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I had never seen a fox in a fight with other animals (save for food) certainly not captured by another animal.
I've never seen a fox in the wild, coyotes, wolves yea, a fox never.
The eagle damages the fox reputation as a sly, elusive critter.
 

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Chalton, England

Master thatcher Lyle Morgans works on the roof of a new Saxon hall at Butser Ancient farm in Hampshire. Based on a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon house found near Petersfield, it is being constructed using traditional timber framing and thatching techniques, using 3.5 tonnes of reed thatch on the roof

Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA
 
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Nablus, West Bank
Girls walk in an alley in Balata refugee camp during the fasting month of Ramadan
Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock
The West Bank, including East Jerusalem, has a land area of 5,640 km2 plus a water area of 220 km2, consisting of the northwest quarter of the Dead Sea. As of July 2017 it has an estimated population of 2,747,943 Palestinians and approximately 391,000 Israeli settlers.
 
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Melrose, Scotland
Claudia Bolling, house and collections officer at Abbotsford, the home of Sir Walter Scott, prepares for the house’s re-opening next week
Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian
 
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GETTING THEIR SHOTS: A queue of expectant people gather outside the Covid-19 vaccination centre at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
 
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The Florida “house of horrors” where the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein sexually assaulted young girls has been demolished.

Wrecking crews began to tear down the waterfront home in Palm Beach this week after it was bought by developer Todd Michael Glaser for $18.5 million (£13.3 million).

Glaser said he will find it personally satisfying to destroy the property and build a new one in its place because of its history, while his real estate broker said he wanted to ensure it would be “wiped off the map”.
 
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Irish farmer stumbles on ancient tomb, described by archaeologists as 'untouched' and 'highly unusual' in Co Kerry, Ireland.

The tomb was uncovered by a digger during land reclamation work when a large stone slab was upturned, revealing a slab-lined chamber beneath.

It is believed the tomb may date to the Bronze Age (2000BC-500BC), but it could be even earlier as it displays a number of highly unusual features………
https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/0416/1210287-tombs-kerry-dingle-peninsula/
 
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The Indonesian Cakra submarine KRI Nanggala sailing out from the port in Cilegon, Banten in 2017. Picture: Indonesia Military / AFPSource:AFP

Australia is helping the Indonesian navy search for a submarine that has gone missing off the coast of Bali with 53 people on board.

The country’s military said it was searching the “deep” waters after losing contact with the vessel on Wednesday. The German-made submarine had been conducting a torpedo drill in waters off the northern coast of Bali but failed to relay results as expected, a navy spokesman said…….

https://www.news.com.au/world/asia/...y/news-story/7ef14fd49d2aaa7991415e51b1e36a28
 
Australian federal government tears up four Victorian government deals with foreign nations leading to rebuke from Chinese embassy.

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The federal government has torn up four deals between Victoria and foreign nations, including the state's controversial Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) agreement with China — prompting a strong rebuke from the Chinese Embassy.

It is the first time the Commonwealth has used new powers that allow it to cancel agreements that state and territory governments, local councils and public universities strike with other countries..................
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-21/federal-government-tears-up-four-victorian-government-deals/100085676
 
mellowyellow said:
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Melrose, Scotland
Claudia Bolling, house and collections officer at Abbotsford, the home of Sir Walter Scott, prepares for the house’s re-opening next week
Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian
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The novels of Sir Walter Scott are now – in England, at least – almost unread. It is hard to imagine an author simultaneously so famous and so unfashionable, his novels frequently written off as prolix and unbearably dense.

However, according to one writer and critic, the author of Ivanhoe and the Waverley novels was not only crucial in creating the idea of Scotland as it persists today, but also "invented England"………….

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/aug/16/walter-scott-edinburgh-book-festival
 
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There are growing fears for the crew of a submarine that went missing with 53 people aboard off the coast of Bali.

The crew could have enough oxygen until early Saturday, but hope is fading as rescuers continue to search waters near where it disappeared.

An oil spill has been located near where the submarine was thought to have submerged, pointing to possible fuel-tank damage.
 
A female recruit from U.S. Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego participates in the grueling crucible training as her platoon breaks a barrier becoming the first ever women Marines trained at Camp Pendleton, California. REUTERS/Mike Blake

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Reuters / Friday, April 23, 2021

ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet OF France, NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, and JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide of Japan await the launch of their NASA commercial crew mission to the International Space Station, within the Crew Dragon capsule of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASA TV via REUTERS

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Anthony Hopkins, 83, took the best actor award for his performance in The Father, becoming the oldest actor or actress to win an Oscar, edging out Christopher Plummer’s supporting-actor win at age 82 in the 2010 film Beginners.
 
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People throw flowers and petals with names of the sunken KRI Nanggala-402 submarine crew members from the boat during a prayer at the sea near Labuhan Lalang, Bali, Indonesia. (Antara Foto)
 
A Ukrainian army general lays flowers to the Chernobyl victims monument in capital Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 26, 2021. April 26 marks the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. A reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded on April 26, 1986, leading to an explosion and the subsequent fire spewed a radioactive plume over much of northern Europe. Associated Press

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Britain's aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth arrives in New York on October 19, 2018.



China claims almost all of the 1.3 million-square-mile South China Sea as its sovereign territory, and it has denounced the presence of foreign warships there as the root of tensions in the region.

The largest naval flotilla assembled by Britain in recent years will set sail in May on a months' long voyage through the Pacific, the country's Defense Ministry said Monday.

The strike group will be led by the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, marking its maiden deployment. The ship, one of the UK's two aircraft carriers, is the largest warship the UK has ever sent to sea.

Joining the carrier will be two destroyers, two anti-submarine frigates, a submarine and two auxiliary supply ships, a ministry statement said.

A United States Navy guided-missile destroyer will sail with the group as well as a frigate from the Netherlands that will be tasked with air defense, the ministry said………………..

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/26/...strike-group-asia-intl-hnk-scli-ml/index.html
 
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Tesla denies car was driverless

Scrutiny of wreckage from a fatal crash in the United States indicates that someone was at the wheel, Tesla has claimed, despite police previously saying they were "100 per cent" sure no-one was driving the vehicle.

The accident, which killed two people, involved a Tesla Model S that caught fire after hitting a tree late on April 17 near Houston, Texas.

Local authorities said one man was found in the passenger seat, while another was in the back, prompting Harris County Precinct Four Constable Mark Herman to say he was "100 per cent" sure no-one was driving the vehicle…………

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04...rless-fatal-crash-elon-musk-houston/100099668
 


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