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Today in History
| 1523 | In Switzerland, Ulrich Zwingli publishes his 67 Articles, the first manifesto of the Zurich Reformation which attacks the authority of the Pope. | |
| 1783 | William Pitt the Younger becomes the youngest Prime Minister of England at age 24. | |
| 1847 | New Mexico Governor Charles Bent is slain by Pueblo Indians in Taos. | |
| 1861 | Georgia secedes from the Union. | |
| 1902 | The magazine “L’Auto” announces the new Tour de France. | |
| 1915 | The first German air raids on Great Britain inflict minor casualties. | |
| 1923 | The French announce the invention of a new gun that has a firing range of 56 miles. | |
| 1931 | The Wickersham Committee issues a report asking for revisions in the dry law, but no repeal. | |
| 1937 | Howard Hughes flies from Los Angeles to New York in seven hours and 22 minutes. | |
| 1937 | In the Soviet Union, the Council of People’s Commissars is formed under Molotov. | |
| 1945 | The Red Army captures Lodz, Krakow, and Tarnow. | |
| 1947 | The French open a drive on Hue, Indochina. | |
| 1949 | The Chiang Government moves the capital of China to Canton. | |
| 1950 | Communist Chinese leader Mao recognizes the Republic of Vietnam. | |
| 1968 | Cambodia charges that the United States and South Vietnam have crossed the border and killed three Cambodians. | |
| 1981 | The United States and Iran sign an accord on a hostage release in Algiers. | |
| 1983 | The new catholic code expands women’s rights in the cult. |
President Obama is returning to politics in 2018
Is Sitting Too Close to the TV Really Bad for You?
The
incident in question never affected me, because I didn't have a color
TV until after college. My Dad telling me not to sit too close to the
television was most likely his way of telling me to get out of his way.
Still, it's always good to step away from any screen every once in a
while. Eyestrain might not blind you, or even affect your sight until
you're old, but the old you will thank the young you for taking care of
all your body parts while you can.
How Montana Gold Rushers Literally Threw Away a Fortune in Sapphires
They
were looking for gold. Prospectors were all over Montana in the
mid-19th century, finding both minerals and gemstones, but since they
were solely focused on gold, they overlooked the best sapphires in the
U.S. They threw away the blue stones that showed up in their pans at
Yogo Gulch, not realizing that they were worth more than the gold they
were searching for. That changed in 1895, when a prospector sent a box
of blue stones to Dr. George F. Kunz, a gemologist at Tiffany's.
Sapphires of various colors from Montana were common, but those from the
Yogo Gulch were special.
Yogo Sapphires made a splash -and a lot of money. The Yogo Gulch area is still mined for sapphires today. Read about them at The Daily Beast.In 1897, Kunz wrote for the American Journal of Science, and detailed the specific and ultimate coloration of sapphires from the Yogo Gulch region. He wrote that the deviation in color of the stones were “varying from light blue to quite dark blue, including some of the true ‘cornflower’ blue tint so much prized in the sapphires of the Ceylon… Some of them are ‘peacock blue’ and some dichroic, showing a deeper tint in one direction than in another; and some of the ‘cornflower’ gems are equal to any of the Ceylonese, which they strongly resemble,—more than they do those of the Cashmere.”
These proposed laws could protect legal pot in 2018
This once-successful clergyman got busted smuggling nearly 300 pounds of marijuana from Mexico
The pastor recently
ousted from the Vancouver “Kmart church” he founded pleaded not guilty
to federal drug charges after U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents
allegedly found over 280 pounds of marijuana in his gray Volkswagen
Jetta.
Topless Russian cadets in BDSM costumes spark scandal with viral video
Black Missouri man says security guards handcuffed him to bench and pelted him with racial slurs
After allegedly being
handcuffed to a bench and berated with racial slurs, a black Missouri
man is suing the Kansas City Power & Light District entertainment
center.
Mom files police report against student who shared her daughter’s racist Snapchat post
‘You stupid monkeys’
White supremacists killed 18 people in 2017
Why Is Blue So Rare In Nature?
Okay,
there's one exception not the pigment thing, which we learn about in
the video. Our friends at It's Okay To Be Smart explain why it's so hard
for nature to create the color blue.
No one knows if lobsters feel pain, which makes boiling them alive rather complicated
If you like eating lobster but have never cooked one yourself, here’s a brief word of advice: don’t.
Before you’ve plunged one into boiling water
with your own two hands, it’s easy to imagine lobsters as big-clawed
bugs who feel nothing as they’re cooked alive. And listen—it’s possible
that’s true. Science hasn’t come down definitively on one side or the
other. But once you’ve heard them banging on the inside of the pot
trying to claw their way out, you won’t ever be able to not hear it as you eat a lobster.
Before you’ve plunged one into boiling water
with your own two hands, it’s easy to imagine lobsters as big-clawed
bugs who feel nothing as they’re cooked alive. And listen—it’s possible
that’s true. Science hasn’t come down definitively on one side or the
other. But once you’ve heard them banging on the inside of the pot
trying to claw their way out, you won’t ever be able to not hear it as you eat a lobster.
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