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Photo: Maya Robinson and Photos by Columbia Pictures, Focus Features, Eureka Pictures, Paramount Pictures and Disney Even if you spent your summers on the couch watching reruns of The Price Is Right with your babysitter Sonia who smelled like sweat and cheese balls stuck in braces instead of going to summer camp, everyone knows what camp feels like, thanks to the tons of summer-camp movies and TV shows (remember Salute Your Shorts ?) that we’ve seen over the years. With summer fully here, we thought it time we revisit some of those camps. What makes a summer-camp movie great has less to do with the experience of applying bug spray and learning to swim in the lake, and more to do with celebrating childhood, rebellion, groups of scrappy outsiders pitted against the more popular, and like-minded people banding together to make something impossible and wonderful happen. (Most of them have first kisses, too, thanks to all those girlfriends at summer camp that the other kids … [Read more...] about 15 Classic Summer-Camp Movies, Ranked

Copper Scroll: Expert on 'copious' amounts of treasure in 2019 Sign up for our news briefing, including a daily special Russia-Ukraine edition SUBSCRIBE Invalid email We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info The Dead Sea Scrolls are a set of ancient Jewish religious texts that were found in the Qumran Caves in the Judaean Desert. These documents are of great historical, religious and linguistic significance as they include the second-oldest known accounts of the Bible . But one of them could be even more valuable. Trending The Copper Scroll differs significantly from the others, it is not a literary work, but a list of 64 places where various items of gold and silver were buried or hidden. Shelley Neese is the author of ‘The Copper Scroll … [Read more...] about Bible discovery: Ancient ‘treasure map’ pinpointing location of ‘165 tonnes of gold’

Turkey: Bible thought to be 1,000-years-old found in 2015 Sign up for FREE for the biggest new releases, reviews and tech hacks SUBSCRIBE Invalid email We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Harold Lindsey is an American evangelist and Christian writer who wrote a series of popular apocalyptic books suggesting that the Rapture would occur in the Eighties. Mr Lindsey claimed he had successfully predicted the doomsday initiation after decoding Matthew 24:32-33, which reads: “Now learn this lesson from the fig tree – as soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near.” According to Mr Lindsey, the 1948 “rebirth of Israel as a nation” represented the fig tree – and the generation brought up in this period would witness the … [Read more...] about ‘Lord will return’ Bible scholar’s 2021 end of the world prediction after ‘decoding’ text

Bette Midler has sparked a backlash after saying cisgender women are being deprived of their basic rights, while JK Rowling has appeared to back "transphobic" comments by singer Macy Gray. Cisgender means a person whose sense of personal identity and gender corresponds with their birth sex. The Hollywood star tweeted: "WOMEN OF THE WORLD! We are being stripped of our rights over our bodies, our lives and even of our name! "They don't call us "women" anymore; they call us "birthing people" or "menstruators", and even "people with vaginas"! Don't let them erase you! Every human on earth owes you!" A prolific tweeter, with over two million followers, Midler 's sentiment has led to a backlash on social media, with some fans telling her to "do better". Advertisement Twitter Due to your consent preferences, you’re not able to view this. Open Privacy Options One Twitter user wrote: "This is a bad take, Bette!!! Not all women have … [Read more...] about Bette Midler sparks backlash over ‘anti-trans’ tweet – as JK Rowling backs Macy Gray’s ‘bigoted’ comments

F1 fans have backed Sky Sports commentator Martin Brundle following his Twitter spat with Gary Lineker. The legends of motorsport and football have clashed over the protesters who invaded the track at the British Grand Prix. Seven people from climate activist group Just Stop Oil were arrested after the invasion on the opening lap at Silverstone, with five of them sitting down in the middle of the track. The race had already been suspended following Zhou Guanyu’s horrifying crash, but a number of cars still sped by as the quintet held their protest before being dragged away by marshals. In the wake of the incident, Lineker defended the protesters’ actions, tweeting: “If it’s not already too late, history will look back very favourably on these people.” READ MORE: Martin Brundle slaps down Gary Lineker as Match of the Day host backs British GP protesters Brundle then told Lineker not to encourage such dangerous actions, although he defended their right to protest about … [Read more...] about Jeremy Clarkson wades in as F1 fans back Martin Brundle amid Gary Lineker Twitter spat

