Daniel Jackson and friends discovered an unclaimed strip of forest between Croatia and Serbia and declared the Free Republic of Verdis, forming a government, establishing laws, and planting a flag for roughly 400 hopeful citizens. A lifetime ban on Daniel Jackson's entry to Croatia complicates attempts to obtain sovereignty. Teenagers are increasingly embracing older technology such as landline phones, board games and at-home Blockbuster replicas as alternatives to smartphones. Mass extinctions recur roughly every 50–100 million years and are often linked to atmospheric carbon overload and catastrophic environmental change. BuzzBallz grew from a 2009 idea into the US's biggest-selling single-serve premixed cocktail and a fastest-growing ready-to-drink brand by volume.
Daniel Jackson was only 14 when he and a group of friends decided they wanted to do something that was unique'. While most others their age were scrolling TikTok, Jackson and his friends scoured maps, and discovered an unclaimed strip of forest that falls outside the borders of Croatia and Serbia. They thought it would be fun to see if they could make it into a country, and named it Verdis.
Back to the future teens are increasingly interested in the retro tech of their parents. Composite: Getty/Alamy With parents across the world worried about their kids' access to smartphones and the internet, a new trend for older, less all-encompassing technology is giving an unlikely rebirth to landline phones, board games and, for one parent at least, an entire at-home replica Blockbuster video store, as Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett discovered.
Armageddon mass extinctions are mainly due to an overload of CO in the atmosphere. Composite: Alex Mellon for the Guardian/Getty Images While ours is a sturdy planet, wrote Peter Brannen in this chilling extract from his new book, resilient to all manner of unthinkable insults to which it is regularly subjected, once every 50-100m years, something truly very, very bad happens.
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