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Japan mass grave 1800s, Thousands of bodies found in mass grave

Japan mass grave 1800s, Thousands of bodies found in mass grave. Archaeologists have dug up the remains of more than 1,500 people, many of them believed to have died in an epidemic, buried in a 19th century mass grave in Osaka, Japan. Officials at the Osaka City Cultural Properties Association studying the remains said they believe the remains were of young people who died in the late 1800s. The Umeda Grave, one of seven historical burial sites in Japan’s bustling merchant city of Osaka, was unearthed as part of a redevelopment project near a main train station. The more than 1,500 remains were found during the latest round of excavation that started in September 2019, following an earlier 2016-2017 study that dug up hundreds of similar remains at adjacent locations, according to Yoji Hirata, an official at the association. As in the earlier excavation, the remains of some of the people showed lesions on their limbs, suggesting they fell victim to an epidemic in the region. All the rem
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Kayaker message in a bottle 1985 floating in a Delaware river

 Kayaker message in a bottle 1985 floating in a Delaware river. A kayaker who discovered a message in a bottle floating in a Delaware river was able to reunite the letter with the woman who wrote it 35 years ago. Brad Wachsmuth thought the bottle bobbing in the water about 2 miles (3 kilometers) offshore of the Broadkill River was a piece of trash when he spotted it Aug. 8, just a few days after Tropical Storm Isaias swept through the area, WBOC-TV reported. “As we usually do as kayakers, we try to pick up trash out of the water when we can," he told the station this week. But Wachsmuth's friend noticed there was something inside, and the two fished out the letter written by Cathi Riddle and her cousin, Stacey Wells, dated 35 years ago — Aug. 1, 1985. It described their family pets and asked potential future readers if they had any of their own, among other childhood musings. Wachsmuth brought the letter to the Milton Historical Society and a curator reached out to family
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Hong Kong new distancing rules as cases drop

 Hong Kong new distancing rules as cases drop. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn on Tuesday apologized for overstating the life-saving benefits of treating COVID-19 patients with convalescent plasma. Scientists and medical experts have been pushing back against the claims about the treatment since President Donald Trump’s announcement on Sunday that the FDA had decided to issue emergency authorization for convalescent plasma, taken from patients who have recovered from the coronavirus and rich in antibodies. Trump hailed the decision as a historic breakthrough even though the value of the treatment has not been established. Hahn had echoed Trump in saying that 35 more people out of 100 would survive the coronavirus if they were treated with the plasma. That claim vastly overstated preliminary findings of Mayo Clinic observation. Convalescent plasma is a century-old approach to treating the flu, measles and other viruses. But the evidence so far has not been co
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Melania Trump Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, Disparaging Remarks

 Melania Trump Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, Disparaging Remarks. 'Tis the summer of the Trump tell-all. This July, it was President Trump's niece  Mary Trump with her book   Too Much and Never Enough . Now reports have bubbled up about  Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady , the debut book by Melania Trump's former friend  Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, out September 1st. Journalist Yashar Ali  recently reported  that, according to two sources, Wolkoff taped the First Lady “making disparaging remarks” about President Trump and his adult children. Wolkoff plans to publish the comments in her upcoming book. "It’s unclear what exactly Wolkoff is alleging that the first lady said about the president and his adult children," Ali reports, "but two sources familiar with the contents of  Melania and Me  confirmed that she reveals the details in her book, including harsh comments about Ivanka Trump, the president’s elder daughter and a
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Boris Johnson Humphry Wakefield, Johnson plans to quit as PM in six months

 Boris Johnson Humphry Wakefield,  Johnson plans to quit as PM in six months. Downing Street has been forced to deny a claim that Prime Minister Boris Johnson is planning to quit the top job in six months time due to his health. The source of the claim? None other than the father-in-law of Johnson’s senior strategist, Dominic Cummings. His wife’s father is Sir Humphry Wakefield of Chillingham Castle in Northumberland (near Bamburgh), and he is said to have told a holidaymaker who visited the castle that the PM is still suffering from the long-term effects of Covid-19. The octogenarian baronet, whose daughter Mary Wakefield is Commissioning Editor at the  Spectator  magazine, likened the premier to a horse that is made to work while injured, according to the  Times Diary . ‘If you put a horse back to work when it’s injured it will never recover,’ it reported him as saying. Number 10 have dismissed the claim as ‘total nonsense’. The claim isn’t total rubbish since many of those who
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Pedro Sanchez lockdown, Spanish PM Rejects New Lockdown Amid Surge in Virus Cases

 Pedro Sanchez lockdown, Spanish PM Rejects New Lockdown Amid Surge in Virus Cases. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has rejected a new national lockdown, putting pressure instead on regional authorities to come up with a response as the nation re-emerges as the epicentre of  the coronavirus pandemic in Europe. "The evolution is not good, it is worrying especially in some regions and we need to tackle it," Mr Sanchez said on Tuesday (Aug 25) at a news conference after a Cabinet meeting in Madrid. The central government will provide whatever support the regions need and they will be authorised to declare a local state of emergency if necessary, he said. "We need to take control, we need to flatten this second curve that is now rising in a threatening way," he added. The comments were the first the beleaguered Premier has made in public since Aug 4. His absence fostered the impression that the government was rudderless at a time when coronavirus infection rates we
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AstraZeneca COVID-19 antibody trial, intended to prevent and treat COVID-19

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 AstraZeneca COVID-19 antibody trial, intended to prevent and treat COVID-19.  ( 0 ) Drugmaker AstraZeneca said the new trial, which will involve dozens of healthy participants in Britain, is funded by the U.S. departments of Defense and Health and Human Services. File Photo by Drago Prvulovic/EPA Aug. 25 (UPI) --  Multinational pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca announced Tuesday that it has started a clinical trial for an antibody therapy intended to prevent and treat  COVID-19 . The company said the experimental drug, AZD7442, combines of two monoclonal antibodies derived from convalescent patients with COVID-19, the company  said  in a statement. The antibodies were discovered by scientists at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and licensed to AstraZeneca in June. Pre-clinical studies showed they can block the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 from binding to host cells, protecting against infection in cell and animal models of disease. The trial, which will involve doz
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