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Today in History

1499		Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is executed.
1778		Indians, led by William Butler, massacre the inhabitants of Cherry Valley, N.Y.
1831		Nat Turner, a slave who led a revolt against slave owners, is hanged in Jerusalem, Virginia.
1889		Washington becomes the 42nd state of the Union.
1909		Construction begins on the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.
1918		The German leaders sign the armistice ending World War I.
1919		The first two-minutes’ silence is observed in Britain to commemorate those who died in the Great War.
1921		The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery is dedicated.
1922		Canada’s Vernon McKenzie urges to fight U.S. propaganda with taxes on U.S. magazines.
1933		The first of the great dust storms of the 1930s hits North Dakota.
1935		Albert Anderson and Orvil Anderson set a new altitude record in South Dakota, when they float to 74,000 feet in a balloon.
1938		Irving Berlin‘s “Dog Bless America” is performed for the first time by singer Kate Smith.
1940		Britain’s Royal Navy attacks the Italian fleet at Taranto.
1944		Private Eddie Slovik is convicted of desertion and sentenced to death for refusing to join his unit in the European Theater of Operations.
1953		The polio virus is identified and photographed for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1966		The United States launches Gemini 12, a two-man orbiter, into orbit.
1970		U.S. Army Special Forces raid the Son Tay prison camp in North Vietnam but find no prisoners.
1973		Israel and Egypt sign a cease-fire.
1973		The Soviet Union is kicked out of World Cup soccer for refusing to play Chile.
1987		An unidentified buyer buys Vincent Van Gogh’s painting “Irises” from the estate of Joan Whitney Payson for $53.9 million at Sotheby’s in New York.
1993		Sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC.
1999		House of Lords Act reforming Britain’s House of Lords, given Royal Assent; the act removed the right to hereditary seats (sitting members were permitted to remain).
2001		Journalists Pierre Billaud (France), Johanne Sutton (France) and Voker Handlock (Germany) killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy in which they were traveling.
2004		New Zealand’s Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Museum, Wellington.
2004		Palestine Liberation organization confirms the death of its longtime chairman Yasser Arafat; cause of death has never been conclusively determined.
2006		Queen Elizabeth II unveils New Zealand War Memorial in London.
2008		RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2)sets sail on her final voyage, bound for Dubai.

Editorial Comment

Readers know we normally leave our editorial comment post(s) to our sister blog The Truth Be Told, but we felt those readers that have not read that blog deserved to hear the truth
In blog news ...
We have had tremendous growth in readership throughout this blog's existence but this year has been phenomenal.
We write this blog at an eighth grade level to get the widest range of readers, yet astoundingly enough, even that is too far above some  - especially domestic supposed English speaking dolts.
Our foreign readers and non-native English speakers have no problems with the English (and we are translated into over twenty languages anyway) - makes one wonder, it does ...
As you might have guessed (should you be able to comprehend basic English, that is) that those having difficulties reading and comprehending are of the wingnut variety and in typical fashion for the mentally ill they deflect and project their foibles onto others.
One prime example of this is their constant accusations that this and her sister blogs are hate blogs when it is our illuminating their hate that is what they cannot abide so of course we must be the haters.
Another often slurred example is their propensity for perversion, to wit - sex with underage children and animals. We have banned a number of wingnuts for just such - one particular vile one who sullied all of we veterans especially.
In other words ...
We are still bleary eyed from celebrating - well, some of us are - the Marine Corps Birthday last evening. Fellow Marines gathered for one heckuva party and many will still be here throughout Veterans Day today - and if they sober up in time we might make the parade(s)
Remember, as always ....

Have Fun and Be Happy

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After Hurricane Sandy, One Neighborhood Gives Itself Back to Nature

The Oakwood Beach area of Staten Island was once home to hundreds of people. They endured floods and wildfires because they loved living on the beach. But then hurricane Sandy blew through in 2012 and caused untold damage. Since then, the state of New York has bought up 299 homes so the residents could relocate, and only 12 families remain on Oakwood Beach. The rest of the properties have been moving back to nature. Some homes were leveled by the hurricane, some have since been demolished, and some are just decaying on their own. The government plans a sea wall project to begin in 2019.

Nature, of course, doesn’t have to wait. The marsh is growing back where demolished houses once stood, and it now forms a natural buffer between the town and the sea. As a result, Oakwood Beach has turned into an unplanned experiment in managed retreat, the idea that people should abandon the coasts and give hazardous coastal habitats back to nature. To some, retreat looks like the best option to keep people safe, especially as scientists doubt that seawalls are effective protection and concerns about rising seas grow.

“Water will flow wherever it can; concrete walls, roads and houses will not stop it,” wrote Lisa Bova-Hiatt, the executive director of New York Governor Cuomo’s Office of Storm Recovery, in a statement to Audubon. “Managed retreat moves people and property out of harm’s way and allows the reestablishment of wetlands. The natural wetland buffer protects the upland communities and absorbs water, which it wasn’t able to do when the area was densely populated with homes.”

Photographer Hillary Eggers visits Oakwood Beach often, to take pictures of the evolution of the land, from suburbia to natural wetlands. You can see the progress at Audubon.

The Tiny Kentucky Town That Eclipse Fans Are Obsessing Over

On August 21, 2017, the United States is in for a totally American solar eclipse. The path of the total solar eclipse runs from the beach at Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina. Astronomers have determined that the best place along that path to see totality will be Hopkinsville, Kentucky, a small town between Paducah and Nashville. The sun will be blocked for two minutes and 40 seconds in the middle of the day there. And that won't be the only thing going on in Hopkinsville.

