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| 1461 | The armies of two kings, Henry VI and Edward IV, collide at Towton. | |
| 1638 | A permanent European colony is established in present-day Delaware. | |
| 1827 | Composer Ludwig van Beethoven is buried in Vienna amidst a crowd of over 10,000 mourners. | |
| 1847 | U.S. troops under General Winfield Scott take possession of the Mexican stronghold at Vera Cruz. | |
| 1867 | The United States purchases Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million dollars. | |
| 1879 | British troops of the 90th Light Infantry Regiment repulse a major attack by Zulu tribesmen in northwest Zululand. | |
| 1886 | Coca-Cola goes on sale for the first time at a drugstore in Atlanta. Its inventor, Dr. John Pemberton, claims it can cure anything from hysteria to the common cold. | |
| 1903 | A regular news service begins between New York and London on Marconi’s wireless. | |
| 1913 | The German government announces a raise in taxes in order to finance the new military budget. | |
| 1916 | The Italians call off the fifth attack on Isonzo. | |
| 1936 | Italy firebombs the Ethiopian city of Harar. | |
| 1941 | The British sink five Italian warships off the Peloponnesus coast in the Mediterranean. | |
| 1951 | The Chinese reject Gen. Douglas MacArthur‘s offer for a truce in Korea. | |
| 1951 | Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical The King and I opens on Broadway starring Gertrude Lawrence and Yul Brynner. | |
| 1952 | President Harry Truman removes himself from the presidential race. | |
| 1961 | The 23rd amendment, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to vote for president, is ratified. | |
| 1962 | Cuba opens the trial of the Bay of Pigs invaders. | |
| 1966 | Leonid Brezhenev becomes First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party. He denounces the American policy in Vietnam and calls it one of aggression. | |
| 1967 | France launches its first nuclear submarine. | |
| 1971 | Lt. William L. Calley Jr. is found guilty for his actions in the My Lai massacre. | |
| 1973 | The last U.S. troops withdraw from South Vietnam. | |
| 1975 | Egyptian president Anwar Sadat declares that he will reopen the Suez Canal on June 5, 1975. | |
| 1976 | Eight Ohio National Guardsmen are indicted for shooting four Kent State students during an anti-war protest on May 4, 1970. | |
| 1986 | A court in Rome acquits six men in a plot to kill the Pope. |
Woman with Down Syndrome Realized Lifelong Dream of Becoming a Weather Forecaster
But thanks to a Facebook campaign called
#MelaniePeutLaFaire or "Melanie Can Do It," she became France's first
ever weather forecaster with Down syndrome.
Jennifer Earl of CBS News has the story:
Jennifer Earl of CBS News has the story:
Within hours after posting her request on February 26, her page went viral with more than 100,000 likes. Over the past few weeks, Segard’s page has grown to nearly 250,000 followers, and she proudly announced last week that she would be France’s first-ever weather presenter with Down syndrome.
"I'm different, but I want to show everyone I can do a lot of things," she wrote on her Facebook page. On Tuesday, Segard did just that. "This is it. I did it. I'm finally a weather girl," Segard said after making her debut on France 2.
Escalator Etiquette
People in Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore are very good at following this rule.
In Australia, you stand on the left and walk on the right. Unless those guys are pulling our legs.
Some people in rural areas have never heard this rule, because they only see escalators in department stores and malls, where no one is in that much of a hurry. And escalators in rural areas are often too narrow for passing. Some people from cities think that's because rural people are fat and lazy.
In the District of Columbia, people on the escalator will scold you for breaking the rule. That makes sense, as they have a lot of tourists who get in the way of commuters.
Several commenters told stories of getting angry over people standing in their way, and then finding that the offender was blind, deaf, or missing a limb. Lesson learned.
While studies have shown that standing is more efficient overall, the etiquette remains. So even if you're from Wyoming, stand on the right, walk on the left, and do watch your step on an escalator. And remember, if the escalator stops, you can use them as stairs. Also, there's no need to make fun of people who don't know things.
In Australia, you stand on the left and walk on the right. Unless those guys are pulling our legs.
Some people in rural areas have never heard this rule, because they only see escalators in department stores and malls, where no one is in that much of a hurry. And escalators in rural areas are often too narrow for passing. Some people from cities think that's because rural people are fat and lazy.
In the District of Columbia, people on the escalator will scold you for breaking the rule. That makes sense, as they have a lot of tourists who get in the way of commuters.
Several commenters told stories of getting angry over people standing in their way, and then finding that the offender was blind, deaf, or missing a limb. Lesson learned.
While studies have shown that standing is more efficient overall, the etiquette remains. So even if you're from Wyoming, stand on the right, walk on the left, and do watch your step on an escalator. And remember, if the escalator stops, you can use them as stairs. Also, there's no need to make fun of people who don't know things.
The Freakiest Countries in the World
Female menstrual cycle in a dish
Northwestern
Medicine has developed a miniature female reproductive tract that fits
in the palm of your hand and could eventually change the future of
research and treatment of diseases in women’s reproductive organs. This
new … Read moreFirst Transgender Bride Featured On 'Say Yes To The Dress’
She says she never thought she would get married.
How America's Obsession With Hula Girls Almost Wrecked Hawai'i
When
Captain James Cook and his crew landed in Hawaii (which they called the
Sandwich Islands) in 1778, the meeting set off a culture clash that has
repercussions to this day. The islanders had beliefs, customs, and
rituals that sailors misread through the lens of their own culture. And
once their reports were published, it was almost impossible to change
the impressions of those outside Hawaii. The hula was a ritual performed
by both men and women that included dance, poetry, and music for both
religious and secular reasons, but what stood out to the sailors was
that the women were topless.
