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Weekly Update by Michael Armstrong – December 19, 2025
Dear friends, It’s been quite a week. A shooting at Brown University, leaving two dead and many others injured, quickly turned into a days-long manhunt. It resolved with an apparent suicide but was also soon linked to the murder of a former classmate and MIT professor, leaving more questions than answers. The world was treated…
Canada’s Alberta blanketed by smoke as wildfire battle continues
May 17 (Reuters) – Smoke blanketed the skies over much of Alberta on Wednesday as firefighters from Canada and the U.S. battled raging wildfires that have prompted evacuations, disrupted rail service and shut energy production in Canada’s main oil-producing province. Hot and dry conditions have triggered an intense and early start to wildfire season in…
Carrot harvest helped detectorist find hoard of ancient coins
When Alan Baxter found a medieval ring in a farmer’s field he knew there could be more ancient artefacts nearby – but the stubble from the thick oat crop made it difficult for his metal detector to get anywhere near the ground. So he waited. Four years later the farmer had planted and harvested carrots….
Oldest map of the world on nearly 3,000-year-old Babylonian tablet deciphered to reveal surprisingly familiar story
The “oldest map of the world in the world” on a Babylonian clay tablet was deciphered over multiple centuries to reveal a surprisingly familiar story, according to a recent video published by the British Museum. The cuneiform tablet from the 6th century BC shows an aerial view map of Mesopotamia — roughly modern-day Iraq —…
Weekly Update by Mark Armstrong – April 5, 2024
Greetings from Tyler, Where are the Clinton’s when Haiti needs them? If you read all the woke nonsense they wrote about all they were doing for Haiti, maybe you’d realize what good work they did. It was a “partnership to catalyze long-term development.” A lot of good that did. The president has resigned from a…
Switzerland moves towards cashless future with instant payments
Geneva (AFP) – Switzerland’s new instant payment system will bolster the future of cashless payments in the country, the Swiss central bank said Wednesday after the scheme went live. The Swiss National Bank said around 60 financial institutions were now able to receive and process instant payments, covering more than 95 percent of Swiss retail…


