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Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s legal battle has lasted years, with the public following as twists and turns affected various lawsuits. Things especially heated up when their defamation cases went to trial in Virginia, with cameras in the courtroom allowing every single frame to be dissected by the public. Plenty of folks have weighed in on the dispute and now Starbucks has responded after Team Johnny and Team Heard tip jars went viral on TikTok.Countless moments from Amber Heard and Johnny Depp’s defamation trial went…

via StarWars.com Jar Jar Binks gets a lot of criticism. He’s widely considered the worst thing in the prequel trilogy, has been accused of being a racist caricature, and for all but the very youngest viewers, his slapstick antics just aren’t funny. But is Jar Jar Binks really that bad? The answer is a conclusive yes, he’s a flippered nightmare. We recently rewatched The Phantom Menace for the first time in years and Jar Jar was even more detestable than we’d remembered. Sorry, Ahmed Best, you seem like a nice…

Locally sourced grapes and imported tar pitches may have been the norms for winemakers along the coast of Italy during the Roman period, according to jars recovered from the ocean near the harbor of San Felice Circeo.  Three different wine jars, or amphorae, were recovered and analyzed, giving researchers a useful insight into the practices for producing wine in this particular region in 1–2 century BCE, part of the late Greco-Italic period.What makes the research particularly notable is that it combines some of the…

From the amphorae to understanding the content; this multi-analytical analysis relied on archaeobotany and molecular identification. Credit: Louise Chassouant, CC-BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Winemaking practices in coastal Italy during the Roman period involved using native grapes for making wine in jars waterproofed with imported tar pitch, according to a study published June 29, 2022 in PLOS ONE by Louise…