The Delusion is strong in this one.
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
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Today in History
| 322 BC | The Greek philosopher Aristotle dies. | |
| 161 | On the death of Antoninus at Lorium, Marcus Aurelius becomes emperor. | |
| 1774 | The British close the port of Boston to all commerce. | |
| 1799 | In Palestine, Napoleon captures Jaffa and his men massacre more than 2,000 Albanian prisoners. | |
| 1809 | Aeronaut Jean Pierre Blanchard — the first person to make an aerial voyage in the New World — dies at the age of 56. | |
| 1838 | Soprano Jenny Lind (“the Swedish Nightingale”) makes her debut in Weber’s opera Der Freischultz. | |
| 1847 | U.S. General Winfield Scott occupies Vera Cruz, Mexico. | |
| 1849 | The Austrian Reichstag is dissolved. | |
| 1862 | Confederate forces surprise the Union army at the Battle of Pea Ridge, in Arkansas, but the Union is victorious. | |
| 1876 | Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for the telephone. | |
| 1904 | The Japanese bomb the Russian town of Vladivostok. | |
| 1906 | Finland becomes the third country to give women the right to vote, decreeing universal suffrage for all citizens over 24, however, barring those persons who are supported by the state. | |
| 1912 | French aviator, Heri Seimet flies non-stop from London to Paris in three hours. | |
| 1918 | Finland signs an alliance treaty with Germany. | |
| 1925 | The Soviet Red Army occupies Outer Mongolia. | |
| 1927 | A Texas law that bans Negroes from voting is ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. | |
| 1933 | The board game Monopoly is invented. | |
| 1933 | The film King Kong premieres in New York City. | |
| 1935 | Malcolm Campbell sets an auto speed record of 276.8 mph in Florida. | |
| 1936 | Hitler sends German troops into the Rhineland, violating the Locarno Pact. | |
| 1942 | Japanese troops land on New Guinea. | |
| 1951 | U.N. forces in Korea under General Matthew Ridgeway launch Operation Ripper, an offensive to straighten out the U.N. front lines against the Chinese. | |
| 1968 | The Battle of Saigon, begun on the day of the Tet Offensive, ends. | |
| 1971 | A thousand U.S. planes bomb Cambodia and Laos. | |
| 1979 | Voyager 1 reaches Jupiter. |
Acupuncture improves outcomes in carpal tunnel syndrome in part by remapping the brain
Though
the practice of acupuncture predates current understanding of
physiology by several millennia, it often provides measureable
improvements in health outcomes, particularly in the area of chronic
pain. Now, in a study reported in the … Read more
A Comfortable Present
There was an immediate backlash of hilarity in my Twitter feed at least, with the general sentiment ranging from “Yup!” to my own sense of “Future? This is the present, and I’m fine with that.” Mediaite tracked down Gilda Wabbit, the drag queen in the photo, for a fabulous comment:
I’d like to see a future where it isn’t a big deal for a woman in full modesty garb to sit next to a drag queen in NYC. It’s become a bit of a sensation, but her and I were just existing. The freedom to simply be yourself in a sea of people who aren’t like you is a freedom we all deserve.Indeed.
Monday, March 6, 2017
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Today in History
| 1521 | Ferdinand Magellan discovers Guam. | |
| 1820 | The Missouri Compromise is enacted by Congress and signed by President James Monroe, providing for the admission of Missouri into the Union as a slave state, but prohibits slavery in the rest of the northern Louisiana Purchase territory. | |
| 1836 | After fighting for 13 days, the Alamo falls. | |
| 1853 | Giuseppe Verdi’s opera La Traviata premieres in Venice. | |
| 1857 | The Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision holds that blacks cannot be citizens. | |
| 1860 | While campaigning for the presidency, Lincoln makes a speech defending the right to strike. | |
| 1862 | The USS Monitor left New York with a crew of 63, seven officers and 56 seamen. | |
| 1884 | Over 100 suffragists, led by Susan B. Anthony, present President Chester A. Arthur with a demand that he voice support for female suffrage. | |
| 1888 | Louisa May Alcott dies just hours after the burial of her father. | |
| 1899 | Aspirin is patented following Felix Hoffman’s discoveries about the properties of acetylsalicylic acid. | |
| 1901 | A would-be assassin tries to kill Wilhelm II of Germany in Bremen. | |
| 1914 | German Prince Wilhelm de Wied is crowned as King of Albania. | |
| 1916 | The Allies recapture Fort Douaumont in France during the Battle of Verdun. | |
| 1928 | A Communist attack on Beijing results in 3,000 dead and 50,000 fleeing to Swatow. | |
| 1939 | In Spain, Jose Miaja takes over Madrid government after a military coup and vows to seek “peace with honor.” | |
| 1943 | British RAF fliers bomb Essen and the Krupp arms works in the Ruhr, Germany. | |
| 1945 | Cologne, Germany, falls to General Courtney Hodges‘ First Army. | |
| 1947 | Winston Churchill opposes the withdrawal of troops from India. | |
| 1948 | During talks in Berlin, the Western powers agree to internationalize the Ruhr region. | |
| 1953 | Upon Josef Stalin’s death, Georgi Malenkov is named Soviet premier. | |
| 1960 | The Swiss grant women the right to vote in municipal elections. | |
| 1965 | The United States announces that it will send 3,500 troops to Vietnam. | |
| 1967 | President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his plan to establish a draft lottery. | |
| 1973 | Nixon imposes price controls on oil and gas. | |
| 1975 | Iran and Iraq announce that they have settled the border dispute. | |
| 1980 | Islamic militants in Tehran say that they will turn over the American hostages to the Revolutionary Council. | |
| 1981 | Reagan announces plans to cut 37,000 federal jobs. | |
| 1987 | The British ferry Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in the Channel off the coast of Belgium. At least 26 are dead. |
How to Remove a Stripped Screw
So check out the full list of ideas on Instructables.
