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Twilight, The Vampire Diaries, True Blood & Vampire Culture

Bloody, bloodsucking creatures in storytelling have been around for centuries—but culture’s obsession with them only seems to be mounting. Meanwhile, zombies are the new undead kids on the block. Fear the Walking Dead, a companion piece to AMC’s original The Walking Dead, which focuses on a post-apocalyptic world teeming with zombies, is pulling in stellar ratings and nearly 12 million viewers per episode. Yet the zombie resurgence owes its success to its original, sexier predecessor: the vampire.

ISRAEL: Two Teeth for a Tooth!

Arab mayors are maimed as West Bank violence takes a grisly turn Early one morning last week in the israeli-occupied territory of the west Bank, Karim Khalaf, mayor of the resort town of Ramallah, left his rambling stone house to drive 1½ miles to his city hall office. As Khalaf, 43, turned the ignition switch of his green 1980 Cadillac, a bomb exploded beneath his feet. A gardener working in the rear courtyard ran to the car and pulled the screaming mayor from it.

L'IGN lance un appel communs sur le jumeau numrique et dvoile les start-up laurates d'Innea

Publié le 27 mai 2024par Olivier Devillers , pour Localtis Environnement, Numérique À l'occasion de Vivatech, l'IGN, le Cerema et l'Inria ont lancé un "appel à communs pour construire le Jumeau numérique de la France et de ses territoires" ouvert jusqu'au 30 septembre prochain. Les acteurs publics, privés, académiques et associatifs sont invités à rejoindre "l’équipe de France du Jumeau numérique". Concrètement les collectivités sont sollicitées pour proposer un cas d'usage ou présenter un retour d'expérience de jumeau numérique local.