Tag: history
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Dinosaurs may have been wiped out by asteroid and volcano
Dinosaurs may have been wiped out by asteroid and volcano
Now, a team of Berkeley-based scientists are suggesting a sort of compromise, and one based on facts and data rather than attempts to smooth over tensions. According to a recent study that will soon be published in Science, researchers suggest that the asteroid impact may have accelerated the volcano explosions, and the combined fallout from both catastrophes may have been what ultimately drove the dinosaurs extinct. It’s even possible that the asteroid impact on its own would not have been powerful enough to wipe out the dinosaurs.
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On Monday, after a group of Egyptian and foreign archaeologists examined the famous tomb of King Tut, Egypt’s antiquities minister confirmed that they found evidence suggesting the existence of two previously undiscovered rooms. “This indicates that the western and northern walls of Tutankhamun’s tomb could hide two burial chambers,” minister Mamdouh Eldamaty told the Egyptian state press.
Lots more secrets to be found.. Exciting times.
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The class of 18 learns about 9/11
I cannot fathom it being 14 years already since 9/11.. I have my personal memories, some I have shared in public settings, others I have kept very secret.. I have those images forever in my mind.. This morning while hearing news accounts of today’s ceremonies planned in the locations hit by terrorism on September 11, 2001, I realized this: The kids born that year, those who first were welcomed…
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THE GREAT POPE-MANICIPATOR
There are two schools of thought on Pope Francis. In one corner, the hardcore fans who believe he has assumed the right hand of Christ on earth, people who think his lectures about global warning and poverty are long overdue, and that he is a savior of the modern era.. one that will create a hybrid of heaven on earth and social justice across the planet.
Pope Francis attends a dance presentation during his meeting with the youth in Asuncion, Paraguay, Sunday, July 12, 2015. On his weeklong trip to some of South Americas poorest places, Pope Francis burnished his credentials as a new kind of pontiff, issuing a searing apology for church crimes that are more than half a millennium old and making a pit stop at a Burger King to change clothes and freshen up before celebrating Mass. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz) The other camp?
Well, quite frankly, they think he is the antichrist and use lots of information, sometimes clumsily clumped together, as proof. The prophecy of the Popes didn’t help.. Malachi all but said this is “the end,” we are told. And Francis’ decrees seem to fit into the thought process that he is heralding over the end times..one social statement at a time.Enter this little factoid into the ring and watch both sides scuttle: The Pope is going to use Abraham Lincoln’s podium from the Gettysburg Address during his late September Philadelphia visit. From the ASSOCIATED PRESS:
The Union League of Philadelphia said Friday it would offer the simple wooden stand for the pontiff to use during his planned speech on immigration and religious liberty.
“Its simple beauty and humble role in one of American history’s most important moments reflects, in many ways, Pope Francis’ own world view,” said Robert Ciaruffoli, president of the World Meeting of Families.
Don’t judge. That wouldn’t be very Catholic of you.
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Two sides to every scandal
Donald Trump got trashed for diminishing John McCain’s war hero status (then his polls went UP).. But there may have been and either unintended or intended consequence to the brouhaha… Now some are re-looking at some longstanding oddities over McCain and his attempts to conceal some POW related items about Vietnam.. A report worth reading here: https://www.intellihub.com/john-mccain-is-no-war-hero-he-has-covered-up-pows-left-behind-in-vietnam-for-years/
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A good article in OZY about a bomb that went off on Wall Street in 1920
On September 16, 1920, a bomb planted on a red horse-drawn wagon exploded into the lunchtime crowd at Wall and Broad streets. This was just outside the House of Morgan (now known as J.P. Morgan), then the world’s most powerful financial institution. The force of the explosion, which killed 38 and wounded hundreds, was strong enough to lift people off the ground and fling the mangled horse halfway down the road.
He escaped, white-faced and dazed, along with hundreds of others, as the dead lay flattened “like tenpins.”
The wagon carried 100 pounds of TNT, with 500 pounds of cast-iron bolts packed around the explosives that detonated at 12:01 p.m., when the streets were teeming with lunch-hour traffic, according to the anthology Tools of Violence: Guns, Tanks and Dirty Bombs, by Chris McNab and Hunter Keeter. To this day, nobody knows who did it or why. And the mystery has been all but forgotten, apart from the deep gouges left in buildings by the blast.
