I have always loved Star Wars. I spent the first Christmas day that I can remember flying Luke and his X-wing around the house. I met Darth Vader (David Prowse) when I was 6. I can still feel the shiver of fear as he strode through the double doors, reaching over the crowd to shake […]
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Star Wars Lego models are seen at the Bricks & Figs museum in Krakow, Poland, on April 15, 2023. Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty Images If you are a Star Wars fan, Jens Kronvold Frederiksen may have crafted your childhood. A design director at the Denmark-based Lego company, he has spent the past 25 years creating
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Fool.com contributor Parkev Tatevosian reveals his top 10 dividend stocks for passive income investors in May. *Stock prices used were the afternoon prices of May 1, 2024. The video was published on May 3, 2024. Should you invest $1,000 in Walt Disney right now? Before you buy stock in Walt Disney, consider this: The Motley
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This week, WIRED reported that a group of prolific scammers known as the Yahoo Boys are openly operating on major platforms like Facebook, WhatsApp, TikTok, and Telegram. Evading content moderation systems, the group organizes and engages in criminal activities that range from scams to sextortion schemes. On Wednesday, researchers published a paper detailing a new
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Since I’m an investor in my early 40s, many people are surprised to see a relatively high concentration of real estate investment trusts, or REITs, in my portfolio. After all, many think of REITs as boring income investments. However, REITs are not only excellent income stocks, but they can have serious upside potential over the
Melting an ice cube takes 3.34 x 105 joules per kilogram. So a single ice cube with a mass of 50 grams would take 16,700 joules. You can already see that melting stuff takes a bunch of energy. If you want to melt a metal door, you have to do two things—increase the temperature to
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President Biden is betting on the middle. Biden, a centrist Democrat who defeated several more progressive rivals in the 2020 primary, this week offered criticism of the college campus protests engulfing the nation, saying they would not change his policies on Israel’s war in Gaza and would not be protected when they turned violent. The
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NEW YORK — Salacious celebrity scandal peppered with foundation-building evidence defined the second week of testimony in former President Trump’s New York criminal trial. Witnesses this week began digging into the minutiae of the Manhattan district attorney’s case, from bank records and non-disclosure agreements to text messages suggesting efforts to keep quiet negative stories about
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Senate conservatives are urging Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to back off her attempt to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), saying it’s a waste of time and Congress has higher priorities ahead of the November election. Greene filed her motion to vacate a month ago to protest the Speaker’s handling of Ukraine aid, government spending
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The first-quarter earnings season has reached a crescendo. Among companies that reported recently are a handful of dividend-paying businesses that offer dividend yields above 4% at recent prices. Some investors are interested in stable, predictable cash flows, while others insist on rapid dividend growth. Read on to see how these stocks have a little something
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