| 1774 | The first Continental Congress, which protested British measures and called for civil disobedience, concludes in Philadelphia. | |
| 1795 | General Paul Barras resigns his commission as head of France’s Army of the Interior to become head of the Directory; his second-in-command becomes the army’s commander—Napoleon Bonaparte. | |
| 1825 | The first boat on the Erie Canal leaves Buffalo, N.Y. | |
| 1881 | Three Earp brothers and Doc Holliday have a shootout with the Clantons and McLaurys at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory. | |
| 1905 | Norway signs a treaty of separation with Sweden. Norway chooses Prince Charles of Denmark as the new king; he becomes King Haakon VII. | |
| 1918 | Germany’s supreme commander, General Erich Ludendorff, resigns, protesting the terms to which the German Government has agreed in negotiating the armistice. This sets the stage for his later support for Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, who claim that Germany did not lose the war on the battlefield but were “stabbed in the back” by politicians. | |
| 1942 | The Japanese attack Guadalcanal, sinking two U.S. carriers. | |
| 1942 | The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Hornet is sunk in the Battle of Santa Cruz Island, in the South Pacific. | |
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| 1950 | A reconnaissance platoon for a South Korean division reaches the Yalu River. They are the only elements of the U.N. force to reach the river before the Chinese offensive pushes the whole army down into South Korea. | |
| 1955 | The Village Voice is first published, backed in part by Norman Mailer. | |
| 1955 | Ngo Dinh Diem declares himself Premier of South Vietnam. | |
| 1957 | The Russian government announces that Marshal Georgy Zhukov, the nation’s most prominent military hero, has been relieved of his duties as Minister of Defense. Khrushchev accuses Zhukov as promoting his own “cult of personality” and sees him as a threat to his own popularity. | |
| 1958 | The first New York – Paris transatlantic jet passenger service is inaugurated by Pan Am, while the first New York – London transatlantic jet passenger service is inaugurated by BOAC. | |
| 1967 | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi crowns himself Emperor of Iran and his wife Farah as Empress. | |
| 1970 | Garry Trudeau’s comic strip Doonesbury first appears. | |
| 1979 | The President of South Korea, Park Chung-hee, is asssasinated by Kim Jae-kyu, head of the country’s Central intelligence Agency; Choi Kyu-ha is named acting president. | |
| 1994 | Israel and Jordan sign a peace treaty. | |
| 2001 | The USA PATRIOT Act is signed into law by Pres. George W. Bush, greatly expanding intelligence and legal agencies’ ability to utilize wiretaps, records searches and surveillance. | |
| 2002 | Russian Spetsnaz storm the Moscow Theatre, where Chechen terrorists had taken the audience and performers hostage three days earlier; 50 terrorists and 150 hostages die in the assault. |
Thursday, October 26, 2017
Today in History
Cities aren't prepared for future flooding
500-year-old navigation device found in shipwreck
Russian singer vanishes amid reports of 'gay purge'
‘Who thought this was a good idea?’
On Monday, journalist Yashar Ali posted perhaps one of the most comical real advertisements in recent memory.
U.S. And Syria Only Remaining Countries Opposed To Paris Climate Deal
Instead of America being aligned with nearly 200 nations across
the globe, the United States now stands only with Syria.…
Nursing Textbooks Recalled And Apology Issued For Racial Stereotypes
Pearson, an educational publishing company, issued an apology on
Thursday in regards to culturally insensitive material published in
their textbook Nursing: A Concept-Based Approach to Learning. The
section in question was titled ‘Focus on Diversity and Culture: Cultural
Differences in Response to Pain’ and contained theories on how to treat
patients […]
No, Fox 'News', Ohio State University Halloween Costume Guide Isn’t Really A Thing!
Satire cleanup on aisle Fox & Friends, please!
‘Happy Halloween fuckers’
Viral photos reportedly posted by a high
school student in Chesapeake, Virginia show a person sitting while
wearing a white robe and hood a la the KKK while doing a Nazi salute.
Are religious people more moral
A recent study we conducted, led by psychologist Will Gervais, found widespread and extreme moral prejudice against atheists around the world. Across all continents, people assumed that those who committed immoral acts, even extreme ones such as serial murder, were more likely to be atheists.
