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| 79 | The city of Pompeii is buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. | |
| 1512 | Michelangelo’s painting on the Sistine Chapel ceiling is exhibited for the first time. | |
| 1582 | Maurice of Nassau, the son of William of Orange, becomes the governor of Holland, Zeeland and Utrecht. | |
| 1755 | A great earthquake at Lisbon, Portugal, kills over 50,000 people. | |
| 1765 | The Stamp Act goes into effect in the British colonies. | |
| 1861 | Lieutenant General Winfield Scott, 50 year-veteran and leader of the U.S. Army at the onset of the Civil War, retires. General George McClellan is appointed general-in-chief of the Union armies. | |
| 1866 | Wild woman of the west Myra Maybelle Shirley (Belle Starr) marries James C. Reed in Collins County, Texas. | |
| 1869 | Louis Riel seizes Fort Garry, Winnipeg, during the Red River Rebellion. | |
| 1911 | Italian planes perform the first aerial bombing on Tagiura (Tajura) oasis in Libya. | |
| 1923 | The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company buys the rights to manufacture Zeppelin dirigibles. | |
| 1924 | Legendary Oklahoma marshal Bill Tilghman, 71, is gunned down by a drunk in Cromwell, Oklahoma. | |
| 1936 | Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini announces the Rome-Berlin axis after Count Ciano’s visit to Germany. | |
| 1936 | The Rodeo Cowboys Association is founded. | |
| 1943 | American troops invade Bougainville in the Solomon Islands. | |
| 1945 | John H. Johnson publishes the first issue of Ebony magazine. | |
| 1950 | Two members of a Puerto Rican nationalist movement attempt to assassinate President Harry S. Truman. | |
| 1951 | The Algerian National Liberation Front begins guerrilla warfare against the French. | |
| 1967 | The first issue of Rolling Stone hits the streets. | |
| 1968 | President Lyndon B. Johnson calls a halt to bombing in Vietnam, hoping this will lead to progress at the Paris peace talks. | |
| 1968 | The Motion Picture Association of America officially introduces its rating system to indicate age-appropriateness of film content. | |
| 1973 | Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor. | |
| 1981 | Antigua and Barbuda gain independence from the United Kingdom. | |
| 1982 | Honda opens a plant in Marysville, Ohio, becoming the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the US. | |
| 2000 | Serbia joins the United Nations. |
President Obama blasts 'politics of division'
Without mentioning Dumbass Trump by name, Obama told campaign rallies in New Jersey and Virginia that voters could send a powerful message about the type of politics they want by backing Democrats in Nov. 7 elections in the two states.
Conquer Chronic Pain Without Opioids
In the midst of an epidemic, doctors are trying to pivot to alternative methods of pain management
Can't Lose Belly Fat?
A new study explains why some people can't stop eating carbs: because their taste buds are just more sensitive to them
Questions You've Always Had About Sinus Infections—Answered
Like, how can you tell the difference between a sinus problem and a cold?
Those Weird Noises You Make in Your Sleep Might Not Be Snores
Find out what sleep groaning really means
Zach Miller Suffered One of the Worst Leg Injuries We've Ever Seen
Miller underwent emergency surgery for his dislocated knee
Soccer Star's Penis Was Sliced Open By Cleat During a Game
Mariano Bittolo had to get 10 stitches on his penis to fix the damage
Japan upset over ‘comfort women’ memorial in SF -- still
Osaka Mayor Hirofumi Yoshimura sent a letter to his California counterpart last month blasting the memorial to the women used by Japanese soldiers in the 1930s and '40s, according to the Japan Times.
Texas costume party turns deadly when man in Santa suit opens fire
A man dressed in a Santa Claus outfit opened fire at a weekend Halloween
party in his Texas home, killing one person and injuring three others,
Austin police said on Monday. Peter Madsen says Kim Wall died of carbon monoxide poisoning
US court blocks enforcement of Dumbass Trump's transgender military ban
Maclura pomifera may "remember" the megafauna
An interesting post at American Forests muses about the "hedge apple"/"Osage orange"/"monkeyball" (Maclura pomifera):
Consider the fruit of the Osage-orange, named after the Osage Indians
associated with its range. In the fall, Osage-orange trees hang heavy
with bright green, bumpy spheres the size of softballs, full of seeds
and an unpalatable milky latex. They soon fall to the ground, where they
rot, unused, unless a child decides to test their ballistic properties.
Trees that make such fleshy fruits do so to entice animals to eat them, along with the seeds they contain. The seeds pass through the animal and are deposited, with natural fertilizer, away from the shade and roots of the parent tree where they are more likely to germinate. But no native animal eats Osage-orange fruits. So, what are they for? The same question could be asked of the large seed pods of the honeylocust and the Kentucky coffeetree...
In terms of evolutionary time, the difference between 13,000 years ago and now is like the difference between Friday, December 31, 1999 and Saturday, January 1, 2000. We may assign those two days to different centuries or millennia, but they are still part of the same week. Likewise, all the animals and plants of 13,000 years ago belong just as much in the present. In fact, they still live in the present, with just one major exception: most of the big and fierce animals are now gone...
Now let’s return to the forlorn fruit of the Osage orange. Nothing today eats it. Once it drops from the tree, all of them on a given tree practically in unison, the only way it moves is to roll downhill or float in flood waters. Why would you evolve such an over-engineered, energetically expensive fruit if gravity and water are your only dispersers, and you like to grow on higher ground? You wouldn’t. Unless you expected it to be eaten by mammoths or ground-sloths...
It’s true that such adaptations are now anachronistic; they have lost their relevance. But the trees have been slow to catch on; a natural consequence of the pace of evolution. For a tree that lives, say, 250 years, 13,000 years represents only 52 generations. In an evolutionary sense, the trees don’t yet realize that the megafauna are gone.
Consider the fruit of the Osage-orange, named after the Osage Indians
associated with its range. In the fall, Osage-orange trees hang heavy
with bright green, bumpy spheres the size of softballs, full of seeds
and an unpalatable milky latex. They soon fall to the ground, where they
rot, unused, unless a child decides to test their ballistic properties.Trees that make such fleshy fruits do so to entice animals to eat them, along with the seeds they contain. The seeds pass through the animal and are deposited, with natural fertilizer, away from the shade and roots of the parent tree where they are more likely to germinate. But no native animal eats Osage-orange fruits. So, what are they for? The same question could be asked of the large seed pods of the honeylocust and the Kentucky coffeetree...
In terms of evolutionary time, the difference between 13,000 years ago and now is like the difference between Friday, December 31, 1999 and Saturday, January 1, 2000. We may assign those two days to different centuries or millennia, but they are still part of the same week. Likewise, all the animals and plants of 13,000 years ago belong just as much in the present. In fact, they still live in the present, with just one major exception: most of the big and fierce animals are now gone...
Now let’s return to the forlorn fruit of the Osage orange. Nothing today eats it. Once it drops from the tree, all of them on a given tree practically in unison, the only way it moves is to roll downhill or float in flood waters. Why would you evolve such an over-engineered, energetically expensive fruit if gravity and water are your only dispersers, and you like to grow on higher ground? You wouldn’t. Unless you expected it to be eaten by mammoths or ground-sloths...
It’s true that such adaptations are now anachronistic; they have lost their relevance. But the trees have been slow to catch on; a natural consequence of the pace of evolution. For a tree that lives, say, 250 years, 13,000 years represents only 52 generations. In an evolutionary sense, the trees don’t yet realize that the megafauna are gone.
NASA releases creepy radio recordings from space
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