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Joe Flaherty, the actor, writer and comedian known for his roles on the Canadian sketch comedy series “Second City Television” and “Freaks and Geeks,” died on Monday. He was 82. Flaherty’s daughter, Gudrun, confirmed the news to Variety in a statement through the Comedic Artists Alliance, which had previously raised funds for Flaherty to obtain a 24-hour care provider. “After a brief illness, he left us yesterday, and since then, I’ve been struggling to come to terms with this immense loss,” Gudrun said. “Dad was an extraordinary man, known for his boundless heart and an unwavering passion for movies from…

A 3,300-year-old clay tablet unearthed in central Turkey has painted a tale of a devastating foreign invasion of the Hittite Empire during a period of internal strife and civil war. As the civil war played out, the invasion allegedly supported one of the warring factions, as deciphered from the tablet’s cuneiform script. Discovered in summer 2023, the palm-sized tablet was found amidst the ruins of Büklükale, situated approximately 37 miles (60km) southeast of Ankara, Turkey’s capital. Mysterious Tunnel Unearthed in the Legendary Capital of the Hittites Would you enjoy this 4,000-year-old Hittite feast? A Clay Tablet Indicating Royalty and Sacred…

With the unveiling of its FR-S Concept back at the 2011 New York Auto Show, Scion showed us that even models intended to be affordable can look quite exotic. Despite still being a concept, most of the FR-S show car’s lines are expected to transfer faithfully to the production 2012 Scion FR-S, possibly Toyota Celica in other markets, including its aggressive front end and sweeping fenders. This latest video features Scion racing driver Ken Gushi, who is currently piloting a tC coupe in the Formula Drift series. He talks about the new FR-S and its relation to the original Toyota…

Niels van Roij Design late last year revealed the first details on a Ferrari Testarossa targa conversion the company was working on. This week, the Dutch car customizer and coachbuilder provided an update, including the reveal of the new name for the project: Guida Touring Sport. It’s no accident the initials are the same abbreviation that Ferrari often uses for its open-top models. Ferrari never offered an open-top version of the Testarossa, though it produced the wedge-shaped V-12 supercar for more than a decade. A Testarossa Spider was built at one point, though this was strictly a one-off built for…

JLR has been spotted testing a prototype for an electric offering to sit in its Range Rover family of luxury SUVs. JLR is known to be planning the reveal of an electric version of its iconic Range Rover later this year, though that isn’t the vehicle seen here. The electric Range Rover will match the design of its gas-powered sibling, perhaps with a few tweaks up front to improve aerodynamic efficiency. The vehicle seen here is much lower and sleeker than the Range Rover, suggesting it might be a successor to the current Range Rover Velar. The Velar has been…

The Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat is most stolen-vehicle in the U.S. for model years 2020-2022, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). The IIHS’ Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI) on Thursday released its its latest most-stolen vehicle list, based on insurance claims for whole vehicle theft. Claims for the Charger Hellcat sedan were more than 60 times more frequent than the average for all 2020-2022 models, relative to their numbers on the road, according to the IIHS. The Hellcat isn’t the only version of the Charger targeted for theft in high numbers. Non-Hellcat models with Hemi V-8 engines…

US inflation up again in February in latest sign that price pressures remain elevated Source: abcnews.go.com

In the Middle Bronze Age (about 3600 years ago or roughly 1650 BCE), the city of Tall el-Hammam was ascendant. Located on high ground in the southern Jordan Valley, northeast of the Dead Sea, the settlement in its time had become the largest continuously occupied Bronze Age city in the southern Levant, having hosted early civilization for a few thousand years. At that time, it was 10 times larger than Jerusalem and 5 times larger than Jericho. “It’s an incredibly culturally important area,” said James Kennett, emeritus professor of earth science at the UC Santa Barbara. “Much of where the early…

April Fool’s Day is often a day I overlook. Since middle school, it seemed like a dumb tradition to me. It’s just the beginning of a new month. I thought since no one I knew really participated anyway, so why should it really be celebrated? Is it really a national holiday?  I did some research to answer my questions. It turns out that didn’t really help much. Maybe it is an April Fool’s prank, but with the many sources I looked into, there was only speculation about where this day came from.  My favorite theory is that when France switched…

For at least the second time of the 2023-24 college basketball season, the Iowa Hawkeyes saw a massive fan in attendance at one of their games: “Ted Lasso” actor Jason Sudeikis.The famed actor was in attendance at the team’s Elite Eight game vs. LSU, a rematch of last year’s national title game. Sudeikis was clearly in support of 1 seed Iowa, which avenged last year’s title-game loss to Angel Reese and Co. with a 94-87 victory to advance to the Final Four.Chad Leistikow column:’She was locked in’ – inside the unstoppable night for Iowa and Caitlin ClarkIf there was any…