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Tuesday, April 12, 2016

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Today in History

1204
The Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople.
1606
England adopts the Union Jack as its flag.
1770
Parliament repeals the Townsend Acts.
1782
The British navy wins its only naval engagement against the colonists in the American Revolution at the Battle of Saints, off Dominica.
1811
The first colonists arrive at Cape Disappointment, Washington.
1861
Fort Sumter is shelled by the Confederacy, starting America’s Civil War.
1864
Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest captures Fort Pillow, in Tennessee.
1877
The first catcher’s mask is used in a baseball game.
1911
Pierre Prier completes the first non-stop London-Paris flight in three hours and 56 minutes.
1916
American cavalrymen and Mexican bandit troops clash at Parral, Mexico.
1927
The British Cabinet comes out in favor of voting rights for women.
1944
The U.S. Twentieth Air Force is activated to begin the strategic bombing of Japan.
1945
President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies at Warm Spring, Georgia. Harry S. Truman becomes president.
1954
Bill Haley records “Rock Around the Clock.”
1955
Dr. Jonas Salk’s discovery of a polio vaccine is announced.
1961
Soviet Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin becomes first man to orbit the Earth.
1963
Police use dogs and cattle prods on peaceful civil rights demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama.
1966
Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American major league umpire.
1983
Harold Washington is elected the first black mayor of Chicago.

Arctic Surfers Ride Waves Amid Icebergs

Surrounded by hundreds of glaciers, these Icelandic surfers must have ice-water in their veins.

Will La Nina Follow One of the Strongest Ever El Ninos?

After reaching an exceptionally strong peak, El Nino is waning. A La Nina could follow next fall.

Neanderthals may have died off from diseases carried by humans from Africa

Close view of a neanderthal man (Shutterstock)
The unfortunate Neanderthals, who would only have developed resistance to the diseases of their European environment, are most likely to have been infected with a bacterium that causes stomach ulcers, the virus that causes genital herpes, tapeworms and tuberculosis.

Six-step hand-washing technique found most effective for reducing bacteria

Six-step hand-washing technique found most effective for reducing bacteriaSix-step hand-washing technique found most effective for reducing bacteria
New research demonstrates that the six-step hand-hygiene technique recommended by the World Health Organization is superior to a three-step method suggested by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in reducing bacteria on healthcare workers’...

Exercise Cost vs. Calories Debated for Labels

Calorie counts often serve only to confuse consumers. Is there a better way?

The Best Time of Day to Give in to Cravings and Inhale a Giant Cheeseburger

High fat foods study

One-Third of All Food Produced Globally Never Finds Its Way Onto a Plate

Here's how technological progress may be hurting America's working class

Here's how technological progress may be hurting America's working class

Sorry, Feds: Kids Can Sue Over Climate Negligence, Judge Says

9-year-old crime reporter schools CNN on how to do journalism

CNN host Brian Stelter speaks to Hilde Kate Lysiak (CNN/screen grab)
‘Getting people information’: 9-year-old crime reporter schools CNN on how to do journalism

Fabulous 7-Year-Old Protests Transphobia For His Trans Best Friend

Fabulous 7-Year-Old Protests Transphobia For His Trans Best Friend (IMAGE)
Children are proof that hate is taught and learned. We are not born with prejudice. It is our upbringings that make us hate those unlike ourselves. Case...

Fox Brings On Anti-Gay Bigot Tony Perkins To 'Separate Fact From Fiction' On 'Religious Liberty' Laws

Fox Brings On Anti-Gay Bigot Tony Perkins To 'Separate Fact From Fiction' On 'Religious Liberty' Laws
Who better to "explain" all these bigoted laws discriminating against the LGBT community than hate group leader, Tony Perkins?

Texas Youth Pastor Exposed As Demented Child Predator

Image credit: video screen capture Fox News 4
He needs to be locked up for life.

State Funding Cult

Little girl saying her prayers over an open New Testament'(Shutterstock)
In this year alone the state of North Carolina has spent $12 million on what they refer to as Opportunity Scholarships to religious 'schools'.

Sheriff Arrested For Extortion After Allegedly Shaking Down Driver -- Which Is Somehow Usually Legal

Link Dump

Hotel Nightmares –  Just when you thought it was safe to pull back the sheets

Tiger population increases for first time in a century

Tiger population increases for first time in a century

Animal Pictures