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Today in History
| 1315 | Swiss soldiers ambush and slaughter invading Austrians in the battle of Morgarten. | |
| 1533 | The explorer Francisco Pizarro enters Cuzco, Peru. | |
| 1626 | The Pilgrim Fathers, who have settled in New Plymouth, buy out their London investors. | |
| 1777 | The Articles of Confederation, instituting perpetual union of the United States of America, are adopted by Congress. | |
| 1805 | Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and their party reach the mouth of the Columbia River, completing their trek to the Pacific. | |
| 1806 | Explorer Zebulon Pike discovers the Colorado Peak that bears his name, despite the fact that he didn’t climb it. | |
| 1864 | Union Major General William T. Sherman‘s troops set fires that destroy much of Atlanta’s industrial district prior to beginning Sherman’s March to the Sea. | |
| 1881 | The American Federation of Labor is founded. | |
| 1909 | R. Metrot takes off in a Voisin biplane from Algiers, making the first manned flight in Africa. | |
| 1917 | Kerensky flees and Bolsheviks take command in Moscow. | |
| 1920 | Forty-one nations open the first League of Nations session in Geneva.. | |
| 1922 | It is announced that Dr. Alexis Carrel has discovered white corpuscles. | |
| 1930 | General strikes and riots paralyze Madrid, Spain. | |
| 1937 | Eighteen lawsuits are brought against the Tennessee Valley Authority, calling for its dissolution. | |
| 1942 | An American fleet defeats a Japanese naval force in a clash off Guadalcanal. | |
| 1946 | The 17th Paris Air Show opens at the Grand Palais des Champs-Elysees. It is the first show of this kind since World War II. | |
| 1952 | Newark Airport in New Jersey reopens after closing earlier in the year because of an increase in accidents. | |
| 1957 | Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev asserts Soviet superiority in missiles, challenging the United States to a rocket-range shooting match. | |
| 1960 | The first submarine with nuclear missiles, the USS George Washington, takes to sea from Charleston, South Carolina. | |
| 1962 | Cuba threatens to down U.S. planes on reconnaissance flights over its territory. | |
| 1963 | Argentina voids all foreign oil contracts. | |
| 1965 | In the second day of combat, regiments of the 1st Cavalry Division battle on Landing Zones X-Ray against North Vietnamese forces in the Ia Drang Valley. | |
| 1969 | A quarter of a million anti-Vietnam War demonstrators march in Washington, D.C. | |
| 1976 | A Syrian peace force takes control of Beirut, Lebanon. | |
| 1984 | Baby Fae dies 20 days after receiving a baboon heart transplant in Loma Linda, California. | |
| 1985 | An Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald. | |
| 1988 | The Palestinian National Council proclaims an independent State of Palestine. | |
| 1990 | The People’s Republic of Bulgaria is replaced by a new republican government. | |
| 2007 | Cyclone Sidr strikes Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5,000 people. |
Kaepernick named 'Citizen of the Year' by GQ
Legal loophole may help company freeze people alive
If you’ve ever hoped to be cryogenically frozen, you might come across a legal hurdle: while human cryonics is legal in several countries, you have to be dead before going into the cryonics tank. Otherwise, freezing someone alive is tantamount to murder. So, as it is, you can only get your dead body or head frozen—and when thawed, you’d still be dead.
Social media inflames people's passions – and builds extremist divisions
Horrifying tale of what abortions looked like during the 1950's before Roe v. Wade
Polygamous cult leader was arrested in Mexico
Orson William Black Jr., who fled the United States in 2003 after being accused of sexually abusing minors, has been leading a polygamous cult in Mexico for over a decade. Over a hundred U.S. and Mexican officials joined forces to storm the gates of Black’s heavily fortified ranch after two of his sons and a young boy appeared dead on his property. Investigators say they believe the three victims were killed execution style at the door of Black’s trailer.
Mother, daughter leap out of moving train to escape gang rape in India
While aboard the Howrah-Jodhpur Express, the 40-year-old mother made numerous attempts to ward off the group of 10 to 15 men, but her efforts were futile. The woman allegedly made two complaints to the onboard constables but suspected the men bribed the police due to their continued harassment.
