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Carolina Naturally
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Natural History Museum ... !
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It is also Buy A Musical Instrument Day!
Today in History
| 526 | St. John I ends his reign as Catholic Pope. | |
| 1643 | Queen Anne, the widow of Louis XIII, is granted sole and absolute power as regent by the Paris parliament, overriding the late king’s will. | |
| 1652 | A law is passed in Rhode Island banning slavery in the colonies but it causes little stir and seems unlikely to be enforced. | |
| 1792 | Russian troops invade Poland. | |
| 1802 | Britain declares war on France. | |
| 1804 | Napoleon Bonaparte becomes the Emperor of France. | |
| 1828 | The Battle of Las Piedras, between Uruguay and Brazil, ends. | |
| 1860 | Lincoln is nominated for president. | |
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| 1864 | The fighting at Spotsylvania in Virginia, reaches its peak at the Bloody Angle. | |
| 1896 | The Supreme Court’s decision on Plessy v. Ferguson upholds the “separate but equal” policy in the United States. | |
| 1904 | Brigand Raisuli kidnaps American Ion H. Perdicaris in Morocco. | |
| 1917 | The U.S. Congress passes the Selective Service act, calling up soldiers to fight World War I. | |
| 1931 | Japanese pilot Seiji Yoshihara crashes his plane in the Pacific Ocean while trying to be the first to cross the ocean nonstop. He is picked up seven hours later by a passing ship. | |
| 1933 | President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Tennessee Valley Authority Act. | |
| 1942 | New York ends night baseball games for the rest of World War II. | |
| 1944 | The Allies finally capture Monte Cassino in Italy. | |
| 1951 | The United Nations moves its headquarters to New York city. | |
| 1969 | Two battalions of the 101st Airborne Division assault Hill 937 but cannot reach the top because of muddy conditions. | |
| 1974 | India becomes the sixth nation to explode an atomic bomb. | |
| 1980 | After rumbling for two months, Mount Saint Helens, in Washington, erupts 3 times in 24 hours. |
Have Your Been Storing Your Champagne in the Fridge?
Stop It!
The science is sound too. The cold, humidless air in
the refrigerator dries out the cork, which might not release enough air
to let the bubbles get away, but it does release enough air to oxidize
the champagne and change the flavor.
So what are you supposed to do? Either put your champagne in the fridge the day before you're ready to drink it or put it in a bucket of cold ice 15-20 minutes before drinking.
Read more about it in the Huffington Post.
So what are you supposed to do? Either put your champagne in the fridge the day before you're ready to drink it or put it in a bucket of cold ice 15-20 minutes before drinking.
Read more about it in the Huffington Post.
The Surprising Pattern Behind Color Names
By the way, languages with fewer words for colors were once thought to be from people who are color blind. Not true at all, because languages have different ways of distinguishing colors besides a dedicate term for the color.
Non-Italian hand gestures
by Nan Swift
Non-Italian
hand gestures fascinate scholars, who labor to classify the gestures and
grasp their meanings. Here is a very partial compendium of studies of
non-Italian hand gestures, or, in two cases, of patents relating
thereto.Russian Hand Gestures
A Dictionary of Russian Gesture, B. Monahan, 1983, Hermitage, Ann Arbor, MI.
Hispano-American Hand Gestures
Diccionario de Gestos: España e Hispanoamérica (2 vols.), Giovanni Meo-Zilio and Silvia Mejía, Instituto Caro y Cuervo, Bogotá, 1980--83.
Catalan Hand Gestures
"Assaig de Dialectologia Gestual. Aproximació Pragmàtica al Repertori Bàsic D'emblemes del Català de Barcelona," Lluis Payrató, Ph.D. thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 1989.
Catalan gestures, from the doctoral thesis "Assaig de Dialectologia Gestual. Aproximació Pragmàtica al Repertori Bàsic D'emblemes del Català de Barcelona."
Brazillian Thumb Gestures
"The Brazilian Thumbs-Up Gesture," Joel Sherzer, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, vol. 1, no. 2, 1991, pp. 189--97Australian Thumb Gesture
"'Thumbs-up Is a Rude Gesture in Australia': The Presentation of Culture in International Business Textbooks," Frank B. Tipton, Critical Perspectives on International Business, vol. 4, no. 1, 2008, pp. 7--24.
Peculiar Finger Gestures with Particular Significance
"Beschämung, Lob, und Schadenfreude---Hand- und Fingergebärden Mit Bestimmter Bedeutung" [Shame, Praise, and Malicious Joy---Hand and Finger Gestures with Particular Significance], Arnold Niederer, Schweizerisches Archiv für Volkskunde, vol. 85, nos. 1--2, 1989, pp. 201--17.
