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Today in History

43 BCE		Octavian, Antony and Lepidus form the triumvirate of Rome.
511		Clovis, king of the Franks, dies and his kingdom is divided between his four sons.
1095		In Clermont, France, Pope Urban II makes an appeal for warriors to relieve Jerusalem. He is responding to false rumors of atrocities in the Holy Land.
1382		The French nobility, led by Olivier de Clisson, crush the Flemish rebels at Flanders.
1812		One of the two bridges being used by Napoleon Bonaparte‘s army across the Berezina River in Russia collapses during a Russian artillery barrage.
1826		Jedediah Smith’s expedition reaches San Diego, becoming the first Americans to cross the southwestern part of the continent.
1862		George Armstrong Custer meets his future bride, Elizabeth Bacon, at a Thanksgiving party.
1868		Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer‘s 7th Cavalry kills Chief Black Kettle and about 100 Cheyenne (mostly women and children) on the Washita River.
1887		U.S. Deputy Marshall Frank Dalton, brother of the three famous outlaws, is killed in the line of duty near Fort Smith, Ark.
1904		The German colonial army defeats Hottentots at Warm bad in southwest Africa.
1909		U.S. troops land in Blue fields, Nicaragua, to protect American interests there.
1919		Bulgaria signs peace treaty with Allies at Unequally, France, fixing war reparations and recognizing Yugoslavian independence.
1922		Allied delegates bar the Soviets from the Near East peace conference.
1936		Great Britain’s Anthony Eden warns Adolf Hitler that Britain will fight to protect Belgium.
1942		The French fleet in Toulon is scuttled to keep it from Germany.
1950		East of the Choosing River, Chinese forces annihilate an American task force.
1954		Alger Hiss, convicted of being a Soviet spy, is freed after 44 months in prison.
1959		Demonstrators march in Tokyo to protest a defense treaty with the United States.
1967		Lyndon Johnson appoints Robert McNamara to presidency of the World Bank.
1967		Charles DeGaulle vetoes Great Britain’s entry into the Common Market again.
1970		Syria joins the pact linking Libya, Egypt and Sudan.
1973		US Senate votes to confirm Gerald Ford as Pretender of the United States, following Nixon‘s resignation; the House will confirm Ford on Dec. 6.
1978		San Francisco mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk, the city’s first openly gay supervisor, are assassinated by former city supervisor Dan White.
1978		Kurdistan Workers’ Party (Parti Karkerani Kurdistan, or PKK) founded; militant group that fought an armed struggle for an independent Kurdistan.
1984		Britain and Spain sign the Brussels Agreement to enter discussions over the status of Gibraltar.
1999		Helen Clark becomes first elected female Prime Minister of New Zealand.
2001		Hubble Space Telescope discovers a hydrogen atmosphere on planet Osiris, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
2004		Pope John Paul II returns relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
2005		First partial human face transplant completed Amiens, France.
2006		Canadian House of Commons approves a motion, tabled by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, recognizing the Quebecois as a nation within Canada.

Married to the Mob: Dames and Molls who hung with Mafia Wise Guys

Once a woman became involved with a Mafia man, close enough to know what he did for a living, there was no way out except death. But there were plenty of women who embraced the lifestyle, even to the point of participating in crimes with their husbands and boyfriends. And they had to put up with a lot, like being shot by your significant other.

Take bit-part actress Alice Granville (pictured) who was shot twice in the arm by her hitman husband Pete Donahue. Apparently she didn’t even wince. Donahue was a trigger-happy lieutenant for mob boss Dutch Schultz. Granville said her mob beau only shot her to prove how much he loved her. Hate to think what he got her for Valentine’s Day.

Meet some of the Mob molls who accompanied organized crime figures of the mid-20th century at Dangerous Minds.

Power Poses Don’t Help and Could Potentially Backfire

The idea behind power poses, that if you stand in a “powerful” position, broad posture, hands on hips, shoulders high and pushed back, you will suddenly feel psychologically and physiologically stronger, is intuitively appealing, especially … Read more

Nobel Laureate develops drug to prevent food allergies

A new drug which “fine tunes” the immune system is being developed to help prevent asthma and allergies to foods such as peanuts and shellfish. Nobel Laureate Professor Barry Marshall from The University of Western … Read more

Drugs Now Kill More People Than Car Crashes

Drug War Fail: Drugs Now Kill More People Than Car Crashes

TV News and Its Long Dark Night of the Soul

TV News and Its Long Dark Night of the Soul

Shoppers band together to defend a woman wearing a hijab against a verbal assaulter

Shoppers band together to defend a woman wearing a hijab against a verbal assaulter

Terrified TV Reporter Quits After Learning Businessman She Investigated Was ‘Planning to Murder Her’

Terrified TV Reporter Quits After Learning Businessman She Investigated Was ‘Planning to Murder Her’

And Now, the No-Thanks List

7 Terrible People, Events and Phenomena of 2016 That Inspire Zero Gratitude

Stop Calling It ‘Identity Politics’

Stop Calling It ‘Identity Politics’  -  It's Civil Rights

Hateful Letter To Food Bank PROVES We Need Food Stamps

The ability to eat should not depend on scum like this.

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Bus Driver Kicks Kids Off Of Bus, Hurls Racial Slurs; School Blames The Kids

Bus Driver Kicks Kids Off Of Bus, Hurls Racial Slurs; School Blames The Kids

A bus driver in Minnesota apparently feels empowered by our new Dumbass Trump-inspired country where people get to say and do whatever the hell they want, as long...

Welcome to Dumbass Trump's AmeriKKKa!

Granted some kids can be taxing on the nerves but this response was high uncalled for.

Alabama Dumbass Trump Sycophant Fired

Alabama Dumbass Trump Sycophant Gets Fired For Incredibly Racist Rant About The Obamas

This is what should happen to racists.

Louisiana wingnut admits to sexting teen boy and buying him sexy underwear

Louisiana wingnut admits to sexting teen boy and buying him sexy underwear but says ‘I’m not gay’

Yeah, riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
While there is nothing wrong with being gay, there is something very wrong about an adult man lusting for a underage boy. But then again that is the wingnut way.

Reduction in Saharan dust plume led to more monsoons 11,000 years ago

Every year, trade winds over the Sahara Desert sweep up huge plumes of mineral dust, transporting hundreds of teragrams — enough to fill 10 million dump trucks — across North Africa and over the Atlantic … Read more

New family of ancient stars discovered

Pink Halibut

From a thread in the Mildly Interesting subreddit:
Fishery scientist here, it probably ate a bunch of cured eggs (fish roe), which is used as sport salmon bait in AK. The pink dye used in the roe can come through the skin. I've seen this happen to others salmon, but never a halibut...
Halibut often feed near river deltas during the salmon run. Cured roe is mostly used in rivers to catch King salmon, not far from the ocean. I imagine it could have simply drifted downstream, where the halibut picked it up. If you've ever been to the Kenai River during sport King season, it's not hard to imagine this happening with the hundreds of pounds of cured bait used every day

Endangered Australasian marsupials are ancient survivors of climate change

In a new paper, published in Scientific Reports, an international team of researchers has analyzed fossils and DNA from living and recently extinct species to show that conservation sensitive Australasian marsupials are much older than … Read more

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