‘Grossly unfit for office’
‘Grossly unfit for office’: Alabama’s largest newspaper calls on Roy Moore to get out of Senate race
After a fifth woman came forward with sexual
misconduct allegations against Alabama’s wingnut Senate candidate Roy Moore,
the state’s largest newspaper called on him to drop out of the race.
‘WTF is wrong with you’
Twitter users lashed out at lunatic fringe wingnut hack Coulter this week after she suggested that Alabama wingnut
Senate candidate Roy Moore’s alleged sexual abuse of a 14-year-old was
like President John F. Kennedy having a consensual affair with a
19-year-old.
Moore was banned from the Gadsden Mall in the 70’s for ‘repeatedly’ hitting on teen girls
Though Alabama’s wingnut Senate nominee Roy Moore
and his syophants call allegations that he “dated” teen girls when he
was in his 30’s politically-motivated fake news, people from Gadsden,
where Moore lived at the time of the allegations, say they remember him
“badgering” girls.
One Alabama man spent five years in jail for less than what Roy Moore is accused of doing to 14-year-old
Joseph Lee Musso was accused of enticing a
14-year-old girl for sexual purposes in December 2004. Instead of
running for the U.S. Senate, however, Musso ended up in jail.
'Anti-government' Florida man arrested in urine bomb plot
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
The Daily Drift
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Today in History
| 1501 | Arthur Tudor of England marries Katherine of Aragon. | |
| 1812 | As Napoleon Bonaparte‘s army retreats form Moscow, temperatures drop to 20 degrees below zero. | |
| 1851 | Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick is published in New York. | |
| 1882 | Billy Clairborne, a survivor of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, loses his life in a shoot-out with Buckskin Frank Leslie. | |
| 1908 | Albert Einstein presents his quantum theory of light. | |
| 1910 | Lieutenant Eugene Ely, U.S. Navy, becomes the first man to take off in an airplane from the deck of a ship. He flew from the ship Birmingham at Hampton Roads to Norfolk. | |
| 1921 | The Cherokee Indians ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review their claim to 1 million acres of land in Texas. | |
| 1922 | The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) begins the first daily radio broadcasts from Marconi House. | |
| 1930 | Right-wing militarists in Japan attempt to assassinate Premier Hamaguchi. | |
| 1935 | Manuel Luis Quezon is sworn in as the first Filipino president, as the Commonwealth of the Philippines is inaugurated. | |
| 1940 | German bombers devastate Coventry in Great Britain, killing 1,000 in the worst air raid of the war. | |
| 1951 | The United States and Yugoslavia sign a military aid pact. | |
| 1951 | French paratroopers capture Hoa Binh, Vietnam. | |
| 1960 | New Orleans integrates two all-white schools. | |
| 1960 | President Dwight Eisenhower orders U.S. naval units into the Caribbean after Guatemala and Nicaragua charge Castro with starting uprisings. | |
| 1961 | President John Kennedy increases the number of American advisors in Vietnam from 1,000 to 16,000. | |
| 1963 | Iceland gets a new island when a volcano pushes its way up out of the sea five miles off the southern coast. | |
| 1963 | Greece frees hundreds who were jailed in the Communist uprising of 1944-1950. | |
| 1965 | The U.S. First Cavalry Division battles with the North Vietnamese Army in the Ia Drang Valley, the first ground combat for American troops. | |
| 1968 | Yale University announces its plan to go co-ed. | |
| 1969 | The United States launches Apollo 12, the second mission to the Moon, from Cape Kennedy. | |
| 1979 | US President Jimmy Carter freezes all Iranian assets in the United States in response to Iranian militants holding more than 50 Americans hostage. | |
| 1982 | Lech Walesa, leader of Poland’s outlawed Solidarity movement, is released by communist authorities after 11 months confinement; he would win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 and be elected Poland’s president in 1990. | |
| 1984 | The Space Shuttle Discovery‘s crew rescues a second satellite. | |
| 1990 | Poland and the Federal Republic of Germany sign a treaty officially making the Oder-Neisse line the border between their countries. | |
| 1995 | A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the US Congress forces temporary closure of national parks and museums; federal agencies are forced to operate with skeleton staff. | |
| 2001 | Northern Alliance fighters take control of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul. | |
| 2008 | The first G-20 economic summit convenes, in Washington, DC. | |
| 2012 | Israel launches Operation Pillar of Defense against the Hamas-governed Gaza Strip. |
How To Tell Whether You Have Angst, Ennui Or Weltschmerz
Now
before you start waxing poetic in your journal about the existential
angst chilling you to the bone you should figure out whether you're
actually suffering from angst, ennui or a bad case of weltschmerz.
