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(1) 10 Kingdom Hearts 3 Moments That Still Leave Players Confused Years Later (Dual Shockers)
(2) 32,000 cyclists brave strong winds to traverse Big Apple in 48th annual TD Five Boro Bike Tour (AMNY)
(3) North Carolina FC leaves USL Championship to join USL D1 in 2028 (ESPN)
“The decision by NCFC to essentially go dormant for two seasons comes at an awkward time for the USL, which in addition to starting the Division One league that will sit atop the USL Championship, League One and League Two, is also attempting to implement a system of promotion/relegation.”
(4) Fringe: Season 2 Episode 8
Walter: What makes you think I can help?
August: Because you have solved such a matter before. You saw beyond the limitations of your problems.
Walter: Not really. I just missed my son. May I ask what is so important about Miss Hollis?
August: I cannot explain the reason. I merely see it. I have never experienced such…certainty. But the others, they say she is of no consequence.
Walter: Well, in that case, if you cannot persuade the others of your conviction…then you must do something to prove it. You must make her important. And, of course, whatever you do…you must be prepared to face the consequences.
(5) Easy Come Easy Go (Tampa International Airport)
Merrie England
(6) Empire Day (Historic UK)
(6a) Tolkien, Chesterton, & the Sloth of England (Imaginative Conservative)
(6b) A quote from Father Philip Nolan (Magnificat, May 2026 Vol. 28, No. 3):
“In fact, the arrival of warmth is an apt analogy for the work of grace in the Christian life as a whole. Thus, Saint Philip’s English devotee, Saint John Henry Newman, used the image of a spring thaw to express his joy at the return of the Catholic Church to his native land. In a rousing homily preached in 1852 to the first synod of English bishops after centuries of anti-Catholic persecution, Newman likened the moment to a “Second Spring,” a foretaste of the “perpetual May” of heaven. Just as May definitively banishes the final vestiges of winter’s chill, so the true faith brings warmth, and hearts long frozen become filled with the Holy Spirit, thaw, and beat with life.”
Scan is from A Picture History of Britain by Clarke Hutton.
(6c) Festival of Britain 1951 (The National Archives)
(7) Why Should We Trust Them? (The Catholic Thing)
“Yet in this general and calamitous collapse, threatening the continued existence of their own cultures, the German prelates, along with plenty of others from Europe, pay no heed, but seem determined to confirm the degeneracy, as if you could change the nature of a deadly disease by calling it by a pleasant name and sprinkling rose-petals on it.”