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Today in History
| 536 | Having captured Naples earlier in the year, Belisarius takes Rome. | |
| 1861 | The U.S. Senate approves the establishment of a committee that would become the Joint Committee on the Conduct of War. | |
| 1863 | Major General John G. Foster replaces Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside as Commander of the Department of Ohio. | |
| 1867 | The capital of Colorado Territory is moved from Golden to Denver. | |
| 1872 | P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first African-American governor of Louisiana. | |
| 1900 | The Russian czar rejects Boer Paul Kruger’s pleas for aid in South Africa against the British. | |
| 1908 | A child labor bill passes in the German Reichstag, forbidding work for children under age 13. | |
| 1917 | The new Finnish Republic demands the withdrawal of Russian troops. | |
| 1940 | The British army seizes 1,000 Italians in a sudden thrust in Egypt. | |
| 1941 | Franklin D. Roosevelt tells Americans to plan for a long war. | |
| 1948 | The United States abandons a plan to de-concentrate industry in Japan. | |
| 1949 | The United Nations takes trusteeship over Jerusalem. | |
| 1950 | President Harry Truman bans U.S. exports to Communist China. | |
| 1950 | Harry Gold gets 30 years imprisonment for passing atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union during World War II. | |
| 1955 | Sugar Ray Robinson knocks out Carl Olson to regain the world middleweight boxing title. | |
| 1960 | The Laos government flees to Cambodia as the capital city of Vientiane is engulfed in war. | |
| 1990 | Lech Walesa is elected president of Poland. | |
| 1992 | U.S. Marines land in Somalia to ensure food and medicine reaches the deprived areas of that country. | |
| 2008 | Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is arrested on federal charges, including an attempt to sell the US Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama. |
21 Things that Turned 21 in 2017
Ada Blackjack, the Forgotten Sole Survivor of an Odd Arctic Expedition
Ada
Blackjack was an Alaskan Inupiat woman who signed on for a year working
as a seamstress for an expedition to Wrangel Island, in the Arctic
Ocean near Siberia. She was the sole woman in the 1921 expedition that
included four men and a cat named Vic.
That's not what happened. Two years later, when a rescue ship finally arrived, Blackjack and Vic were the only survivors of the expedition. She didn't know how to shoot or trap when she went to Wrangel Island, but she taught herself because she was determined to return to her young son. And she had kept a diary of her experiences. Read the story of Ada Blackjack at Atlas Obscura.The expedition, organized by the charismatic Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, was at best an ill-conceived venture; at worst, it was a willfully negligent act of astonishing hubris. Using the pull of his celebrity as a seasoned explorer, Stefansson assembled a team of four starstruck young men—Allan Crawford, 20, Lorne Knight, 28, Fred Maurer, 28, and Milton Galle, 19—to claim Wrangel Island for the British Empire—even though Britain had never shown the slightest interest in wanting it. Though Stefansson picked the team and funded the mission, he never had any intention of joining the party himself and sent his woefully inexperienced team north with only six months of supplies and hollow assurances that “the friendly Arctic” would provide ample game to augment their stores until a ship picked them up the following year.
A Brief History of the 404 Error
Not long after it appeared, the error code began to enjoy, or endure, its share of lore. In the early 2000s, the idea bubbled up that the 404 came from, well, room 404; that this room housed the web’s first servers, at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Switzerland); that World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee had his office there; that he frequently could not be found.The truth is much more mundane, but we latched onto the magic of the 404 error anyway. An article at Wired explains, although it's more of a love letter to the page that both disappoints and fascinates us.
“Sigh,” wrote Robert Cailliau, a pioneer, with Berners-Lee, of the hypertext structure that led to the web. When asked for comment on the 404 error, he seemed less than thrilled to be approached with what he called “trivia.” Cailliau was adamant that the mythology is hogwash.
Easing the brain’s hunger pangs
When you’re hungry, the impulse to eat can be hard to ignore. There’s
even a Snickers commercial about it—people just don’t feel like
themselves...
The surprising catholic roots behind the so-called 'war on Xmas'
Hero John Lewis Refuses To Attend Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Opening
Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) made a loud statement against Dumbass Trump's
racism by announcing that he will not attend the opening of the
Mississippi Civil Rights Museum because Dumbass Trump will be there.…
A white family adopted a black baby girl in the early 60’s and sent her back
A new story follows a white family who sent
their adopted black baby back after discovering her race — and the
heartwarming way she and their second, white adopted daughter came
together.
Australia lawmakers approve same-sex marriage
There were loud cheers, hugs and sustained clapping in the 150-seat lower House of Representatives when all but four MPs voted in support of marriage equality, after the upper house Senate passed the bill 43-12 last week.
'Christian' couple weasels out of vow to get divorced if same-sex marriage became legal in Australia
News.com.au reports that 'christian' couple Nick and Sarah Jensen have been hedging on their pledge to divorce in the wake of same-sex marriage becoming legal in Australia.
In a statement sent to the publication, the Nick Jensen now say that their “divorce” is only metaphorical, not literal.
Anti-gay bar patrons leave bigoted message for their waiter — and the restaurant fired him
A waiter at a chain sports bar in North
Carolina shared a photo of a homophobic message he got on a receipt from
customers he waited on — and then got fired for doing so.
White woman may escape charges for hitting cop at football game if she writes apology letter
The Miami Herald reports that 30-year-old Bridget Freitas, who was caught on video slapping a black police officer in the head as he was removing her from a University of Miami football game last month, may not have to face charges of disorderly conduct and battery on a law enforcement officer as long as she writes an apology letter and serves 50 hours of community service.
Cop Finally Gets His Due
In America, we have been having a conversation about police brutality
against black Americans. Despite the countless black people murdered
unjustly by...
US gymnastics team doctor sentenced to 60 years on child pornography charges
A federal judge on Thursday sentenced Larry Nassar, the former USA
Gymnastics team doctor accused of sexually assaulting gymnasts, to 60
years in prison on federal child pornography charges that grew out of a
sex abuse investigation, local media reported. 
Rarity Can Be Key to Survival, Not Just Extinction
When most people think of rare species, they think of endangered ones
that humans have caused to be rare through habitat loss, poaching,
climate...
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