Winning Powerball tickets Tickets for the recordbreaking estimated
Winning Powerball tickets
Tickets for the record-breaking estimated $579 million jackpot were purchased in Missouri and Arizona. The winning numbers announced on Wednesday night were 5 -23 -16 -22 -29 and the Powerball was 6. The prize for the lottery -- held in 42 states, the U. S. Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia -- swelled to historic levels after the jackpot rolled over 16 times without a winner. It was unclear early Thursday morning where in the two states the winning tickets were sold and who bought them. Wednesday's prize is the largest in Powerball history. But the prize still has a way to go to match the U. S. record payout of $656 million, set in March by a Mega Millions jackpot that was split between three winners.
In Other News n n Smoking for an extended period of time obviously leads to such things as coughing, shortness of breath and changes to teeth, hair and skin as well as coronary heart disease and/or lung cancer. But a new study published in the journal Age & Ageing concludes that smoking can damage your mind, too. A consistent association was observed between smoking and lower cognitive functioning, including memory. Research has shown that in 1958 there was a top-secret plan, developed by the U. S. Air Force, to look at the possibility of detonating a nuclear device on the moon. It was a time when the United States and the Soviet Union were locked in a nuclear arms race that would last decades and drive the two superpowers to the verge of nuclear war. The motivation for such a detonation is threefold: scientific, military and political. The basic plan was for an intercontinental ballistic missile to be launched from an undisclosed location, travel some 240, 000 miles to the moon, and detonate on impact. Various news reports since 1958 have said project leaders considered using an atom bomb the same size as "Little Boy, " the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, near the end of World War II.
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