Monday, September 4, 2017
Wingnuts attack Women's March co-organizer for posting link to help Harvey victims
Spotting neo-Nazi websites isn't that easy
White supremacy is woven into the tapestry of American culture, online
and off–in both physical monuments and online domain names. A band of tiki-torch-carrying white nationalists gathered first online, and then at the site of a Jim Crow-era Confederate monument in Charlottesville, Virginia.
But it is getting easier ...
Sunday, September 3, 2017
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Today in History
| 1189 | After the death of Henry II, Richard the Lionheart is crowned King of England. | |
| 1260 | Mamelukes under Sultan Qutuz defeat Mongols and Crusaders at Ain Jalut. | |
| 1346 | Edward III of England begins the siege of Calais, along the coast of France. | |
| 1650 | The English under Cromwell defeat a superior Scottish army under David Leslie at the Battle of Dunbar. | |
| 1777 | The American flag (stars & stripes), approved by Congress on June 14th, is carried into battle for the first time by a force under General William Maxwell. | |
| 1783 | The Treaty of Paris is signed by Great Britain and the new United States, formally bringing the American Revolution to an end. | |
| 1838 | Frederick Douglass escapes slavery disguised as a sailor. He would later write The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass, his memoirs about slave life. | |
| 1855 | General William Harney defeats Little Thunder’s Brule Sioux at the Battle of Blue Water in Nebraska. | |
| 1895 | The first professional American football game is played in Latrobe, Pennsylvania between the Latrobe Young Men’s Christian Association and the Jeannette Athletic Club. Latrobe wins 12-0. | |
| 1914 | The French capital is moved from Paris to Bordeaux as the Battle of the Marne begins. | |
| 1916 | The German Somme front is broken by an Allied offensive. | |
| 1918 | The United States recognizes the nation of Czechoslovakia. | |
| 1939 | After Germany ignores Great Britain’s ultimatum to stop the invasion of Poland, Great Britain declares war on Germany, marking the beginning of World War II in Europe. | |
| 1939 | The British passenger ship Athenia is sunk by a German submarine in the Atlantic, with 30 Americans among those killed. American Secretary of State Cordell Hull warns Americans to avoid travel to Europe unless absolutely necessary. | |
| 1943 | British troops invade Italy, landing at Calabria. | |
| 1944 | The U.S. Seventh Army captures Lyons, France. | |
| 1945 | General Tomoyuki Yamashita, the Japanese commander of the Philippines, surrenders to Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright at Baguio. | |
| 1967 | Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Thieu is elected president of South Vietnam. | |
| 1969 | Ho Chi Minh, the leader of North Vietnam, dies. | |
| 1976 | The unmanned US spacecraft Viking 2 lands on Mars, taking the first close-up, color photos of the planet’s surface. | |
| 1981 | Egypt arrests some 1,500 opponents of the government. | |
| 1989 | The US begins shipping military aircraft and weapons to Colombia for use against that country’s drug lords. | |
| 1994 | Russia and China sign a demarcation agreement to end a dispute over a stretch of their border and agree they will no longer target each other with nuclear weapons. | |
| 2001 | Protestant loyalists in Belfast, Ireland, begin an 11-week picket of the Holy Cross Catholic school for girls, sparking rioting. | |
The True Story of the Koh-i-Noor Diamond
The
105-carat Koh-i-Noor Diamond is part of the British Crown Jewels, and
is on display at the Tower of London. The sign next to it says the gem
was a gift from India to Britain, which doesn't tell the entire story.
The nominal ruler of India was forced to give the diamond to his British
overlords. But the history of the diamond goes back much further. It
may be much older than the earliest records, which tell how the Indian
diamond was embedded into the Peacock Throne built for Mughal ruler Shah
Jahan in 1628. The Persians later took it when they invaded India. It
changed hands several times, often violently, before it returned to
India. There, it changed hands by violence again. When the British
Empire took possession of India, the Koh-i-Noor Diamond was sent to
Queen Victoria, and it's been in the British royal family ever since.
But who does it really belong to?“Post-colonial collections is a big topic everywhere,” says Jane Milosch, the director of Smithsonian’s Provenance Research Initiative. “There can be a reassessment for certain objects of, ‘we may have legal ownership, but does it make sense to keep this material?’” She cites a 2014 case in which the British Museum returned two bronze statues from Benin to Nigeria (they were taken during an attack in 1897 after British officers were killed during a trade mission).So while art stolen during World War II and Egyptian tomb treasures are returned to their rightful owners, the Koh-i-Noor Diamond has a history of ownership changing hands by looting going back hundreds of years. Read the sordid history of the diamond and the controversy surrounding its ownership at Smithsonian.
But returning pillaged art and treasure from World War II, as complicated as that can be, is still far less complex than unraveling colonial history. “You’re dealing with countries that existed when the object was acquired, but they may not exist now—and countries who we had trade agreements with that may have different export laws now,” Milosch says. “Provenance is very complex and people aren’t used to processing a chain of ownership. By the time you hit the second or third owner over time, the information can get more difficult to research. This is why I say it’s important that these things not be yanked out of museums, because at least people have access and can study them until we know for sure if they were looted.”
L'Oreal drops transgender model over controversial comments
French cosmetics giant L'Oreal on Friday confirmed it had dropped a
British transgender model over comments the company deemed "at odds with
our values," after she was hired as part of a diversity campaign."L’Oreal champions diversity," the beauty brand said on Twitter. "Comments by Munroe Bergdorf are at odds with our values and so we have decided to end our partnership with her".
