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Oh, how we missed you last year! We just couldn't let another summer come and go without celebrating San Diego and all of the wonderful food & agriculture, arts & talent, business & innovation, and all-around FUN of our community. San Diego County Fair is back and better than ever. You're not going to want to miss out on the all fun the fair has to offer. View the lineup for the Summer Concert Series on the grandstand stage. These shows include same-day admission to the San Diego County Fair. For the best seats in the house, purchase tickets early online at Ticketmaster. Date: June 8-July 4 (The Fair will be closed Mondays & Tuesdays except in June.) Times: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. Location: Del Mar Fair Grounds For more information on this event please visit HERE!

Seattle Public Schools is suing Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat for exacerbating the mental health crisis among its students.

Research from the Salk Institute and UC San Diego on ultrasound treatments owe a lot to studies of concert hall acoustics.

Bishop E. Evans disappeared in the waters of the Rio Grande after attempting to rescue migrants crossing from Mexico to the U.S.

California's Premiere Viking Festival Celebrates 20 Years! Vista Viking Festival to make a triumphant return. Visitors can mingle with Vikings and the Norse Gods at the Living History Viking Village, Marketplace, and Festival. Featuring live entertainment including Highland Way, The Silk Button Butchers, and straight out of Denmark - KRAUKA. Norway Hall, the Sons of Norway Norge Lodge, and the Norwegian Fish Club Odin are proud to once again present the Vista Viking Festival, on September 17 & 18, 2022. Visit living, early Viking Encampments featured throughout our grounds. Reenactment guilds such as the ArchDuchy of Brandenburg, the Celtic Norse, Drafn, the Guardians of Midgard, the Red Hand, Vesterfolk, and the Wolves of Odin, bring our Viking Village to life with authentic daily activities. Blacksmithing, fiber arts, fine metalworking, and freshly baked bread from our Viking oven. The Viking Marketplace will be filled with merchants offering Viking wares, and treasures brought back from across the seas -- swords, knives, helms, shields, drinking horns, jewelry, and more. Get yourself outfitted to cosplay Viking. Or just take home a treasure or two to remember the day. Marketplace, food vendors have sausages, Swedish meatballs, Norwegian cookies, and exotic foods featuring Fresh Lefsa and Krumkake. Exciting Viking Battles will be fought on our list field. Brave Viking Warriors travel from abroad to compete on our battlefield. Cheer on your favorite champions as they meet in one on one combat and wild group melees. We have the premiere Viking Weapons Range on the West Coast! Boasting Archery, Axe, and Spear Throwing Lanes. Our expert instructors have decades of experience and will train you in skills that last a lifetime. Odin’s Forge, our working Blacksmith Shop, will be fired up and making new tools, weapons and hardware. Our experienced Smith Managers and Crew will demonstrate why Blacksmiths were a vital part of Viking Age society. Both our Odin Stage, and Loki Stage feature live music and entertainment that will take you back to the time of the Vikings. Featuring some of the area's best Celtic and Folk rock groups, and other surprise entertainers. Make Viking Festival history by participating in one of our signature competitions! To test the strength. The Viking Log Toss. Further hone your Viking skills for the Battle Cry, Horn Blowing, and Beard contests. Be sure to catch the World Famous Fish Fling competition. On Saturday, stay after sunset for the spectacular Flaming Axe Throw. At Norway Hall, our Heritage Hall, experience Scandinavian history, genealogy, culture, cooking, craft, and Fiber Arts demonstrations. Shop for handicrafts, snacks, and souvenirs from The Daughters of Norway Hulda Garborg Lodge, the Sons of Norway Norge Lodge, and The Balboa Park House of Norway. For the thirsty, Find a selection of fine Mead, Beer, and Spirits, including Aquavit at Odin’s Bar. In our Beer and Meading Place, we have our popular 'Meet the Brewmasters' event. Featuring some of San Diego's and the regions best micro-brews, and fine Viking Meads, some crafted especially for the Viking Festival. KidZone for the little Vikings. The wee ones can paint their own shields and swords. There will be crafts, music lessons, face painting, games, and the learning-fun Rune Quest game. Located at 2006 East Vista Way. Vista, CA. 92084. Vista Viking Festival on Facebook

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Computers traditionally excel at rocketry, so why do new artificial intelligence programs get it wrong?

The coin honoring the Rolling Stones is the fifth in the Royal Mint's "Music Legends'" series that celebrates British artists. Others so honored have been Queen, Elton John, David Bowie and The Who.

The new approach would simplify vaccination guidance so that, every fall, people would get a new shot, updated to try to match whatever variant is dominant.

A jury found Elizabeth Holmes' former business and romantic partner guilty in July on all 12 felony counts of defrauding Theranos investors and the patients that used the company's faulty blood tests.