Now, catfish tend to stay in the water, and hopping mice tend to stay on dry land. What’s going on here? The research team has a theory, although they don’t know for sure. One thing they are sure of is that the catfish are growing much bigger than they used to. You can read about the mice-gobbling catfish at Science Alert.To their surprise, when they opened up the stomachs of the fish to get an idea of their diets, 44 percent of them were filled with the remains of spinifex hopping mice (Notomys alexis) - a jumpy little native species that keeps to the arid, desert areas of central and western Australia.
And we're not just talking about a single mouse here or there - some of the fish had helped themselves to a few.
"It was pretty surprising - about half had at least one in their stomach, and two of them had three," one of the team, David Morgan, told Shannon Verhagen at Australian Geographic. "Overall, 95 percent of the total stomach contents constituted spinifex hopping mice."
| 1419 | John the Fearless is murdered at Montereau, France, by supporters of the dauphin. | |
| 1547 | The Duke of Somerset leads the English to a resounding victory over the Scots at Pinkie Cleugh. | |
| 1588 | Thomas Cavendish returns to England, becoming the third man to circumnavigate the globe. | |
| 1623 | Lumber and furs are the first cargo to leave New Plymouth in North America for England. | |
| 1813 | The nine-ship American flotilla under Oliver Hazard Perry wrests naval supremacy from the British on Lake Erie by capturing or destroying a force of six English vessels. | |
| 1846 | Elias Howe patents the first practical sewing machine in the United States. | |
| 1855 | Sevastopol, under siege for nearly a year, capitulates to the Allies during the Crimean War. | |
| 1861 | Confederates at Carnifex Ferry, Virginia, fall back after being attacked by Union troops. The action is instrumental in helping preserve western Virginia for the Union. | |
| 1912 | Jules Vedrines becomes the first pilot to break the 100 m.p.h. barrier. | |
| 1914 | The six-day Battle of the Marne ends, halting the German advance into France. | |
| 1923 | In response to a dispute with Yugoslavia, Mussolini mobilizes Italian troops on Serb front. | |
| 1961 | Jomo Kenyatta returns to Kenya from exile, during which he had been elected president of the Kenya National African Union. | |
| 1963 | President John F. Kennedy federalizes Alabama’s National Guard to prevent Governor George C. Wallace from using guardsmen to stop public-school desegregation. | |
| 1967 | Gibraltar votes to remain a British dependency instead of becoming part of Spain. | |
| 1974 | Guinea-Bissau (Portuguese Guinea) gains independence from Portugal. | |
| 1981 | Pablo Picasso’s painting Guernica is returned to Spain and installed in Madrid’s Prado Museum. Picasso stated in his will that the painting was not to return to Spain until the Fascists lost power and democracy was restored. | |
| 2001 | Contestant Charles Ingram cheats on the British version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, wins 1 million pounds. | |
| 2003 | Sweden’s foreign minister, Anna Lindh, is stabbed while shopping and dies the next day. | |
| 2007 | Nawaz Sharif, former prime minister of Pakistan, returns after 7 years in exile, following a military coup in October 1999. | |
| 2008 | The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator—described as the biggest scientific experiment in history—is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland. | |
Patricia told officials she didn’t think she was breaking any laws by
marrying Misty because her name is no longer listed on her daughter’s
birth certificate.
A warrant was issued for their arrests on Friday.
Since then, Patricia and Misty have both been arrested and booked into
the Stephens County Jail for incest, a detective said.
A man who was found beaten bloody, nearly naked, and apparently robbed
of several hundred dollars was then arrested by police for public
intoxication. It was also his birthday.
An officer responded to St. George Bar in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina,
on Wednesday at around 4:30am and found a man with just torn boxer
briefs on, blood on his face, and gashes on his body, according to a
Myrtle Beach police report.
The officer also observed a knot almost the size of a golf ball under
the victim’s eye. 
