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The 84th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday attracted thousands of people lining the streets of Manhattan and millions more watching from televisions at home.
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The Hello Kitty balloon floats through Times Square during the 84th Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in New York, the United States, Nov. 25, 2010. (Xinhua/Shen Hong) |
The parade earned the loudest cheers when Santa appeared in his one-year old sleigh, a replacement of his previous model, which was 40 years old. Santa has been a fixture at the back of the parade for every year except 1933, when he led it.
For New Yorker George Kelly, the parade is a reminder that even during challenging times and amid a sluggish economy, there are still things to be grateful for.
"I came here at 7 this morning to get a good spot. It's so worth it. Such a perfect day," Kelly told Xinhua.
In all, more than 8,000 performers, 27 floats and 15 giant balloons joined the three-hour parade.
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All 29 trapped miners were pulled out of the flooded coal mine pit alive at around 1: 18 p.m. Monday, one day after the accident happened at 11 a.m. Sunday.
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Rescuers work at the Batian coal mine in Weiyuan County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Nov. 21, 2010. Forty-one miners were working when the Batian coal mine was flooded on Nov. 21. Thirteen of them managed to escape while 29 others were trapped unerground. (Xinhua/Jiang Hongjing) |
Rescuers pulled out the first trapped miner at about 12:25 local time and a vice mine manager, Zhang Hongliang, was the last who was rescued.
The accident happened at 11 a.m. Sunday when 35 miners were working underground at Batian Coal Mine in Weiyuan County of Neijiang City. Thirteen of them rushed out while the other 22 were left behind.
After the accident, seven rescuers, led by the vice mine manager, descended to free the miners but were trapped underground, too.
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This composite image shows a supernova within the galaxy M100 that may contain the youngest known black hole in our cosmic neighborhood. In this image, Chandra’s X-rays are colored gold, while optical data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope are shown in red, green, and blue, and infrared data from Spitzer are red. The location of the supernova, known as SN 1979C, is labeled. (Photo: NASA) |
"We've never known before the exact birthday of a black hole, and now we can watch as it grows into a child and teenager," said Kimberly Weaver, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. "Learning about black holes has been like solving a puzzle, and this will help us get closer to a full understanding."
An armature astronomer found the star 31 years ago which is 50 million light-years away from earth. In 1979, the star was in process of exploding into a supernova.
When very large stars explode - or go supernova - they may leave behind a fairly massive remnant that can then collapse in on itself. Eventually, it can collapse to the point of having no volume and infinite density - at which point it is a black hole.
The researchers believe that the black hole is now about five times the mass of our sun but is less than 25 miles across and was formed from the explosion of a star about 20 times as massive as our sun.
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The 18-coach train carried 868 people.
No casualties have been reported so far and all passengers had been reloaded to the train after maintenance workers removed the derailed coach at about 7:30 a.m..
Railway staff are investigating the cause of the accident.
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