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Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum marks centennial

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THE LOS ANGELES Memorial Coliseum'The iconic Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum - a world-renowned stadium located in the backyard of the University of Southern California - has reached its 100th anniversary.This esteemed venue, completed on May 1, 1923, has hosted some of the greatest spectacles in the world: from two Olympic Games (soon to be three in 2028) to political speeches by figures like John F. Kennedy and Trump, Martin Luther King Jr., to massive...

Anatomy of a cyclone

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Anatomy of a cyclone "Tropical cyclones are circular, compact storms with a diameter of roughly 320 kilometers (200 miles) and rotating winds around a central region of low pressure. The winds are propelled by this low-pressure core and the Earth's rotation, causing a deflection of wind direction through a phenomenon known as the Coriolis force. As a result, tropical cyclones rotate counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern...
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