A 70-year-old man charged with robbing a Kansas City bank said he did it
because he preferred a jail cell over living with his wife.
Lawrence John Ripple has been charged in federal court with the Friday
afternoon robbery of the Bank of Labor.
A man from Louisville, Kentucky, faces a string of charges after police
say he broke into several vehicles at a Harrodsburg business, then fell
asleep inside one of those vehicles.
| 337 | Constantine’s three sons, already Caesars, each take the title of Augustus. Constantine II and Constans share the west while Constantius II takes control of the east. | |
| 1087 | William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy and King of England, dies in Rouen while conducting a war which began when the French king made fun of him for being fat. | |
| 1513 | King James IV of Scotland is defeated and killed by English at Flodden. | |
| 1585 | Pope Sixtus V deprives Henry of Navarre of his rights to the French crown. | |
| 1776 | The term “United States” is adopted by the Continental Congress to be used instead of the “United Colonies.” | |
| 1786 | George Washington calls for the abolition of slavery. | |
| 1791 | French Royalists take control of Arles and barricade themselves inside the town. | |
| 1834 | Parliament passes the Municipal Corporations Act, reforming city and town governments in England. | |
| 1850 | California, in the midst of a gold rush, enters the Union as the 31st state. | |
| 1863 | The Union Army of the Cumberland passes through Chattanooga as they chase after the retreating Confederates. The Union troops will soon be repulsed at the Battle of Chickamauga. | |
| 1886 | The Berne International Copyright Convention takes place. | |
| 1911 | An airmail route opens between London and Windsor. | |
| 1915 | A German zeppelin bombs London for the first time, causing little damage. | |
| 1926 | The Radio Corporation of America creates the National Broadcasting Co. | |
| 1942 | A Japanese float plane, launched from a submarine, makes its first bombing run on a U.S. forest near Brookings, Oregon. | |
| 1943 | Allied troops land at Salerno, Italy and encounter strong resistance from German troops. | |
| 1948 | Kim Il-sung declares the establishment of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. | |
| 1956 | Elvis Presley makes his first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show; cameras focus on his upper torso and legs to avoid showing his pelvis gyrations, which many Americans—including Ed Sullivan—thought unfit for a family show. | |
| 1965 | US Department of Housing and Urban Development established. | |
| 1965 | Hurricane Betsy, the first hurricane to exceed $1 billion in damages (unadjusted), makes its second landfall, near New Orleans. | |
| 1969 | Canada’s Official Languages Act takes effect, making French equal to English as a language within the nation’s government. | |
| 1970 | U.S. Marines launch Operation Dubois Square, a 10-day search for North Vietnamese troops near Da Nang. | |
| 1971 | Attica Prison Riot; the 4-day riot leaves 39 dead. | |
| 1976 | Communist Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung dies in Beijing at age 82. | |
| 1990 | Sri Lankan Army massacres 184 civilians of the Tamil minority in the Batticaloa District of Sri Lanka. | |
| 1991 | Tajikistan declares independence from USSR. | |
| 1993 | The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state. | |
| 2001 | Two al Qaeda assassins kill Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan. | |
| 2001 | A car bomb explodes outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta, killing 10 people. | |
At one point or another, Presidents John Quincy Adams, and Benjamin Harrison, and Chester Arthur and Rutherford B. Hayes and Abraham Lincoln, at some point, in all of their careers, all of those American presidents were all members of the Whig Party. William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, Miller Fillmore, they were all Whig Party members while they were president...The rest of the essay is here. And here's the Wikipedia summary of the Know-Nothings:
The Whigs were riven by internal divisions dealing with emerging things as the nation grew and changed. A lot of the division had to do with the issue of slavery and some other principled issues. But the Whig party, it had been a huge deal, and then it fell apart.
And political parties back then weren`t exactly what they are today. But when the Whig Party fell apart, the two-party system at the time fell apart as well. You have two parties and one collapses. It doesn`t just mean good news for the other party, it mean that is two-party system that counts on tension between the two parties, that falls apart if one party ceases to function.
