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20/06/22
Maik:
Today's coronavirus count on Kef/Ithaka: 23/2
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Maik:
--- Quote ---This ring is small enough to be suitable for a girl or a small woman. It appears to be hammered from a single piece of gold and has occasional platinum-group metal inclusions. Rings of this form are characteristically engraved with a figure of Eros, and it is probable that they were designed as love-gifts. The typically shallow engraving and the direction of the inscriptions, when present, show that they were not intended as signets.
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https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1867-0508-414
Discovered in Sami, bought by the British Museum in 1867 from Louis, Duc de Blacas d'Aulps.
Maik:
--- Quote ---Balaclava-clad trans activists barricade women’s group into Bristol pub
Activists from Standing For Women face off with trans-rights group Bristol Against Hate in the city centre
Transgender rights activists forced feminists to barricade themselves inside a Bristol pub on Sunday after denouncing them as “fascists”....
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/19/balaclava-clad-trans-activists-barricade-womens-group-bristol/
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Maik:
--- Quote ---Unfinished and unwanted 9,000-passenger cruise ship to be scrapped
What was meant to be one of the world’s largest cruise ships is being prepared for its maiden voyage – to a scrapyard.
Global Dream II, which was designed to hold more than 9,000 passengers, had almost been completed at a shipyard on Germany’s Baltic coast. However, the shipbuilder MV Werften filed for bankruptcy in January 2022 and the administrators cannot find a buyer for Global Dream II.
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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jun/20/global-dream-ii-unfinished-9000-passenger-cruise-ship-to-be-scrapped
Maik:
--- Quote ---Russian emails appear to show ‘network’ holding $4.5bn assets linked to Putin
Exclusive: Questions over palaces, vineyards and yachts run by entities that appear to be part of a cooperative
Palaces, yachts and vineyards reportedly provided to Vladimir Putin by friends and oligarchs can now be linked to what appears to be an informal network holding assets worth more than $4.5bn (£3.7bn).
A digital paper trail appears to suggest that an array of holiday homes and other assets reportedly used by the Russian president, which according to available records belong to or have been owned by separate individuals, companies and charities, are linked through a common email domain name, LLCInvest.ru.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/20/russian-emails-vladimir-putin-llcinvest
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