Saturday, April 29, 2017
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Today in History
| 357 | Constantius II visits Rome for the first time. | |
| 1282 | Villagers in Palermo lead a revolt against French rule in Sicily. | |
| 1635 | Virginia Governor John Harvey is accused of treason and removed from office. | |
| 1760 | French forces besieging Quebec defeat the British in the second Battle on the Plains of Abraham. | |
| 1788 | Maryland becomes the seventh state to ratify the constitution. | |
| 1789 | The crew of the HMS Bounty mutinies against Captain William Bligh. | |
| 1818 | President James Monroe proclaims naval disarmament on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain. | |
| 1856 | Yokut Indians repel an attack on their land by 100 would-be Indian fighters in California. | |
| 1902 | Revolution breaks out in the Dominican Republic. | |
| 1910 | The first night air flight is performed by Claude Grahame-White in England. | |
| 1916 | British declare martial law throughout Ireland. | |
| 1919 | Les Irvin makes the first jump with an Army Air Corps parachute. | |
| 1920 | Azerbaijan joins the Soviet Union. | |
| 1930 | The first organized night baseball game is played in Independence, Kansas. | |
| 1932 | A yellow fever vaccine for humans is announced. | |
| 1945 | Benito Mussolini is killed by Italian partisans. | |
| 1946 | The Allies indict Tojo on 55 counts of war crimes | |
| 1947 | Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl and five others set out in a balsa wood craft known as Kon Tiki to prove that Peruvian Indians could have settled in Polynesia. | |
| 1953 | French troops evacuate northern Laos. | |
| 1965 | The U.S. Army and Marines invade the Dominican Republic. | |
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| 1969 | Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France. |
Explosive Facts about Volcanoes
Volcanoes
are cool, except when you're in danger of being killed by one. Well,
maybe cool isn't the right word, because they're hot. John Green tells
us all kinds of neat things about volcanoes in the latest episode of the
mental_floss List Show.
The Movie Date That Solidified J.R.R. Tolkien’s Dislike of Walt Disney
J.R.R.
Tolkien and C.S. Lewis were friends and carried on epic literary and
religious discussions. They also went to see Disney's first animated
feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, together in 1938 or '39. They hated it. Tolkien was particularly repulsed by how Disney portrayed dwarves.
Read the particulars of Tolkien's and Lewis' criticism of Disney at Atlas Obscura.Years later, in a 1964 letter to a Miss J.L. Curry at Stanford University, likely spurred on by the controversy surrounding Disney’s treatment of Mary Poppins, Tolkien further laid bare his true feelings on Disney’s work. He described Disney’s talent as “hopelessly corrupted,” writing, “Though in most of the ‘pictures’ proceeding from his studios there are admirable or charming passages, the effect of all of them is to me disgusting. Some have given me nausea…” He goes on to call Disney a “cheat,” noting that while he too had a profit motive behind his work, he wouldn’t stoop to working with Disney.
Would You Like Some Black Ice Cream?
Showing Hypochondriacs What a Real Emergency Looks Like
Here’s why you should consider your family doctor or urgent care first
Experimental Prostate Cancer Treatment Is Shrinking Tumors
There may be new hope for men with this deadly disease
Secret Dumbass Trumpcare Confab Revealed with Insurance Execs and Freedom Caucus
A Very Sneaky Snake
Thursday, April 27, 2017
The Daily Drift
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Remember today is Babe Ruth Day!
Today in History
| 1296 | Edward I defeats the Scots at the Battle of Dunbar. | |
| 1509 | Pope Julius II excommunicates the Italian state of Venice. | |
| 1565 | The first Spanish settlement in Philippines is established in Cebu City. | |
| 1773 | British Parliament passes the Tea Act. | |
| 1746 | King George II wins the Battle of Culloden. | |
| 1813 | American forces capture York (present-day Toronto), the seat of government in Ontario. | |
| 1861 | Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus. | |
| 1861 | West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from the Union. | |
| 1863 | The Army of the Potomac begins marching on Chancellorsville. | |
| 1865 | The Sultana, a steam-powered riverboat, catches fire and burns after one of its boilers explodes. At least 1,238 of the 2,031 passengers–mostly former Union POWs–are killed. | |
| 1909 | The Sultan of Turkey, Abdul Hamid II, is overthrown. | |
| 1937 | German bombers of the Condor Legion devastate Guernica, Spain. | |
| 1941 | The Greek army capitulates to the invading Germans. | |
| 1950 | South Africa passes the Group Areas Act, formally segregating races. | |
| 1961 | The United Kingdom grants Sierra Leone independence. | |
| 1975 | Saigon is encircled by North Vietnamese troops. | |
| 1978 | The Afghanistan revolution begins. | |
| 1989 | Protesting students take over Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. |
Indoor Plants That Are Hard To Kill
They
can buy an indoor plant that's hard to kill, like the bold and
beautiful bromeliad, which likes to be in temperatures around 70 degrees
and produces shoots that replace the original plant.
