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Today in History
| 1531 | The Catholics defeat the Protestants at Kappel during Switzerland’s second civil war. | |
| 1540 | Charles V of Milan puts his son Philip in control. | |
| 1727 | George II of England is crowned. | |
| 1795 | In gratitude for putting down a rebellion in the streets of Paris, France’s National Convention appoints Napoleon Bonaparte second-in-command of the Army of the Interior. | |
| 1862 | The Confederate Congress in Richmond passes a draft law allowing anyone owning 20 or more slaves to be exempt from military service. This law confirms many southerners opinion that they are in a ‘rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight.’ | |
| 1877 | Outlaw Wild Bill Longley, who killed at least a dozen men, is hanged, but it takes two tries; on the first try, the rope slips and his knees touch the ground. | |
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| 1906 | The San Francisco school board orders the segregation of Oriental schoolchildren, inciting Japanese outrage. | |
| 1942 | In the Battle of Cape Esperance, near the Solomon Islands, U.S. cruisers and destroyers decisively defeat a Japanese task force in a night surface encounter. | |
| 1945 | Negotiations between Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek and Communist leader Mao Tse-tung break down. Nationalist and Communist troops are soon engaged in a civil war. | |
| 1950 | The Federal Communications Commission authorizes the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) to begin commercial color TV broadcasts. | |
| 1962 | Pope John XXIII opens the 21st Ecumenical Council (Vatican II) with a call for Christian unity. This is the largest gathering of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in history; among delegate-observers are representatives of major Protestant denominations, in itself a sign of sweeping change. | |
| 1968 | Apollo 7, with three men aboard, is successfully launched from Cape Kennedy. | |
| 1972 | A French mission in Vietnam is destroyed by a U.S. bombing raid. | |
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| 1975 | Saturday Night Live, a comedy-variety show, premiers on NBC, with guest host comedian George Carlin and special guests Janis Ian, Andy Kaufman and Billy Preston; at this writing (2016) the show is still running. | |
| 1976 | The so-called “Gang of Four,” Chairman Mao Tse-tung’s widow and three associates, are arrested in Peking, setting in motion an extended period of turmoil in the Chinese Communist Party. | |
| 1984 | Astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan, part of the crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger, becomes the first American woman to walk in space. | |
| 1987 | Operation Pawan by Indian Peace Keeping Force begins in Sri Lanka; thousands of Tamil citizens, along with hundreds of Tamil Tigers militants and Indian Army soldiers will die in the operation. | |
| 1991 | Confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas begin. | |
| 2000 | NASA launches its 100th Space Shuttle mission. | |
| 2001 | The Polaroid Corporation, which had provided shutterbugs with photo prints in minutes with its “instant cameras” since 1947, files for bankruptcy. |
Pumpkin Prank Perpetrator Puzzle Persists 20 Years Later
On
October 8, 1997, Cornell University students noticed a pumpkin impaled
on top of the McGraw Tower spire. That's 173 feet up! How did it get up
there? They couldn't get it down, so the pumpkin stayed there for 158
days. The stunt made national news, and its continued existence was
watched by everyone on campus.The campus went playfully out of its gourd. The Cornell Chorus and the Cornell Glee Club created pumpkin lyrics for the alma mater. A webcam provided 24-hour live images – a novelty at the time – from Olin Library.A class sent a remote-control balloon up to study the pumpkin. The next spring, a crane was used to finally remove it. But no one ever found out who put it up there or how. Read the story of the great pumpkin caper at the Cornell Chronicle.
In January 1998, the university built scaffolding around McGraw Tower to repoint century-old mortar. The somewhat decayed pumpkin held fast.
Having fun with Polyethylene Glycol
Well,
perpetual motion devices have enemies: inertia, gravity, air, friction,
and some other laws that creep in if you ever defeat the big four.
Polyethylene glycol is no miracle substance, unless you're severely constipated. But it can be fun to play with.
Existential Horror Created by the First X-Ray Images
In early November, he repeated the experiment in the dark in his lab at the University of Würzburg in Germany. But then he noticed something happening far away from the Crookes tube. A screen coated in barium platinocyanide, the fluorescent material that was used on photographic plates, was sitting on a chair near the experiment, and every time Wilhelm turned on the electricity, the screen glowed. Not quite believing what he was seeing, he dedicated his time to rigorously testing and documenting the strange rays, which he called “X.” He put objects made from different materials on photographic plates and exposed them to X-rays, and found that the mysterious rays passed through some but not others. Eventually, a few days before Christmas, he asked his wife to help him in the lab. Anna held her left hand on a photographic plate for 15 minutes while Wilhelm beamed X-rays at it. According to legend, she said, “I have seen my death!” and never set foot in his lab again.Read more about the development of x-rays and how it became quite the rage at Atlas Obscura.