And then the two-party system fell apart because the Whigs fell apart, when that two-party system rocked by them collapsing as a major party, what was left behind in American politics, for a while, at least, turned incredibly nasty – a little bit violent, but also nasty.
One of the things that happened in American politics at that time is that we got a series of secret societies that formed, basically to try to drive catholics out of this country. One of them was a secret Order of the Star Spangled Banner. There was also a Secret Order of United Americans...
When the movement embodied by the societies spread out of the cities of the East Coast and spread out of New England and went big nationwide, it did go big nationwide, the movement, it was interesting, it morphed a little bit depending on where it was. It was very strikingly anti-catholic in, say, Massachusetts.
By the time that movement was ready to spawn its sort of offspring or offshoots in California – well, in California, it didn`t that that much sense to be rabidly anti-catholic. In California, the version of it became rabidly anti-Chinese, because those were the immigrants they had out there...
This movement in American politics around the time that the two-party system collapsed because the Whigs fell apart, it was nativism. They hated immigrants. They blamed everything wrong in the country on immigrants. And it started as disparate movements and disparate secret societies.
But eventually, they got a name. They became known as the Know Nothing movement, which is also a funny name. People remember it to this day in part because it`s a strange thing to call some sort of political movement... Their origins were in secret societies, if you were a member of the movement, you`re supposed to say, oh, I know nothing...
But for a brief period in our history, around the collapse of Whigs before the civil war, the Know-Nothings got really big and fast and they did that in the waste land of this two-party system getting rattled. The Whigs collapsed, two major party democracy fell apart for a time because of that, and so, we got these Know-Nothing politicians, this know-nothing movement across the country. They`re very successful.
The know-nothing mayor of Chicago declared there will be no city job for any immigrant of anywhere. The know-nothing mayor of Philadelphia said there would be no political appointments for any immigrant. Native born Americans only.
And they took over major cities. They took over the legislature in Massachusetts. They spread nationwide and they had more than a million members. Know-nothings were a big deal in American politics for a couple of years, as the normal party system broke itself down and stopped to function. But then they collapsed...
The movement arose in response to an influx of migrants and promised to "purify" American politics by limiting or ending the influence of Irish catholics and other immigrants, thus reflecting nativist and anti-catholic sentiment. It was empowered by popular fears that the country was being overwhelmed by German and Irish catholic immigrants, whom they saw as hostile to republican values and as being controlled by the pope. Mainly active from 1854 to 1856, the movement strove to curb immigration and naturalization but met with little success. Membership was limited to protestant men. There were few prominent leaders, and the largely middle-class membership was divided over the issue of slavery.
A Florida woman called police to report that her pet rock had been stolen.
The rock was taken from a table on her porch, according to Niceville Police Department.
A Shakespeare street performer chased armed raiders through the historic
town of Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, after they had robbed a jewelers.
Staff inside Christopher Poel jewelers watched as three men, two armed
with sledgehammers and one with a crowbar, smashed windows and stole
watches.
They fled when shopkeepers threw chairs at them, with "Shakespeare's
ghost" performer John Jarvis in pursuit.
"Luckily everyone was inside, they only attacked from the outside. There
are a couple of staff here and they're really shaken. It's the shock of
it."
Mr Jarvis, 62, who dresses in a white costume for his street performance
in the town, said he saw three lads "whack" the shop's window "grab a
few bits" then run and he gave chase.
"One of them was swinging a crowbar - I took a whack at him, because I don't like having a crowbar swung at me," he said.
"He went down there. They carried on running."
He said a "young lad" then also gave chase and Mr Jarvis carried on in case anything happened to him.
"But I ran out of steam and so did the boy and we came back."
Mr Poel said he was grateful to fellow shopkeepers who threw the chairs to try to foil the robbery.
Warwickshire Police, which deployed the force helicopter, said two men had been arrested.
