Friday, October 9, 2015
How French Artists in 1899 Envisioned Life in the Year 2000
In 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1910, French artists Jean-Marc Côté and other of his contemporaries prepared these illustrations of what life in France would be like in the year 2000. Initially they were printed on paper cards placed in cigarette and cigar boxes; later they were used as artwork on post cards. The first series was created exclusively for the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris.
Some of these now whimsical drawings come close to actual inventions that appeared in future years. Others are simply amusing in their fanciful ideas, such as the "whale bus."
See a collection of these drawings at The Public Domain Review. Via Open Culture
Hear the World
Our ancestors apparently had a lot to say 2 million years ago, even if they said it quietly.
Mummy's Kidney
The mummy dates back to some 2,800 years and his kidney was preserved thanks to end-stage renal tuberculosis.
Fossil Michigan
The 93-pound Petoskey stone is a reminder of the state's ancient history as a warm sea.
Martian Water
Animal News
These cold-blooded behemoths would be ranked contenders in any ring.
The announcement was welcomed by conservationists, who,
citing its detrimental impact on wildlife, have long been pushing for an
all-out ban.
Viruses have just joined the tree of life in a dramatic way -- they even predate modern cells.
A new way of drinking has just been discovered, providing certain bats with a quirky claim to animal fame.
This Monkey Looks Like Wolverine
But wait--Marvel apparently already has! Now it's time for Marvel Apes to be a movie trilogy.
Zoo meerkat-keeper glassed monkey-keeper in the face over love rival llama-keeper
A London zoo love triangle between keepers of meerkats, monkeys and
llamas led to bloody fight at a Christmas party, a court has heard.
Caroline Westlake, who worked in the meerkat enclosure, was convicted on
Friday of assault by beating after glassing her colleague, Kate
Sanders, in the face.
Sanders, who cared for the attraction’s monkeys, and Westlake came to blows in the zoo’s Prince Albert Suite after a row over llama-keeper Adam Davies, who dated Sanders for five years but after they split started a relationship with Westlake. Sanders saw the couple together for the first time at the Christmas party on 8 December and made a derisory comment about Westlake’s appearance. Her comments sparked an argument that ended with Sanders being struck in the face with a wine glass, for which she required stitches.
Westlake, from Banstead in Surrey, denied one count of assault by
beating but was found guilty at Westminster magistrates court. The
30-year-old, who worked at the zoo for four and a half years, was sacked
from her job looking after the meerkats and the rainforest zone.
Sanders, from north London, was given a final warning and banned from
Zoological Society of London events for two years as a result of the
fight.
Sanders earlier told the court of her shock when blood came pouring out
of her mouth during the fight. “Things were being said on both sides
that shouldn’t have been said,” she said. 
“I told her I’d seen a text she sent him asking him out for a
drink
while we were still dating and the next thing I know I was hit in the
face with something very hard.
I was hit on the left cheek and from the feeling it was a glass and had
come from a low position. I was extremely shocked when it hit me. I
tried to protect myself by reaching out my right hand and pushing her
against the nearest thing to me, which was some railings.” Defense
solicitor Suzanne Kelly told Sanders it was she who instigated
the fight with Westlake by punching her in the face, lunging at her and
pushing her over nearby railings, which she denied.
Westlake is to be sentenced on 14 October.
