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Gold, silver, and platinum have something in common besides their beauty. All of them are “ashes” from the destruction of stars. Every gram of these elements — not only on Earth, but throughout the universe — was forged in stellar explosions or collisions.
A slice of a pallasite meteorite that fell to Earth in Esquel, Argentina, showing translucent olivine crystals suspended in a reflective nickel–iron metal matrix, similar to the differentiation that would have occurred as planets formed. Credit: Doug Bowman (originally posted to Flickr as Esquel) CC BY 2.0 [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0]), via Wikimedia Commons
Few creatures are foolhardy enough to take on a great white shark — much less try to lure one in. Yet a shark that’s no longer than your arm has been known to do just that.
Ledbetter, better known as Leadbelly, was twice convicted: once for trying to kill a man, and once for following through with it. After the first, he wrote a song of appeal to the governor of Texas, Pat Neff. Neff, incidentally, had vowed never to grant a pardon as governor. He did though, in 1925, but he might not have bothered. Less than 5 years later, Ledbetter committed his second crime. And, somewhat unbelievably, received another pardon, this one from Governor O.K. Allen. Here he is with Gallis Pole from 1939.
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