Texas wingnut turns down donated blankets, beds, manpower from Canada
Armed wingnut militias ripped for bringing guns to ‘help’ Harvey survivors in Houston
Over 20 hectares of Roman ruins discovered submerged off Tunisian coast
New Experiment Reveals Secret Behind 200,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Glue
We
once assumed that Neanderthals were just dumb cavemen because they
looked so different from modern humans. But as scientists uncover more
and more information about them, we learn that while they were
primitive, they were no dummies. They were using tar to glue objects
together 200,000 years ago, which enabled them to design and manufacture
tools. That was way before the invention of ceramics, much less the
forging of metal pots. So how did they manage to cook the necessary
ingredients to make tar? A group of researchers from Leiden University
tried to recreate the possible scenario for the Neanderthal's discovery
of tar, using the materials (birch bark, pine) and methods (fire)
thought to be available to them at the time. By repeating the process
and varying the conditions, they were able to reproduce the kind of tar
Neanderthals used.“What this paper reinforces is that all of the humans that were around 50,000 to 150,000 years ago roughly, were culturally similar and equally capable of these levels of imagination, invention and technology,” explained Washington University anthropologist Erik Trinkaus, who wasn’t involved in the study, in an interview with Gizmodo. “Anthropologists have been confusing anatomy and behavior, making the inference that archaic anatomy equals archaic behavior, and ‘modern’ behavior [is equivalent to] modern human anatomy. What is emerging from the human fossil and Paleolithic archeological records across the Eurasia and Africa is that, at any one slice in time during this period, they were all doing—and capable of doing—basically the same things, whatever they looked like.”By the way, even the way Neanderthals looked has undergone a lot of revision since we first discovered their skeletons. Read more about the Neanderthal glue experiments at Gizmodo.
Human footprints found in Greece are 5.7 million years old
The Northern Lights - Nature's free psychedelic show
The Northern Lights, also known as Aurora Borealis, are a natural phenomenon that light up the night sky most notably in the Arctic region.
The dazzling spectacle – akin to a free laser show – is a hypnotic dance of colours which can be seen in a range of places from northern parts of Canada and Alaska to Scandinavia and Iceland.
Puppies' First Howl
Cat Fight in the Street
Verney wanted to record what they sounded like, so she rolled down the window. The terrifying wildcat screams we expect turned out to resemble two old women arguing. Redditor stanfan114 nailed it.
They sounds like the old ladies from Monty Python with the penguin on top of the television set.You can see that reference here.
Saturday, September 2, 2017
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Today in History
| 1666 | The Great Fire of London, which devastates the city, begins. | |
| 1789 | The Treasury Department, headed by Alexander Hamilton, is created in New York City. | |
| 1792 | Verdun, France, surrenders to the Prussian Army. | |
| 1798 | The Maltese people revolt against the French occupation, forcing the French troops to take refuge in the citadel of Valletta in Malta. | |
| 1870 | Napoleon III capitulates to the Prussians at Sedan, France. | |
| 1885 | In Rock Springs, Wyoming Territory, 28 Chinese laborers are killed and hundreds more chased out of town by striking coal miners. | |
| 1898 | Sir Herbert Kitchener leads the British to victory over the Mahdists at Omdurman and takes Khartoum. | |
| 1910 | Alice Stebbins Wells is admitted to the Los Angeles Police Force as the first woman police officer to receive an appointment based on a civil service exam. | |
| 1915 | Austro-German armies take Grodno, Poland. | |
| 1944 | Troops of the U.S. First Army enter Belgium. | |
| 1945 | Japan signs the document of surrender aboard the USS Missouri, ending World War II | |
| 1945 | Vietnam declares its independence and Nationalist leader Ho Chi Minh proclaims himself its first president. | |
| 1956 | Tennessee National Guardsmen halt rioters protesting the admission of 12 African-Americans to schools in Clinton. | |
| 1963 | Alabama Governor George Wallace calls state troopers to Tuskegee High School to prevent integration. | |
| 1963 | The US gets its first half-hour TV weeknight national news broadcast when CBS Evening News expands from 15 to 30 minutes. | |
| 1970 | NASA cancels two planned missions to the moon. | |
| 1975 | Joseph W. Hatcher of Tallahassee, Florida, becomes the state’s first African-American supreme court justice since Reconstruction. | |
| 1992 | The US and Russia agree to a joint venture to build a space station. | |
| 1996 | The Philippine government and Muslim rebels sign a pact, formally ending a 26-year long insurgency. | |
| 1998 | Jean Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, is found guilty of nine counts of genocide by the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. |
A magic formula to predict attraction is more elusive than ever
Dating
websites often claim attraction between two people can be predicted
from the right combination of traits and preferences, but a new study
casts doubt … Read more
Female entrepreneurs create fake male cofounder to avoid sexism
Dumbass Trump shows more compassion for rich people’s tax cuts than for homeless storm victims
'Nuns' on the run after failed US bank heist
White supremacist police chief’s resignation rejected by town leaders
‘I’m a goddamn human being’
Christopher “Crying Nazi” Cantwell gave his first post-arrest interview
to The Daily Beast’s Spencer and said that his new nickname makes
him really, really upset.
*No you are not you're a fucking Nazi
How the universe became filled with light
Researchers hypothesize how the universe became filled with light
Soon
after the Big Bang, the universe went completely dark. The intense,
seminal event that created the cosmos churned up so much hot, thick gas
that … Read more
Alien laser blasts?
Breakthrough
Listen, an initiative to find signs of intelligent life in the
universe, has detected 15 brief but powerful radio pulses emanating from
a mysterious … Read more
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