On this day:
365
A tsunami devastates the city of Alexandria, Egypt. The tsunami was caused by the Crete earthquake estimated to be 8.0 on the Richter Scale. 5,000 people perished in Alexandria, and 45,000 more died outside the city.
1403
Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV of England defeats rebels to the north of the county town of Shropshire, England.
1861
American Civil War: First Battle of Bull Run – at Manassas Junction, Virginia, the first major battle of the war begins and ends in a victory for the Confederate army.
1925
Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.
1961
Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission – Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission).
1969
Space Race: Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon, during the Apollo 11 mission (July 20 in North America).
1973
In the Lillehammer affair in Norway, Israeli Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre.
2005
Four terrorist bombings, occurring exactly two weeks after the similar July 7 bombings, target London’s public transportation system. All four bombs fail to detonate and all four suspected suicide bombers are captured and later convicted and imprisoned for long terms.
2011
NASA’s Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135
A tsunami devastates the city of Alexandria, Egypt. The tsunami was caused by the Crete earthquake estimated to be 8.0 on the Richter Scale. 5,000 people perished in Alexandria, and 45,000 more died outside the city.
1403
Battle of Shrewsbury: King Henry IV of England defeats rebels to the north of the county town of Shropshire, England.
1861
American Civil War: First Battle of Bull Run – at Manassas Junction, Virginia, the first major battle of the war begins and ends in a victory for the Confederate army.
1925
Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.
1961
Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission – Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission).
1969
Space Race: Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon, during the Apollo 11 mission (July 20 in North America).
1973
In the Lillehammer affair in Norway, Israeli Mossad agents kill a waiter whom they mistakenly thought was involved in the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre.
2005
Four terrorist bombings, occurring exactly two weeks after the similar July 7 bombings, target London’s public transportation system. All four bombs fail to detonate and all four suspected suicide bombers are captured and later convicted and imprisoned for long terms.
2011
NASA’s Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135
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While I have no sympathy for the pompous, posing, insincerity of the "Washington Redskin Debate," I find the president's entrance into the debate terminally wearying.
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Sixteen years after Bitcoin was created, there are still no clear use cases for cryptocurrency that don’t involve illegal activity. Yet at the time of writing the value of crypto assets was approximately $3.3 trillion. . . .--Krugman
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There must be a shift in polling. FOX News is focusing on deporting only illegal immigrants who are rapists and murderers. Yet, legal entry into the U.S. is provided for by law, and illegal entry is illegal, requiring the identification and deportation of the offender by law, regardless of whether the individual is a nice person.
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Sixteen years after Bitcoin was created, there are still no clear use cases for cryptocurrency that don’t involve illegal activity. Yet at the time of writing the value of crypto assets was approximately $3.3 trillion. . . .--Krugman
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There must be a shift in polling. FOX News is focusing on deporting only illegal immigrants who are rapists and murderers. Yet, legal entry into the U.S. is provided for by law, and illegal entry is illegal, requiring the identification and deportation of the offender by law, regardless of whether the individual is a nice person.
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The worst team in the AL played three games against the Pirates this weekend, scored 27 runs, and allowed 6.
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'Disappearance' Shortfalls
If you've missed a recent decade or two of world events, you can always wait for them to show up again in America.
The end of the nineteenth century was filled with episodes where Eastern European anarchists immigrated to the U.S. and looked for a tsar to blow up. Desperate to participate in the bloody European hangover of WWI, America joined WWII. Trying to catch up on what they missed in the bloody revolutions in imagined class warfare, America joined the Korean War, then the Vietnam War. Having missed literally centuries of pointless combat in the Middle East, the U.S. joined the endless fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan, and North Africa.
'Disappearance' Shortfalls
If you've missed a recent decade or two of world events, you can always wait for them to show up again in America.
The end of the nineteenth century was filled with episodes where Eastern European anarchists immigrated to the U.S. and looked for a tsar to blow up. Desperate to participate in the bloody European hangover of WWI, America joined WWII. Trying to catch up on what they missed in the bloody revolutions in imagined class warfare, America joined the Korean War, then the Vietnam War. Having missed literally centuries of pointless combat in the Middle East, the U.S. joined the endless fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan, and North Africa.
More recently, violent campus groups opposing the creation of Israel in 1948 have been visited upon us. And, of course, the undead have returned in the person of Mamdani.
When AI recalls falsities, they are called 'hallucinations;' when Americans apply foreign experiences to America, it is called 'journalism.' We are now suffering another flashback completely foreign to us.
The hills are alive with the accusations of American 'disappearings.'
Where, you ask, have I heard that phrase? South America. Up to 30,000 people were “disappeared” by the state during Argentina’s “Dirty War,” a period during which the country’s military dictatorship turned against its own people from the mid-1970s to early 1983. San Salvador picked up the banner early this century.
Now tens of millions of people are pouring across the U.S. border to safety and freedom, and, when apprehended, have raised the echo of 'disappearing.' They actually have the audacity to accuse America of the crimes of the hellholes they are fleeing.
When AI recalls falsities, they are called 'hallucinations;' when Americans apply foreign experiences to America, it is called 'journalism.' We are now suffering another flashback completely foreign to us.
The hills are alive with the accusations of American 'disappearings.'
Where, you ask, have I heard that phrase? South America. Up to 30,000 people were “disappeared” by the state during Argentina’s “Dirty War,” a period during which the country’s military dictatorship turned against its own people from the mid-1970s to early 1983. San Salvador picked up the banner early this century.
Now tens of millions of people are pouring across the U.S. border to safety and freedom, and, when apprehended, have raised the echo of 'disappearing.' They actually have the audacity to accuse America of the crimes of the hellholes they are fleeing.
And, true to the American tsar shortages the anarchists experienced in the past, the 'disappearance' shortages in the U.S. have inspired some illegal immigrants just to make them up.
We will have to see if, like some of the assessments of the anarchist nonsense, these episodes are viewed 'in the proper historic and social context' of the mendacious and angry immigrants and whether their imagined plight is supported by an understanding and charitable Press.
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A tsunami shud hit Texas and the red cot
The biggest wave ever was documented on July 9, 1958, in Lituya Bay, in southeast Alaska, when an earthquake triggered a series of events that resulted in a megatsunami. 1720 feet.
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