Sunday, August 20, 2017
‘My life is over’
"People have a right to know if their neighbor is a violent neo-Nazi
just as much as they would if their neighbor was a violent sex
offender."
‘Based Stickman’ faces a year in prison for beating counter-protesters with a baton
Arizona woman shocked when dog with swastika painted on its head arrives at her door
Phoenix’s KPNX said that the woman — who asked to go unnamed — was immediately seized with fear due to the fact that she is of Hispanic heritage and her adopted children are racially mixed.
Saturday, August 19, 2017
The Daily Drift
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Today in History
| 1493 | Maximilian succeeds his father Frederick III as Holy Roman Emperor. | |
| 1587 | Sigismund III is chosen to be the king of Poland. | |
| 1692 | Five women are hanged in Salem, Massachusetts after being convicted of the crime of witchcraft. Fourteen more people are executed that year and 150 others are imprisoned. | |
| 1772 | Gustavus III of Sweden eliminates the rule of parties and establishes an absolute monarchy. | |
| 1779 | Americans under Major Henry Lee take the British garrison at Paulus Hook, New Jersey. | |
| 1812 | The USS Constitution earns the nickname “Old Ironsides” during the battle off Nova Scotia that saw her defeat the HMS Guerriere. | |
| 1914 | The British Expeditionary Force (BEF) lands in France. | |
| 1934 | 38 million Germans vote to make Adolf Hitler the official successor to President von Hindenburg. | |
| 1936 | Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca is shot by Franco’s troops after being forced to dig his own grave. | |
| 1942 | A raid on Dieppe, France by British and Canadian commandos is repulsed by the German Army. | |
| 1944 | In an effort to prevent a communist uprising in Paris, Charles De Gualle begins attacking German forces all around the city. | |
| 1950 | Edith Sampson becomes the first African-American representative to the United Nations. | |
| 1957 | The first balloon flight to exceed 100,000 feet takes off from Crosby, Minnesota. | |
| 1965 | US forces destroy a Viet Cong stronghold near Van Tuong, in South Vietnam. | |
| 1974 | US Ambassador to Cyrus Rodger P. Davies is assassinated by a sniper of the Greek Cypriot paramilitary group EOKA-B during a demonstration outside the embassy in Nicosia. | |
| 1976 | Ford, who had become Pretender of the United States after Nixon resigned, wins the wingnut cabal’s pretender nomination at Kansas City convention. | |
| 1987 | The Hungerford Massacre takes place in the UK; armed with semi-automatic rifles and a handgun Michael Ryan kills 16 people before committing suicide. In response, Parliament passed the Firearms (Amendment) Act of 1988 banning ownership of certain classes of firearms. | |
| 1988 | A cease fire begins in the 8-year war between Iran and Iraq. | |
| 1991 | Communist hard-liners place President Mikhail Gorbachev under house arrest in an attempted coup that failed two days later. | |
| 2002 | A Russian Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside of Grozny, killing 118 soldiers. | |
| 2003 | The Shmuel Hanavi bus bombing occurs: a suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem kills 23 Israelis, some of them children, and wounds 130. Islamist militant group Hamas claims responsibility for the attack. | |
| 2004 | Google Inc. stock begins selling on the Nasdaq Stock Market, with an initial price of $85; the stock ended the day at $100.34 with more than 22 million shares traded. | |
| 2005 | A supercell weather pattern hits Toronto: a series of thunderstorms spawns several tornadoes and causes flash floods in Southern Ontario. Losses exceed $500 million Canadian dollars, the highest ever in the province. | |
| 2010 | Operation Iraqi Freedom ends; the last US combat brigade, 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, leave the country. Six brigades remain to train Iraqi troops. |
Natalee Holloway disappearance
Truck driver formally indicted for 10 immigrant deaths in Texas
James Bradley Jr., 60, was given a five-count indictment that included charges of transportation of undocumented aliens resulting in death and conspiracy to transport aliens resulting in death. If convicted on these charges, he could face up to life in prison or death, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas said.
Four things the average citizen can do to counter hate after Charlottesville
Internet firms shift stance, move to exile white supremacists
The wave of internet crackdowns against white nationalists and
neo-Nazis reflected a rapidly changing mindset among Silicon Valley
firms on how far they are willing to go to police hate speech.…
'Patently false’
Idaho state Rep. Heather Scott defended white nationalists by claiming that racism is not part of the movement. Eclipse will bring out more weird behavior in humans than in animals
‘It’s alive!’
Well, almost: Frankenstein monster may be missing dinosaur link
A
hole in the historic record of dinosaurs may have just been filled
thanks to the finding of a new species that experts are calling a
“Frankenstein’s monster.” The odd beast had the looks of … Read more
Marine scientists fear for right whales after unprecedented deaths
The latest death was reported from about 160 miles east of Cape Cod by the U.S. Coast Guard on Monday.
Baby dolphin dies after tourists pull it from ocean for selfies
A baby dolphin died Friday after several beachgoers in Spain pulled it
from the water to touch and take selfies with it, according to the Washington Post.
Beachgoers reportedly discovered the dolphin stranded on the beach, but
they didn't immediately report their finding to local law enforcement. 
