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Clara Bow, (born July 29, 1905, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.—died Sept. 27, 1965, Los Angeles, Calif.), American motion-picture actress called the “It” Girl after she played in It (1927), the popular silent-film version of Elinor Glyn’s novel of that name. She personified the vivacious, emancipated flapper of the 1920s. From 1927 to 1930 she was one of the top five Hollywood box-office attractions. Clara Bow was born into a poor family; she was sexually abused by her father and neglected by he...

Plastic pollution blights the Cornish coast, but local people are tackling the problem. Frankie Adkins joins them on a coastal clean

A trip to the dump is one of my great pleasures in life – and I’m not alone ‘The gruff camaraderie, the clang of rubble against metal’: Richard Godwin, locked and loaded. Photograph: Pål Hansen/The Observer ‘The gruff camaraderie, the clang of rubble against metal’: Richard Godwin, locked and loaded. Photograph: Pål Hansen/The Observer Everything has its place at the dump, no matter how abject or broken. No wonder there were queues when it reopened after lock...

My Turn: Nightmarish prophecy of a great world of plastic now a manifest Fortune magazine declared, in this cover story in October 1940, that the United States had entered the Plastic Age. Chris Mullen/fulltable.com In 1940, we entered the Plastic Age, declared Fortune magazine in its prophetic October issue. Writers and graphic artists swooned at the rapid evolution of miraculous new plastics, and hailed them for their vibrant color, lightness, versatility, malleability and durability. They ...

Chained to the Grave #4 (of 5) Brian Level & Andy Eschenbach (w) • Kate Sherron (a & c) Outlaw Roy Mason has come back from the dead, chained to the headstone that marked his grave. On the trail of buried gold and hunted by a Big Bad, Roy struggles to hold his family—and his body—together. Writers Brian Level (Darth Vader, Thanos, Deadpool) & Andy Eschenbach (Heavy Metal Magazine, Red Shoes) and artist Kate Sherron (Invader Zim, The Amazing World of Gumball) bring you a tale of intrigue, ...

Archaeologists just found a lot of plastic at an archaeological site More than 2,300 pieces of plastic were found in a digging site in Wales. There’s plastic everywhere. We’re living in a plastic age, and we see this every day around us: on the ground, in the seas, even in the air we breathe — and that’s not even it. Now, researchers have even found plastic (including a Godzilla thermos wrapper) inside an archaeological site. The roundhouses that were demolished. Image credit: The resea...

Archaeologists Uncover Disturbing Amount of Plastic Waste at Iron Age Site Share Godzilla-themed thermos wrapper: One of over 2,000 waste items found at the Castell Henllys site. (Image: H. Mytum et al., 2021/Antiquity) To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. One by one, the archaeologis...

  TORONTO -- When a group of archeologists excavated reconstructed Iron Age roundhouses that had been used in historical reenactments in Wales for more than 30 years, they expected to learn about the decay processes of these structures. What they didn’t expect was to discover so much plastic. More than 2,300 individual pieces of plastic — candy wrappers, straws, a Motorola phone battery, etc. — were found in the ground by archeologists excavating the reconstruction sites. The Plasti...

Plastic waste found by archaeologists at Pembrokeshire hill-fort Published image copyrightUniversity of Liverpool image captionWrappers from well known chocolate bars and snacks were among 2,000 items found trampled into the ground It was not what archaeologists at an ancient Welsh hill-fort expected to find - a mountain of plastic. Academics uncovered more than 2,000 items at the Castell Henllys site in Pembrokeshire. But these were not ancient artefacts - they were discarded food wrappers and...

The new study published in the journal  Antiquity explains that Castell Henllys is a well-excavated hillfort in Wales which dates back to the late first millennium BC, in the Iron Age. In the 1980s, two experimental reconstructions of Iron Age roundhouses were built at the site. They were built on top of the locations of real  Iron Age roundhouses  and their construction was based on archaeological evidence recovered from the site. Castell Henllys. A view showing the entrance to one of th...