months secretly preparing to do. She learned to fly a helicopter for one reason. Then she flew straight into a prison and took her husband out through the sky.

Earth's two lasting radiation belts reach from about 640 to 58,000 km above the surface. A third one did not last. On 28 February 2013 the Van Allen Probes reported a transient belt of high-energy ultrarelativistic charged particles. It persisted for four weeks. Nobody had seen a third belt before, and nothing of it is left now. The belts give off no light. They are clouds of particles trapped by Earth's magnetic field, and this one simply thinned away. #Astronomy #ThirdBelt #Space

ISAIAS BIG TORNADO THREAT🌪️‼- Still one of the BIGGER threats to #Hurricane #Isaias will be the higher-than-normal chances for tornadoes (POTENTIALLY STRONG 💪🌪️💪). FRIDAY: Outer bands from the northeast quadrant of Isaias will be coming ashore across the #Florida Panhandle and will encounter significant wind shear. Conditions will deteriorate throughout the afternoon. A few tornadoes will be likely SATURDAY: Isaias moves ashore by Early Saturday morning, and rainbands will be moving well inland. Anywhere, the stronger (several) bands of storms will exist on the "dirty" side Isaias, an OUTBREAK of tornadoes across #Florida, #Alabama, #Georgia, and even into #SouthCarolina... DO NOT SLEEP NAKED‼- Tornado threats will be happening at night. They form quickly!! Please, have a plan of action.

🚨 U.S. Embassy Warns Americans In Russia! The U.S. Embassy says Americans currently in Russia should depart immediately amid reports of suspected pneumonic plague in Irkutsk. The embassy is monitoring reports of a death and related quarantine measures. Russia has not confirmed that plague caused the illness. The State Department’s Level 4 “Do Not Travel” advisory remains in effect. Americans in Russia are urged to follow local health guidance and seek care for symptoms. #Russia #PneumonicPlague #USEmbassy #HealthAlert #BreakingNews

In February 2026, workers repairing a collapsed floor in the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Maastricht uncovered a skeleton lying directly in front of where the altar once stood. The deacon, standing over the first exposed bone, said he was 99% certain who it was. Two people in particular had been waiting a very long time for that sentence. Odile Bordaz, a French historian, had spent 25 years arguing this church was the burial site. Wim Dijkman, a Dutch archaeologist, had spent 28 years trying to get permission to dig. Neither of them had been able to prove it. Then a floor caved in and did the work for them. Beside the skeleton, in the nave, were two objects that made the case harder to dismiss. A French coin from 1660, minted under the authority of the bishop who would later preside over a royal mass for Louis XIV. And a lead musket ball, lodged at chest level. The man they think is lying there is not the swashbuckler Alexandre Dumas invented in 1844. He's the real one. Charles de Batz de Castelmore was born around 1611 in Gascony. He became a career soldier and a covert agent for Cardinal Mazarin, the kind of man kings send when they can't afford to be seen sending anyone. When Louis XIV needed someone to guard his disgraced finance minister Nicolas Fouquet under house arrest, he picked de Batz and left him on the job for four years. He wouldn't trust it to anyone else. By 1667, de Batz was the effective commander of the Musketeers of the Guard. In 1673, around 60 years old, he was pulled from a provincial governorship he hated and sent to the siege of Maastricht. On June 25, a musket ball hit him in the throat. He was buried somewhere near the battlefield, in a hurry, and the location was lost. For 353 years, the real d'Artagnan has been a name without a grave. A DNA sample has now been taken from the jawbone and sent to a lab in Munich, where it's being compared against living descendants of the de Batz family. Results are expected within weeks. 3

🚨🌕 The Moon contains an enormous amount of oxygen — but almost none of it is available as breathable gas. Around 40–45% of lunar regolith is oxygen by mass, chemically bound inside minerals and glass. That means the Moon has a huge theoretical oxygen resource, but extracting it requires industrial processing. One estimate by soil scientist John Grant calculated that a cubic metre of lunar regolith could contain roughly 630 kg of oxygen. Under highly idealized assumptions about processing the upper layers of lunar soil across the Moon, the theoretical quantity could support billions of people for an extraordinarily long time. But this is a calculation of total oxygen contained in lunar material — not oxygen that could realistically be harvested today. Researchers are investigating technologies that could extract oxygen from lunar regolith because the resource could be valuable for both life support and rocket propulsion. Producing oxygen on the Moon could eventually reduce the amount of oxygen that future lunar missions would need to launch from Earth. The challenge is enormous: lunar soil must be mined, processed and heated or chemically treated to separate oxygen from minerals, requiring substantial energy and infrastructure. So the Moon isn't an enormous ready-made oxygen tank. It's more like a massive mineral resource that future lunar industries could potentially turn into oxygen. 🚀 Source: Southern Cross University / The Conversation

More than 3,000 years after his death, one of ancient Egypt’s greatest pharaohs was given something he never needed in life: an international journey. Ramesses II ruled Egypt for about 66 years, from roughly 1279 to 1213 BC, making his reign one of the longest in ancient Egyptian history. He fought the Hittites at the famous Battle of Kadesh and later helped establish a peace agreement with them that is often described as one of the earliest known written peace treaties. His reign was also an age of enormous construction. Among the monuments associated with him are the colossal temples at Abu Simbel, whose massive statues still stand today. Ramesses is believed to have fathered a remarkably large number of children, perhaps around 100, and he outlived many of them. He died at roughly 90 years old and was originally buried in the Valley of the Kings. But his journey did not end there. As tomb robbery became an increasing threat, ancient priests moved his mummy more than once, eventually hiding him with other royal mummies in a secret cache near modern Luxor. The hiding place remained undiscovered until 1881. Then, nearly a century later, Ramesses II traveled again. In 1976, his mummy was sent to France for conservation after concerns about fungal deterioration. When he arrived in Paris, he was treated with extraordinary ceremony, including a formal military reception. French researchers examined the ancient remains in detail. Studies of his mummy suggested that Ramesses had reddish hair during life, although the exact appearance of his hair thousands of years ago is difficult to reconstruct with certainty. Researchers also found evidence of severe age-related disease, including arthritis and dental problems. He stood approximately 1.7 meters tall—around 5 feet 7 inches. And despite the countless stories surrounding his journey to France, one of the most famous is simply not true. The viral claim that Egypt issued Ramesses II a passport identifying his occu

Mercury, Venus and Saturn appearing above the pyramids of Giza creates a striking meeting of ancient architecture and the Solar System. All the planets orbit the Sun close to roughly the same plane, called the ecliptic. From Earth, this means planets regularly appear along the same narrow path across our sky and can occasionally form impressive-looking alignments. The pyramids themselves were built more than 4,500 years ago, with the Great Pyramid of Giza completed around 2560 BCE. Since then, countless planetary configurations have appeared above them. Claims that this particular Mercury-Venus-Saturn arrangement occurs only once every 2,373 years should be treated cautiously. Planetary alignments depend heavily on how precisely “alignment” is defined, the observer’s location and the required angular separation. There is also no astronomical evidence that the three planets intentionally align with the three pyramids. Their apparent positions relative to the monuments change simply by moving the camera. Still, the scene represents an extraordinary contrast in scale: structures thousands of years old beneath planets located tens of millions to more than a billion kilometers away.