Although this was the first demonstration of such bias at a global scale, its existence is hardly surprising.
However, the answer to the question in the post title is - in a word - NO.
Feeding marijuana to fish does not help them relax
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
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| 1415 | An English army under Henry V defeats the French at Agincourt, France. The French out number Henry’s troops 60,000 to 12,000 but British longbows turn the tide of the battle. | |
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| 1760 | George III of England is crowned. | |
| 1854 | During the Crimean War, a brigade of British light infantry is destroyed by Russian artillery as they charge down a narrow corridor in full view of the Russians. | |
| 1916 | German pilot Rudolf von Eschwege shoots down his first enemy plane, a Nieuport 12 of the Royal Naval Air Service over Bulgaria. | |
| 1923 | The Teapot Dome scandal comes to public attention as Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, subcommittee chairman, reveals the findings of the past 18 months of investigation. His case will result in the conviction of Harry F. Sinclair of Mammoth Oil, and later Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall, the first cabinet member in American history to go to jail. The scandal, named for the Teapot Dome oil reserves in Wyoming, involved Fall secretly leasing naval oil reserve lands to private companies. | |
| 1941 | German troops capture Kharkov and launch a new drive toward Moscow. | |
| 1944 | The Japanese are defeated in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the world’s largest sea engagement. From this point on, the depleted Japanese Navy increasingly resorts to the suicidal attacks of Kamikaze fighters. | |
| 1950 | Chinese Communist Forces launch their first-phase offensive across the Yalu River into North Korea. | |
| 1951 | In a general election, England’s Labour Party loses to the Conservatives. Winston Churchill becomes prime minister and Anthony Eden becomes foreign secretary. | |
| 1954 | President Dwight Eisenhower conducts the first televised Cabinet meeting. | |
| 1958 | The last U.S. troops leave Beirut. | |
| 1960 | Martin Luther King, Jr., is sentenced to four months in jail for a sit-in. | |
| 1962 | Adlai Stevenson shows photos to the UN Security Council that prove Soviet missiles have been installed in Cuba. | |
| 1962 | In South Africa, civil rights activist Nelson Mandela is sentenced to 5 years in prison. | |
| 1971 | The United Nations expels the Republic of China and seats the People’s Republic of China. | |
| 1983 | 1,800 U.S. troops and 300 Caribbean troops land on Grenada. U.S. forces soon turn up evidence of a strong Cuban and Soviet presence–large stores of arms and documents suggesting close links to Cuba. | |
| 1991 | The last soldiers of the Yugoslav People’s Army leave the Republic of Slovenia. | |
| 2009 | Terrorist bombings in Baghdad kill over 150 and wound over 700. |
China's teens are rejecting Communist Party propaganda
Young people in China are rejecting Communist party propaganda for Western-style movie stars and celebrity culture – that’s the lesson behind the box office flop of a series big budget propaganda films according to observers.
Einstein’s theory of happy living emerges in Tokyo note from 1922
A note that Albert Einstein gave to a courier
in Tokyo, briefly describing his theory on happy living, has surfaced
after 95 years and is up for auction in Jerusalem.
Cold Fusion
But while it is known that fusing two lighter atomic nuclei to form a heavier nucleus releases energy, it is far more difficult to harness that power. In order to do so, they would have to create plasma hotter than the sun that could be stably confined.
Scientists figure out how many mutations it takes for healthy cells to turn cancerous
Amazon mistakenly sends 65 pounds of marijuana to Florida couple
The Orlando couple says they had ordered plastic storage bins but the massive amount of marijuana is what showed up on their doorstep, WFTV reports. The package was supposed to be containing 27-gallon storage totes but in fact weighed 93.5 pounds and had been shipped by Amazon’s Warehouse Deals program via UPS from a Massachusetts facility.
The couple, who asked not to be identified, were perplexed by the pot-filled package and could immediately pick out the strong odor.
“We love Amazon and do a lot of shopping on Amazon, the customer told WFTV. “They were extremely heavy, heavier than you would think from ordering four empty bins…When the first officer got here, she was in disbelief.”
"We were still pretty fearful our home would be broken into, and we didn't sleep there for a few days,” the customer added.
