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Today in History
| 1642 | York, Maine becomes the first incorporated American city. | |
| 1692 | Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are arrested for the supposed practice of witchcraft in Salem, Mass. | |
| 1776 | French minister Charles Gravier advises his Spanish counterpart to support the American rebels against the English. | |
| 1780 | Pennsylvania becomes the first U.S. state to abolish slavery. | |
| 1803 | Ohio becomes the 17th state to join the Union. | |
| 1808 | In France, Napoleon creates an imperial nobility. | |
| 1815 | Napoleon lands at Cannes, France, returning from exile on Elba, with a force of 1,500 men and marches on Paris. | |
| 1871 | German troops enter Paris, France, during the Franco-Prussian War. | |
| 1875 | Congress passes the Civil Rights Act, which is invalidated by the Supreme Court in 1883. | |
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| 1912 | Albert Berry completes the first in-flight parachute jump, from a Benoist plane over Kinlock Field in St. Louis, Missouri. | |
| 1915 | The Allies announce their aim to cut off all German supplies and assure the safety of the neutrals. | |
| 1919 | The Korean coalition proclaims their independence from Japan. | |
| 1921 | The Allies reject a $7.5 billion reparations offer in London. German delegation decides to quit all talks. | |
| 1932 | The Lindbergh baby is kidnapped from the Lindbergh home near Princeton, New Jersey. | |
| 1935 | Germany officially establishes the Luftwaffe. | |
| 1941 | Bulgaria joins the Axis as the Nazis occupy Sofia. | |
| 1942 | Japanese troops land on Java in the Pacific. | |
| 1943 | The British RAF conducts strategic bombing raids on all European railway lines. | |
| 1960 | 1,000 Black students pray and sing the national anthem on the steps of the old Confederate Capitol in Montgomery, Ala. | |
| 1968 | Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara is replaced by Clark Clifford. | |
| 1969 | Mickey Mantle announces his retirement from baseball. | |
| 1974 | A grand jury indicts seven of Nixon‘s aides for the conspiracy on Watergate. | |
| 1985 | The Pentagon accepts the theory that an atomic war would block the sun, causing a “nuclear winter.” | |
| 1992 | Bosnian Serbs begin sniping in Sarajevo, after Croats and Muslims vote for Bosnian independence. |
Immodest Proposal
Sex Breaks During the Workday
Why are these women smiling?
A
city councilor in the town of Overtornea, Sweden, has proposed a
regulation that would give workers an hour-long break during the day in
order to have sex. Per-Erik Muskos made the motion Monday, and says that
the exercise is good for the workers, sex is good for the relationship,
and the break would benefit peoples' overall well-being.Muskos admitted there was no way to check whether workers would actually use the hour for its intended purpose.While it's doubtful that such a break would make much difference in the birth rate, employees will probably love the idea. In other countries, people would be shocked that a government body is concerned with the well-being of workers.
"You can't guarantee that a worker doesn't go out for a walk instead," he said, adding that employers needed to trust their employees.
But Muskos said he saw no reason why the motion wouldn't pass. On top of the health benefits, he said the sex breaks would also solve the area's low birth rate.
"This means that childbirth should be encouraged," his motion states, as reported by Swedish newspaper Kuriren. "When sex is also an excellent form of exercise with documented positive effects on well-being, the municipality should kill two birds with one stone and encourage employees to use their fitness hour to go home and have sex with their partner."
Are Boys Smarter Than Girls?
Who's smarter, boys or girls? That's a difficult question, considering the cultural biases that have shaped the way we think of both sexes over thousands of years. But with modern science, we can study tiny differences in the brain, which somehow just muddies the question even more. AsapSCIENCE gives us an overview of the latest research.
One of the most memorable things I learned in school is that there are more difference among people within groups then between groups, and that goes especially for male and female humans
Odd Yet Beautiful Houseplants You May Not Have Heard Of
And if you're
going to let a bunch of lazy plants sit around the house all day you
might as well bring home an odd and interesting looking bunch!The "Wine Cup" variet of Crassula umbrella looks really cool on the counter, or if you like a plant that's less of a reach then the "Donkey Tail" Sedum Morganianum at the top of the post may grab you.
But if you want to go for full blown bizarre then you need to add a Trachyandra tortilis to your home.
This rare plant is native to South Africa and look like something Dr. Seuss drew, but it takes them a few years to get to this point so you may want to pick up a full grown one if you can find it. Happy plant hunting!
Yemen Raid Yielded No Intelligence Of Value
Is it possible to get one truthful answer from the Dumbass Trump junta?
‘I wish him nothing but failure’
Texas wingnut caught on video bizarrely berating student who wants to make sure poor kids can afford school
Huffines, r-Dallas, is
expressing regret over his tone during a heated exchange he had Monday
with a student about school choice.
County that shelled out tax rebates for lunatic creationist Ham’s Ark museum ‘teetering on bankruptcy’
Self-Righteous Devils
What Ozark Vigilantes of the 1880s Reveal About Modern America“All U.S. vigilante groups are in some way a representation of the American value of self-government,” Hernando said. “We are a society that was founded, at least in part, on the firm belief that the people have the right to create their own institutions of government, what is referred to as the ‘right of revolution,’ expressed right there in the Declaration of Independence. If the government is not doing what it’s supposed to, if it’s not protecting the people’s liberties, if it’s not serving the people’s interest, we have the right to rise up and replace that government. The problem is, you cannot do that on a continuous basis and have a stable society.”In addition to the Baldknobbers, Hernando tells us about the North and South Carolina Regulators, the White Caps, Las Gorras Blancas, the Deacons for Defense, the Ku Klux Klan, and other vigilant groups of varying notoriety, in an article at Collectors Weekly.
Some scholars have traditionally defined vigilantes as groups of middle- and upper-class men who want to reinforce “law and order.” However, Hernando points out that several vigilante groups were founded by members of poor, disenfranchised classes hoping to gain the economic or political power they didn’t have or to restore traditional morals. Inevitably, most groups fighting lawlessness by going outside the law become the corrupt criminal element they were trying to tamp down in the first place.
International team reports ocean acidification spreading rapidly in Arctic Ocean
Ocean
acidification (OA) is spreading rapidly in the western Arctic Ocean in
both area and depth, according to new interdisciplinary research
reported in Nature Climate Change by a team of international
collaborators, including University of … Read more
Banded mongooses go to war over sex and territory
Gang
warfare is not unique to humans – banded mongooses do it too. Now
researchers from the University of Exeter have shed light on the causes
of the fights – and found they are most … Read more
Angry Octopus
It changes color, from purple to pink to blue and back to purple again, with orange highlights and white spots at times. The octopus also appears to have spikes on its head, but that's more of a disguise. As it swims away, its head is smooth! If you watched this video a few more times, you'll probably find some other amazing power. What's happening is that the octopus was not happy with the presence of the videographer, and was warning her off. You can read the story at Pink Tank Scuba.
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