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66 million-year-old fish vomit discovered in Denmark
BBC | January 28, 2025

A piece of fossilised vomit dating back to the time of the dinosaurs has been discovered in Denmark. …

Mr Bennicke took the fragments to be examined at the Museum of East Zealand…

It was too old for New Zealand

…, which confirmed the vomit could be dated to the end of the Cretaceous period 66 million years ago – a time when dinosaurs including Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops existed.

Jesper Milan, palaeontologist and curator at the museum, told the BBC it was “truly an unusual find” as it helps explain relationships in the prehistoric food chain.

“It tells us something about who was eating who 66 million years ago,” he said.

Walrus: “Phrasing!”

Mr Milan said his museum had only sent the information to the local press but the discovery has sparked global interest. “This is the world’s most famous piece of puke ever,” he said.

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Straight Line of the Day: The Only Difference Between Giving Your Money to Government and Giving It to an Amusement Park Is …

‘Troubled’ Housing Authority of Cook County [Illinois] spent more than $60,000 at Six Flags
Chicago Tribune | January 24, 2025 | Lizzie Kane

Riding roller coasters. Chowing down on fried food. Catching waves in the pool at Hurricane Harbor.

Hundreds of Housing Authority of Cook County employees and their families could enjoy these activities and more for three years at Six Flags on the agency’s dime.

The state’s second-largest housing authority, which was flagged by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as “troubled” in part because of an absentee board, low-grade property inspections, incorrect reporting on leases, high outstanding balances for tenants behind on rent and failure to submit financial reports on time, spent more than $60,000 on such trips.

The money came out of HACC’s roughly $22 million annual budget, dollars meant to be spent on providing public and subsidized housing to some of the lowest income residents in the county.

Bond Girlathon : Week 1/22/2025 Results : New Matches 1/29/2025

Another week in the books and another week for your amusement.

Gemma ArtertonNo PreferenceCatherina Murino
1301117

Olgo KurylenkoNo PreferenceBerenice Marlohe
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Week of 1/29/2025

Match 1

Tonia Sotiropoulou (Bond’s Lover) vs Monica Belluci (Lucia Sciarra)

ContestantRecordTotal Scores
Tonia Sotiropoulou0 – 1 – 053 – 2 – 91
Bond’s Lover

Actress:Tonia Sotiropoulou
Nationality:Greek
Bond Movie:Skyfall (2012)

Synopsis:

Tonia Sotiropoulou was credited only as “Bond’s lover”, and appeared in a brief scene with no lines or conversation with Bond. They made love, and were then shown lying on a bed, Bond drinking a beer. She is the only girl on this list that didn’t have a speaking role, and is perhaps the least memorable of all Bond girls.

Tonia Sotiropoulou

VS

ContestantRecordTotal Scores
Monica Bellucci0 – 1 – 085 – 1 – 98
Lucia Sciarra

BornMonica Anna Maria Bellucci
30 September 1964 (age 60)
Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy
OccupationsActressfashion model

Instructed by his former superior MJames Bond is assigned to trace notorious assassin Marco Sciarra, kill him, and attend his funeral, knowing his womanizing ways will get him the answers he needs there rather from the assassin himself. Bond travels to Mexico and successfully kills Sciarra, failing his plan of targeting a stadium for a terrorist attack.

Monica Belluci

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Match 2

Lea Seydoux (Madelaine Swann) vs Ana de Armas (Paloma)

ContestantRecordTotal Scores
Lea Seydoux1 – 0 – 053 – 2 – 91
Madelaine Swann

First appearanceSpectre (2015)
Last appearanceNo Time to Die (2021)
Portrayed byLéa Seydoux

Madeleine Swann is a complex character introduced in the James Bond film Spectre. Madeline Swann is the daughter of Mr. White (Jesper Christensen), a member of the criminal organization SPECTRE.

Swann studied at the University of Oxford and at Sorbonne University, and later worked with Doctors Without Borders.[1] By the time of Spectre she is working as a psychiatrist at a private clinic in the Austrian Alps.

Dying of thallium poisoning, White tells James Bond (Daniel Craig) to protect his daughter from SPECTRE, so Bond goes to see her at the clinic. Although Swann is initially hesitant to trust Bond, she agrees to share information about SPECTRE and help Bond take the organization down. The two gradually fall in love, and Bond ultimately leaves MI6 to be with her after arresting Blofeld.

Lea Seydoux

VS

ContestantRecordTotal Scores
Ana de Armas1 – 0 – 098 – 1 – 85
Paloma

Ana Celia de Armas Caso (born 30 April 1988) is a Cuban-Spanish actress. She portrayed the Bond Girl Paloma in No Time to Die.

An agent of the CIA, James Bond, meets Paloma at the El Nido Bar after agreeing to Felix Leiter‘s request to go there in order to retrieve the scientist Valdo Obruchev, who has been captured by SPECTRE from a MI6 laboratory. To Bond’s bemusement, Paloma tells him that she has had only three weeks of training, though she nevertheless seems confident in her skills. She works together with Bond to infiltrate the party which is being held in the bar, though it turns out to secretly be a trap to capture and kill Bond. Bond ends up in a spotlight and sprayed with nanobots created from Project Heracles, though it ultimately transpires that Obruchev reprogrammed the nanobots to kill members of SPECTRE instead. In the ensuing chaos, Bond and Paloma manage to capture Obruchev, evading Nomi, an MI6 agent who had been sent with the same objective.

Ana de Armas

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