Dads are often having fun while moms work around the house
For the first time, researchers have evidence of exactly what dads are
doing while moms are taking care of housework or tending to their...
Michigan to charge top medical official with involuntary manslaughter over Flint water deaths
Dr. Eden Wells, who already faced lesser charges, would become the sixth current or former official to face involuntary manslaughter charges in connection with the crisis.
The Nazis were not lefty socialists you thick fucking cunts
by Malcolm Tucker
Malcolm Tucker posted
this to his blog "Tuckered' on October 5, 2017. As you might guess from
the post title his language is a bit course but his point is spot on.
“Listen you backwards Trump rimming Farage sucking cunt sacks, I’m going to èxplain a few things…”OK. Listen you backwards Trump rimming Farage sucking cunt sacks, I’m going to èxplain a few things. Without sounding too much like Uncle Albert, during the war, the left and the right were a little more extreme than they are now. Almost.
In fact, they were all massive cunts murdering millions of their own. By the end, the only thing that differed was a smart uniform. OK, it was a little worse for the people on the left as they were more hungry than fucking Eric Pickles at breakfast time, and therefore resorted to eating each other.
To be fair, if you weren’t black, Jewish, gay or a bit miffed with that Hitler fella, you generally had an alright standard of living at the height of the Reich, until they got bombed to fuck, raped, divided and bankrupted that is. Are you learning anything yet? Extreme = Bad.
Yes, the Nazis were called The National Socialist German Workers Party. That doesn’t mean they were socialists. Sometimes it doesn’t do what it says on the fucking tin.
The Nazis were incredibly clever in the early days, before they got higher than Whitney Houston in a bath. They were masters of propaganda and imagery. It’s no accident their uniforms were designed by Hugo Boss, and so their name was picked to appeal to both nationalists (people who don’t kneel for an anthem) and socialists (people who think you should check in on your 90 year old neighbor and not to rob her gold).
The Nazis were hard line far right Fascists who despised anything or anyone that stood in the way of their perfect Aryan vision for Germany.
This isn’t fucking news. What I don’t understand is why cunts who sieg heil, in democratic countries, in fucking 2017, always come back with “But the Nazis were socialists!” As their only comeback when you call them out on it.
Listen you daft twats. You want to be a Nazi but you believe the Nazis were the lefties who you despise? Yeah. Great argument. It makes about as much sense covfefe.
KKK threatens ‘black apes’ who ‘make eyes’ at white women in recruiting fliers found in Florida
Multiple neighborhoods in Jacksonville,
Florida were littered with KKK recruiting fliers that make specific
threats against black men who they catch “‘making eyes’ at a white
girl.”
Georgia woman checks car damage before fleeing wounded teen in hit-and-run
A woman in Snellville, Georgia hit a 15-year-old on a bike on Friday– but didn’t seem to care whether or not he was injured.
Texas dad sends toddler to coyote-infested alley as punishment -- now she is missing
Texas teen expelled from school for sitting during Pledge of Allegiance
Black NHL player gets death threats for raising his fist during the national anthem
Virginia police issue warrant for black man brutally assaulted by neo-Nazis in Charlottesville
Police in Charlottesville, Virginia Monday
issued a warrant for 20-year-old DeAndre Harris, a black man who was
beaten at a white nationalist rally in August.
Best Places to See Marine Life on Vacation This Winter
Read about other great places to travel and see animals over on Travel and Leisure.
How To Bark Down A Dog To Get It To Stop Chasing You
According to Brendan staying calm and barking back at a dog trying to chase you down may confuse the dog and diffuse the situation:
What the dog has not seen is a human being going FREAKING CRAZY on it. Which is what you're going to do. For one second. When the dog realizes you have completely lost your shit, it will be shocked. You are unstable, possibly dangerous. And, ideally, the dog will stop chasing you.I've seen the power of standing still diffuse a situation with an aggressive dog that was chasing my friend and I, but I certainly wasn't thinking about barking at the vicious Rottweiler as it sniffed my butt and tried to figure out why I didn't run away. Longest three minutes of my life...
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