Mental Floss' Arika Okrent explores the origin and meaning of these words at length in this article, but we'll just share the short versions here. Let's start with Angst:
And finally we come to the one that sounds both sad and phlegmy- Weltschmerz:
Mental Floss' Arika Okrent explores the origin and meaning of these words at length in this article, but we'll just share the short versions here. Let's start with Angst:
Are you dissatisfied and worried in an introspective, overthinking German way? You’ve got angst.Now for the most emo of the three, Ennui:
Are you tired, so tired of everything about the world and the way it is? Do you proclaim this, with a long, slow sigh, to everyone around you? You’ve got ennui.
Do you have sadness in your heart for the world that can never be and sensible shoes? You’ve got weltschmerz.Read How To Tell Whether You've Got Angst, Ennui, Or Weltschmerz at Mental Floss
The Look of the 13th Doctor
Jodie Whittaker will portray the 13th incarnation of the Doctor when the TV series Doctor Who
returns. The first woman Doctor is under a lot of pressure to live up
to fans' expectations, so costume designer Ray Holman knew he had to get
the look just right. To do that, he referenced past Doctors and
incorporated details from many of them into the new costume. Also, one
cannot help but imagine that he put some thought into how cosplayers
will study each detail to recreate them themselves. Holman also designed
the dress of Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi's characters. Fans have a
mixed reaction, with many pointing out that the rainbow stripe reminds
them either of Mork from Ork (Mork and Mindy) or Wesley Crusher (Star Trek: The Next Generation). Metafilter has a roundup of reviews of the new costume. Jody Whittaker's debut on Doctor Who is expected to happen during a special broadcast on Xmas Day, with the series returning sometime in 2018.
Hedonist Hollywood’s Lost Garden of Allah
Scandalous
behavior in early Hollywood found a place to happen behind walls and
away from the press, fans, and families. Silent film star Alla Nazimova
converted the home she bought in 1919 into a hotel that became a retreat
and party place for Hollywood's elite. The Garden of Allah was a
legendary complex in West Hollywood with rooms and cottages for rent
nightly, weekly, or permanently. It also had a huge pool to draw tenants
together for cocktail parties and skinny-dipping.
A Who's Who of Hollywood actors, musicians, and literary figures found refuge and creative inspiration at the Garden of Allah, but they also found sex, drugs, and alcohol in abundance. This lasted until 1959, when the hotel hosted a huge party just before it was demolished. Read about the heyday of the Garden of Allah at Messy Nessy Chic.Some stayed in between films, some stayed in between marriages– like Humphrey Bogart, who was once attacked with a kitchen knife in his Garden villa by his estranged wife, who had found him living there with Lauren Bacall. Fellow residents gathered around the house to watch the scene as Bacall escaped out the back door.
There was never a dull moment at the Garden. “It Girl” Clara Bow was notorious for pushing hotel butlers off the diving boards and management looked the other way while the original Tarzan actor was said to have satisfied his numerous “Janes” in the hotel pool. One famous Broadway actress answered her bungalow door naked while her pet monkey collected telegrams from startled delivery boys. An inebriated American comedian and writer, Robert Benchley, would often have himself moved in a wheelbarrow between the villas’ endless parties.
12-year-old girl sues Session over marijuana
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is being sued by a 12-year-old girl over the nation’s marijuana policy.Colorado native Alexis Bortell has filed a lawsuit claiming that the federal prohibition on marijuana is unconstitutional.
