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Thursday, April 7, 2016

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Today in History

1652
The Dutch establish a settlement at Cape Town, South Africa.
1712
A slave revolt breaks out in New York City.
1798
The territory of Mississippi is organized.
1862
General Ulysses S. Grant defeats Confederates at Battle of Shiloh, Tenn.
1914
The British House of Commons passes the Irish Home Rule Bill.
1922
U.S. Secretary of Interior leases the Teapot Dome naval oil reserves in Wyoming.
1933
President Franklin Roosevelt signs legislation ending prohibition in the United States.
1943
British and American armies link up between Wadi Akarit and El Guettar in North Africa, forming a solid line against the German army.
1945
The Japanese battleship Yamato, the world’s largest battleship, is sunk during the Battle for Okinawa.
1963
Yugoslavia proclaims itself a Socialist republic.
1971
Nixon pledges a withdrawal of 100,000 more men from Vietnam by December.
1980
The United States breaks relations with Iran.
1983
Specialist Story Musgrave and Don Peterson make the first Space Shuttle spacewalk.
1990
John Poindexter is found guilty in the Iran-Contra scandal.

The Panama Papers

Biggest Leak EVER Exposes How The 1% Dodges Millions In Taxes (VIDEO)
Biggest Leak EVER Exposes How The 1% Dodges Millions In Taxes 
Giant leak of documents reveals how the 1% avoids paying taxes.
The Panama Papers: How The 1%’s Greed Has Literally Been Killing Millions Of People (VIDEO)
The Panama Papers: How The 1%’s Greed Has Literally Been Killing Millions Of People 
In a 4 minute video, we’re exposed to a world where the death and suffering of millions is less important than making money for inhuman monsters.

‘I’m fucking sick of this’

Waitress taking an order from customer (Shutterstock.com)
Jordan Gleason, owner of Black Acre Brewing Company, is being praised for speaking out about his decision to ban a customer for sexually harassing women servers.

Iowa Bucks Anti-Refugee Trend, Tries To Help Refugees Find Jobs

Dumbass Trump’s Las Vegas Hotel Is Officially Unionized

Clay-eating homeopathy quacks want to ‘unvaccinate’ children with saunas and hard work in the sun

Many adherents to this belief decide to let their children go unvaccinated, but some homeopathic practitioners claims they can unvaccinate children who have already been vaccinated.

Supreme Court rejects wingnut 'one person, one vote' challenge in Texas

Supreme Court rejects wingnut 'one person, one vote' challenge in Texas

Racist Jurors Are Hidden From The Public ...

The Virgin Mary, cultural obsessions and the bizarre history of the tooth fairy

The Virgin Mary, cultural obsessions and the bizarre history of the tooth fairy

'Christian' homeschoolers cry discrimination after trade schools ask for proof they learned something

The Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) is challenging requirements by cosmetology and vocational schools that incoming students show a high school diploma or pass a GED exam to gain admittance.

CNN trolls anti-transgender activist with massive rainbow flag backdrop

Peter Sprigg speaks to CNN's Chris Cuomo (screen grab)
Well played: CNN trolls anti-transgender activist with massive rainbow flag backdrop
Well played, indeed.

Salt Lake City’s gay mayor destroys wingnut bids to recast discrimination as ‘religious freedom’

Salt Lake City Mayor Jackie Biskupski, her son Archie (Biskupski for Mayor website)
The openly gay mayor of Utah’s largest city took a shot at the wave of anti-LGBT laws being passed based upon so-called “religious freedom” grounds, calling their supporters “desperate.”

North Carolina Lt. moron.: The real discrimination is having to share bathrooms with transgender people

North Carolina Lt. moron.: The real discrimination is having to share bathrooms with transgender people
The Stupid Is Showing!

Idaho mom calls police to report she’d found her missing son — and cops come smash the boy’s face

An Idaho woman says police smashed her 12-year-old son’s face into a parked car after she notified officers that she had found the boy after she had reported him missing.

‘I ain’t resisting, bro!’

Patrick Newbern being Tasered and pepper sprayed -- (Facebook screen grab)‘I ain’t resisting, bro!’: Cops drag black man from his car and shock him with a Taser for playing loud music

Ancient burials revealed at mysterious Plain of Jars in Laos

Ancient burials revealed at mysterious Plain of Jars in Laos

How ancient horse-dung bacteria is helping us locate where Hannibal crossed the Alps

How ancient horse-dung bacteria is helping us locate where Hannibal crossed the Alps

Giant Mammoth Skull Discovered by Bulldozer Operator

byJeanna Bryner
A bulldozer operator at a sand pit in northwestern Oklahoma got quite a surprise this month when he spotted a huge skull that belonged to a Columbian mammoth.
These giants were plentiful across the plains of Oklahoma during the Pleistocene epoch, which lasted from about 1.8 million to 11,700 years ago, said Leland Bement of the Oklahoma Archaeological Survey.
The discovery was not unheard of, as the Survey typically receives about three "mammoth-sighting" calls a year, Bement said. That made it now less exciting, though. "Archaeological fieldwork is always exciting. You never know what you are going to find," Bement told Live Science in an email.
He added, "When it comes to mammoth finds, we are always on the lookout for the next one that has projectile points or stone tools associated with it to indicate that the animal was killed and butchered. We have so few of these sites across North America and only one so far in Oklahoma."
The skull had been deposited on the sandbar of a river channel, the archaeologists said. So far, the archaeologists have unearthed the animal's skull with a single tooth in place; apparently, another tooth had been removed from the skull during the clearing of the sand.
"We don't know the cause of death. There is no sign that people killed or butchered it," Bement told Live Science in an email. "Its skull was washed around in the river. The rest of the animal could be anywhere."
Though the scientists have not pinpointed an exact age for the skull, they know it’s more than 11,000 years old — the period when mammoths and other megafauna went extinct at the end of the Pleistocene.
Scientists have put forth several reasons for the extinctions, ranging from rapid climate warming to ice age human hunters. Others have suggested a perfect storm of culprits. One group of dwarf mammoths is thought to have survived in the Arctic, on Wrangel Island, until about 3,700 years ago.
Like other Columbian mammoths (Mammuthus columbi), this one was not the cold-adapted type and preferred more temperate stomping grounds in southern and central North America. The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), the kind portrayed in the "Ice Age" movies, would have called the chilly tundra home.
The Columbian variety was also much larger than the woollies, with Columbian males reaching up to twice the size of woolly males, according to Hendrik Poinar, an evolutionary geneticist at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. Columbian mammoths also arrived in North America about 1.5 million years ago, whereas woolly mammoths stepped onto the continent some 400,000 years ago, said Poinar, who spoke with Live Science in 2011.
Finding mammoth bones, while a mammoth discovery, seems relatively common across the United States. This past January, a construction crew discovered the femur of a mammoth (possibly a Columbian mammoth) under the Oregon State University's football field. Last September, two Michigan farmers found a mammoth's skull and tusks while they were installing a drainage pipe. And, in October 2014, a volunteer "paleontologist" unearthed the skeleton of a mammoth on the banks of a reservoir in Idaho. That skeleton dated back more than 72,000 years, said the scientists involved in the excavation.
Next, the researchers, including Oklahoma State University geographer Carlos Cordova, will analyze the mammoth teeth for particles from plants encased in tartar buildup, Bement said. "That will tell us what the mammoth was eating and also help in reconstructing the environment at the time he lived."
The findings will be included in a broader study, by doctoral student Tom Cox, of the distribution of mammoths in Oklahoma, he added.

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