A 35-year-old skydiver fell nearly two miles while knocked unconscious, crashed through a conifer tree, and walked away alive, and now says she cannot wait to jump again. Holly Wiffen was on her fourth jump of the day at Langar airfield near Nottingham, England, on August 7 when a fellow skydiver's shin struck the back […] The post British skydiver survives 10,000-foot unconscious freefall after mid-air collision appeared first on American Almanac .
A 35-year-old skydiver fell nearly two miles while knocked unconscious, crashed through a conifer tree, and walked away alive, and now says she cannot wait to jump again. Holly Wiffen was on her fourth jump of the day at Langar airfield near Nottingham, England, on August 7 when a fellow skydiver's shin struck the back of her helmet at roughly 100 miles per hour. The blow knocked her out cold, smashed the GoPro camera off her helmet, and sent her tumbling earthward from approximately 12,000 feet with no one at the controls. She plummeted at 150 mph for roughly 10,000 feet, unconscious the entire way, before somehow pulling her ripcord at an estimated 1,000 feet, about five seconds before she would have hit the ground. But the ordeal was…Open
An Afghan man who posed as a 14-year-old boy on Snapchat to groom and rape a 13-year-old girl in Nottingham, England, has been jailed.
An Afghan man who posed as a 14-year-old boy on Snapchat to groom and rape a 13-year-old girl in Nottingham, England, has been jailed. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Abdul Khan, an Afghan asylum seeker believed to be 28, was sentenced to nine and a half years in prison at Nottingham Crown Court after being convicted of grooming and twice raping a 13-year-old girl. He will theoretically be subject to automatic deportation to Afghanistan after serving two-thirds of his term, but the British government does not currently return Afghans to their homeland, even if they are subject to deportation orders. DETAIL: Khan arrived in Britain hidden in the back of a truck in 2015 and claimed a false date of birth in his asylum application. Using the…Open
A 28-year-old asylum seeker is on trial for allegedly posing as a teenager on Snapchat to groom and rape a 13-year-old schoolgirl, with DNA evidence reportedly linking him to the crime.
A 28-year-old asylum seeker is on trial for allegedly posing as a teenager on Snapchat to groom and rape a 13-year-old schoolgirl, with DNA evidence reportedly linking him to the crime . PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: Abdul Khan, 28, is standing trial at Nottingham Crown Court facing nine charges, including rape , sexual communication with a child, and meeting a child following grooming , all of which he denies. Prosecutors say the asylum seeker posed as a 14-year-old named “Abs” on Snapchat and befriended a 13-year-old Nottingham schoolgirl who told him she was also 14. DETAIL: After exchanging messages, they met at a tram stop on May 14 last year, with the girl surprised that the Afghan’s appearance did not match the photos…Open
Before she played a sorceress on screen, Samantha Morton was pulling off illusions for real. The 49-year-old British actress, who portrays the enchantress Circe in Christopher Nolan's new epic The Odyssey, spent years as a teenager working as a magician's assistant, a chapter of her life that, by her own telling, fed directly into one […] The post Samantha Morton's real-life magic act finds its stage in Nolan's 'The Odyssey' appeared first on American Almanac .
Before she played a sorceress on screen, Samantha Morton was pulling off illusions for real. The 49-year-old British actress, who portrays the enchantress Circe in Christopher Nolan's new epic The Odyssey, spent years as a teenager working as a magician's assistant, a chapter of her life that, by her own telling, fed directly into one of the summer's most talked-about performances. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly , Morton described how a fellow member of the Central Junior Television Workshop in Nottingham, a drama group for working-class youths, was also part of the Magic Circle, Britain's storied organization for professional magicians. He asked Morton to be his assistant, and she kept at it until she was 16. The role was…Open