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When Ashley Robinson and her mother took DNA tests 10 years ago and began meeting long lost cousins,
they stumbled across a surprising family history that changed their lives.
Robinson’s lineage traced back to the 272 West Africans who were enslaved by Jesuits
and sold to plantation owners in the southern US in 1838.
The sale of the enslaved Africans helped fund Georgetown University,
the oldest Jesuit higher education institution in the US,
and served a…

📢 England gewinnt Fußball-EM der Frauen - Sieg im Elfmeterschießen
England hat die Fußball-Europameisterschaft der Frauen gewonnen. In einem dramatischen Finale setzen sich die Engländerinnen gegen Spanien im Elfmeterschießen mit 3:1 durch. England sicherte sich damit wie bereits vor vier Jahren den EM-Titel.
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England gewinnt Fußball-EM der Frauen - Sieg im Elfmeterschießen
England hat die Fußball-Europameisterschaft der Frauen gewonnen. In einem dramatischen Finale setzen sich die Engländerinnen gegen Spanien im Elfmeterschießen mit 3:1 durch. England sicherte sich damit wie bereits vor vier Jahren den EM-Titel.

TIL that after the findings of the 2017 Manchester Bombing enquiry, the UK standardised the incident triage algorithm across all first responders, including wrist-bands . ("Ten Second Triage")
https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/cli

NHS England » Clinical guidelines for major incidents and mass casualty events
NHS England » Clinical guidelines for major incidents and mass casualty events

'Engulfed in flames' — Ukraine strikes Russia's railway infrastructure, fuel tanks, HUR source says, releases video: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/28/engulfed-in-flames-ukraine-strikes.html

"Some notes on Medieval English genealogy" regular updates at:
http://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/updates/update.shtml Not just for genealogists but for anyone at all interested in 'broadly' the medieval period in England.

SAGE: Spliced-Audio Generated Data for Enhancing Foundational Models in Low-Resource Arabic-English Code-Switched Speech Recognition
Muhammad Umar Farooq, Oscar Saz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22143

SAGE: Spliced-Audio Generated Data for Enhancing Foundational Models in Low-Resource Arabic-English Code-Switched Speech Recognition
This paper investigates the performance of various speech SSL models on dialectal Arabic (DA) and Arabic-English code-switched (CS) speech. To address data scarcity, a modified audio-splicing approach is introduced to generate artificial CS speech data. Fine-tuning an already fine-tuned SSL model with the proposed Spliced-Audio Generated (SAGE) data results in an absolute improvement on Word Error Rate (WER) of 7.8% on Arabic and English CS benchmarks. Additionally, an Experience Replay (ER) in…

💀 Solving the mystery of a 200-year-old ambush
#history

Solving the mystery of a 200-year-old ambush
A new report reveals that 10 Napoleonic soldiers attacked by Spanish guerrillas were not sent to prison, as previously believed, but killed

😘 The emotional burden of flirting on your phone: Lies, ghosts, and crumbs of attention
https://english.elpais.com/lifestyle/2025-07-21/the-emotional-burden-of-flirting-on-your-phone-lies-ghosts-and-crumb…

The emotional burden of flirting on your phone: Lies, ghosts, and crumbs of attention
Toxic behaviors, such as ghosting or intermittent flirting to maintain the other person’s interest, damage self-esteem, increase feelings of loneliness, and fuel dating app fatigue