Friday, August 18, 2017
The Daily Drift
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Today in History
| 1587 | In the Roanoke Island colony, Ellinor and Ananias Dare become parents of a baby girl whom they name Virginia, the first English child born in what would become the United States. | |
| 1590 | John White, the leader of 117 colonists sent in 1587 to Roanoke Island (North Carolina) to establish a colony, returns from a trip to England to find the settlement deserted. No trace of the settlers is ever found. | |
| 1698 | After invading Denmark and capturing Sweden, Charles XII of Sweden forces Frederick IV of Denmark to sign the Peace of Travendal. | |
| 1759 | The French fleet is destroyed by the British under “Old Dreadnought” Boscawen at the Battle of Lagos Bay. | |
| 1782 | Poet and artist William Blake marries Catherine Sophia Boucher. | |
| 1862 | Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart‘s headquarters is raided by Union troops of the 5th New York and 1st Michigan cavalries. | |
| 1864 | Union General William T. Sherman sends General Judson Kilpatrick to raid Confederate lines of communication outside Atlanta. The raid is unsuccessful. | |
| 1870 | Prussian forces defeat the French at the Battle of Gravelotte during the Franco-Prussian War. | |
| 1898 | Adolph Ochs takes over the New York Times, saying his aim is to give “the news, all the news, in concise and attractive form, in language that is permissible in good society, and give it early, if not earlier, than it can be learned through any other medium.” | |
| 1914 | Germany declares war on Russia while President Woodrow Wilson issues his Proclamation of Neutrality. | |
| 1920 | Tennessee becomes the thirty-sixth state to ratify the nineteenth amendment granting women’s suffrage, completing the three-quarters necessary to put the amendment into effect. | |
| 1929 | The first cross-country women’s air derby begins. Louise McPhetridge Thaden wins first prize in the heavier-plane division, while Phoebe Fairgrave Omlie finishes first in the lighter-plane category. | |
| 1939 | The film The Wizard of Oz opens in New York City. | |
| 1942 | Japan sends a crack army to Guadalcanal to repulse the U.S. Marines fighting there. | |
| 1943 | The Royal Air Force Bomber Command completes the first major strike against the German missile development facility at Peenemunde. | |
| 1963 | James Meredith, the first African American to attend University of Mississippi, graduates. | |
| 1965 | Operation Starlite marks the beginning of major U.S. ground combat operations in Vietnam. | |
| 1966 | Australian troops repulse a Viet Cong attack at Long Tan. | |
| 1969 | Two concert goers die at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, New York, one from an overdose of heroin, the other from a burst appendix. | |
| 1973 | Hank Aaron makes his 1,378th extra-base hit, surpassing Stan Musial’s record. | |
| 1974 | Luna 24, the USSR’s final major lunar exploration mission, soft-lands on moon. | |
| 1979 | Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini demands a “Saint War” against Kurds. | |
| 1982 | Pete Rose sets a record with his 13,941st plate appearance. | |
| 1987 | Ohio nurse Donald Harvey is sentenced to triple life terms for poisoning 24 patients. | |
| 1988 | The wingnut coven in New Orleans nominates the George H.W. Bush-Dan Quayle ticket. | |
| 1991 | A group of hard-line communist leaders unhappy with the drift toward the collapse of the Soviet Union seize control of the government in Moscow and place President Mikhail S. Gorbachev under house arrest | |
| 1993 | Historic Kapellbrücke (chapel bridge) in Luzern, Switzerland, burns, destroying 147 of its decorative paintings. It was built in 1365. | |
| 1992 | Dennis Rader, the BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) killer receives 10 consecutive life sentences. He had terrorized Wichita, Kansas, murdering 10 people between 1974 and 1991. | |
| 2010 | Edelmiro Cavazos, mayor of Santiago, Nuevo Leon, is found handcuffed, blindfolded and dead following his abduction three days earlier. He had championed crackdowns on organized crime and police corruption. | |
| 2011 | Gold hits a record price of $1,826 per ounce. |
‘Unite against fascism’
‘Stand for what is right’
Nazi Genetics
‘I’m glad she died’
KKK leader tells Univision reporter Ilia Calderón ‘to me, you’re a nigger’
Texas 'bathroom bill' dies in special legislative session
Texas measures criticized as being discriminatory for limiting
transgender people’s access to bathrooms in schools and public buildings
died on Tuesday, as the House adjourned and ended its special
legislative session. Video shows Minneapolis police watching as bouncer punches handcuffed man
Archaeologists uncover villa from ancient Rome
The University of South Florida reported that a team excavating the 5,400-square-foot Roman villa called Durrueli, near the coastal town of Realmonte on the Italian island Sicily, finding new sections of the estate and clues about what happened within its walls.
NASA mission to Venus will explore weird atmosphere
Scientists are trying to understand the how the atmosphere interacts with ultraviolet light because they have noticed a strange effect: According to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, something in the cloud tops absorbs light in this spectrum. They can see this when they view Venus across different wavelengths.
Vegetarian dinosaur could explain split in evolution
The dinosaur had a unique mix of features, some of which belonged to the theropod group of dinosaurs—mostly carnivorous beasts that included Tyrannosaurus rex —but also other characteristics that placed it outside that classification, such as flat, leaf-shaped teeth that indicated a vegetarian diet.
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