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| 1739 | Russia signs a treaty with the Turks, ending a three-year conflict between the two countries. | |
| 1776 | Congress borrows five million dollars to halt the rapid depreciation of paper money in the colonies. | |
| 1862 | At the Battle of Corinth, in Mississippi, a Union army defeats the Confederates. | |
| 1906 | The first conference on wireless telegraphy in Berlin adopts SOS as a warning signal. | |
| 1929 | The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes officially changes its name to Yugoslavia. | |
| 1940 | The U.S. Army adopts airborne, or parachute, soldiers. Airborne troops are later used in World War II for landing troops in combat and infiltrating agents into enemy territory. | |
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| 1944 | German troops evacuate Athens, Greece. | |
| 1952 | The UK successfully develops a nuclear weapon, becoming the world’s third nuclear power. | |
| 1963 | A violent coup in Honduras ends a period of political reform and ushers in two decades of military rule. | |
| 1985 | The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight. | |
| 1990 | After 40 years of division, East and West Germany are reunited as one nation. | |
| 1993 | The Battle of Mogadishu takes place, in which 18 US soldiers and some 1,000 Somalis are killed during an attempt to capture officials of the warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid’s organization. |
Mona Lisa unveiled?
Nude sketch may have link to masterpiece
There's something vaguely familiar about this charcoal sketch of a
woman's face and nude torso — could it be an unclothed precursor to the
Mona Lisa by the master himself?
French government art experts are trying to find out, analyzing the sketch in a laboratory beneath the Louvre, the museum where the Mona Lisa hangs, to see if Leonardo da Vinci drew it before painting his 16th century masterpiece.
The sketch, previously attributed to Leonardo's students, is part of a collection at the Musee Conde du Domaine de Chantilly, north of Paris.
"This drawing is quite mysterious because we know it was made in Italy, maybe in the studio of Leonardo da Vinci or by the master himself," said museum curator Mathieu Deldicque.
There are tempting clues that Leonardo's hand could have been behind the sketch.
"For the moment we know that the paper on which this (sketch) is drawn was dated from the time of Leonardo da Vinci ... that is to say the beginning of the 16th century," Deldicque said in an interview Friday with The Associated Press. "We know that this paper comes from Italy, between Venice and Florence, so it is similar."
Imagery picked up other signs that may point to a sketch by Leonardo despite its "very worn elements," he said, noting the "quality" of the face and arms, which recalls the master.
"The position of the arms is very important because it is literally (like) the position of the arms of the Louvre painting," Deldicque said.
However, Deldicque has said there were differences, including the way the subject holds her chest and the hairstyle.
Art historians believe Leonardo drew or painted a nude version of the Mona Lisa. Deldicque acknowledged that the belief is feeding hopes that the Chantilly museum's sketch was indeed made by Leonardo's hand.
Among the array of clues under study is whether the artist of the sketch was left-handed.
"We know that Leonardo da Vinci was left-handed and now we are just looking for the left-handed features," the curator said. But the task is difficult. "The drawing is very old, very fragile," he said, making it uncertain firm evidence will be uncovered showing that the charcoal nude was sketched with a left hand.
The government-run Center for Research and Restoration of the Museums of France says the sketch will stay out of the public eye until the examination by experts is complete.
Las Vegas gunman killed and identified
Police fatally shot the gunman who killed at
least 50 concert goers and wounded more than 400 others late Sunday in
Las Vegas. One person of interest is still at large.
Chinese scientists fix genetic disorder in cloned human embryos
A method for precisely editing genes in human embryos hints at a cure for a blood disease.
Nobel Prize for Medicine 2017 for research into circadian rhythm
Hewlett Packard Enterprise let Russia scrutinize cyberdefense system used by Pentagon
Hewlett Packard Enterprise allowed a Russian
defense agency to review the inner workings of cyber defense software
used by the Pentagon to guard its computer networks, according to
Russian regulatory records and interviews with people with direct
knowledge of the issue.
Denny’s employees fired for making black patrons pay before eating
Several employees at a Washington Denny’s have
been fired after they insisted black patrons pay for their food in
advance while letting white customers eat first and pay on the way out.
Tropical forests may be carbon sources, not sinks
Combination of satellite images and on-the-ground data enables more complete tracking of forest carbon flows.
Oldest traces of life on Earth may lurk in Canadian rocks
Researchers report chemical evidence of organisms that lived 3.95 billion years ago, but scepticism abounds.
Science-Backed Advice On How To Avoid Bringing Home Bedbugs
But William Hentley from the University of Sheffield thinks their focus should change to the dirty laundry we bring back with us from our trip:
“Stopping people from bringing bed bugs home can be a big step in preventing them spreading throughout the world.”
Scientists already know that human odor attracts bed bugs, though not which chemicals in the odor specifically. But for the newest study, researchers prepared a mock bedroom with laundry bags containing clean and dirty clothes—in other words, there were no humans in the room. The critters were “twice as likely to aggregate on bags containing soiled clothes compared to bags containing clean clothes,” according to the paper published today in the journal Scientific Reports. Contrary to the researchers’ hypothesis, the amount of carbon dioxide in the room did not affect their results—the CO2 source would represent a human, since some bugs like mosquitoes are specifically attracted to the carbon dioxide you exhale.
These results were enough to convince the researchers that bed bugs could travel throughout the world by hitching a ride in luggage containing dirty clothes.
the authors “demonstrate a striking pattern that bags containing clothes with human odor were more frequently used as refuges than those without. This result emphases the importance of making sure luggage and other belongings are made as inaccessible to bed bugs as possible when staying in increased risk places, for example by making sure bags are fully closed and secured and kept away from the bed.” Hentley agreed with this advice.
A Spider with a Pikachu Butt
Using a black marker, the researchers "erased" the spiders' bright yellow color. The spiders whose colors had been thus muted were on average less successful at catching prey. Like arrow-shaped micrathenas, the Australian spiders are "sit-and-wait" predators that ensnare prey in large webs.Maybe when insects see this, they don't think "Pikachu" as much as they think "flower." Read more about the PIkachu spider at National Geographic News.
Parakeet invasion of Mexico driven by Europe’s ban on bird imports
Attempts to stop the spread of bird flu and protect wildlife had unintended consequences.
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