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Today in History
| 644 | Umar of Arabia is assassinated at Medina and is succeeded as caliph by Uthman. | |
| 1493 | Christopher Columbus discovers Guadeloupe during his second expedition. | |
| 1677 | William III and Mary of England wed on William’s birthday. | |
| 1760 | Following the Russian capture of Berlin, Frederick II of Prussia defeats the Austrians at the Battle of Torgau. | |
| 1791 | General Arthur St. Clair, governor of Northwest Territory, is badly defeated by a large Indian army near Fort Wayne. | |
| 1798 | Congress agrees to pay a yearly tribute to Tripoli, considering it the only way to protect U.S. shipping. | |
| 1842 | Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd in Springfield, Ill. | |
| 1854 | Florence Nightingale and her nurses arrive in the Crimea. | |
| 1863 | From the main Confederate Army at Chattanooga, Tennessee, Lt. Gen. James Longstreet‘s troops are sent northeast to besiege Knoxville. | |
| 1918 | Austria signs an armistice with the Allies. | |
| 1922 | The U.S. Postmaster General orders all homes to get mailboxes or relinquish delivery of mail. | |
| 1922 | The entrance to King Tut’s tomb is discovered. | |
| 1924 | Calvin Coolidge is elected the 30th president of the United States. | |
| 1924 | Nellie Tayloe Ross and Miriam Ferguson are elected the first and second women governors (Wyoming and Texas). | |
| 1946 | The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is established. | |
| 1952 | General Dwight D. Eisenhower is elected 34th president of the United States. | |
| 1956 | Russian troops attack Budapest, Hungary. | |
| 1979 | At the American Embassy in Teheran, Iran, 90 people, including 63 Americans, are taken hostage by militant student followers of Ayatollah Khomeini. The students demand the return of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who is undergoing medical treatment in New York City. | |
| 1980 | Ronald Reagan is elected the 40th president of the United States. | |
| 1992 | Carol Moseley Braun becomes the first African American woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate. | |
| 1995 | Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv. | |
| 2008 | Senator Barack Obama of Illinois is elected the 44th president of the United States, the first African-American to hold that position. |
27 Words that Totally Changed Meanings
The
way people interpret a word can totally change depending on the
context. The very first story in this video illustrates that: Because
Bugs Bunny used a fairly unfamiliar word, it must be an insult. And it's
been considered so ever since. There are plenty of terms that have gone
through a change, for many different reasons. Language evolves quickly,
even in one lifetime. You'll be surprised by some of what you'll learn
in the latest episode of the Mental Floss List Show.
The Story of a Little Old House
In order to glean how working people moved back in the early 1900s, I decided to focus on a few key areas of research:The result is a fascinating look at working class home life in the early 1900s, complete with furniture prices and historical photographs.
What kind of wages the family would make, what they would spend it on and what kind of local industry they might have participated in.
What kind of stuff was being moved; (AKA what kind of furniture these folks bought and how much it cost
What the costs were of moving services during this time, and whether they were affordable for the family in question.
Dad Catches Creepy Neighbor In His Attic Spying On His Family
So he installed a camera in his attic and found to his horror that his neighbor, 69-year-old Robert Havrilla, had been creeping around in their attic:
According to reports, Robert was renovating his own space next door to the Kennedy home, and he’d installed a removable wall to gain access to their attic.
But that wasn’t all: Jerome discovered that Robert had apparently drilled multiple holes in a common wall in order to spy on the family.
The neighbor was arrested and has pled not guilty to charges of trespassing and stalking. The Kennedys hope that he will be charged for his alleged crimes so that they can sleep soundly at night.
South Carolina cops refuse to charge woman for stabbing man accused of molesting her 13-year-old daughter
The teen was staying with her aunt and was
attacked by the aunt’s boyfriend, identified as 26-year-old Alexander
Bush, while she was sleeping.
A boy’s slow strangling death was foreshadowed by his mom’s crazy messages on the walls
Ryan Tyler Rosales was found dead in his home in Seabeck, Washington, early Tuesday after family members called 911 saying he was “not breathing” and “had bumps on his face.”
Internet celebrates the ‘legendary’ Twitter employee that deactivated Dumbass Trump’s account
A few hours after Dumbass Trump’s
Twitter account went dark for a blissful 11 minutes, the company
responded to the incident, claiming it was the result of human error on a
customer service employee’s last day.
