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Today in History
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| 1535 | Having landed in Quebec a month ago, Jacques Cartier reaches a town, which he names Montreal. | |
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| 1862 | An Army under Union General Joseph Hooker arrives in Bridgeport, Alabama to support the Union forces at Chattanooga. Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain provides a dramatic setting for the Civil War’s battle above the clouds. | |
| 1870 | The papal states vote in favor of union with Italy. The capital is moved from Florence to Rome. | |
| 1871 | Mormon leader Brigham Young, 70, is arrested for polygamy. He is later convicted, but the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the conviction. | |
| 1879 | A dual alliance is formed between Austria and Germany, in which the two countries agree to come to the other’s aid in the event of aggression. | |
| 1909 | Orville Wright sets an altitude record, flying at 1,600 feet. This exceeded Hubert Latham’s previous record of 508 feet. | |
| 1931 | Aerial circus star Clyde Pangborn and playboy Hugh Herndon, Jr. set off to complete the first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean from Misawa City, Japan. | |
| 1941 | The German army launches Operation Typhoon, the drive towards Moscow. | |
| 1950 | The comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schultz, makes its first appearance in newspapers. | |
| 1964 | Scientists announce findings that smoking can cause cancer. | |
| 1967 | Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court justice, is sworn in. Marshall had previously been the solicitor general, the head of the legal staff of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and a leading American civil rights lawyer. | |
| 1980 | Congressional Representative Mike Myers is expelled from the US House for taking a bribe in the Abscam scandal, the first member to be expelled since 1861. | |
| 1990 | Flight 8301 of China’s Xiamen Airlines is hijacked and crashed into Baiyun International Airport, hitting two other aircraft and killing 128 people. | |
| 2001 | NATO backs US military strikes in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks. |
The Post that started it all ...
Opening Salvo
I open this blog with the express wish to bring mirth to the mirthless
and honesty to the dishonest,
so beware here it comes.
and honesty to the dishonest,
so beware here it comes.
Are you ready for your trip into the forest?
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It has been an adventure. Carolina Naturally has evolved over the decade plus since that opening salvo. But in retrospect it has not wandered too far from where it began. It was - from it's inception to the first posts to today's edition - an amalgam of bits of interest and things that mattered. The format has changed and the delivery has been tweaked (and is still is being tweaked) over the years ... with more in depth subjects giving birth to three sister blogs.Now, before all our loyal readers and fans get depressed (and the wingnuts have an orgasm at the prospect) we are not announcing our swansong just reflecting on the years - we old people tend to do that you know. When we began this blog our grandchildren were just knee high, now they are having our great-grandchildren, so yeah, we're not spring chickens anymore but we are having more fum than ever.
Exploring a Glittering Private Club from New York’s Gilded Age
The other, well heeled residents of Gramercy Park were less than thrilled at the prospect of a club for actors being on their doorsteps. For the acting profession in the 1800s was not quite the same as it is today; actors were often seen as louche second class citizens, often not well paid, and involved in a somewhat bawdy profession of dubious morals.The club is still thriving in the same place it opened more than a hundred years ago. Take a look inside The Players, including Edwin Booth's private apartment, which is kept under lock and key, and exists exactly as it did when he died there in 1893, at Messy Messy Chic.
But this was one of Booth’s main aims : to raise the profile and respectability of the acting profession. For number 16, Gramercy Park South was not just to be his home, but a sparkling new, private club for actors set right in one of Manhattan’s most prestigious addresses.
The Players wasn’t created to be a seedy, drinking den for actors; from the beginning, Booth opened membership to all those in society who loved the arts. It was to be a lavish but comfortable clubhouse where actors might mingle with elite Victorian society. It was to be a certain club as Booth put it, “for the promotion of social intercourse between the representative members of the dramatic profession and the kindred spirits of literature, painting, sculpture and music, and the patrons of the arts.’ Founder members included such high caliber names as Mark Twain to General Sherman.
'How is throwing Jews into ovens not violence?'
Neo-Nazi Website Loses Its Domain AGAIN And Its Nazi Owner Is Losing His Damn Mind
This would be absolutely hilarious if it weren’t so sad.
A jury also found Alton Nolen, 33, guilty of assault crimes after less than two hours of deliberation in Cleveland County criminal court, the Oklahoman newspaper reported.
Nolan had been suspended from his job at a food distribution plant in the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, when he carried out the attack on co-workers in September, 2014.
He grabbed Colleen Hufford, 54, from behind and cut her across the throat with a large knife at Vaughan Foods plant in Moore, police said.