Spreadable Coffee
According to Curazy, Snow Brand Milk is releasing a spreadable version of its coffee to mark the 55th anniversary of its release.Ah, so it's from a milk company! The "spread" is probably mostly milk and sugar with some coffee in it for flavoring. That might not be bad at all, if you like that sort of thing.
If you’ve ever had Snow Brand Milk’s Coffee, you’ll know it’s rather creamy and sweet, so it should make a good toast spread.
It's Hard To Make Healthy Choices
Secret Countries You May Not Have Heard Of
But their secret status typically just means the country is
not yet officially recognized, and these young countries are eager to
make a name for themselves.
The self-proclaimed country of Transnistria
declared independence from Chisinau in 1990 and has decided to embrace
that Communist country during the Cold War vibe- complete with statues
of Lenin and hammer & sickle flags.Transnistria isn't closed
off to visitors, but if you want to visit you'll have to take a bus
across the border from Moldova, and their KGB style police force may be
less than welcoming...
So maybe you should head to sunny Somaliland instead?
Somaliland is an island of calm in the middle of Somalia's ongoing civil war, and even though this northwestern part of Somalia declared independence back in 1991 the Republic of Somaliland has yet to be officially recognized.The young nation is currently considered the "No. 1 failed state according to the Fund for Peace’s Fragile States Index of 2016.", so Somaliland's future is uncertain at best despite 26 years of stability.
The self-proclaimed country of Transnistria
declared independence from Chisinau in 1990 and has decided to embrace
that Communist country during the Cold War vibe- complete with statues
of Lenin and hammer & sickle flags.Transnistria isn't closed
off to visitors, but if you want to visit you'll have to take a bus
across the border from Moldova, and their KGB style police force may be
less than welcoming...
So maybe you should head to sunny Somaliland instead?Somaliland is an island of calm in the middle of Somalia's ongoing civil war, and even though this northwestern part of Somalia declared independence back in 1991 the Republic of Somaliland has yet to be officially recognized.The young nation is currently considered the "No. 1 failed state according to the Fund for Peace’s Fragile States Index of 2016.", so Somaliland's future is uncertain at best despite 26 years of stability.
The Man Who Thought He Could Walk Into Soviet Russia
Mott was, as one U.S. ambassador would later describe him, “a kind of innocent abroad,” who had come to this isolated place, north of the Arctic Circle, on a whim. He had a confidence characteristic of young, educated, American white men in the 1960s—a feeling that everything would probably work out, because, the great majority of the time, everything did. But when Newcomb Mott illegally crossed the border into the USSR in 1965, aiming to collect a new stamp on his passport, everything did not go right for him.Read the story of Newcomb Mott at Atlas Obscura.
Within a year of crossing the border, Newcomb Mott was dead, killed either by fellow prisoners or by government agents, although the Soviet government officially ruled his death a suicide. Under different circumstances, he might have been given a fine and set free after a few days or weeks. But borders are fraught places, where the rules can shift quickly and individual choices, the power of the state, and politics can turn small mistakes into tragedies.
Jack Kerouac Discusses The Hippies On A Talk Show Back In 1968
That's not to say Hippies didn't enjoy reading too, but the written word wasn't a backbone of the movement like it was for the Beats, and where Hippies were often spaced out Jack and the Beats generally just acted obtuse.
This episode of Firing Line from 1968 features William F. Buckley, Jr. discussing the rise of the Hippies in the stuffiest way possible, while Jack Kerouac drunkenly rambles and provides comic relief.
Wingnut Bigot Shoots Man In Fit Of Anti-Immigrant Rage
A 39-year-old Kent, Washington Sikh man was shot in the arm after being
accosted by a white man who told him, “Go back to your own country!”
then opened fire.
How long before people in power realize that it’s wingnut bigots who are the REAL terrorist threat?
How long before people in power realize that it’s wingnut bigots who are the REAL terrorist threat?
6 Ways to Fight Brain Rot in the Dumbass Trump Era
First and foremost - turn off Fox Spews, eh, we mean ... 'News'!
Trout Jumps Out Of Water And Turns Into Fishsicle
When objects of different temperatures come into contact, they want to achieve thermal equilibrium (the point at which one is no longer warmer than the other). It’s this heat transfer that led the trout straight to Davey Jones’ locker. The moment the surfaces came into contact, the metal robbed the fish it of its body heat. And because aluminum is so conductive – it’s one of the most conductive common metals – the transfer happened fast enough to freeze the fish’s water-coated skin to the baffle.
Do Crows Have Funerals?
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