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Today in History
| 1500 | The Portuguese explorer Pedro Alvares Cabral reaches the coast of Brazil and claims the region for Portugal. | |
| 1586 | Sir Francis Drake launches a surprise attack on the heavily fortified city of Santo Domingo in Hispaniola. | |
| 1698 | The Abenaki Indians and the Massachusetts colonists sign a treaty halting hostilities between the two. | |
| 1766 | The Old Pretender, son of James III, dies. | |
| 1788 | The Times, London’s oldest running newspaper, publishes its first edition. | |
| 1808 | A U.S. law banning the import of slaves comes into effect, but is widely ignored. | |
| 1824 | The Camp Street Theatre opens as the first English-language playhouse in New Orleans. | |
| 1830 | William Lloyd Garrison publishes the first edition of a journal entitled The Liberator, calling for the complete and immediate emancipation of all slaves in the United States. | |
| 1863 | Confederate General Braxton Bragg and Union General William Rosecrans readjust their troops as the Battle of Murfreesboro continues. | |
| 1863 | Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves in the Confederacy. | |
| 1891 | Facilities open on Ellis Island, New York, to cope with the vast flood of immigrants coming into the United States. | |
| 1907 | The Pure Food and Drug Act becomes law in the United States. | |
| 1915 | The German submarine U-24 sinks the British battleship Formidable in the English Channel. | |
| 1918 | The first gasoline pipeline begins operation along the 40 miles and three inches of pipe from Salt Creek to Casper, Wyoming. | |
| 1923 | Sadi Lecointe sets a new aviation speed record flying an average of 208 mph at Istres. | |
| 1937 | At a party at the Hormel Mansion in Minnesota, a guest wins $100 for naming a new canned meat–Spam. | |
| 1945 | In Operation Bodenplatte, German planes attack American forward air bases in Europe. This is the last major offensive of the Luftwaffe. | |
| 1959 | Fidel Castro seizes power in Cuba as General Fulgencio Batista flees. | |
| 1986 | As the United States builds its strength in the Mediterranean, Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi threatens to retaliate if attacked. |
Simple Tips That Will Make 2018 Your Best Year Yet
From getting a date to choosing the perfect avocado, we've got you covered
The 10 Best and Worst Fitness Trends We Saw In 2017
Some will get you ripped. The others will get you nowhere
It Didn’t Take Very Long For Anesthesia to Change Childbirth
When Long did this, he had already used ether on a friend, writes anesthesiologist Almiro dos Reis Júnior, to remove infected cysts from his neck. Long had experience with the substance from so-called “ether parties” where young people would knock each other out for fun. However, the public was skeptical of knocking people unconscious during surgery, so Long stopped using ether in his clinic. “But Long still believed in the importance of anesthesia and administered ether to his wife during the birth of his second child in 1845 and other subsequent deliveries, thus undoubtedly becoming the pioneer of obstetric analgesia,” writes dos Reis Júnior.Both ether and chloroform had been used recreationally, and both are dangerous if the amount isn't just right. But the relief from the pain of childbirth caught on rapidly, especially after Queen Victoria gave birth using anesthesia. Read about the early days of anesthesia at Smithsonian.
When Whimsical Anti-Theft Tea Caddies Protected the World's Most Precious Leaf
When
American Colonists threw boxes of tea into Boston Harbor in 1773, they
were protesting taxation without representation. But you might be
surprised to learn that the tea they dumped would have been worth about
$2 million in 2017 dollars! It's hard to believe how expensive tea once
was, considering a teabag now costs about a penny, if you aren't too
picky about the flavor. But because tea was so expensive in the 18th and
19th centuries, people kept special boxes to store it, many of them
with locks. These tea caddies, made of porcelain, silver, or wood, were
ornately designed to signify the value of the tea they held. Marnie
Bramble collected more than 400 tea caddies, and her son Mark Bramble inherited the collection and wrote a book called A Tea Caddy Collection. He talked with Ben Marks about tea caddies.
Read more about tea caddies and the global tea trade that made them necessary at Collectors Weekly.Now, in addition porcelain from China, glazed in blue and iron-red floral and figurative designs, tea caddies were made out of German porcelain, stoneware, Jasperware, creamware, and cauliflower ware, which was a type of creamware that was molded and glazed to resemble the vegetable. Tea caddies were made of Japanned papier-mâché and also wood, from chests to fanciful fruit forms—pears, apples, pineapples, and pumpkins were popular shapes. “They are my favorites,” Mark says. “I think the fruit forms are just the best. They’re totally charming, and when you hold them, they have a warmth that porcelain does not.”
The fruit forms also lack the provenance that most ceramic tea caddies enjoy. “There’s a real mystery to those pieces,” he says. “There’s no evidence of a manufacturer’s mark on them, which gives credence to the notion that they were homemade.” Less charming is the lead-lining inside the fruit form. “Using lead seems astonishing to us, but lead protected the tea from moisture.”
Alaska Airlines faces suit after passenger dies
Slow federal response in Puerto Rico is causing urgent shortage of IV bags
"My wife's nurse had to stand for 30 mins
& administer a drug slowly through a syringe because there are
almost no IV bags in the continental U.S. anymore. See, they were all
manufactured in a Puerto Rican factory which still isn't fixed," wrote
Ben Boyer. "Meanwhile that stupid swollen prick golfs."
Soccer coach arrested for pimping minors
A California high school soccer coach was arrested Monday on charges of trafficking and pimping of a minor, the Sacramento Bee reported.
Elan Seagraves, 34, was accused of forcing a 17-year-old girl into sex
trafficking and was booked on Xmas day in Sacramento, California. Old white guy is the latest ‘Nigerian Prince’
Police in Slidell, Louisiana say an elderly
white man posed as African royalty online in attempts to scam hundreds
of people out of thousands of dollars.
Gamer behind Kansas ‘swatting’ call resulting in innocent man’s death taken into custody
Tyler Raj Barriss, 25, was booked in
Glendale, California the day after a police killing that started with an
argument over video games became national news.
Suspects charged in throat-slashing murders of lesbian couple and two children
Two men have been charged in the gruesome
murder of a lesbian couple and two children, ages 5 and 11, in Troy, NY,
said the New York Daily News on Saturday.
Florida 'hot cop' resigns as Internal Affairs probes his anti-Semitic Facebook posts
Nervous Reporter Reluctantly Picks Up Brain-Shaped Blob From A Vancouver Lagoon
Her name is Martha Perkins of the Vancouver Courier, and although Celina Stames of the Stanley Park Ecological Society watched over Martha as she scooped up the blobby mass (which was a colony of single-celled animals called bryozoans) there may still be blobby repercussions.
If
you should hear about Martha's "disappearance", and the authorities
discover a puddle of slime in her empty apartment, remember Martha for
her bravery and her curiosity in the face of blech-inducing blobbery.
The Animals That Went Extinct in 2017
Wildlife
ecologist David Steen publishes an annual list of animals that probably
went extinct in the past year. Some of them are only locally extinct,
and some are extinct in the wild but have examples in zoos or
laboratories. The list for 2017 includes bats, skinks, geckos, and the
fishing cat.The Fishing Cat is in big trouble in Southeast Asia. After extensive camera trap surveys in Java failed to turn any up there is a fear that they have gone extinct in all of Indonesia (they persist in low numbers elsewhere).The fishing cat pictured above lives in a zoo. Read this year's list, and the methodology and philosophy behind the list at Living Alongside Wildlife.
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