We need to talk about the social norms that fuel sexual assault
It’s time to start looking at the deep-rooted causes of harassment. We need to try to understand why sexual harassment is carried out much more by men against women than vice versa. And this is going to involve an evaluation of our sexual norms. Once we’ve done this, we can start a conversation about the kind of sex we do want – and how to create a culture where that is more likely to happen.
San Diego’s War On The Homeless
After San Diego's mayor helped spark hepatitis A outbreak, homelessness is being criminalized.
North Carolina cult accused of ‘kidnapping’ children with help from a county clerk
The Word of Faith Fellowship, a North Carolina
cult facing a slew of investigations, is now being accused of
kidnapping the children of at least one mother.
‘Vile bigot’ wingnut deletes herself from social media after backlash to anti-trans tweet
A Minnesota wingnut is facing a backlash after sending out a message mocking transgender people.
Your dog isn't colorblind after all
Red-green colorblindness is called deuteranopia. In humans of Northern European ancestry, it shows up in about 8 percent of men and .5 percent of women. But researchers in Italy found it shows up in probably 100 percent of dogs.
Monday, November 13, 2017
The Daily Drift
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Today in History
| 1474 | In the Swiss-Burgundian Wars, the Swiss infantry shatters the army of Charles the Bold at Hericourt near Belfort, countering his march to Lorraine. | |
| 1835 | Texas officially proclaims its independence from Mexico, and calls itself the Lone Star Republic, after its flag, until its admission to the Union in 1845. | |
| 1851 | The London-to-Paris telegraph begins operation. | |
| 1860 | South Carolina’s legislature calls a special convention to discuss secession from the Union. | |
| 1862 | Lewis Carroll writes in his diary, “Began writing the fairy-tale of Alice–I hope to finish it by Christmas.” | |
| 1878 | New Mexico Governor Lew Wallace offers amnesty to many participants of the Lincoln County War, but not to gunfighter Billy the Kid. | |
| 1897 | The first metal dirigible is flown from Tempelhof Field in Berlin. | |
| 1907 | Paul Corno achieves the first helicopter flight. | |
| 1914 | The brassiere, invented by Caresse Crosby, is patented. | |
| 1927 | New York’s Holland Tunnel officially opens for traffic. | |
| 1940 | The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Hansberry v. Lee that African-Americans cannot be barred from white neighborhoods. | |
| 1941 | A German U-boat, the U-81, torpedoes Great Britain’s premier aircraft carrier, the HMS Ark Royal. The ship sinks the next day. | |
| 1942 | Lt. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower flies to Algeria to conclude an agreement with French Admiral Jean Darlan. | |
| 1945 | Charles de Gaulle is elected president of France. | |
| 1952 | Harvard’s Paul Zoll becomes the first man to use electric shock to treat cardiac arrest. | |
| 1956 | The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously strikes down two Alabama laws requiring racial segregation on public buses. | |
| 1969 | Anti-war protesters stage a symbolic “March Against Death” in Washington, DC. | |
| 1970 | A powerful tropical cyclone strikes the Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), causing an estimated half-million deaths in a single night; the Bhola cyclone is regarded as the worst natural disaster of the 20th century. | |
| 1982 | The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, DC. | |
| 1985 | Some 23,000 people die when the Nevado del Ruiz erupts, melting a glacier and causing a massive mudslide that buries Armero, Columbia. | |
| 1989 | Compact of Free Association: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau—places US troops wrested from Japanese control in WWII—become sovereign nations, associated states of the United States. | |
| 1989 | Hans-Adam II becomes Prince of Liechtenstein (1989– ) upon the death of his father, Franz Joseph II. | |
| 2000 | Articles of impeachment are passed against Philippine President Joseph Estrada. | |
| 2001 | The shrub signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to planned or actual terrorist acts against the US. |
Disneyland water cooling towers shut down
Disneyland shut down two water cooling towers after health officials
discovered several cases of Legionnaire’s disease among people who
visited the popular California theme park, authorities said.The Orange County Health Agency said 12 cases of the bacteria-caused illness were found three weeks ago, and nine were people who visited the park in September, the Los Angeles Times reported. Those who were afflicted ranged in age from 52 to 94.
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