He also wounded co-worker Traci Johnson, who survived. The carnage ended when Nolan was shot inside the warehouse by a company executive.
Lost continent of Zealandia
Scientists return from expedition to sunken land
“Zealandia, a sunken continent long lost beneath the oceans, is giving up its 60 million-year-old secrets through scientific ocean drilling,” said Jamie Allan, program director in the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Division of Ocean Sciences, which supports IODP.
“This expedition offered insights into Earth’s history, ranging from mountain-building in New Zealand to the shifting movements of Earth’s tectonic plates to changes in ocean circulation and global climate,” Allan said.
Earlier this year, Zealandia was confirmed as Earth’s seventh continent, but little is known about it because it’s submerged more than a kilometer (two-thirds of a mile) under the sea. Until now, the region has been sparsely surveyed and sampled.
Expedition scientists drilled deep into the seabed at six sites in water depths of more than 1,250 meters (4,101 feet). They collected 2,500 meters (8,202 feet) of sediment cores from layers that record how the geography, volcanism and climate of Zealandia have changed over the last 70 million years.
According to expedition co-chief scientist Gerald Dickens of Rice University in the U.S., significant new fossil discoveries were made. They prove that Zealandia was not always as deep beneath the waves as it is today.
“More than 8,000 specimens were studied, and several hundred fossil species were identified,” said Dickens.
“The discovery of microscopic shells of organisms that lived in warm shallow seas, and of spores and pollen from land plants, reveal that the geography and climate of Zealandia were dramatically different in the past.”
The new discoveries show that the formation 40 to 50 million years ago of the “Pacific Ring of Fire,” an active seafloor zone along the perimeter of the Pacific Ocean, caused dramatic changes in ocean depth and volcanic activity and buckled the seabed of Zealandia, according to Dickens.
Expedition co-chief scientist Rupert Sutherland of Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand said researchers had believed that Zealandia was submerged when it separated from Australia and Antarctica about 80 million years ago.
“That is still probably accurate, but it is now clear that dramatic later events shaped the continent we explored on this voyage,” Sutherland said.
“Big geographic changes across northern Zealandia, which is about the same size as India, have implications for understanding questions such as how plants and animals dispersed and evolved in the South Pacific.
“The discovery of past land and shallow seas now provides an explanation. There were pathways for animals and plants to move along.”
Studies of the sediment cores obtained during the expedition will focus on understanding how Earth’s tectonic plates move and how the global climate system works. Records of Zealandia’s history, expedition scientists said, will provide a sensitive test for computer models used to predict future changes in climate.
A whole-planet aurora on Mars
Transgender teen girl beaten in 'vicious attack' at New Jersey school
Kylie Perez told PIX11 she was punched and kicked Tuesday in a school hallway after a girl shouted "there's the tranny." Perez told the station she has been targeted by bullies who called her anti-gay slurs. She transitioned in 6th grade, according to the report.
Rohingya refugees share stories of sexual violence
She cradled her one-year-old son in her arms, blowing on his face every so often to give him some relief from the sweltering heat.
"I was raped just 13 days ago," said the Rohingya refugee.
Ayesha, who arrived in Bangladesh less than a week ago, said she was eating dinner with her four sisters-in-law in their village of Tami in Burma's Buthidaung Township, when army troops attacked the hamlet. Soldiers entered their home and forced the women into a room.
Ohio 17-year-old caught having sex with family’s pet wiener dog — again
In Warren, Ohio, where sex with dogs has
apparently been an issue for some time, a 17-year-old unidentified teen
has been busted on bestiality charges for the second time, and police
say he admitted it all.
The Centaur Skeleton
The
John C. Hodges Library at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville has a
centaur on exhibit, displayed as it was found in an archeological dig.
J.W. Ocker had to go see it.
We don't know how many former and current UT students have even noticed the exhibit at the library, or how many assume it to be a scientific exhibit instead of an art installation. It's called The Centaur Excavations at Volos, and it was built by artist and biology professor Bill Willers in 1980 (with real bones). UT purchased it a few years later, and it's been on display in the library ever since. Read about the exhibit and see more pictures at OTIS.The exhibit was of a half-excavated horse-man skeleton in a death pose, like you’d see at a natural history museum for one of the smaller dinosaurs. Embedded around it were shards of ceramic pottery. On the other side of the display were more shards of pottery, each one bearing distinct shapes reminiscent of the hooved humans. A placard explained the history of centaurs, their culture, and how this skeleton was one of three that had been pulled from the muck near Volos, Greece, causing historians and biologists and LARPers to rethink the mythical status of the creature.
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