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Lord Of The Rings: War Of The Rohirrim

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Summary

  • Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim is facing a release date delay due to hits in Hollywood, but the new December release date may work in its favor, capitalizing on the holiday season ticket sales.

  • The animated film is set to be released on December 13, 2024, and production is currently underway. It will receive a theatrical release, but it’s unknown when it will move to streaming or which service it will be available on.

  • The story of Lord of the Rings: War of the Rohirrim revolves around Helm Hammerhand, the King of Rohan, and his war

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Tree rings reveal a new kind of earthquake threat to the Pacific Northwest

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By Mikayla Mace Kelley, University of Arizona

Sept. 27, 2023

A lake in a forest with people on a boat

Price Lake, in the eastern Olympic Mountains, formed when the Saddle Mountain fault impounded a stream and flooded the forest. Lead author Bryan Black and his team of divers collected the samples using an underwater hydraulic chainsaw.
Bryan Black

In February, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook the Turkey-Syria border, followed by one nearly as large as nine hours later. Shallow faults less than 18 miles beneath the surface buckled and ruptured, causing violent focused quakes that leveled thousands of buildings and killed tens of thousands.

Similar shallow faults ruptured about 1,000

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Former 49ers equipment manager shows off championship rings from four Super Bowl wins

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With five Super Bowl wins under their belt, the 49ers have a rich history. CBS News Bay Area recently talked to a man who was there for most of those wins.

Bronco Hinek was an equipment manager for the team during the ’80s and ’90s, collecting some valuable Super Bowl hardware during those years.

It’s hard to imagine a Bay Area resident who feels more positive about the 49ers’ chances at winning a sixth Super Bowl than Pleasanton resident Hinek. He spent three decades working in the NFL, with 16 of those years spent as the equipment manager for the

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Saturn: Hubble spies mysterious shadows on planet’s rings

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The Hubble Space Telescope captured a newly revealed image of the mysterious, ghostly shadows on Saturn’s rings — the latest sighting of the so-called “spokes” that continue to baffle scientists.

The composite photo, released Thursday by NASA, was taken by Hubble on Oct. 22 as Saturn was about 1.37 billion kilometers away, according to the space agency. The space observatory has been orbiting Earth just a few hundred miles above the surface for more than three decades.

Astronomers have long known about the perplexing spokes on Saturn’s rings, which look like apparitions skating along the rings and can be spotted

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