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Known as the “pettycoat rulers,” the women served for 3 years and did a great deal to clean up the notoriously lawless town.
Sorry for the confusing title. Basically before Unicode, a bunch of different standards for storing Chinese characters (also used in Korean and Japanese which also have some of their own derivatives) emerged. When Unicode sought to unify every standard they of course had to add compatibility for older standards so for all the...
Year AD 1 directly followed year 1 BC, without the year count ever reaching zero.
In this week’s Maphead, Ken Jennings explains how one of the Earth’s newest formations—a volcanic island in Iceland—was formed a mere 50 years ago.
It had never occurred to me before…
A new Pitt study shows that adults who get weight-loss surgery are more than twice as likely to get married or divorced in the next five years
After years of death rumors and depression, original ‘Blue’s Clues’ host Steve Burns is opening up about his return to the franchise.
It was reported that Fogerty’s tuberculosis was a complication from the AIDS virus, which he acquired from a tainted blood transfusion during back surgery.
There are no circulating copies of the album online and it cannot be commercially exploited until 2103, but it can be played at listening parties....
In the early fifth century, a time when the increasingly powerful Catholic Church clashed with the remainders of the pagan world, Hypatia of Alexandria was a renowned pagan mathematician, scientist…
An influential Italian-American organisation has appealed to Silvio Berlusconi, asking the prime minister to cancel Italy’s plan to award De Niro honorary citizenship.
While most eggs are considered unsafe to eat when raw, there's a scientifically interesting reason eggs are generally safe to eat raw in Japan.
Ekuikui V sometimes dubbed himself as the “king of (all) Ovimbundu”. In early 2021, Ekuikui V was sentenced to six years in prison by the Provincial Court of Huambo (TPH) for his implication in a murder in 2017. Ekuikui V had issued a judgment in a traditional court case, finding Jacinto Kamutali Epalangana guilty of killing...
The Babylonians excluded the constellation Ophiuchus from the zodiac, and Earth’s axis doesn’t point in the same direction it did 3,000 years ago.
Source : lancaster.unl.edu/pest/…/cockroach manual.pdf
Now that we know fish have thoughts, emotions, and pain receptors, it’s time to let them off the hook.
The mainstream position in the west is that Putin invaded Ukraine solely because he is evil and hates freedom, and that Moscow is 100% responsible for this conflict in every way while the US is just an innocent little flower who just wants to protect freedom and democracy. When you actually spell out what the mainstream position...
