AWESOME NEWS PICTURES FROM LAST WEEK

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AWESOME NEWS PICTURES FROM LAST WEEK

jeanniejeanniejeannie.co.uk BLOG Thursday 25th February 2021

AWESOME NEWS PICTURES FROM LAST WEEK’S NEWS

A picture is worth a thousand words…Or is it?

A video still from footage by Nasa’s Perseverance Mars rover shows the surface of the planet after touchdown in Jezero Crater. The six-wheeled vehicle will spend at least two years drilling into rocks, looking for evidence of past life. The crater is thought to have held a giant lake billions of years ago.

Lava flows down the side of Mount Etna, Europe’s most active volcano. It erupted on Tuesday and again in the early hours of Thursday, sending hot lava and ash clouds into the Sicilian sky. Nearby towns are being monitored by local authorities.

Snow falls on the Temple of Athena Nike on the Acropolis in Athens. Temperatures as low as -19C (-2.2F) have been recorded in the north-western city of Florina. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has urged people to stay at home.

Ice-skating fever is gripping the Netherlands after days of sub-zero temperatures froze lakes, ponds and canals across the country, including this area of Delft. Prime Minister Mark Rutte said: “Take advantage of the good weather and the ice – but do it under Covid-19 measures.”

Ethnic minorities urged to have uk Covid-19 vaccination

A vast array of books is on display at Songpo bookstore during the Spring Festival holiday in Shaoyang, Hunan Province, China.

TOP TEN OF THE DAY

Top 10 Amazing Things That Happen Every Second

A 10 to 1 COUNTDOWN

3 Barbie Dolls are Sold
60 Lipsticks are Made
A Bullet Travels 900m
A Snail Travels 1cm in the Rain
Saliva at 100m a Second

We normally spit saliva in downward trajectory and never really bother knowing about how far or fast our saliva travels. But saliva makes one of the most incredible things that happen every second because without air resistance our saliva can travel 100 meters in one second. Startling right! 98% of saliva is water and it contains important substances such as electrolytes, enzymes and antibacterial compounds. Digestion normally occurs in the mouth before reaching the stomach.

6 Babies are Born

Population biologists estimate that 6 babies are born every second globally and about 240 a minute.

10,450 Coca Colas Consumed
Lightning Strikes 6 Times

The fastest thing on earth strikes our planet 6 times each second making it one of the most incredible things that happen every second.

Bees Beat their Wings 270 Times
The World Throws Away around 51 tons of Food per Second

Roughly one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year gets lost or wasted (Gustavsson et al., 2011) — approximately 1.6 billion tons (BCG, 2018) That means within a year, we waste around 51 tons every second (BCG, 2018).

DON’T FORGET TO LAUGH EVERYDAY

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE FOR THE DAY

You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.- C S Lewis

HAPPINESS IS…

Happiness is…catching up with current affairs, visually with awesome graphics.

GRANDAD’S ONE(or two or three) LINER JOKE OF THE DAY

It’s a 10 minute walk from my house to the pub,

but a 30 minute walk back from the same pub.

The difference is simply staggering !

LOVE IS…

Love is… the blending of two into one.

TURN…TURN…TURN!

A time to read the newspapers & media stories…A time to look at the photos.

YOUR HISTORY

25th February 1995 – Frank Sinatra sang before a live audience for the last time. It was at a private party for 1,200 select guests on the closing night of the Frank Sinatra Desert Classic golf tournament.

25th February 1998 – Bo Diddley and Roy Orbison received Lifetime Achievement Grammy awards.

25^th February1964 Muhammad Ali becomes world heavyweight champion

Ali, who still used his original name Cassius Clay at the time, is considered one of the greatest heavyweight boxers in history.

25th February 1947 The state of Prussia is dissolved

At its peak, the most important state of the German empire encompassed parts of modern-day Germany, Poland, and Russia.

LITTLE NUMBERS: SOME HORRBLE SOME NICE

jeanniejeanniejeannie.co.uk is a Feelgood Blog.

You come here to be cheered up. Over the last few weeks, we have avoided showing Covid-19 statistics for the UK as they have been depressing. But we seem to have turned the corner and the figures are looking far better and improving daily to give us so much hope. So, as an important part of cheering us all up we will show the daily improving figures.