On this day:
1192
Richard the Lion-Heart is captured and imprisoned by Leopold V of Austria on his way home to England after signing a treaty with Saladin ending the Third Crusade.
1522
Siege of Rhodes: Suleiman the Magnificent accepts the surrender of the surviving Knights of Rhodes, who are allowed to evacuate. They eventually settle on Malta and become known as the Knights of Malta.
1606
The Virginia Company loads three ships with settlers and sets sail to establish Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
1803
The Louisiana Purchase is completed at a ceremony in New Orleans.
1924
Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison
1987
History’s worst peacetime sea disaster, when the passenger ferry Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker Vector 1 in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official).
1989
United States invasion of Panama: The United States sends troops into Panama to overthrow government of Manuel Noriega. This is also the first combat use of purpose-designed stealth aircraft.
1991
A Missouri court sentences the Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria to death for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina.
--- that he has cut the cost of prescription drugs by 400%–500%. Reality: This is mathematically impossible.
---that he inherited the worst inflation in 48 years. Reality: While inflation peaked at 9.1% in June 2022, it had already fallen to approximately 2.4% by the time Trump took office in January 2025. Current data for late 2025 shows inflation at roughly 3.0%—an increase since he took office, which economists attribute partly to the tariffs implemented in April.
His supporters will always forgive him with the 'Zitp explanation,' but this is becoming unreliable self-parody.
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We are proving the obvious. Any free culture is vulnerable to the irrational, the possessed, and the stupid. That's bad enough, but it seems that those protecting us from those idiotic threats are pretty dumb, too. Those poor kids in Brown were almost saved by a responsible homeless man--but nobody else.
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SatStats
The hole in the Antarctic ozone layer has shrunk to its smallest size since 2019, indicating the continued recovery of Earth’s protective upper atmosphere.
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The first gene therapy for Huntington’s disease proved striking, slowing the rate of cognitive decline in participants by 75%.
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In the first six months of 2025 alone, China installed new solar systems with a capacity of 256 gigawatts — twice as much as the rest of the world combined.
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Neves Valente was the top student in his graduating class in 2000 in the physics engineering program at Lisbon's prestigious Instituto Superior Técnico,
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Warren Buffett's 90/10 strategy involves allocating 90% of assets to a low-cost S&P 500 index fund and 10% to short-term government bonds.
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Pickens has racked up 1,212 receiving yards, which ranked third in the NFL entering Week 16. CeeDee Lamb is making $34 million per year on his four-year, $136 million extension. By comparison, Commanders wide receiver Terry McLaurin averages $29 million annually on his three-year, $97 million deal, which ranks 10th among wide receivers.
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Crime Stats:
Since 1999, an average of about 18,816 murders per year were committed in the United States, not including the 2,977 people slaughtered during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Roughly 80% of murders in the U.S. are committed with firearms.
One of the “greatest lethality drops” occurred immediately after the Vietnam War because the experience of this conflict led to major advances in trauma care. Medical progress has “suppressed the homicide rate compared to what it would be had such progress not been made.”
In the United States, the portion of murders in which a suspect is identified and acted upon by the criminal justice system declined from 92% in 1960 to 58% in 2023.
From 1965 to 2022, roughly 337,601 murders were committed in the U.S. that were still unsolved as of 2022.
In 2023, the police chief of Washington D.C., reported that “the average homicide suspect has been arrested 11 times prior to them committing a homicide.”
As measured by the DOJ’s National Crime Victimization Survey, 6,419,060 violent crimes were committed in the U.S. during 2023, or 5.3 times the FBI estimate. This equals one violent crime for every 44 people aged 12 and older.
42% of Americans will be the victim of a completed violent crime in the course of their lives.
83% of Americans will be the victim of an attempted or completed violent crime.
52% of Americans will be the victim of an attempted or completed violent crime more than once.
Richard the Lion-Heart is captured and imprisoned by Leopold V of Austria on his way home to England after signing a treaty with Saladin ending the Third Crusade.
