I have naturally expressed my statements so that I am also right if the opposite thing happens.-- Marx
Roughly half a million Muslims live in Austria, representing about 6 percent of the total population.
Why isn't the success of the experimental Ebola drug ZMapp front page headlines and and on everyone's lips?
California history textbooks will now be asked to cover "the significance of President Barack Obama's election," under a law signed this week by Gov. Jerry Brown. The author, Democratic Assemblyman Chris Holden, said in a statement: "We want to make sure that future generations understand that the election of our nation's first African American president was a historic step in the effort towards equality and that previous elections involved intimidation and violence that prevented millions of African Americans from voting."
Part of the antipathy towards zinfandel in its early development was that it was the grape of the awful Gallo Hearty Burgundy.
After Lucretia, the wife of a nobleman, Conlatinus, is raped by Tarquin, a royal prince, she denounces her rapist, then kills herself to preserve her virtue. This rape story, as told by Livy, sets into motion the founding of the Roman Republic: Lucretia’s defenders swear that hereditary princes will no longer assume privileges through violence. Hereditary leadership. Thomas Paine wondered why there weren't other hereditary occupations. Perhaps ship captains or accountants or weightlifters. More likely the real hereditary positions in life are those that families cannot escape.
A laptop allegedly seized from an ISIS (also known as Islamic State) base in Syria contains plans to launch terror attacks using bubonic plague.
Discovered by a "moderate" rebel group from an IS base in Idlib, northern Syria, in January, the computer belonged to a Tunisian militant. "The advantage of biological weapons is that they do not cost a lot of money, while the human casualties can be huge," a document retrieved from the computer stated.
A 15th century epic poem by Blind Harry (Harry the Minstrel) was responsible for much of the legend of William Wallace. It was nine books in length and was said to be second only to the bible in Scottish homes.
Who is....Elena Ferrante?
A copy of 1938's Action Comics No. 1, which features the first appearance of Superman, sold for a record-breaking $3,207,852 to an unnamed buyer on Sunday.
The spiral galaxy Arp 188 is known as the Tadpole Galaxy because it has a head and tadpole-like tail. It is believed the spiral galaxy was disrupted by a more compact gravitational force and strung out as the force, likely another galaxy, passed by. The resulting tail is about 280 thousand light-years long and features massive, bright blue star clusters.
Golden oldie:
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2010/08/hold-your-peace.html and
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2010/08/black-hole-of-bad-manners.html
The number of employees at the five largest U.S. defense firms dropped 14 percent from 2008.
Iterate/iteration: iteration, noun, is the act of repeating a process with the aim of approaching a desired goal, target or result. verb: Perform or utter repeatedly. Commonly used, slightly erroneously, as "new version." It appears in the computer world where a procedure is repeated on the the result of the previous application. From mid 16th century: from Latin iterat- 'repeated', from the verb iterare, from iterum 'again'.
An online publication, called “Palestine-Betrayal of the Guilty Conscience Al-Malahem,” is put out by the media arm of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Al Qaeda has a media arm and a magazine. What's next, a women's auxiliary? A 401k?
The number of employees at the five largest U.S. defense firms dropped 14 percent from 2008.
Iterate/iteration: iteration, noun, is the act of repeating a process with the aim of approaching a desired goal, target or result. verb: Perform or utter repeatedly. Commonly used, slightly erroneously, as "new version." It appears in the computer world where a procedure is repeated on the the result of the previous application. From mid 16th century: from Latin iterat- 'repeated', from the verb iterare, from iterum 'again'.
An online publication, called “Palestine-Betrayal of the Guilty Conscience Al-Malahem,” is put out by the media arm of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Al Qaeda has a media arm and a magazine. What's next, a women's auxiliary? A 401k?
According to the Wall Street Journal, after adjusting returns of for storage and sales costs, fine wine investments outperform inflation and fare better than bonds, but significantly lag behind the historical returns of stocks.
The writer known as Elena Ferrante has never been photographed, interviewed in person or even made a public appearance, but a collection of candid novels has earned whoever she or he is recognition as one of the keenest observers of Italian society. “Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay” is the much-anticipated third volume in the author’s Neapolitan series. A recent review of the author noted "becoming a public figure should be a writer’s choice, not an obligation." Words to live by. Quietly.
AAAAaaaaannnnnndddddd......a picture minutes after Hiroshima in a nearby town:
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