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Today in History

1861		Lord Lyons, The British minister to America presents a formal complaint to secretary of state, William Seward, regarding the Trent affair.
1900		The Federal Party, which recognizes American sovereignty, is formed in the Philippines.
1919		Great Britain institutes a new constitution for India.
1921		Harding frees Socialist Eugene Debs and 23 other political prisoners.
1933		Pope Pius XI condemns the Nazi sterilization program.
1937		London warns Rome to stop anti-British propaganda in Palestine.
1939		The first Canadian troops arrive in Britain.
1940		Chiang Kai-shek dissolves all Communist associations in China.
1941		Despite throwing back an earlier Japanese amphibious assault, the U.S. Marines and Navy defenders on Wake Island capitulate to a second Japanese invasion.
1944		General Dwight D. Eisenhower confirms the death sentence of Private Eddie Slovik, the only American shot for desertion since the Civil War.
1947		President Harry S Truman grants a pardon to 1,523 who had evaded the World War II draft.
1948		Japan’s Prime Minister, Hideki Tojo and six other collaborators are hanged for war crimes.
1950		General Walton H. Walker, the commander of the Eighth Army in Korea, is killed in a jeep accident. Lieutenant General Matthew B. Ridgeway is named his successor.
1967		U.S. Navy SEALs are ambushed during an operation southeast of Saigon.
1974		The B-1 bomber makes its first successful test flight.
1986		The Voyager completes the first nonstop flight around the globe on one load of fuel. The experimental aircraft, piloted by Americans Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California after nine days and four minutes in the sky.
1990		In a referendum on Sovlenia’s independence from Yugoslovia, 88.5% vote in favor of independence.
2002		An Iraqi MiG-25 shoots down a US MQ-1 Predator drone.

‘Britain’s Atlantis’ found at bottom of the North sea

‘Britain’s Atlantis’ found at bottom of the North sea – a huge undersea world swallowed by the sea in 7000BC

Doggerland was an area of land, now lying beneath the southern North Sea, that connected Great Britain to mainland Europe during and after the last Ice Age. It was then gradually flooded by rising sea levels around 6,500–6,200 BCE.

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The Mystery of Why Chattanooga Raised Its Downtown

The oldest buildings in downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee, have strange things underground. Basements have windows and doors that go nowhere. Most are bricked up, but you can tell what they were. Construction workers have found cut tree stumps eight feet down. Sometime between 1875 and 1905, the entire downtown area was raised up a floor, and the buildings' second floors became their first floor. Unlike some other such towns, you can't explore the abandoned level, because the roads between the buildings were filled in, and the spaces are private property anyway. The strange thing is, city records do not tell us when it happened, or why- although they had reasons. The city had occasional floods and a drainage problem, and then there was yellow fever.

More motivation arrived in the summer of 1878, when yellow fever spread across the Mississippi River basin, striking its victims with jaundiced skin and black vomit, and killing thousands. In Chattanooga, 140 people in the city of 12,000 died.
People at the time didn’t know the true carrier of the disease, Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes, which can spread the Zika virus of today. But Chattanooga’s then-Registrar of Vital Statistics, J. H. Vandeman, was onto something when he wrote: “The more filth, the more yellow fever; the lower the ground, the poorer the drainage and water supply, there you would find this disease the worst.”

Whenever it happened, changing the ground level helped with flooding, sewer function, and general swampiness. Read what we know about Chattanooga's mysterious urban redesign at Atlas Obscura.

Pregnancy Changes Your Brain

New Study: Pregnancy Changes Your Brain So You Can Be a Better Mom

McDonald's 'Value Meals' Lack Value

McDonald's Could Be Forced to Issue Refunds If Lawsuit Proves 'Value Meals' Lack Value

It's McDonald's, of course there is no 'value' in their "value meals".

Missouri students who fight at school could soon receive prison time no matter how old they are

Missouri students who fight at school could soon receive prison time no matter how old they are

According to the ACLU, “zero-tolerance” policies — such as a felony charge for fighting — lead to the criminalization of students for infractions that should be dealt with in the school rather than by the legal system.

