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Today in History
| 1260 | At the Battle of Montaperto in Italy, the Tuscan Ghibellines, who support the emperor, defeat the Florentine Guelfs, who support papal power. | |
| 1479 | After four years of war, Spain agrees to allow a Portuguese monopoly of trade along Africa’s west coast and Portugal acknowledges Spain’s rights in the Canary Islands. | |
| 1781 | Los Angeles, first an Indian village called Yangma, is founded by Spanish decree. | |
| 1787 | Louis XVI of France recalls parliament. | |
| 1790 | Jacques Necker is forced to resign as finance minister in France. | |
| 1804 | USS Intrepid explodes while entering Tripoli harbor on a mission to destroy the enemy fleet there during the First Barbary War. | |
| 1820 | Czar Alexander declares that Russian influence in North America extends as far south as Oregon and closes Alaskan waters to foreigners. | |
| 1862 | Robert E. Lee‘s Confederate army invades Maryland, starting the Antietam Campaign. | |
| 1870 | A republic is proclaimed in Paris and a government of national defense is formed. | |
| 1881 | The Edison electric lighting system goes into operation as a generator serving 85 paying customers is switched on. | |
| 1886 | Elusive Apache leader Geronimo surrenders to General Nelson A. Miles at Skeleton Canyon, Ariz. | |
| 1893 | Beatrix Potter sends a note to her governess’ son with the first drawing of Peter Rabbit, Cottontail and others. The Tale of Petter Rabbit is published eight years later. | |
| 1915 | The U.S. military places Haiti under martial law to quell a rebellion in its capital Port-au-Prince. | |
| 1941 | The German submarine U-652 fires at the U.S. destroyer Greer off Iceland, beginning an undeclared shooting war. | |
| 1942 | Soviet planes bomb Budapest in the war’s first air raid on the Hungarian capital. | |
| 1943 | Allied troops capture Lae-Salamaua, in New Guinea. | |
| 1944 | British troops liberate Antwerp, Belgium. | |
| 1945 | The American flag is raised on Wake Island after surrender ceremonies there. | |
| 1951 | The first transcontinental television broadcast in America is carried by 94 stations. | |
| 1957 | Arkansas governor Orval Faubus calls out the National Guard to bar African-American students from entering a Little Rock high school. | |
| 1967 | Operation Swift begins as US Marines engage North Vietnamese Army troops in Que Son Valley. | |
| 1972 | Mark Spitz becomes the first Olympic competitor to win 7 medals during a single Olympics Games. | |
| 1975 | The Sinai II Agreement between Egypt and Israel pledges that conflicts between the two countries “shall not be resolved by military force but by peaceful means.” | |
| 1998 | Google is founded by Stanford University students Larry Page and Sergey Brin. | |
The Lost Film Footage Of 1904 London
This particular reel was shot in London circa 1904 as a 'travelogue' for Australian tourists thinking about visiting "one of the most exciting cities anywhere".
Why Do India And China Have So Many People?
Think
about it this way: the largest nations in the world by area have
relatively few people: Russia and Canada (and Antarctica if it were a
country). What do those nations have in common? You guessed it!
Common Expressions Younger Kids Won't Fully Understand
Which means either these expressions
are due for an update or those who remember are going to have to teach
our young about those days of long ago when we had to manually turn a
window crank handle to open a window.And if you really want to relate to the youth of today you can discuss the origin of the expressions "going on line" and "posting to a message board":
13. WHY DO WE SAY "ON LINE" FOR COMPUTER THINGS?
In the early days of computing, when one machine needed to communicate with another, they had to be attached with a physical cord or "line." Processes that could be completed without this communication were "off line."
10. WHY DO WE CALL IT A MESSAGE "BOARD"?
Before the internet, when people wanted to make an announcement or share information they would put it on a piece of paper and attach it to a board mounted in a public location where many people would see it.
You Can Play With Every Toy From Your Childhood at This Museum
I'm The Voice Of Siri, And Apple Didn't Pay (Or Warn) Me
Here's the kicker- she didn't actually agree to be Siri, and nobody told her those excruciatingly long and painfully boring recording sessions were created to give Siri a voice, because the recordings were sold to Apple by a text-to-speech company:
Siri was developed based on recording sessions Susan did with another company. Susan had done a lot of interactive voice response work (the voice on the phone that tells you to press 1 for English) and thought she was just doing more. "The recordings were done for a text-to-speech company starting in 2005. Apple got all their Siri voices from this company, but they came in after the fact. We had no contracts with Apple."
"I had really ambivalent feelings. I was flattered to be chosen to basically be the voice of Apple in North America, but having been chosen without my knowledge was strange. Especially since my voice was on millions and millions of devices."
"There were Siris all over the world because, for instance, I don't speak Thai or Japanese. They had to have native speakers. And all of the original Siris weren't paid for the usage. We were paid for the original recording sessions, but we weren't paid for being on all those phones. Which is a pretty big issue for us. I know there was one person who ended up getting fired from another job because he was working for a company that considered Apple a competitor. His voice was on the iPhone, and he lost a job because of it."
Plot to smuggle candles made with meth
US judge rules Colorado sex offender register unconstitutional
U.S. District Court Judge William Matsch ruled on Thursday for three Colorado men who challenged in Denver federal court the law requiring convicted offenders to register with the state.
Their photographs, residences and other identifying information then become accessible on a website maintained by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
Dumbass Trump Says Hurricane Victims Are Happy And Harvey Was Beautiful For The Country
While visiting a disaster relief shelter in Houston, Dumbass Trump
claimed that Harvey victims who lost everything were happy and that the
hurricane was a beautiful thing for the country to watch.…
Wingnuts attack Women's March co-organizer for posting link to help Harvey victims
Spotting neo-Nazi websites isn't that easy
White supremacy is woven into the tapestry of American culture, online
and off–in both physical monuments and online domain names. A band of tiki-torch-carrying white nationalists gathered first online, and then at the site of a Jim Crow-era Confederate monument in Charlottesville, Virginia.
But it is getting easier ...
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