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TIL that during the 1908 London Olympics, the United Kingdom ordered every country to dip its flag in honor of King Edward VII. All except the United States did so, with the American flag bearer stating, "This flag dips to no earthly king."
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From the todayilearned community on Reddit: TIL that during the 1908 London Olympics, the United Kingdom ordered every country…
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"Pigafetta is writing that Magellan had a map indicating the straight. Whether this map was actually created by Martin of Bohemia is unclear, but what would have been the source? Was it possible that someone like Niccolò de’ Conti (1395-1469) had acquired this knowledge during his voyages through Asia?"
https://johnplaice.substack.com/p/antonio-pigafetta-relates-his-voyage?utm_medium=android&triedRedirect=true#:~:text=Pigafetta%20is%20writing,voyages%20through%20Asia%3F
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Antonio Pigafetta Relates His Voyage Around the World with Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastián Elcano
On September 6th, 1522, just over 500 years ago, a ship called the Victoria, with 18 sailors aboard, captained by the Basque sailor Juan Sebastián Elcano (1476-1526), entered Sanlúcar de Barrameda, at the mouth of the Guadalquivir river in Spain; two days…
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Difference between average male and female BMI by country, as of 2014
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At some point Albert Einstein became an outright celebrity. Today we all unthinkingly accept his fame as normal, rather than an interesting aberration.
"And here’s the kicker. That crowd on the pier? The thousands of people cheering Einstein’s arrival? It wasn’t even FOR him.
"Einstein’s first trip to the United States was with an envoy of Zionists promoting their cause in America. The enthusiastic crowd was comprised of Jews who turned up to show their support for the (at the time) obscure Zionist movement. The true star of that envoy – which was promoted in the Jewish media – was Chaim Weizmann, the leader of the international Zionist Organisation. In articles leading up to the envoy’s arrival, Einstein barely rated a mention.
"But the American press, likely ignorant of Weizmann and his organisation, misattributed the crowd’s enthusiasm."
https://carpit.substack.com/p/was-albert-einstein-the-hawk-tuah
"And here’s the kicker. That crowd on the pier? The thousands of people cheering Einstein’s arrival? It wasn’t even FOR him.
"Einstein’s first trip to the United States was with an envoy of Zionists promoting their cause in America. The enthusiastic crowd was comprised of Jews who turned up to show their support for the (at the time) obscure Zionist movement. The true star of that envoy – which was promoted in the Jewish media – was Chaim Weizmann, the leader of the international Zionist Organisation. In articles leading up to the envoy’s arrival, Einstein barely rated a mention.
"But the American press, likely ignorant of Weizmann and his organisation, misattributed the crowd’s enthusiasm."
https://carpit.substack.com/p/was-albert-einstein-the-hawk-tuah
The Carpet
Was Albert Einstein the Hawk Tuah girl of the 1920s?
Spoiler: yes he was
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"Robert Pearlman has the story behind the patch at Collect Space, which came about because of the wishes of the crew. During the initial Mercury missions, the pilots were able to name their spacecraft—Freedom 7, Liberty Bell 7, and so on. Cooper had named his Mercury spacecraft 'Faith 7.' But an increasingly buttoned-up NASA ended this practice for the Gemini missions, and when Cooper and Conrad were assigned to the third Gemini flight they considered alternatives."
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/12/after-60-years-of-spaceflight-patches-here-are-some-of-our-favorites/
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/12/after-60-years-of-spaceflight-patches-here-are-some-of-our-favorites/
Ars Technica
After 60 years of spaceflight patches, here are some of our favorites
It turns out the US spy satellite agency is the best of the best at patch design.
Forwarded from Americans living in Russia
USA: Here is the complete route of the terrorist in the Cybertruck, who blew himself up at the entrance of Trump Tower.
Chinese commentator: He had to charge his electric car 8 times over a distance that a Chinese electric car would cover with just one charging stop. I'm not surprised at all that in the end, he decided to take his own life.
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Forwarded from The General
BREAKING: Alex Jones has banned anyone who criticizes Elon Musk from appearing on Infowars.
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This was an excellent podcast:
"Jonathan Jay Couey is a biologist and former academic whose pre-pandemic expertise was in neurobiology, with a focus on neuronal microcircuitry. I say 'pre-pandemic expertise' because, like many who took a stand against the military operation that was COVID-19, he lost his job."
https://www.jermwarfare.com/the-politics-and-bad-biology-of-the-covid-19-pandemic/
"Jonathan Jay Couey is a biologist and former academic whose pre-pandemic expertise was in neurobiology, with a focus on neuronal microcircuitry. I say 'pre-pandemic expertise' because, like many who took a stand against the military operation that was COVID-19, he lost his job."
https://www.jermwarfare.com/the-politics-and-bad-biology-of-the-covid-19-pandemic/
Jerm Warfare
The politics and bad biology of the COVID-19 'pandemic'
JJ Couey is a biologist who explains why intramuscular vaccination is ineffective.