"Artificial Hand for Use by Motorcycle Drivers in Greeting, Has Anatomical Characteristics of Human Hand, and Reports Signals Through Finger Position or Gestures," German patent DE202005012371, issued to Achim Necker, December 15, 2005.
A Seat Cushion for a Hand Gesture
"Combined Tomahawk Shaped Seat Cushion and Hand Mitt for Chop Gesturing," U.S. patent D368822, issued to Gerald W. Gibre, April 16, 1996. The document explains
The ornamental design for a combined tomahawk shaped seat cushion and hand mitt for chop gesturing... FIG. 7 is a perspective view of "the combined tomahawk shaped seat cushion and hand mitt for chop gesturing, shown in use as a hand mitt, wherein the broken line showing of a hand is for illustrative purposes only and forms no part of the claimed design.
Dude Rompers Are the Stupidest Thing Ever Created
They’re called “RompHims” and...who cares what they're called? These are horrible
Could Your Cells Be Worth Millions?
Almost
everyone has a fairly unique genome, and occasionally an outlier is
identified with a body that produces something unique and particularly
valuable to science or medicine. My brother has an unusual "clean" type
of blood that can easily be given to infants, so he gets a call from his
local hospital every once in a while. Even rarer is a person who can
make medicine with his blood, like Ted Slavin.
Not all unique genomes are a goldmine for the producer, though. You can read Slavin's story, plus that of a woman who willingly gives her blood away for research, and the tangled story of another person who was cut out of the profits from his own tissues, at Real Clear Science.Born with hemophilia, a genetic disorder that impairs the blood's ability to clot, Slavin received blood transfusions repeatedly throughout his life. This never-ending process unfortunately exposed him to hepatitis B on countless occasions. Though Slavin's blood refused to clot, it demonstrated incredible resiliency to the viral hepatitis invaders. When his doctor tested his blood, he found a wealth of hepatitis B antibodies, Y-shaped proteins uniquely suited to fighting off the infection. The discovery blasted open a goldmine for both Slavin and scientists. They needed antibodies for research; he needed money. Slavin began charging as much as $10 for every milliliter of his blood. Pharmaceutical companies bought it wholesale. Slavin's body was now his business.
This One Thing Can Make You 24% Sexier To Women
She’ll think you’re more trustworthy and intelligent, too
How Much Force Could a T. rex Bite Deliver?
Bone crushing—extreme osteophagy in the scientific parlance—is a trait exhibited by just a handful of mammalian scavengers and predators today, including the spotted hyena and the gray wolf. Osteophagy is almost unheard of in reptiles; their long, conical teeth don’t tend to clamp together to deliver the crushing forces needed to shatter bone. And yet Gregory Erickson, FSU paleontologist and co-author of the new study published today in Scientific Reports, has long observed that the bite marks on the brutalized carcasses of T.rex lunches indicate a bone-chewer.That's not the only evidence pointing to the massive power of the T. rex bite. Read about the research and findings of T. rex jaw strength at Gizmodo.
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
The Daily Drift
Welcome to Today's Edition of
Carolina Naturally
Carolina Naturally
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Anna and Hannah ... !
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The Truth Hurts!
Today in History
| 1540 | Afghan chief Sher Khan defeats Mongul Emperor Humayun at Kanauj. | |
| 1630 | Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi sees the belts on Jupiter’s surface. | |
| 1681 | Louis XIV sends an expedition to aid James II in Ireland. As a result, England declares war on France. | |
| 1756 | Britain declares war on France. | |
| 1792 | Merchants form the New York Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street. | |
| 1814 | Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden. | |
| 1863 | Union General Ulysses Grant continues his push towards Vicksburg at the Battle of the Big Black River Bridge. | |
| 1875 | The first Kentucky Derby is run in Louisville. | |
| 1881 | Frederick Douglass is appointed recorder of deeds for Washington, D.C. | |
| 1940 | Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium and begins the invasion of France. | |
| 1954 | The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously rules for school integration in Brown v. Board of Education. | |
| 1973 | The Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings. | |
| 1987 | In the Persian Gulf the American guided missile frigate USS Stark is struck by 2 Exocet missiles fired by an Iraqi aircraft; only one detonates, but 37 sailors are killed and 21 are wounded. Whether the launch was deliberate or a mistake is still debated. |
NSA ‘WannaCry’ hackers have ‘compromised’ data that could include foreign nuclear codes
Last week’s ‘WannaCry’ ransomware attack
rocked networks and became the biggest cyberattack of its kind in
history — and now, the group behind it is threatening to release more
data as part of a Spotify-like subscription plan.
Wingnut demands classified briefings ‘so that Congress can at least know as much as Russians’
Comstock (r-VA) on Tuesday
demanded that the Dumbass Trump junta provide Congress with classified
briefings about the “highly classified” information Dumbass Trump gave to Russian officials.
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