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Today in History

364		On the death of Jovian, a conference at Nicaea chooses Valentinan, an army officer who was born in the central European region of Pannania, to succeed him in Asia Minor.
1154		William the Bad succeeds his father, Roger the II, in Sicily.
1790		As a result of the Revolution, France is divided into 83 departments.
1815		Napoleon and 1,200 of his men leave Elba to start the 100-day re-conquest of France.
1848		Karl Marx and Frederick Engels publish The Communist Manifesto in London.
1871		France and Prussia sign a preliminary peace treaty at Versailles.
1901		Boxer Rebellion leaders Chi-Hsin and Hsu-Cheng-Yu are publicly executed in Peking.
1914		Russian aviator Igor Sikorsky carries 17 passengers in a twin engine plane in St. Petersburg.
1916		General Henri Philippe Petain takes command of the French forces at Verdun.
1917		President Wilson publicly asks congress for the power to arm merchant ships.
1924		U.S. steel industry finds claims an eight-hour day increases efficiency and employee relations.
1933		Ground is broken for the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
1936		Japanese military troops march into Tokyo to conduct a coup and assassinate political leaders.
1941		British take the Somali capital in East Africa.
1943		U.S. Flying Fortresses and Liberators pound German docks and U-boat lairs at Wilhelmshaven.
1945		Syria declares war on Germany and Japan.
1951		The 22nd Amendment is added to the Constitution limiting the Presidency to two terms.
1964		Lyndon B. Johnson signs a tax bill with $11.5 billion in cuts.
1965		Norman Butler is arrested for the murder of Malcom X.
1968		Thirty-two African nations agree to boycott the Olympics because of the presence of South Africa.
1970		Five Marines are arrested on charges of murdering 11 South Vietnamese women and children.
1972		Soviets recover Luna 20 with a cargo of moon rocks.
1973		A publisher and 10 reporters are subpoenaed to testify on Watergate.
1990		Daniel Ortega, communist president of Nicaragua, suffers a shocking election defeat at the hands of Violeta Chamorro.
1993		A bomb rocks the World Trade Center in New York City. Five people are killed and hundreds suffer from smoke inhalation.

38 Colorful Slang Terms From Colonial Times

For some the English language already has way too many "vulgar" terms, but those of us who like a bit of colorful language in our lives are always on the lookout for new entries to add to our book of bad words.

People in Colonial times used all kinds of smutty slang terms like crinkum crankum, apple dumpling shop and twiddle-diddles that sound pretty classy when compared to the coarse terms we use for those body parts today.

And thanks to Francis Grose's book Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence, which was first published in 1811 and is now available in its entirety via Project Gutenberg, we can talk trash like they did in the olden days.

Read The 38 Most Amazing Vulgar Slang Terms From Colonial Times here

How to Deal With the Guy Who Always Has to Be Right

How to Deal With the Guy Who Always Has to Be Right

Here’s how to handle the know-it-alls in your life

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We just ignore them

Everyday Foods That Have More Sugar Than You Might Have Thought

5 Everyday Foods That Have More Sugar Than You Might Have Thought

Silicon Valley tech worker fired after blogging about starving while working at billion-dollar food delivery firm

Silicon Valley tech worker fired after blogging about starving while working at billion-dollar food delivery firm

A fired employee from the Silicon Valley tech firm Yelp! has raised anger over the company’s labor practices after writing a blog that pointed out that the profitable company’s employees are struggling to survive.

Look How Nestle Profits By Taking Michigan Water For Free As Flint Pays A FORTUNE For Poison

It’s absolutely disgusting that Michigan wingnuts allow this to continue.

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Exxon is Flooding the World with Fossil Fuels that Could Destroy Life As We Know It

Exxon is Flooding the World with Fossil Fuels that Could Destroy Life As We Know It

Is America Really Getting More Tolerant?

Is America Really Getting More Tolerant? 100 New Hate Groups Appeared Last Year

Banking while Muslim

Banking while Muslim: Hijab-wearing woman forced to remove scarf and kicked out of Omaha bank

The woman, who has not been identified by news reports, went to the Security National Bank branch hoping to open an account but found the doors locked before she could make it to the teller line

Fellow Officer Says Cops Were NOT In Danger When They Shot Suicidal Vet

Fellow Officer Says Cops Were NOT In Danger When They Shot Suicidal Vet

On Wednesday, Fresno County sheriff Sgt. Joshua McCahill testified that fellow officers were not in danger when they opened fire on a suicidal veteran.

Supreme Court Rejects Racially Gerrymandered N.C. Districts

It Begins: Supreme Court Rejects Racially Gerrymandered N.C. Districts

Sorry, racist Republican scumbags! Your days of stealing people’s votes are coming to an end…

North Carolina Wingnuts Caught In Racial Gerrymandering

North Carolina caught gerrymandering to dilute the Black vote. Who could have guessed?

North Carolina Drug Tested All Welfare Recipients And The Results Are Surprising

North Carolina Drug Tested All Welfare Recipients And The Results Are Surprising

Republicans must be shocked. And taxpayers should be pissed. Republicans were so sure that welfare recipients are on drugs, that they desperately tried...

