30 BC
Cleopatra VII Philopator, the last ruler of the Egyptian Ptolemaic dynasty, commits suicide, allegedly by means of an asp bite.
1099
First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon Crusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon defeat Fatimid forces led by Al-Afdal Shahanshah. This is considered the last engagement of the First Crusade.
1676
Praying Indian John Alderman shoots and kills Metacomet, the Wampanoag war chief, ending King Philip’s War. ('Praying Indian' refers to an American Indian convert to Christianity.)
1914
World War I: the United Kingdom declares war on Austria-Hungary; the countries of the British Empire follow suit
1944
Waffen SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.
1952
The Night of the Murdered Poets: 13 prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in Moscow.
1960
Echo 1A, NASA’s first successful communications satellite, is launched.
1976
Between 1,000 and 3,500 Palestinians are killed in the Tel al-Zaatar massacre, one of the bloodiest events of the Lebanese Civil War
1982
Mexico announces it is unable to pay its enormous external debt, marking the beginning of a debt crisis that spreads to all of Latin America and the Third World.
1994
Major League Baseball players go on strike. This will force the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.
2000
The Oscar-class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise.
Cleopatra VII Philopator, the last ruler of the Egyptian Ptolemaic dynasty, commits suicide, allegedly by means of an asp bite.
1099
First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon Crusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon defeat Fatimid forces led by Al-Afdal Shahanshah. This is considered the last engagement of the First Crusade.
1676
Praying Indian John Alderman shoots and kills Metacomet, the Wampanoag war chief, ending King Philip’s War. ('Praying Indian' refers to an American Indian convert to Christianity.)
1914
World War I: the United Kingdom declares war on Austria-Hungary; the countries of the British Empire follow suit
1944
Waffen SS troops massacre 560 people in Sant'Anna di Stazzema.
1952
The Night of the Murdered Poets: 13 prominent Jewish intellectuals are murdered in Moscow.
1960
Echo 1A, NASA’s first successful communications satellite, is launched.
1976
Between 1,000 and 3,500 Palestinians are killed in the Tel al-Zaatar massacre, one of the bloodiest events of the Lebanese Civil War
1982
Mexico announces it is unable to pay its enormous external debt, marking the beginning of a debt crisis that spreads to all of Latin America and the Third World.
1994
Major League Baseball players go on strike. This will force the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.
2000
The Oscar-class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise.
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The sinking of the Kursk was a MasterClass in a state's self-absorbed disdain for those it professes to represent and to care for. And, of course, an insight into its glorious leader, Putin.
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"We’ve generated the first early human eggs derived from stem cells. This is a big deal -- the potential to redefine fertility is real."
This is a post on X from a guy in a lab.
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The more fixated we are on mental health, the more sensitive we become to anything that might qualify as a symptom and the more we use clinical language to describe normal emotional experiences like grief, burnout and loneliness. This broadening of what we think counts as a disorder — known as concept creep — encourages us to pathologize ordinary life and see ourselves as mentally unhealthy.--Cowen
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Termarr Johnson, who is one of the top prospects for the Pittsburgh Pirates, suffered a serious injury.
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani blamed a “miscommunication” Tuesday after an awkward public clash between City Hall and NYPD officials over whether the department would provide security for his wife Rama Duwaji’s upcoming Middle East trip.
He's got to be the only socialist in history who doesn't know that revolutionaries take over the police first.
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In 2024, Nancy Pelosi earned more from investments than any large hedge fund in the United States.
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The Antikythera mechanism, recovered from a Roman shipwreck in 1901 turned out to be a hand-cranked bronze computer that could predict eclipses and track the irregular orbit of the Moon, and nothing of comparable mechanical complexity would appear anywhere on Earth for another 1,400 years
***
Recently, the government gave $500 million to the coal industry, mostly in West Virginia. Now that's a lot of money, but that's less than the people of NYC gave to the wife of the Ex-mayor when they left office. That's consoling.
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The goofy Ms. Hong lost in the Democrat primary for Governor in Wisconsin, despite support from the GOP PACs. One wonders if she was finally recognized as an incompetent by Democrats or alienated her foolish base by compromising on her foolish positions.
And Flanagan won in Minnesota, proving voters don't care what you do or don't do in office.
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Toxoplasma gondii, a single-celled organism that can only reproduce sexually inside cats, rewires the fear circuits in rodent brains to make them attracted to cat odors rather than repelled by them.
Researchers have spent decades investigating whether this same parasite, which lives dormant in hundreds of millions of people, might subtly influence human behavior and preferences in ways we don't recognize.
That may be unconstitutional!
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In 2024, Nancy Pelosi earned more from investments than any large hedge fund in the United States.
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The Antikythera mechanism, recovered from a Roman shipwreck in 1901 turned out to be a hand-cranked bronze computer that could predict eclipses and track the irregular orbit of the Moon, and nothing of comparable mechanical complexity would appear anywhere on Earth for another 1,400 years
***
Recently, the government gave $500 million to the coal industry, mostly in West Virginia. Now that's a lot of money, but that's less than the people of NYC gave to the wife of the Ex-mayor when they left office. That's consoling.
***
The goofy Ms. Hong lost in the Democrat primary for Governor in Wisconsin, despite support from the GOP PACs. One wonders if she was finally recognized as an incompetent by Democrats or alienated her foolish base by compromising on her foolish positions.
And Flanagan won in Minnesota, proving voters don't care what you do or don't do in office.
***
Toxoplasma gondii, a single-celled organism that can only reproduce sexually inside cats, rewires the fear circuits in rodent brains to make them attracted to cat odors rather than repelled by them.
Researchers have spent decades investigating whether this same parasite, which lives dormant in hundreds of millions of people, might subtly influence human behavior and preferences in ways we don't recognize.
That may be unconstitutional!
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What Politics Is
A very ugly podcast is being rebroadcast on a website I like. It is an interview with a trans-prostitute and her story of an encounter with Lindsey Graham. I'm sure there will be many opinions about this, especially on the very confused Left.
I know little about Graham. I thought he was funny, and I've heard the rumors. And I don't care about his personal life — aside from the security risks it presents. But I do care about scandalmongering, especially the dead, as a political tool, and I think that it characteristically appears late and in the absence of substance or courage. And I hate the idea that this kind of attack substitutes for political debate and reduces serious, threatening government problems to personal quirks and inconsistencies.
AI, The Debt, Censorship, Suspicion of Achievement, The Iran War, Russia in Ukraine, Open Borders, Mystery Cabinet Appointments, Children's Academic Test Scores, The Electoral Success of Shallow Revolutionary Thought — and we get this.
It confirms my opinion of the perpetrators and changes my opinion of the website that rebroadcast it.
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