Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Horse Launches Surprise Attack On Alligator
The alligator looked like it was minding its own business, but I think the horse had the right idea because you never know what a gator might do when they start feeling a bit peckish.
Red Panda Triplets
Their mother Kesari is right behind them, though, to make sure everything goes alright
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
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Today in History
| 310 | St. Eusebius of Vercelli begins his reign as Catholic Pope. | |
| 1521 | Martin Luther confronts the emperor Charles V, refusing to retract the views which led to his excommunication. | |
| 1676 | Sudbury, Massachusetts is attacked by Indians. | |
| 1775 | American revolutionaries Paul Revere and William Dawes ride though the towns of Massachusetts warning that “the British are coming.” | |
| 1791 | National Guardsmen prevent Louis XVI and his family from leaving Paris. | |
| 1818 | A regiment of Indians and blacks is defeated at the Battle of Suwannee, in Florida, ending the First Seminole War. | |
| 1834 | William Lamb becomes prime minister of England. | |
| 1838 | The Wilkes’ expedition to the South Pole sets sail. | |
| 1847 | U.S. forces defeat Mexicans at Cerro Gordo in one of the bloodiest battle of the Mexican-American War. | |
| 1853 | The first train in Asia begins running from Bombay to Tanna. | |
| 1861 | Colonel Robert E. Lee turns down an offer to command the Union armies. | |
| 1895 | The First Sino-Japanese War ends. | |
| 1906 | A massive earthquake hits San Francisco, measuring 8.25 on the Richter scale. | |
| 1923 | Yankee Stadium opens with Babe Ruth hitting a three-run homer as the Yankees beat the Red Sox 4-1. | |
| 1937 | Leon Trotsky calls for the overthrow of Soviet leader Josef Stalin. | |
| 1942 | James H. Doolittle bombs Tokyo and other Japanese cities. | |
| 1943 | Traveling in a bomber, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbor, is shot down by American P-38 fighters. | |
| 1946 | The League of Nations dissolves. | |
| 1949 | The Republic of Ireland withdraws from British Commonwealth. | |
| 1950 | The first transatlantic jet passenger trip is completed. | |
| 1954 | Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes power in Egypt. | |
| 1978 | The U.S. Senate approves the transfer of the Panama Canal to Panama. | |
| 1980 | Zimbabwe’s (Rhodesia) formal independence from Britain is proclaimed. | |
| 1983 | A suicide bomber kills U.S. Marines at the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon. |
As Canada Moves To Fully Legalize Pot, Dumbass Trump Tells America To Just Say No
As Canada's PM Justin Trudeau
reminds his southern neighbors what progress looks like, the trapped in
the past Dumbass Trump junta is reviving the failed war on drugs.…
9,000 Americans On Meals On Wheels Will Starve To Pay For Dumbass Trump’s Florida Vacations
The money to cover the cost of Dumbass Trump's vacations to
his private resort in Florida has to come from somewhere, and according
to those monitoring his travel the $25 million that Dumbass Trump has spent
going to Florida would pay for 9 thousand meals on wheels.…
Montana Wingnut Bill Charges Abortion Doctors With Homicide
This is the right of a woman and her doctor.