Texas Wingnuts Cut Environmental Regulations And Now Black Sludge Is Coming Out Instead Of Tap Water

Texas Wingnuts Cut Environmental Regulations And Now Black Sludge Is Coming Out Instead Of Tap Water

A disgusting black sludge is coming out of residents’ faucets in Crystal City, Texas, and the people are left helpless to do anything about it. The...

Pot-hating Arizona prosecutor gets stumped by a simple question

Pot-hating Arizona prosecutor gets stumped by a simple question: Have you smoked it?

Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk was one of four panelists talking about the legalization of marijuana during an event hosted by the Scottdale Chamber of Commerce.

Texas Father Disowns Teenage Daughter For Her ‘Sickening’ Interracial Relationship

Texas Father Disowns Teenage Daughter For Her ‘Sickening’ Interracial Relationship

It has been nearly fifty years since the landmark Supreme Court ruling, Loving v. Virginia, that made interracial marriages (relationships) legal in the...

Telecom company abandoning Georgia after sweeping anti-gay bill passes

Telecom company abandoning Georgia after sweeping anti-gay bill passes: ‘We don’t tolerate that crap’

A telecom company will be picking up and moving out of Georgia after state lawmakers passed sweeping anti-gay legislation.

Administrators Told This Lesbian Student Her T-Shirt Was ‘Open Invitation To Sex.’ She Sued Them.

Administrators Told This Lesbian Student Her T-Shirt Was ‘Open Invitation To Sex.’ She Sued Them.

Police hunt clumsy burglar who fell through ceiling of fried chicken restaurant

Authorities in Florida are looking for a clumsy burglary suspect who was caught on video falling through the ceiling of a restaurant and breaking into its safe.
The unidentified suspect broke into Popeyes in Murray Hill on Monday, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.
Video shows the suspect crashing to the floor in a heap. He then struggled to pry open a safe under the restaurant counter with a variety of objects.

Full 19 minute YouTube video.

The man then made his getaway with an unspecified amount of cash. Anyone with information on this burglary is asked to call the Sheriff's Office.

Volkswagen sold more sausages than cars in 2015

Germany’s biggest car manufacturer sold more spicy sausages than they did cars in 2015. The currywurst sausages, together with spicy sauce, are sold in the scandal-hit car company’s canteens and are said to be exquisite.
In 2015 the company sold a total of 7.3 million currywurst while only managing to offload 6.3 million cars. The cars, though, still brought in the larger profit. It is unclear whether sausage sales have outperformed car sales at the company in previous years.
Volkswagen have hit rocky times ever since environmental authorities in the USA discovered they had fitted their diesel cars with an emission cheating software, with the scandal still rumbling on globally.

Man arrested for drunk driving had nine open bottles of alcohol inside his vehicle

A suspected drunk driver arrested on a road in Maple Plain, Minnesota, had nine open bottles of alcohol inside his vehicle, according to the West Hennepin Public Safety Department.

West Hennepin officials say Nicholas Karnes, 27, of Eden Prairie, was arrested on Highway 12 on Wednesday after he failed sobriety tests. He blew a 0.24 on a breathalyzer test, which is three times over the legal limit.
He had also been clocked driving 63 miles per hour in a 45 mph zone. In a social media post, West Hennepin Public Safety shared a picture of Karnes’ bottles and a message for whoever called 911.

“A big thank you to the concerned citizen who called 911 to report the drunk driver weaving all over the road.” Karnes has a previous DWI, West Metro Public Safety’s Sgt. Rick Denneson said, and so he faces a gross misdemeanor DWI charge and also could forfeit the vehicle involved in the incident.

Scholar Says She's Unlocked The Secrets Of The Pyramid Texts

This Scholar Says She's Unlocked The Secrets Of The Pyramid Texts

Bronze-Age Wheel Sheds Light on Prehistoric Transport

Bronze-Age Wheel Sheds Light on Prehistoric Transport

Dating from 1100-800 BC, the wooden wheel is the latest find from a UK settlement described as Britain's Pompeii.

‘Ice age blob’ of warm ocean water discovered south of Greenland

‘Ice age blob’ of warm ocean water discovered south of Greenland

New research published in Scientific Reports in February indicates that a warm ocean surface water prevailed during the last ice age, sandwiched between two major ice sheets just south of Greenland. Extreme climate changes in the past Ice core records show that...

New Neanderthal DNA discovery redraws human out-of-Africa timeline

New Neanderthal DNA discovery redraws human out-of-Africa timeline

Five-dimensional black hole could ‘break’ general relativity

Five-dimensional black hole could ‘break’ general relativity

Researchers have shown how a bizarrely shaped black hole could cause Einstein’s general theory of relativity, a foundation of modern physics, to break down. However, such an object could only exist in a universe with five or more dimensions. The researchers,...

Ancient lone star lizard lounged in lush, tropical Texas

Ancient lone star lizard lounged in lush, tropical Texas

Researchers have discovered a new species of extinct worm lizard in Texas and dubbed it the “Lone Star” lizard. The species — the first known example of a worm lizard in Texas — offers evidence that Texas acted as a subtropical refuge during...

Guess What This Creature is Called

This is a type of slug that is native to eastern Australia. According to Wikipedia, it is a “ large air-breathing land slug, a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Athoracophoridae, the leaf-veined slugs.” If you were to give it a name, what name would you come up with? Think about it, and then see the answer.
Oh, and the answer is ...

It’s a red triangle slug. Imagine that.

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