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Catherine Pervan, with Our House Bakery in Benicia, Calif., talks about creating the life-sized Han Solo on Oct. 13, 2022 The piece is the bakery's entry in the downtown Benicia scarecrow contest. (Chris Riley/The Times-Herald via AP)

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California baker creates life-sized Han Solo out of bread
By The Associated Press
Sat,10/15/22-2:09PM , 64 Reads
BENICIA, Calif. (AP) — Han Solo may be a hunk. But “Pan Solo" is a hunk of bread.

That's what a bakery in the San Francisco Bay Area has dubbed its 6-foot (1.8 meter) bread sculpture of the “Star Wars" character as he appeared after being frozen in carbonite in “The Empire Strikes Back."
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Dwight Cleveland, a major collector of movie posters and lobby cards, poses for a portrait with a three lobby card and movie poster Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022, in Chicago. Many silent films from the early 1900s no longer exist. But they live on in movie theater lobby cards. More than 10,000 of the mostly 11-by-14-inch cards that promoted the cinematic romances, comedies and adventures of the era are being digitized for preservation and publication online, thanks to an agreement formed between a Chicago-based collector Cleveland and Dartmouth College. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

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Silent films to live on in movie theater lobby card project
By KATHY McCORMACK - Associated Press
Thu,10/06/22-9:32AM , 52 Reads
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — “Missing Millions" is a 1922 silent film with a darkly prescient title — like the vast majority from that era, the movie all but vanished in the ensuing century, survived mostly by lobby cards.
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Guilty! Law school sends out erroneous admissions emails
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Wed,10/05/22-1:39PM , 51 Reads
BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts law school says it's guilty of accidentally sending acceptance emails to thousands of former and current applicants.
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This illustration provided by Heming Zhang in September 2022 depicts some of the fossil fish, more than 400 million years old, which were found by researchers in southern China, announced in a series of studies published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. The fossils date back to the Silurian period when scientists believe our backboned ancestors, who were still swimming around on a watery planet, may have started evolving teeth and jaws around this time. (Heming Zhang via AP)

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Fish fossil catch from China includes oldest teeth ever
By MADDIE BURAKOFF - AP Science Writer
Wed,09/28/22-10:34AM , 92 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — A big catch of fish fossils in southern China includes the oldest teeth ever found — and may help scientists learn how our aquatic ancestors got their bite.
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