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Today in History
| 1236 | Henry III marries Eleanor of Provence. | |
| 1526 | Francis of France, held captive by Charles V for a year, signs the Treaty of Madrid, giving up most of his claims in France and Italy. | |
| 1797 | Napoleon Bonaparte defeats the Austrians at Rivoli in northern Italy. | |
| 1858 | Emperor Napoleon and Empress Eugenie escape unhurt after an Italian assassin throws a bomb at their carriage as they travel to the Paris Opera. | |
| 1864 | Confederate President Jefferson Davis writes to General Joseph E. Johnson, observing that troops may need to be sent to Alabama or Mississippi. | |
| 1911 | The USS Arkansas, the largest U.S. battleship, is launched from the yards of the New York Shipbuilding Company. | |
| 1915 | The French abandon five miles of trenches to the Germans near Soissons. | |
| 1916 | British authorities seize German attaché Franz von Papen’s financial records confirming espionage activities in the U.S. | |
| 1917 | A Provisional Parliament is established in Poland. | |
| 1920 | Berlin is placed under martial law as 40,000 radicals rush the Reichstag; 42 are dead and 105 are wounded. | |
| 1942 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders all aliens in the U.S. to register with the government. | |
| 1943 | Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Charles DeGaulle meet at Casablanca to discuss the direction of the war. | |
| 1943 | Italian occupation authorities refuse to deport Jews living in their territories in France. | |
| 1969 | A blast on the U.S. carrier Enterprise in the Pacific results in 24 dead and 85 injured. | |
| 1980 | The United Nations votes 104-18 to deplore the Soviet aggression in Afghanistan. | |
| 2000 | A UN tribunal sentences 5 Bosnian Croats to prison for up to 25 years; they were charged with killing some 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village in 1993. | |
| 2004 | The Republic of Georgia restores the “five cross flag” as its national flag after some 500 years of disuse. | |
| 2005 | Huygens, a probe, lands on Saturn’s moon Titan. | |
| 2010 | Yemen declares war on the al-Qaeda terrorist group. | |
| 2011 | Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, former president of Tunisia, flees to Saudi Arabia after a series of demonstrations against his regime. |
Rare tomb of Scythian prince discovered in Siberia
Brown dwarfs in the Orion Nebula have atmospheres with water
The population of brown dwarfs is the largest known to researchers and they’re all surrounded by a population of newborn stars as well. In addition to the brown dwarfs and the newborn stars the researchers working with the Hubble data also found three giant planets in the area, said a release from Hubble.
Moon caves at lunar north pole might lead astronauts right to water
The new measure comes after Riyadh, long known for imposing harsh restrictions on women, announced it was lifting a ban prohibiting them from driving, as well as reopening cinemas.
The Orange-in of the Mafia
An article at The Journal of Economic History
traces the rise of the Mafia to the production of lemons and oranges in
Sicily. While citrus fruits were always popular, their importance was
boosted exponentially when they were revealed to be both a preventative
and a cure for scurvy, which was a plague among long-distance sailors.In this article, we argue that the mafia arose as a response to an exogenous shock in the demand for oranges and lemons, following Lind's discovery in the late eighteenth century that citrus fruits cured scurvy. More specifically, we claim that mafia appeared in locations where producers made high profits from citrus production for overseas export. Operating in an environment with a weak rule of law, the mafia protected citrus production from predation and acted as intermediaries between producers and exporters. Using original data from a parliamentary inquiry in 1881–1886 on Sicilian towns, the Damiani Inquiry, we show that mafia presence is strongly related to the production of oranges and lemons. The results hold when different data sources and several controls are employed.Is this why there are so many oranges in The Godfather? You can read the entire paper here.
Suicides by drugs in U.S. are under-counted
The rate of suicides by drug intoxication in the United States may be
vastly under-reported and mis-classified, according to a new study
co-written by Mark...
'Mississippi Burning' KKK leader Edgar Ray Killen dies in prison
Arrested Louisiana teacher Deyshia Hargrave likely to sue
Sherin Mathews' father charged with Texas toddler’s murder
'Hate rag' editor promotes Hitler Fan Club in new issue
James Sears was charged with willful promotion of hatred against women and Jews — a first in Ontario history — in his seasonally published Your Ward News.
Topless woman ambushes Czech leader for being 'Putin's slut'
Michigan pastor only gets 60 days after he’s busted trying to hook up with 11-year-old in Craigslist sex sting
A pastor from Grand
Rapids received a slap on the wrist from a local judge after pleading
guilty to trying to arrange a sexual encounter with what he believed
would be an 11-year-old girl.
Judge smacks down cops’ argument that jurors were too scared of black people to acquit them in fatal shooting
A federal judge this week affirmed a multi-million dollar verdict against police in the city of Lakewood, Washington.
Like Avocados?
Thank This Giant Extinct Sloth
Giant
ground sloths called lestodons once roamed the grassy plains of South
America. They've been extinct for thousands of years, but they thrived
for millions. The 15-foot-long, 3-ton animals could eat almost anything a
tree can grow, including whole avocados, pits and all. While many other fruit plants died out due to changes in conditions, avocados were everywhere, and survived in pockets of perfect climate. Read more about the megafauna that gave us guacamole at Atlas Obscura.Giant sloths, along with megafauna like gomphotheres and glyptodons, feasted on whole avocados and spread their seeds over South America. These enormous creatures’ digestive systems could process large seeds, and avocados benefited. When pooped out, far from their parent trees, the seeds could sprout and grow without competition for water and sunlight. It was a good deal all around, and it likely resulted in avocados as we know them: fatty and large-pitted, all the better to attract huge sloths.
The World's Smallest Cat Species
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