Charlotte and Julie Bonaventura are French handball referee rock stars, just don't tell them that.
"We are not rock stars," the twins laugh, in a videocall with Olympic Channel on the eve of the 2020 European Women's Handball Championship in Denmark (3-20 December).
They're certainly trailblazers - The first ever women's referee pair to whistle a handball final at an Olympic Games when Norway faced Montenegro at London 2012 , first to whistle a men's World Championships in 2017, first to take charge of a men's EHF Cup semi-final between giant THW Kiel and TTH Holstebro in May 2019.
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Lost in Midlife column: To all the jeans I’ve loved before - Opinion - The Leavenworth
A mysterious object is expected to whizz past Earth tomorrow
Originally thought to be an asteroid, NASA scientists have since suggested that it’s a piece of space junk left over from early U.S. space exploration.
“The object is likely not an asteroid,” NASA officials wrote in a November 12th research update. “It’s probably the Centaur upper stage rocket booster that helped lift NASA’s ill-fated Surveyor 2 spacecraft toward the Moon in 1966.”
NASA officials say the 2020 SO’s orbit did not look like a typical asteroid and much more closely resembled something originating from Earth. Computer modeling helped their team trace the likely origin to the 1966 launch.
Hiker recounts seeing mysterious monolith removed from Utah desert site | MyCentralOregon.com
(NEW YORK) — The truth behind the pair of mysterious monoliths is out there, and investigators on two continents are hard at work searching for clues.
Now, an eyewitness has shed some light on how the 10- to 12-foot metal beam was removed from the Utah desert last week .
Mike Newlands, 38, of Denver, told ABC News that he, his roommate and two other friends decided to drive to the Red Rock desert to see the object, which went viral after it was discovered Nov. 18. The group was among the scores of other hikers who traveled to the region to see the mysterious structure and take some pictures.
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'Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults': TV Review | Hollywood Reporter
Arriving in a cult-obsessed media landscape that may just be grateful for something that isn't NXIVM-related, HBO Max's Heaven's Gate: The Cult of Cults is sure to initially frustrate and possibly even bore viewers with an appetite for the salacious.
The first two episodes largely trace Do and Ti's extensive town-by-town recruitment process and show how the Heaven's Gate spiritual system was, once you get past the whole "UFO" thing, fairly consistent with a number of New Age cults popping up in the '70s and '80s.
UFO believers in Circleville having their moment
CIRCLEVILLE — The first sign that something was amiss at the Hartinger home about 1 a.m. on that long-ago February night was that Pal, the family's beloved collie, just wouldn't stop barking.
The next thing Pete Hartinger knew, his brother had shaken him awake, dragged him from his bed and pulled him toward a second-floor window. And there it was: the brightest light he had ever seen in the sky, holding steady maybe 1,000 feet up. Hartinger — a 17-year-old high school junior back on that Feb. 27 in 1958 — watched in wonder as the saucer-shaped object floated over the local feed mill before drifting out of sight.
SunLive - Why is NZ so windy? The roaring forties explained - The Bay's News First
Do you think Stuart Nash’s plan to ban non-self-contained campervan rentals is a good idea?
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New Zealanders shouldn’t be so surprised how often it’s windy here, says WeatherWatch.co.nz
"After all, we’re basically a few mountainous islands stuck partially in the Roaring Forties," says head forecaster Philip Duncan.
He says to many people, that doesn’t mean a lot and doesn’t clearly explain the set up, so "we’ll give it a go".
It’s still 2020. What’s next?
It's such a perfect little story to illustrate this awful, awful year of the pandemic, cities overtaken by anarchy and an election from hell.
A deer jumped through a window into an empty classroom at Blackhawk Middle School in Fort Wayne. After trashing the room for 45 minutes, the deer jumped back through the window and ran away. Spokeswoman Krista Stockman said that while the situation was surprising, "it's 2020."
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That should be added to the catalog of verbal shrugs we use to stoically accept our fate in an indifferent universe where anything can happen.
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