The wingnuts’ favorite Internet personality was just outed as a Russian troll
Jenna Abrams’ tweets were beloved, at times,
by both the alt-right and the celebrity blogosphere. Now, Congressional
investigators have confirmed that her Twitter account was actually run
out of St. Petersburg, Russia’s infamous troll farm.
Worrying About the Future of the Country Is Stressing Us the Hell Out
Americans are more stressed about the country than money or work, according to a new study
Medical marijuana is helping people for many more health problems than just pain
Medical marijuana is helping people for many more health problems than just pain
Papa John Attacks The NFL And First Amendment After His Shitty Pizza Loses Him A Small Fortune
Incoming environment adviser thinks air is too clean
Robert Phalen, an air pollution researcher at the Irvine campus of the University of California, said in 2012 that children need to breathe irritants so that their bodies learn how to ward them off.
The Women Miners in Pants Who Shocked Victorian Britain
In
the Victorian age, coal mining in Britain paid so little that not only
did a miner work long hours underground, so did his wife and children.
Women and children were paid half as much as a man, but every little bit
helped keep the family fed. An inspection of a Staffordshire mine in
1841 revealed women and children as young as five working underground.
What shocked the commissioners the most was how the women were dressed.
They would ditch their shirts to work in the hot mines, and even worse,
they wore trousers!
When women and children under ten were forbidden to work underground, they sought jobs up top sorting coal. The women at the mines in Wigan, still wearing trousers, became a tourist attraction for those wanting to witness such a scandal. Read about the pants-wearing women of the mines at Atlas Obscura.But women miners had few options when it came to clothing: flimsier, cooler clothing, which revealed the contours of their body, were seen as “an invitation to promiscuity.” Trousers, and other practical garments, were “unwomanly”—and often led to wardrobe malfunctions. In his 1842 speech to Parliament, Lord Ashley described how the work sometimes wore holes in the crotch of these women and girls’ trousers: “The chain passing high up between the legs of two girls, had worn large holes in their trousers. Any sight more disgustingly indecent or revolting can scarcely be imagined than these girls at work. No brothel can beat it.” (What’s especially striking about these observations is that they seem more concerned about the modesty of the women than that they toiled in life-threatening situations.)
White boy attacks black girl who asked his friends to stop using the N-word
Cosmic-ray imaging finds hidden structure in Egypt's Great Pyramid
Researchers announced the discovery on Thursday but said they did not know the purpose, contents or precise dimensions of what they are calling a “void” or “cavity” inside the pyramid, built as a monumental tomb around 2560 BC.
To peer inside the pyramid, the scientists used an imaging technique called muon tomography that tracks particles that bombard Earth at close to the speed of light and penetrate deeply into solid objects.
The ozone hole, which forms over the icy continent each September, was measured at its peak this year on September 11 over an area two and half times the size of the U.S., said NASA. From then on, the size declined throughout September and into October.
Two Mechanisms Help Regions Resist Alien Invasions
Invasive species can be hugely detrimental to marine ecosystems. Take
Caulerpa taxifolia as an example.Dubbed “killer algae” because it crowds
out other plants and...
Farmers Urged to Bury Their Underpants for Better Beef
The
latest advice for farmers sounds like a superstition: to improve
yields, dig a hole in your field and bury your underpants for two
months. If you have several fields, you'll need to cough up more
underwear. The idea began with the "Soil My Undies" challenge from the
California Farmers’ Guild, and is now recommended by the Agriculture and
Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) and Quality Meat Scotland (QMS).
But it's no old wives' tale. The underwear must be made of cotton, and
the result is a relatively cheap and easy soil test.
Soil that is worked over by microbes, insects, and worms will be more nutritious for the plants that grow there, and for the animals that graze the fields. Read more about the underpants test at the Telegraph.Evan Wiig, Executive Director of the California Farmers’ Guild, said: “Cotton is an organic material and breaks down naturally just like anything else you’d put in your compost pile. So if you bury cotton in soil teeming with life, all those creatures will begin to feast.
“If you have dead soil, if it is totally lifeless you should be able to pull the pants out of the ground, throw it in the washing machine and put them on like nothing ever happened. If you have incredibly healthy soil, you should have nothing left but an elastic strap.”
Origin of life on Earth gets new theory
Kenyan censor outraged as gay lions spotted having sex
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