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All your friends are right: You need to start watching “The Great British Baking Show”
Pin It The winners of The Great British Baking Show (known as The Great British Bake Off in its native England, or GBBO for short), don’t get a cash prize.
Oh, and the promise of becoming very, very famous.
One lucky winner (who will remain nameless, because, spoilers) even baked the Queen’s 90th birthday cake.
In 2016, nine of the 10 most-watched television programs in the UK were episodes of GBBO.
And the reason the show is so popular in both the UK and the US (unfortunately, there are no publicly available ratings for the US run of the show because Netflix doesn’t release these stats) is because it’s amazing.
More than that, it’s the salve our bruised, broken nation needs right now.
The reason the show is so popular is because it’s amazing.
At the end of each episode, one sad baker is sent home and one completely chuffed baker is named Star Baker.
Heck, the contestants even get to practice two of their challenges before stepping foot in the tent each week.
Each time the contestants open their ovens, there’s an equal chance they’ll have a perfectly golden brown biscuit as an unset creme brulée.
Bollywood star Salman Khan faces jail for killing rare antelopes
A court in Rajasthan state on Thursday found Khan, one of the world’s best-paid actors, guilty of illegally hunting the two blackbucks from his car window while filming in Jodhpur in 1998.
Public prosecutors alleged that Khan, 52, and four other actors in the car with him fled the scene when they were spotted, leaving the animals’ carcasses behind.
Khan has long maintained that he was framed by forest officials in the case.
At the time of the poaching, blackbucks were regarded as a vulnerable animal, but have since been reclassified as a species of least concern, though they remain protected by Indian wildlife regulations.
Khan has a history of brushes with the law.
His former girlfriend, the actor Aishwarya Rai, accused Khan of verbal and physical abuse in a 2002 interview – allegations Khan has denied.
Khan was first arrested in the poaching case in October 1998 after reports emerged that he had hunted the two antelopes and at least three other gazelles.
Eight years later, he was convicted of killing the blackbucks and sentenced to five years in prison, a decision he appealed to the Rajasthan high court, which suspended the sentence in August 2007 after the actor had spent two short stints in jail.
The charges were revised and laid again the following year, and have hung over Khan for the past decade, preventing him from obtaining a UK visa in 2013 until the Rajasthan government asked the court to give him leeway to travel.
Members of the sect who were gathered outside the court reportedly cheered when the verdict was read.
How To Get The Best Night’s Star Gazing Ever
Light Pollution One hundred years ago, no matter where you lived, if you stood outside of your home at night and looked up, you would be able to see millions of stars and the bright swath of the Milky Way cutting across the darkness.
Today, 80 percent of the world’s population lives under skyglow which is when man-made light floods the atmosphere, causing the sky to glow and effectively erasing the stars from our sight.
Light pollution now blocks views of the Milky Way from almost 80 percent of North Americans.
The photo shows huge patches of the continent where light is so powerful that the regions seem to glow.
Many of the International Dark Sky Parks in North America are in the American West and Southwest, where large swaths of land are un- or under-populated.
Today there are 88 named constellations in the night sky.
While Greek mythology has dominated the history of constellations, some of the more recognizable star features, like the Big Dipper or Plough, represented a wide variety of shapes and characters to different cultures and therefore have unique names in different regions of the world.
Polaris is not a particularly bright star, which can make it difficult to locate quickly.
The two farther stars in the cup of the Big Dipper create a line that points to the North Star, making it a useful guide for navigators.
Watching a good meteor shower in a dark sky can mean seeing hundreds of shooting stars (or meteors) an hour!
