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Hace 18 horas · Wildfire burning in the Kaibab National Forest, Arizona, United States, in 2020.The Mangum Fire burned more than 70,000 acres (280 km 2) of forest.. A wildfire, forest fire, or a bushfire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of combustible vegetation. Depending on the type of vegetation present, a wildfire may be more specifically identified as a bushfire (in ...
Hace 18 horas · Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola.The screenplay, co-written by Coppola, John Milius, and Michael Herr, is loosely inspired by the 1899 novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, with the setting changed from late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War.The film follows a river journey from South Vietnam into Cambodia undertaken by ...
Hace 18 horas · Prion. A prion / ˈpriːɒn / ⓘ is a misfolded protein that can induce misfolding of normal variants of the same protein and trigger cellular death. Prions cause prion diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) that are fatal transmissible neurodegenerative diseases in humans and animals.
Hace 18 horas · The ocean is the body of salt water that covers approx. 70.8% of Earth. In English, the term ocean also refers to any of the large bodies of water into which the world ocean is conventionally divided. The following names describe five different areas of the ocean: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Antarctic/Southern, and Arctic. The ocean contains 97% of Earth's water and is the primary component of ...
Hace 18 horas · Jacques-Yves Cousteau, AC (/ k uː ˈ s t oʊ /, also UK: / ˈ k uː s t oʊ /, French: [ʒak iv kusto]; 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author. He co-invented the first successful open-circuit self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA), called the Aqua-Lung, which assisted him in producing some of the first underwater ...
Hace 18 horas · Theodore Anthony Nugent (/ ˈ n uː dʒ ɪ n t /; born December 13, 1948) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and political activist. He goes by several nicknames, including Uncle Ted, The Nuge, and Motor City Madman.Nugent initially gained fame as the lead guitarist and occasional vocalist of The Amboy Dukes, a band formed in 1963 that played psychedelic rock and hard rock.
Hace 18 horas · We're in the final 24 hours of the general election campaign, and both Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer will spend the day making their last ditch pleas to Britons for their votes.