When word about Hawaii got out, everyone wanted to go -including missionaries who went to convert the islanders and instill a proper sense of shame about women's bodies. Read how Westerners made the hula into a permanent and profitable stereotype at Collectors Weekly.In his journal, Captain Cook described the Hawaiians’ hula: “Their dances are prefaced with a slow, solemn song, in which all the party join, moving their legs, and gently striking their breasts in a manner and with attitudes that are perfectly easy and graceful.”
In The Natives Are Restless, Hale explains, “To be sexually adept and sensually alive—and to have the ability to experience unrestrained desire—was as important to ancient Hawaiians as having sex to produce offspring. The vital energy caused by desire and passion was itself worshiped and idolized.”
Cook and his men—and the merchants, whalers, artists, and writers who followed—mistook the hula’s sexually charged fertility rituals as a signal the Hawaiians’ youngest and loveliest women were both promiscuous and sexually available to anyone who set foot on their beaches. In her 2012 book Aloha America: Hula Circuits Through the U.S. Empire, historian Adria L. Imada explains how natural hospitality of “aloha” culture—the word used as a greeting that also means “love”—made Hawaiians vulnerable to outside exploitation. To Westerners, the fantasy of a hula girl willingly submitting to the sexual desires of a white man represented the convenient narrative of a people so generous they’d willing give up their land without a fight.
Contrary to this fantasy, the people populating the eight islands of the Hawaiian archipelago weren’t so submissive.
Fearing Germs Is Making Us Sick
Biologist and father Rob Dunn, Ph.D., says it's time to let our kids—and ourselves—get dirty again
Man Found Hanging Upside Down, Pantsed by Own Baggy Pants
Add this to the long
list of why wearing baggy pants while trying to commit a crime is not a
good idea: they're terrible for running away.
A man was spotted trying to break into a classroom at Miles Elementary School in Tucson, Arizona. When he realized that he was discovered, the man decided to escape and attempted to jump over the school's spiked fence. That's when his choice in trousers did him in.
Passerby Jesse Sensibar noted that the man's baggy pants got caught on the fence and pantsed him. Sensibar posted the photo on Facebook, which has now gone viral, with a note:
A man was spotted trying to break into a classroom at Miles Elementary School in Tucson, Arizona. When he realized that he was discovered, the man decided to escape and attempted to jump over the school's spiked fence. That's when his choice in trousers did him in.
Passerby Jesse Sensibar noted that the man's baggy pants got caught on the fence and pantsed him. Sensibar posted the photo on Facebook, which has now gone viral, with a note:
One more reason not to jump fences in baggy pants. I saw this homie hanging around at the Miles School this morning when I was rolling eastbound on Broadway Avenue.
I was going to help him off the fence but by the time I got back around the block the cops were rolling up two cars deep. I don't know what his story was but it must not have been good enough, fifteen minutes later when I went back by the other direction going home he was cuffed up in the backseat. He smiled for the camera.
Chrissy Teigen Just Told Fox 'News' To Fuck The Fuck Off
White supremacist charged with terrorism in fatal New York stabbing of Timothy Caughman
James Jackson, the 28-year-old who traveled
from Baltimore, Maryland with the purpose of killing black people, was
charged with murder as an act of terrorism after fatally stabbing
66-year-old Timothy Caughman in Midtown, New York.
Dumbass Trump’s ‘Deportation Force’ Storms Unarmed Legal Resident’s Home And Shoots Him
Blue Haze of Pluto
Scientists stitched together images from the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) from NASA's New Horizons
spacecraft when it was about 120,000 miles (200,000 kilometers) away
from Pluto. The resulting image of Pluto's receding crescent shows a
spectacular blue "haze" in the dwarf planet's atmosphere:
Scientists believe the haze is a photochemical smog resulting from the action of sunlight on methane and other molecules in Pluto's atmosphere, producing a complex mixture of hydrocarbons such as acetylene and ethylene. These hydrocarbons accumulate into small haze particles, a fraction of a micrometer in size, which preferentially scatter blue sunlight – the same process that can make haze appear bluish on Earth.
As they settle down through the atmosphere, the haze particles form numerous intricate, horizontal layers, some extending for hundreds of miles around large portions of the limb of Pluto. The haze layers extend to altitudes of over 120 miles (200 kilometers). Pluto's circumference is 4,667 miles (7,466 kilometers).
Astronomers Are About to See a Black Hole's Event Horizon for the First Time
Bringing a Clydesdale to a Nursing Home is "Pet Therapy on Steroids"
As many
seniors living in the center have trouble with mobility that prevent
them from going outside, Maggie Provenzano brought her Clydesdale
Neigh-Neigh inside the home.
"It was pet therapy on steroids," administrator Carolyn Martin said to TODAY, "Neigh-neigh brought everyone out of their rooms, even those who rarely go to activities or come out to socialize."
Take a look at more touching photos over at TODAY (warning: auto-play video)
"It was pet therapy on steroids," administrator Carolyn Martin said to TODAY, "Neigh-neigh brought everyone out of their rooms, even those who rarely go to activities or come out to socialize."
Take a look at more touching photos over at TODAY (warning: auto-play video)
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