Orlando police seized the drugs and launched an investigation, but Amazon itself was reportedly very unhelpful in addressing the issue. After an email exchange with the tech giant that lasted more than a month, the couple had still not spoken to a supervisor. Although they eventually received a $150 gift card with a message reading, “I am unable to do anything else at this time,” the two said they simply wanted an apology and an explanation for the cannabis conundrum.
Alcoholism In parents triggers violence in dating teens
A study has revealed that a parent with an alcohol use disorder
increases the risk for dating violence among their children when they
are teenagers.The study by a group of researchers from the University at Buffalo Research Institute on Addictions traced the root causes of teen dating violence to as far back as infancy.
Director James Toback accused of sexual harassment
He prowled the streets of Manhattan looking
for attractive young women, usually in their early 20s, sometimes
college students, on occasion a high schooler. He approached them in
Central Park, standing in line at a bank or drug store or at a copy
center while they worked on their resumes.
Oregon man blows hand apart – gets charged with assault
An Oregon man is facing an assault charge
after he detonated a small bomb inside his car that caused part of his
hand to blow off and hit a nearby officer.
Protester attacked after alt-right shriek relives the moment
Somehow, the Navy veteran and anti-fascist
protester who was shot in Gainesville, Florida after Richard Spencer’s
shriek there last week was only grazed by the bullet fired by a neo-Nazi
from Texas.
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
The Daily Drift
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| 439 | Carthage, the leading Roman city in North Africa, falls to Genseric and the Vandals. | |
| 1531 | Bavaria, despite being a Catholic region, joins the League of Schmalkalden, a Protestant group which opposes Charles V. | |
| 1648 | The signing of the Treaty of Westphalia ends the German Thirty Years’ War. | |
| 1755 | A British expedition against the French held Fort Niagara in Canada ends in failure. | |
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| 1836 | The match is patented. | |
| 1861 | Western Union completes the first transcontinental telegraph line, putting the Pony Express out of business. | |
| 1863 | General Ulysses S. Grant arrives in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to find the Union Army there starving. | |
| 1897 | The first comic strip appears in the Sunday color supplement of the New York Journal called the ‘Yellow Kid.’ | |
| 1901 | Annie Edson Taylor, 63, is the first woman to go safely over Niagara Falls in a barrel. She made the attempt for the cash award offered, which she put toward the loan on her Texas ranch. | |
| 1916 | Henry Ford awards equal pay to women. | |
| 1917 | The Austro-German army routs the Italian army at Caporetto, Italy. | |
| 1929 | Black Thursday takes place–the first day of the stock market crash which began the Great Depression. | |
| 1930 | John Wayne debuts in his first starring role in The Big Trail . | |
| 1931 | Al (Alphonse) Capone, the prohibition-era Chicago gangster, is sent to prison for tax evasion. | |
| 1934 | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, called Mahatma or “Great Soul,” resigns from Congress in India. | |
| 1938 | The Fair Labor Standards Act becomes law, establishing the 40-hour work week. | |
| 1944 | The aircraft carrier USS Princeton is sunk by a single Japanese plane during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. | |
| 1945 | The United Nations comes into existence with the ratification of its charter by the first 29 nations. | |
| 1945 | Vidkun Quisling, Norway’s wartime minister president, is executed by firing squad for collaboration with the Nazis. | |
| 1952 | Presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that if elected, he will go to Korea. | |
| 1970 | Leftist Salvador Allende is elected president of Chile. | |
| 1973 | The Yom Kippur War ends. | |
| 1980 | Poland’s government legalizes the Solidarity Trade Union. | |
| 1992 | The Toronto Blue Jays win the World Series, defeating the Atlanta Braves in the 11th inning of the 6th game, to become the first Major League Baseball team from outside the US to win the series. | |
| 2003 | The supersonic Concorde jet made its last commercial passenger flight from New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to London’s Heathrow Airport, traveling at twice the speed of sound. | |
| 2008 | Many stock exchanges worldwide suffer the steepest declines in their histories; the day becomes known as “Bloody Friday.” |
The overwhelming dishonesty of ‘investigative journalist’ James O’Keefe
If O’Keefe had any intellectual dignity, he would be honest about his work. Spoiler alert: He won't because he has none.
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