In a strange coincidence, August 21, the day of the 2017 eclipse, carries a lot of significance for Hopkinsville. That’s the day, in 1955, that a local farmhouse in nearby Kelly received an alleged visit from a band of extraterrestrials and a fierce gunfight ensued. Local police and military police from nearby Fort Campbell investigated, and the incident received considerable coverage from the national press.
The community now celebrates the event annually with the “Little Green Men Days” festival. Next year’s four-day spectacular will be capped off with a total solar eclipse, and probably considerable UFO conspiracy theories.
“I like to say the aliens were here to pick out their viewing site early,” Cook joked.

But forget booking a hotel room in Hopkinsville next August. They've been booked for years. Read about Hopkinsville and the eclipse to come at Atlas Obscura.

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On Men's Disbelief That So Many Women Have Been Sexually Assaulted

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Man arrested after allegedly licking and nibbling woman’s foot for more than 30 minutes

A man who allegedly licked and nibbled a woman’s foot for more than 30 minutes was arrested on sexual assault charges in Japan on Monday. Police in the city of Kyoto said Akira Nishiyama, 56, allegedly talked the 20-something woman into sitting in the driver’s seat of his car under the pretense of helping him check the braking system. Nishiyama then grabbed her right foot, removed her sandal and began licking the sole of her bare foot.
The woman, whose name has been withheld, told police she could not immediately get free because he held on to her ankle. Nishiyama at times allegedly nibbled his victim’s heel with his teeth and said “thank you” before eventually letting her go.
Several similar cases had been reported in the same area since 2012 and local police had been pursuing the perpetrator, nicknaming him “the foot licker.” The woman in the latest case managed to use her mobile phone to record at least some of the ordeal. She also memorised the man’s licence plate number before alerting police.

Man in tree with pants undone looking in window had no reasonable explanation for being there

Officers were called an address in Madison, Wisconsin, on Monday night for a report of man in a tree possibly looking into a window of an apartment. According to the Madison Police Department, when officers arrived just after 9:30pm, they found 54-year-old John Kuznezow still in the tree.
He appeared to be looking into a second floor window of an apartment. They noticed Kuzezow’s pants were undone when they ordered him out of the tree. He had no reasonable explanation for being in the tree.
An investigation revealed that a woman who was inside her apartment was unaware that Kuznezow had been watching her. Kuznezow is being charged with invasion of privacy and probation hold.

Police say that face slapping contest at bar led to assault

What started as a "smack fest" at a bar in St. Paul, Minnesota, ended with one of the participants assaulted by at least half a dozen people, police have said. But one of the promoters said she doesn't believe what happened outside was related to the event. Officers took the assault report at United Hospital on Friday. A 25-year-old Anoka woman reported she had been at Arnellia's Bar and had taken part in a smack fest at the bar, according to Steve Linders, a department spokesman. It was described in a police report as being "a competition in which willing contestants take turns slapping each other in the faces," Linders said. Arnellia's hosted a smack fest in the past and the event on Thursday was the second week they'd brought it back, said KeshaRae, one of the promoters. "It's pure adult fun," she said. Participants are only allowed to be women, who sign a waiver and have to follow rules, including switching hands and which side of the face they're hitting, said KeshaRae. They have three rounds, with three smacks in each, and a break in between every round. The crowd judges who won overall and the grand prize from the Thursday night event was $175.
The woman who was assaulted outside the bar early on Friday had competed against another woman whom she had seen around but didn't know, according to Linders. "After the competition, the victim and her opponent spoke and neither was upset about the outcome," Linders said. But when the woman left the bar between 2 and 2:30am on Friday and headed to her car, her smack fest opponent was waiting for her - in a "fighting stance," according to Linders. The opponent, her boyfriend and five to six of her friends surrounded the 25-year-old at her car. She was punched in the nose and knocked to the ground, where the suspect's boyfriend used his foot to stomp the left side of her face.
During the fracas, one of the suspects lost her wig, which was found on the ground, Linders said. Someone drove the victim to the hospital. She had significant bruising on both sides of her face, though she said the injuries on the right side were from the smack fight, according to Linders. The woman also had scratches and cuts to her face, and two artificial nails had been ripped from her fingers. "I just think that once people get outside after having some liquor, fights sometimes break out and that's just any bar - it doesn't mean anything happened inside," said KeshaRae. Police did not have information about the suspects and have made no arrests.

Man wins the right to change family name back to Zebra

An Austrian man has won a court case enabling him to change his family name back to "Zebra". The man appealed to the Austrian Constitutional Court when a lower court rejected his proposed name change. The man's grandfather changed his name from "Zebra" in the 1950s. "Zebra" had been the family name for centuries, so reverting to it was quite legal, the Constitutional Court ruled. The lower court had argued that "Zebra" was a non-Austrian invented name.
In that earlier ruling, a judge said "Zebra" could only refer to "a type of horse living in the African savanna". Some other animal names would have been acceptable, as they already existed in Austrian official records, he argued. He gave as examples the family names "Fuchs" (meaning fox), "Biber" (beaver) and "Strauss" (ostrich).
The last family member with the name "Zebra" died in 1991 - a great-uncle of the plaintiff. The plaintiff's current name was not disclosed. The Constitutional Court judgement regarding the "Zebra" case was considered by 12 court lawyers and vice-president Brigitte Bierlein.

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