1522
Siege of Rhodes: Suleiman the Magnificent accepts the surrender of the surviving Knights of Rhodes, who are allowed to evacuate. They eventually settle on Malta and become known as the Knights of Malta.
1606
The Virginia Company loads three ships with settlers and sets sail to establish Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.
1803
The Louisiana Purchase is completed at a ceremony in New Orleans.
1924
Hitler is released from Landsberg Prison
1987
History’s worst peacetime sea disaster, when the passenger ferry Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker Vector 1 in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official).
1989
United States invasion of Panama: The United States sends troops into Panama to overthrow government of Manuel Noriega. This is also the first combat use of purpose-designed stealth aircraft.
1991
A Missouri court sentences the Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria to death for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina.
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“Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.”--Kissinger
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Trump made a lot of outrageous claims in his speech. Some are:
--that $1,776 checks “were on their way” to U.S. troops. Reality: The President does not have the “power of the purse”—Congress does.--- that he has cut the cost of prescription drugs by 400%–500%. Reality: This is mathematically impossible.
---that he inherited the worst inflation in 48 years. Reality: While inflation peaked at 9.1% in June 2022, it had already fallen to approximately 2.4% by the time Trump took office in January 2025. Current data for late 2025 shows inflation at roughly 3.0%—an increase since he took office, which economists attribute partly to the tariffs implemented in April.
His supporters will always forgive him with the 'Zitp explanation,' but this is becoming unreliable self-parody.
***
We are proving the obvious. Any free culture is vulnerable to the irrational, the possessed, and the stupid. That's bad enough, but it seems that those protecting us from those idiotic threats are pretty dumb, too. Those poor kids in Brown were almost saved by a responsible homeless man--but nobody else.
***
SatStats
The hole in the Antarctic ozone layer has shrunk to its smallest size since 2019, indicating the continued recovery of Earth’s protective upper atmosphere.
*
The first gene therapy for Huntington’s disease proved striking, slowing the rate of cognitive decline in participants by 75%.
*
In the first six months of 2025 alone, China installed new solar systems with a capacity of 256 gigawatts — twice as much as the rest of the world combined.
*
Neves Valente was the top student in his graduating class in 2000 in the physics engineering program at Lisbon's prestigious Instituto Superior Técnico,
*
Warren Buffett's 90/10 strategy involves allocating 90% of assets to a low-cost S&P 500 index fund and 10% to short-term government bonds.
*
Pickens has racked up 1,212 receiving yards, which ranked third in the NFL entering Week 16. CeeDee Lamb is making $34 million per year on his four-year, $136 million extension. By comparison, Commanders wide receiver Terry McLaurin averages $29 million annually on his three-year, $97 million deal, which ranks 10th among wide receivers.
* *
Crime Stats:
Since 1999, an average of about 18,816 murders per year were committed in the United States, not including the 2,977 people slaughtered during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Roughly 80% of murders in the U.S. are committed with firearms.
One of the “greatest lethality drops” occurred immediately after the Vietnam War because the experience of this conflict led to major advances in trauma care. Medical progress has “suppressed the homicide rate compared to what it would be had such progress not been made.”
In the United States, the portion of murders in which a suspect is identified and acted upon by the criminal justice system declined from 92% in 1960 to 58% in 2023.
From 1965 to 2022, roughly 337,601 murders were committed in the U.S. that were still unsolved as of 2022.
In 2023, the police chief of Washington D.C., reported that “the average homicide suspect has been arrested 11 times prior to them committing a homicide.”
As measured by the DOJ’s National Crime Victimization Survey, 6,419,060 violent crimes were committed in the U.S. during 2023, or 5.3 times the FBI estimate. This equals one violent crime for every 44 people aged 12 and older.
42% of Americans will be the victim of a completed violent crime in the course of their lives.
83% of Americans will be the victim of an attempted or completed violent crime.
52% of Americans will be the victim of an attempted or completed violent crime more than once.
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