Natural sources of background radiation include: 1  Cosmic rays-radiation that reaches the Earth from space. 2  Rocks and soil-some rocks are radioactive and give off radioactive radon gas.atural sources. Natural sources of background radiation include: 1  Cosmic rays-radiation that reaches the Earth from space. 2  Rocks and soil-some rocks are radioactive and give off radioactive radon gas. 3  Living things-plants absorb radioactive materials from the soil and these pass up the food chain.
Rapper Kayo Redd, younger brother of hip-hop star Waka Flocka Flame, died yesterday in Atlanta. More News. Redd recently released a mixtape, Redd Kisses, and promoted it just hours before he died. The cause of his death has not been officially released; conflicting reports pin it to a shooting in his old neighborhood or suicide.
Frankie Laine, the big-voiced singer whose string of hits made him one of the most popular entertainers of the 1950s, died yesterday (Feb. 6). He was 93. Frankie Laine, the big-voiced singer whose string of hits made him one of the most popular entertainers of the 1950s, died yesterday (Feb. 6). He was 93. Laine died of heart failure at Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego, Jimmy Marino, Laine's producer of more than a dozen years, told the Associated Press.