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They really made pocket sundials
A 2 minute deviation on a 100 year old tool when the position of magnetic north has moved pretty significantly in just the last few decades is actually really really impressive
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A 2 minute deviation on a 100 year old tool when the position of magnetic north has moved pretty significantly in just the last few decades is actually really really impressive
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🚨 NEW: FORTISSAX is TYPING
THE GREAT CANADIAN RENAISSANCE
https://fortissax.substack.com/p/the-great-canadian-renaissance
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THE GREAT CANADIAN RENAISSANCE
In the great Canadian Darkness, there is something happening—something that feels so unprecedented, but also only possible under the pressures of existential struggle.
https://fortissax.substack.com/p/the-great-canadian-renaissance
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Forwarded from Et In Arcadia Ego (Alt Skull️)
Related: AI impersonating dead relatives. Horrors beyond comprehension.
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Forwarded from Megatron
JUST IN:
🇺🇲🇨🇦 Justin Trudeau responds to Trump:
"There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States."
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🇺🇲🇨🇦 Justin Trudeau responds to Trump:
"There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would become part of the United States."
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"The banning of a mathematics textbook is a rare occurrence, something that had not occurred since the seventeenth century. Hence, it is an extreme means to settle the science. More efficient is to make sure that the results of carefully organized observations of natural phenomena or experiments in laboratories never reach the eyes or ears of the majority of the scientific community, let alone the general public, long before anyone gets around to writing scientific textbooks.
"In this post, I will examine a few examples of important observations or experiments that were shut down—or at least there was an attempt to do so—by the authorities of the time. The first example, dating to the 17th century, is well known. The other four, from the 20th century, are far less so."
https://johnplaice.substack.com/p/how-to-settle-the-science-part-2#:~:text=The%20banning%20of,far%20less%20so.
"In this post, I will examine a few examples of important observations or experiments that were shut down—or at least there was an attempt to do so—by the authorities of the time. The first example, dating to the 17th century, is well known. The other four, from the 20th century, are far less so."
https://johnplaice.substack.com/p/how-to-settle-the-science-part-2#:~:text=The%20banning%20of,far%20less%20so.
Substack
How to Settle the Science, Part 2: Ban, Defund or Ignore Inconvenient Experiments or Observations
In my post How to Settle the Science: Ban an Applied Mathematics Textbook, I described how the introductory applied mathematics textbook, BodyAndSoul: Mathematical Simulation Technology, written by Claes Johnson, Emeritus Professor at the Royal Institute…
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Forwarded from ULTRA Pepe Lives Matter 🐸 (Pepe Lives Matter)
There is a reason why Trump has been wanting to buy Greenland since his first administration.
It's all part of his trade war with China.
China used a company called Greenland Minerals to get their hands on valuable minerals in the country.
Chinese company, Shenghe Resources Holdings, is the largest stakeholder in Greenland Minerals. So they have been essentially mining and moving their way into Greenland for years now.
China is essentially processing rare earth concentrates that contains the radioactive elements uranium and thorium.
So this isn't just for some meme that Trump is doing this.
The land has strategic value.
Around the exact same time that Trump first brought buying Greenland to the forefront, he told reporters that he was the "chosen one" to win the trade wars with China.
Listen to him closely in this last clip:
"Over the last five years, China has made 500 billion dollars. Ripped it out of the United States. Somebody had to do it. I am the chosen one. So I'm taking on China on trade. And you know what? We are winning. We are the piggy back, we are the ones that all these countries wants to rob and take advantage of. I was put here by people to do a great job and that's what I am doing."
It's all part of his trade war with China.
China used a company called Greenland Minerals to get their hands on valuable minerals in the country.
Chinese company, Shenghe Resources Holdings, is the largest stakeholder in Greenland Minerals. So they have been essentially mining and moving their way into Greenland for years now.
China is essentially processing rare earth concentrates that contains the radioactive elements uranium and thorium.
So this isn't just for some meme that Trump is doing this.
The land has strategic value.
Around the exact same time that Trump first brought buying Greenland to the forefront, he told reporters that he was the "chosen one" to win the trade wars with China.
Listen to him closely in this last clip:
"Over the last five years, China has made 500 billion dollars. Ripped it out of the United States. Somebody had to do it. I am the chosen one. So I'm taking on China on trade. And you know what? We are winning. We are the piggy back, we are the ones that all these countries wants to rob and take advantage of. I was put here by people to do a great job and that's what I am doing."
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NOW - Trump says the name of the Gulf of Mexico will be changed to the "Gulf of America."
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TRUMP: Well, we need Greenland for national security purposes. People don't even know if Denmark has any legal right to it. But if they do, they should give it up.
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