These decisions should be made between the two of them with open, careful, honest, truthful consults. Not the legislature.…
These decisions should be made between the two of them with open, careful, honest, truthful consults. Not the legislature.…
Auburn University cancels shriek by Nazi
Alabama's Auburn University canceled a campus speech by Spencer, a white U.S. nationalist best known for drawing Nazi-like
salutes at a party to celebrate Dumbass Trump's theft of the election last
year, citing safety concerns.…
White Supremacist Gets Punched, Cries Like A Baby
Monday, April 17, 2017
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Today in History
| 858 | Benedict III ends his reign as Catholic Pope. | |
| 1492 | Christopher Columbus signs a contract with Spain to find a western route to the Indies. | |
| 1524 | Present-day New York Harbor is discovered by Giovanni da Verrazzano. | |
| 1535 | Antonio Mendoza is appointed first viceroy of New Spain. | |
| 1758 | Frances Williams, the first African-American to graduate from a college in the western hemisphere, publishes a collection of Latin poems. | |
| 1808 | Bayonne Decree by Napoleon Bonaparte of France orders seizure of U.S. ships. | |
| 1824 | Russia abandons all North American claims south of 54′ 40′. | |
| 1861 | Virginia becomes the eighth state to secede from the Union. | |
| 1864 | General Ulysses Grant bans the trading of prisoners. | |
| 1865 | Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in the Lincoln assassination. | |
| 1875 | The game “snooker” is invented by Sir Neville Chamberlain. | |
| 1895 | China and Japan sign peace treaty of Shimonoseki. | |
| 1929 | Baseball player Babe Ruth and Claire Hodgson, a former member of the Ziegfeld Follies, get married. | |
| 1946 | The last French troops leave Syria. | |
| 1947 | Jackie Robinson bunts for his first major league hit. | |
| 1961 | Some 1,400 Cuban exiles attack the Bay of Pigs in an attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro. | |
| 1964 | Jerrie Mock becomes first woman to fly solo around the world. | |
| 1969 | Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Senator Robert F. Kennedy. | |
| 1970 | Apollo 13–originally scheduled to land on the moon–lands back safely on Earth after an accident. | |
| 1975 | Khmer Rouge forces capture the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh. | |
| 1983 | In Warsaw, police rout 1,000 Solidarity supporters. |
Tank You
As reported by Popular Mechanics:
Remember General Smedley Butler's assertion that "War is a racket" well ...A tank collector in the United Kingdom was in for a surprise when he and his mechanic opened one of his tank's diesel fuel tanks. Inside were gold bars totaling approximately $2.4 million dollars...
Mead found the tank, an ex-Iraqi Army Type 69, on sale on eBay and traded it for an Abbot self-propelled howitzer and a British Army truck...
The gold is thought to be Kuwaiti in origin—Iraqi forces engaged in widescale looting of the country after the August 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
Klek-Shops in Sofia
Did The Ballpoint Pen Kill Cursive Handwriting?
People, especially the younger generations, don't write in cursive anymore (cursive handwriting isn't even being taught in some schools). That much is known.
But
what caused the decline in cursive handwriting? Is it the pervasive use
of computer keyboard (and now smartphone's texting)? Or is it something
else ... like the rise of the ballpoint pen:
Sassoon’s analysis of how we’re taught to hold pens makes a much stronger case for the role of the ballpoint in the decline of cursive. She explains that the type of pen grip taught in contemporary grade school is the same grip that’s been used for generations, long before everyone wrote with ballpoints. However, writing with ballpoints and other modern pens requires that they be placed at a greater, more upright angle to the paper—a position that’s generally uncomfortable with a traditional pen hold. Even before computer keyboards turned so many people into carpal-tunnel sufferers, the ballpoint pen was already straining hands and wrists.Read more over at this article by Josh Giesbrecht at The Atlantic.
White Supremacist Caught on Video Sucker-Punching Woman
Nathan Damigo of white nationalist group Identity Europa was identified by multiple witnesses as the man seen in a viral video lunging at an unsuspecting woman with dreadlocks and viciously punching her before she had a chance to react.
Wingnuts ADMIT They Incited Violence At Berkeley
Lawyers for Dumbass Trump sycophant who attacked black woman blame Dumbass Trump for ‘urging’ him on
“Dumbass Trump kept saying ‘get them out, get them
out’ and people in the crowd began pushing and shoving the protesters,”
Bamberger said. “I was caught up in the frenzy."
Jurassic Prank
The hapless runner that encounters the scene suffers a brain overload, and will probably never be the same again. Aren't you glad Gaillard doesn't live near you?
Bearded Dragon Sworn in as Police Officer
“Iroh has turned out to be a valuable member of the Avondale Police family,” according to a Facebook post on Feb. 15. “His skill set is so extensive that we have cross trained him in many areas.”This week, Iroh was promoted from mascot to police officer. Get the whole story of Iroh and the cops who love him at AZ Family.
Grand mal seizure in a snake
Any animal with a brain is susceptible to motor seizures, which are a manifestation of uncontrolled electrical activity in the neurons. If I had to guess at an etiology, the roadside occurrence would suggest to me that the snake had previously incurred head trauma from a passing vehicle, which eventually led to cerebral edema or intracranial bleeding. Alternatively it may have encountered a poison or a neurotoxic venom. In any case, it's a interesting activity to observe.
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