But if the bromeliad is too flashy for you then you may want to start with the basics- the spider plant, the dieffenbachia and the calathea:
The spider plant only needs to be watered once a week, and its shoots produce babies that can be re potted so you can have as many spider plants in your home as you'd like.The dieffenbachia is happy with filtered light and doesn't need regular watering, and the calathea or "peacock plant" thrives in low light and simply needs to be kept moist, so
But if the bromeliad is too flashy for you then you may want to start with the basics- the spider plant, the dieffenbachia and the calathea:
The spider plant only needs to be watered once a week, and its shoots produce babies that can be re potted so you can have as many spider plants in your home as you'd like.The dieffenbachia is happy with filtered light and doesn't need regular watering, and the calathea or "peacock plant" thrives in low light and simply needs to be kept moist, so
‘Anumeric’ people: What happens when a language has no words for numbers?
There are numberless hunter-gatherers embedded deep in Amazonia, living along branches of the world’s largest river tree.
Instead of using words for precise quantities, these people rely exclusively on terms analogous to “a few” or “some.”
In contrast, our own lives are governed by numbers.
As you read this, you are likely aware of what time it is, how old you are, your checking account balance, your weight and so on.
The exact (and exacting) numbers we think with impact everything from our schedules to our self-esteem.
But, in a historical sense, numerically fixated people like us are the unusual ones.
For the bulk of our species’ approximately 200,000-year lifespan, we had no means of precisely representing quantities.
What’s more, the 7,000 or so languages that exist today vary dramatically in how they utilize numbers.
What medieval sources reveal about the true nature of the Vikings
The Viking Age begins as hordes of Vikings leap ashore from their long-ships, in a lightening raid against defenseless clerics and lay folk, only to depart as swiftly as they arrive loaded up with slaves and booty.
These hit-and-run raids are seen to have continued for decades before visitors from Scandinavia began to trade, negotiate and found settlements on English soil.
While it can’t be denied that Viking raids were violent, the established narrative of first contact seems oversimplified in the light of contemporary evidence.
The True Adventures Of Bill Hitler
Hitler's
older half-brother, Alois, lived in England in 1911, where he produced a
son named William Hitler. By the time William was grown, the Hitler
name was well-known, and Alois had abandoned his British family to
return to Germany.
William Hitler's dealings with his Nazi uncle is the reason the article's headline refers to him as "Hitler's Idiot Nephew," but after a weird interlude of trying to cash in on his name, he apparently grew up and learned better in his later years. Read the story of William Hitler at Cracked, in the colorful language they are known for.Left without his father, William and his mother struggled back in England. Any job opportunities he could find seemed to vanish into thin air the moment people found out his last name. But there was one place where being a Hitler was your ticket to success: Nazi Germany. So William said goodbye to his mother, left his conscience in his old bedroom, and went over to Uncle Adolf's lair to mooch. Not wanting him to crash on the Eagle's Nest couch, his bestest best uncle eventually got him a gig at the German national bank. That was only his day job, though. By the 1930s, Willy Hitler had found his true calling: professional name-dropper.
Austin's Serial Axe Murderer
Between
December 1884 and December 1885, Austin, Texas, had eight axe murders.
Six women, and 11-year-old girl, and a man who was with another victim
were all killed in horrific ways, and several were also raped. Only the
first three were domestic workers, but the unknown perpetrator was
dubbed the "Servant Girl Annihilator." The murders did not stop because
the killer was caught; they just stopped.
As time passed, suspicion fell on men who left Austin at the time the murders stopped. More than one of those went to England, and coincidentally or not, that's when the Jack the Ripper murders began. Read what we know -and don't know- about the Servant Girl Annihilator and his victims at mental_floss.Though around 400 men were arrested in 1885 under suspicion of being the Annihilator, none were ever successfully tried. The list included Walter Spencer (the boyfriend of the first victim—acquitted after a two-day trial), “two suspicious-looking white brothers found with blood on their clothes,” Eula’s husband Jimmy Phillips, and Susan’s husband Moses Hancock. Phillips, the prosecutors claimed, was a copycat killer before the term existed, using the murders of Austin’s black working class as an excuse to kill his unfaithful and beautiful wife. Initially sentenced to seven years, Phillips’s conviction was overturned within six months; Hancock’s trial resulted in a hung jury. The Annihilator was still out there, but what was he—or they—doing?
Rachel Maddow Is Poised To Be #1 On Cable News
With O'Reilly gone from
Fox 'News', MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow show is poised to be the top-rated
program on cable news, and this new reality is massively bumming out wingnuts.…
Very Bad News For The NRA
Gutfeld Puts Out A Call For Anti-Choice Violence
He's stepping right into O'Reilly's shoes, calling for violence against pro-choice people. All in good fun, of course.
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