JK Rowling has vowed to buy all of Macy Gray’s back catalogue after the singer sparked backlash for her ‘transphobic comments’. The singer known for her 1999 single I Try, appeared on Piers Morgan ’s Uncensored last night where he, once again, probed his guest on trans women. The former Good Morning Britain presenter, 57, said to Gray, 54, and his handful of viewers that we’re ‘in an era now basically where most public figures are too terrified to even say what they think a woman is’. ‘I know!’ Gray agreed, before she was asked to describe what a woman is. ‘I’d say a human being with boobs. You have to start there. And a vagina!’ The Harry Potter author who has caused massive upset with her determined and consistent Twitter posts which cause huge distress for the trans community, to put it lightly, has obviously backed Gray all the way. Sharing trans activist and presenter India Willoughby’s post which accused Gray of ‘killer her career’, Rowling tweeted: … [Read more...] about JK Rowling predictably vows to buy all of Macy Gray’s back catalogue after ‘transphobic’ remarks spark backlash

By Emily McAuliffe Published 18 hours ago Share close Share page Copy link About sharing On 27 February, Karl Sprogis and his wife Jill spent most of the night anxiously monitoring flood height data from Australia's Bureau of Meteorology. Their town, Lismore, was caught in the catastrophic floods that submerged southern Queensland and northern New South Wales in February and March. Those floods have become the most costly in the nation's history , according to the Insurance Council of Australia. The latest flooding to hit Australia came at the weekend when Sydney was hit with torrential rain. Thousands were told to evacuate their homes and roads were cut by deep water. Back in February, perched on a hill the Sprogis family home was safe, but the couple were worried about their downtown physiotherapy business. It was purposely located on the second floor but even that was not … [Read more...] about Australia’s devastating floods spur new warning systems

[This story originally aired on February 20.] In July 2020, Daniel Anderl, the son of federal Judge Esther Salas and attorney Mark Anderl, was shot dead by a gunman at the front door of the family's New Jersey home. Daniel Anderl, 20, took a bullet to his chest trying to protect his parents. By the time Judge Salas came to the door, the killer was gone. Her husband, Mark, was wounded. "I have direct evidence that he died heroically, that he had a holy death," says David Oakley, Daniel Anderl's godfather and a family friend. The stranger who came to Judge Salas' door had been holding a package, posing as a deliveryman.  Just eight days earlier, a chillingly similar incident took place in California. When attorney Marc Angelucci came to his door to sign for a package, he was also shot dead. "He was just a down-to-earth, at the center of his soul a good-hearted person," Marc's friend,  Cassie Jaye, tells CBS News correspondent Tracy Smith. "[Sighs] I was trying to make … [Read more...] about Federal judge whose son was killed in ambush: “My son’s death cannot be in vain”

OPINION: 'Groping back to bed after a piss' is the first line of a poem. One senses, does one not, that it may not be a poem of a romantic nature. And as so often in this column it is by Larkin, Philip Larkin, prince of grumps. Larkin wrote of how things are. He did not pretend that we stride the corridors of life with head held high and virtue blazing, sure of aim and firm of purpose. Rather he knew we grope in the darkness, stubbing toes and dry of mouth, fogged with sleep and weak of flesh. And I for one appreciate his honesty. It was Dr Johnson who said there are only two reasons to read: the better to enjoy life or the better to endure it. Larkin provides a double bull's eye. To read him is to delight in his honesty, but also to know you're not alone. This poem came to mind because I got a gift. It was an invention that I had not known existed. Had you told me of it two weeks ago I'd have doubted you. But now all I can say is that this may not be an age of miracles but it is … [Read more...] about Joe Bennett: Helped by the arm of Larkin and wonder of invention