Thursday, October 8, 2015
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Today in History
| 876 | Charles the Bald is defeated at the Battle of Andernach. | |
| 1690 | Belgrade is retaken by the Turks. | |
| 1840 | King William I of Holland abdicates. | |
| 1855 | Arrow, a ship flying the British flag, is boarded by Chinese who arrest the crew, thus beginning the Second Chinese War. | |
| 1862 | The Union is victorious at the Battle of Perryville, the largest Civil War combat to take place in Kentucky. | |
| 1871 | The Great Chicago Fire begins in southwest Chicago, possibly in a barn owned by Patrick and Katherine O’Leary. Fanned by strong southwesterly winds, the flames raged for more than 24 hours, eventually leveling three and a half square miles and wiping out one-third of the city. Approximately 250 people were killed in the fire; 98,500 people were left homeless; 17,450 buildings were destroyed. | |
| 1897 | Journalist Charles Henry Dow, founder of the Wall Street Journal, begins charting trends of stocks and bonds. | |
| 1900 | Maximilian Harden is sentenced to six months in prison for publishing an article critical of the German Kaiser. | |
| 1906 | Karl Ludwig Nessler first demonstrates a machine in London that puts permenant waves in hair. The client wears a dozen brass curlers, each wearing two pounds, for the six-hour process. | |
| 1912 | First Balkan War begins as Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire. | |
| 1918 | US Army corporal Alvin C. York kills 28 German soldiers and captures 132 in the Argonne Forest; promoted to sergeant and awarded US Medal of Honor and French Croix de Guerre. | |
| 1919 | The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives pass the Volstead Prohibition Enforcement Bill. | |
| 1921 | First live radio broadcast of a football game; Harold W. Arlin was the announcer when KDKA of Pittsburgh broadcast live from Forbes Field as the University of Pittsburgh beat West Virginia University 21–13. | |
| 1922 | Lilian Gatlin becomes the first woman pilot to fly across the United States. | |
| 1932 | Indian Air Force established. | |
| 1939 | Nazi Germany annexes Western Poland. | |
| 1956 | Don Larsen of the New York Yankees pitches the first perfect game in World Series history against the Brooklyn Dodgers. | |
| 1967 | Guerrilla Che Guevara captured in Bolivia. | |
| 1968 | U.S. forces in Vietnam launch Operation SEALORDS (South East Asia Lake, Ocean, River and Delta Strategy), an attack on communist supply lines and base areas in and around the Mekong Delta. | |
| 1969 | The "Days of Rage" begin in Chicago; the Weathermen faction of the Students for a Democratic Society initiate 3 days of violent antiwar protests. | |
| 1973 | In the Yom Kippur War an Israeli armored brigade makes an unsuccessful attack on Egyptian positions on the Israeli side of the Suez Canal. | |
| 1978 | Ken Warby of Australia sets the world water speed record, 317.60 mph, at Blowering Dam in Australia; no other human has yet (2013) exceeded 300 mph on water and survived. | |
| 1982 | The musical Cats begins a run of nearly 18 years on Broadway. | |
| 1991 | Croatia votes to sever its ties with Yugoslavia. | |
| 2001 | The shrub fabricates the Office of Homeland Security. |
Editorial Comment
Wow.
You want to talk about a “perfect
storm”.
After a week of more or less solid rain
we were expecting up to 10 inches more over the past weekend with all
the moisture Joaquin was funneling into the air and said moisture
being sucked in over us by a high level low pressure and just as it
was beginning to come down the winds really picked up and the trees
began to fall …
Needless to say power outages began to
occur and phone lines began to fail.
To top it off our modem decided that
then was the time to give over the ghost and up and died right in the
middle of one of the Mrs.' Rom-Com's.
Being of Scots heritage we still have
the first penny we found on the ground (OK, so we have a few more,
now), and we have the equipment maintenance plan with our ISP so we
got a new modem 'free' but we had to wait three to five business days
for it to be delivered so we were unable to post until it arrived and
we plugged it in.
We could have went out and bought one
but we still have our money because we do not run willy-nilly and buy
something we have already paid for so we waited - with the constant
rain we decided we would rather stay dry anyway.
Luckily we did not have any outages
here but the neighbors lost power and phone service so we became
emergency central for all the neighbors seeking assistance in getting
their power and/or phone turned back on asap.
What was noticeable during all this was
that friends and neighbors stayed positive – after a week of no
sunshine that can be a feat in of itself – some even turned the
situation into an impromptu 'soggy bottom' party because they argued
that since their asses were getting wet anyway why not have fun with
it. Even though we had resolved to remain dry we did go to the party
at a local eatery and let our asses 'get wet' as it were with our
friends.
It was good to be around positive
people especially since it seems that all the negativity is glorified
today along with the stupidity … don't you think the last 35 years
of ever more negativity and increasing stupidity is enough?
The severity of the weather was not
quite as bad as predicted locally which was a good thing – the
damages were light when compared to the possible damages the weather
could have inflicted so all in all life here was hardly interrupted.
Big Win in Fight Against Police Brutality
NYPD Announces Massive Sweeping Reform on Use of Force
In a massive win in the fight against police brutality, the NYPD is
establishing a new set of guidelines for using and documenting force,
along with a thorough tracking system to back it up.ACLU Sues Catholic Hospitals Who Would Let Women Die Rather Than Perform Abortions
Everyone knows that the catholic cult hates abortion. That is their
right under the First Amendment, of course. However, that is where
things get complicated....
Florida Judge Throws Crying Domestic Abuse Victim In Jail For ‘Making The State Look Bad’
How dare she allow something like an abuse victim’s emotional
well-being or anxiety get in the way of the state’s conviction rate?
This judge will make you absolutely furious.Vile CEO Will Go To Trial For Cover-Up That Resulted In 29 Deaths
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We may have finally found a cure for affluenza.
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