A man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him.--deTocqueville
China has over sixty submarines and will have around seventy-five or so in the next few years, slightly more than the United States. China 'is outbuilding the U.S, in new submarines by four to one' since 2000, and by 'eight to one' since 2005, even as the U.S. Navy's ASW (antisubmarine warfare) forces have diminished, write James C. Bussert of the U.S. Naval Surface Warfare Center and Bruce A. Elleman of the U.S. Naval War College. The China sea is a hotbed of war manufacturing. India, South Korea, and even Vietnam are expected to acquire six more subs apiece by the end of the current decade, while Australia will acquire twelve new subs within twenty years, though recent budgetary restrictions may affect this statistic downward, ... Singapore, a tiny citystate at the southern extremity of the South China Sea, is now among the world's top ten arms importers. (from Asia's Cauldron by Robert D. Kaplan)
The Earth's core is a dense sphere of nickel and iron with a diameter of about 700 miles.
A serial killer said in a letter from prison that he was cooperating with a book about the 10 people he killed in the Wichita area to help the victims’ families monetarily. The killer is Dennis L. Rader, who during his killing spree called himself “B.T.K.,” which stood for “bind, torture, kill.” Katherine Ramsland, the author corresponding with Mr. Rader on the project, envisions an "academic" book.
A serial killer said in a letter from prison that he was cooperating with a book about the 10 people he killed in the Wichita area to help the victims’ families monetarily. The killer is Dennis L. Rader, who during his killing spree called himself “B.T.K.,” which stood for “bind, torture, kill.” Katherine Ramsland, the author corresponding with Mr. Rader on the project, envisions an "academic" book.
Britain has closed their borders to Ebola source countries. But the U.S. has not. Obama says that would conflict with the goal of fighting the disease. Does that mean the safety of the American people takes second place to the goal of helping people overseas? That has been true in war. But is it true if we protect ourselves, we cannot protect others?
England and Scotland had been united in 1603 on the death of Elizabeth I when the Stuart, James VI of Scotland, was offered the throne and also became James I of England. His son, Charles I (ruled 1625-49), attempted to impose the Anglican Prayerbook on the Scots and they piously invaded England. Parliament rebelled over the war's financing and issued the Grand Remonstrance against him. Bloody civil war broke out in 1642 and Parliamentary troops, mostly Puritans, led by Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), defeated Charles at the Battles of Marston Moor (1644) and Naseby (1645). Charles I was eventually captured and executed in 1649.
Who is....Lady Murasaki?
Who is....Lady Murasaki?
80% of the matter in the universe is a type of particle or particles that emit no light, interact very weakly with matter in our everyday world, yet exert profound gravitational influence on the rotation of galaxies and the movement of galaxy clusters. But most of the universe is made not of matter but a strange and unidentified type of energy– “dark energy”– that accelerates the expansion of the universe and may one day carry distant galaxies forever out of view.
According to Chinese scientists, zapping a young wine with electricity makes it taste like something you’ve cellar aged. Scientists aren’t quite sure how it happens yet, but it seems that running your wine for precisely three minutes through an electrified field charges the esters, proteins, and aldehydes and can “age” a wine instantly.
Although it is the closest planet to the sun, Mercury is not the hottest planet in the Solar System, Venus is. With an average surface temperature of 864 degrees, Venus can melt lead.
The earliest Japanese societies appear to have been matriarchal, the mythical founding deity of the imperial clan was the Sun Goddess, and the ruler was a woman. In the Heian period (794 to 1185 AD), the woman was the head of the household and the husband generally did not live with the family. (The author, Lady Murasaki , wrote what is called the first novel, The Tale of Genji, during this period.) By the 12th century AD, as the samurai class became dominant, the husband and wife lived together and polygamy became prevalent.
Golden oldie:
To the question, "Do you have any second thoughts about pulling all ground troops out of Iraq?" President Obama said, "What I just find interesting is the degree to which this issue keeps on coming up, as if this was my decision."
The NFL is having players wear pink in support of women. So how they position themselves has no relation at all with how they behave. They are truly America's game.
LBJ’s Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was in France when De Gaulle decided to pull out of NATO. De Gaulle said he wanted all US military out of France as soon as possible.
Rusk responded, “Does that include those who are buried here?”
De Gaulle did not respond
Rusk responded, “Does that include those who are buried here?”
De Gaulle did not respond
lubricious: adjective: 1. Lecherous. 2. Salacious. 3. Shifty or tricky. 4. Smooth and slippery. From Latin lubricus (slippery, smooth).
Ian Morris has a book out called "War: What is it Good For?", and finds the answer to be "a lot." It is filled with wonderful facts like Stone Age conflict had a 20% mortality rate compared to 1-2% for modern conflict. (How is that truth reached, I do not know.) He says, "by fighting wars, people have created larger, more organized societies that have reduced the risk that their members will die violently."
It is said that the Hundred Years War helped organize France into a country, giving it a common language in the battlefield and led to a more ordered and civilized Europe. These arguments trail on forever. We have learned from the Nazi gas chambers; it does not justify them.
AAAAnnnnnndddd.....the proportion of matter, dark matter and dark energy in the universe:
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