‘Get my work off your walls’

‘Get my work off your walls’: Artists are horrified to be in Ivanka Trump’s art collection

Ivanka Trump is so proud of her status as an art collector that she's made it part of her personal brand. Some of the artists in that collection, however, are less than eager to be used as aesthetic window dressing for the 35-year-old heiress and her Instagram feed.

‘The dark days of the 1930s’

‘The dark days of the 1930s’: Prince Charles decries religious persecution — and issues a veiled warning about Dumbass Trump

Prince Charles delivered a public address this week where he decried the rise in religious persecution — and many in the U.K. see a thinly veiled swipe at Dumbass Trump in his remarks.

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Veiled? Thinly veiled our sweet arse, it is bold and upfront. Prince Charles has a brain unlike the Dumbass and he just put the Dumbass in his place.

Dumbass Trump's Broken Healthcare Promises Are Doom For His Sycophants

The wingnut belief that citizens should have no expectation of health coverage.

Alabama Is Considering PROMOTING Lawless, Disgraced Justice Roy Moore

Alabama Is Considering PROMOTING Lawless, Disgraced Justice Roy Moore

This had better not happen. 
Just look at those demented eyes!

Racist Outburst At Kentucky Mall - Woman Is Banned For Life

This woman didn't like the team shopping going on in the front of the line, which led to her racist rant. Too bad she can't go back to that mall anymore.

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Woman facing criminal charges for racist rant caught on viral video at Kentucky mall

Hate has consequences. 
But wingnuts are too stupid to realize that fact.
Besides they cannot deal with facts, facts destroy their demented fantasies.

YouTube Star Removed From Delta Flight For Speaking Arabic?

Yes, this is the airline that let Mister "Hillary bitches" reach his destination.

Now there is concern as to whether this story is about a "faked" video and that may well be the case.
However the history of Delta Airlines in regards to discrimination IS well documented with legitimate evidence and "faked" or not this video highlights that history (and current policies) of the airline.

Bunnies, brains, breast implants

Bunnies, brains, breast implants: Welcome to LA's odder museums

Court Just Gave Cops Permission To Murder Dogs

This makes me sick!

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Horses know how to ask for help

When horses face unsolvable problems, they use visual and tactile signals to get human attention and ask for help. 

Horses know how to ask for help

What Happens In The Barn Stays In The Barn

Horses can be pretty silly when they're feeling hoofloose and fancy free, and they get even more squirrely when they have an animal buddy around to join in on the fun.But they won't let just anyone see their playful side, and it seems some horses actually have a super duper silly side they don't even let their humans see- a wearing a chicken as a hat kinda silly side.

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Nancy Elwood caught her horse hanging around with one of the chickens and couldn't believe her eyes, but according to the mare in the next stall the two do this sort of stuff all the time- and she wants in on the fun!

What To Do If Attacked By A Mountain Lion

Mountain lion attacks seem like something people who live near the wildcat's natural kingdom would have to deal with on a regular basis, but cougar attacks are extremely rare- there have been fewer than 100 attacks on humans in the western U.S. since 1890. But like many survival tips knowing what to do if attacked by a mountain lion is valuable advice you hope you'll never need but you'll be glad to know if you find yourself facing a cougar attack.

First and foremost you shouldn't run away, because running will only trigger the animal's predatory instincts and make you look like prey.
You're better off standing your ground, making lots of noise and trying to look intimidating, preferably with a big stick or whatever weapon you have on hand.
And if the cougar attacks fight back, because their self preservation instinct is likely to kick in and send them running back to the hills they came from!

Nobody Wins In An Octopus Vs Eel Vs Human Fight

Humans should know better than to get involved in a fight between any wild animals, but an eel vs octopus battle sounds like something even sharks would avoid at all cost!When snorkelers in Hanauma Bay, Oahu came across an underwater scrap between an aggressive moray eel and an octopus they stuck around and filmed the fight, but then the eel set its sights on the cameraman...

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National Geographic shared the video online and asked marine biologist George Burgess from the Florida Museum of Natural History for his reactions to the video, which can be summed up in one quote- never piss off a moray eel.

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