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Monday, November 28, 2016

The Daily Drift

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Today in History

1520
Spanish explorer Ferdinand Magellan, having discovered a strait at the tip of South America, enters the Pacific.
1729
Natchez Indians massacre most of the 300 French settlers and soldiers at Fort Rosalie, Louisiana.
1861
The Confederate Congress admits Missouri to the Confederacy, although Missouri has not yet seceded from the Union.
1868
Mt. Etna in Sicily violently erupts.
1872
The Modoc War of 1872-73 begins in northern California when fighting breaks out between Modoc Chief Captain Jack and a cavalry detail led by Captain James Jackson.
1899
The British are victorious over the Boers at Modder River.
1919
Lady Astor is elected the first woman in Parliament.
1925
The forerunner of the Grand Ole Opry, called the WSM Barn Dance, opens in Nashville, Tennessee.
1935
The German Reich declares all men ages 18 to 45 as army reservists.
1937
Spanish leader Francisco Franco blockades the Spanish coast.
1939
The Soviet Union scraps its nonaggression pact with Finland.
1941
The aircraft carrier USS Enterprise departs from Pearl Harbor to deliver F4F Wildcat fighters to Wake Island. This mission saves the carrier from destruction when the Japanese attack.
1943
Sir Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Franklin D. Roosevelt meet at Tehran, Iran, to hammer out war aims.
1944
The first shipment of supplies reach Antwerp by convoy, a new route for the Allies.
1948
Dr. Edwin Land’s first Polaroid cameras go on sale in Boston.
1950
In Korea, 200,000 Communist troops launch attack on UN forces.
1961
Ernie Davis becomes the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy.
1963
Cape Canaveral is renamed Cape Kennedy.
1971
The Anglican cult ordains the first two women as priests.
1975
East Timor declares independence from Portugal.
1980
Operation Morvarid (Iran-Iraq War) takes place; Iranian Navy destroys over 70% of Iraqi Navy.
1984
Wingnut Robert Dole is elected Senate majority leader.
1989
Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces it will give up its monopoly on political power.
1991
South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia.
2002
Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya.

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The Burger That Literally Explodes With Cheese

A burger bun pumped full of cheese sounds like heaven, but when you see it launch the cheesy goo in a stream that looks disturbingly pimple-ish way, it may just change your mind.
The burger, created by RawMaterialNYC is totally dividing audiences, with some mesmerized with the delicious cheesy filling -and others utterly disgusted with the zit-like visual that happens whenever someone bursts that bun open. What do you guys think? Nasty or nice?

Random Photos


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5 Ways to Cope With Post-Election Stress This Holiday Season

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CVS Employees Hide In Back Room And Call Cops After Black Man Tries To Buy Cheese

CVS Employees Hide In Back Room And Call Cops After Black Man Tries To Buy Cheese
Apparently black people aren’t allowed to shop for cheese now.

Wingnuts who occupied Oregon wildlife refuge whine that they might be on terror watchlist

Some of the conservative activists who staged an armed takeover of an Oregon wildlife sanctuary last winter now claim that the federal government has placed them on a watchlist for terrorist activity and they don't understand why.
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Can you say "DUH!"

NASA may upend space travel with experimental research

If we find ET, don’t talk to it, says the man who wants to find ET

Daily Comic Relief


River discovery takes SC girl millions of years back in time


Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article117240803.html#storylink=cpy

Ants were farming long before humans

Texas man may have contracted leprosy from armadillos

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