Did you know?

[noirua]

Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (German: [ˈʔɛɐ̯nst ˈhɛkl̩]; 16 February 1834 – 9 August 1919[1]) was a German zoologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist, and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, including ecology,[2] phylum,[3] phylogeny,[4] and Protista.[5]Haeckel promoted and popularised Charles Darwin's work in Germany and developed the influential but no longer widely held recapitulation theory ("ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny") claiming that an individual organism's biological development, or ontogeny, parallels and summarises its species' evolutionary development, or phylogeny.

 

[Knobby22]

I liked that theory
Though not perfect it has elements of truth.

 

[noirua]

...that Aussie Horace Lindrum was World Snooker Champion in 1952
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Lindrum

Horace Lindrum (born Horace Norman William Morrell, 15 January 1912 – 20 June 1974) was an Australian professional snooker and billiards player. The dominant snooker player in Australia, he lived in Britain for long periods and played in the major British tournaments. From his arrival in Britain in 1935 he was regarded as the second best player in the world, behind Joe Davis. Lindrum contested three World Championship finals against Davis, in 1936, 1937 and 1946, losing all three to Davis but coming close to beating him on several occasions. When past his best, Lindrum won the 1952 World Championship which, because of a dispute between the governing body and the players' association, was only contested by himself and New Zealander Clark McConachy.

Joe Davis left and Horace Lindrum.

 

[noirua]

The first expedition to summit Everest in 1953
Did you know there were 35 members of the expedition

 

[noirua]

What Are The Signs That Your Liver Is Not Functioning Properly?
https://www.epainassist.com/abdomin...s-that-your-liver-is-not-functioning-properly

 

[basilio]

How to start your own public library from the tip....
(I wonder how the business plan was received ??)

Turkish Garbage Collectors Open Library Full of Discarded Books
By Thom Peart January 18, 2018 Culture, Libraries, News

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Turkish garbage collectors in the country’s capital city of Ankara have opened a public library that is full of books that were originally destined to be put into landfill. The workers began collecting discarded books and opened the new library in the Çankaya district of Ankara. News of the library has spread and now people have begun donating books directly to the library, rather than throwing them away.

As CNN reports, the library was originally created for the use of the employees friends and family but, as it grew in size, the library was officially opened to the public in September of last year. “We started to discuss the idea of creating a library from these books. And when everyone supported it, this project happened,” said Çankaya Mayor Alper Tasdelen, whose local government spearheaded the opening of the library.

The library now has over 6,000 fiction and non-fiction books and includes a children’s section, an area dedicated to scientific research books, and a number of English and French language books for those who are bilingual.

The library building itself used to be a brick factory and is located at the sanitation department HQ. The building featured long corridors and an aged brick facade and transformed perfectly into a library.

Books can be withdrawn for two weeks at a time, with an extension available if required. The library’s collection has now become so vast that it loans many of the books to schools, educational programs, and even prisons.

“Village schoolteachers from all over Turkey are requesting books,” Tasdelen said. The library has also created new job opportunities as it requires full time staff to run and support it.

http://forreadingaddicts.co.uk/news...E7jSUsTznjTLeDm7o9f9JK7t5e11QMEuuzS8PIYNJ8yNg

 

[noirua]

Did you know Sir Winston Churchill could lay 60 bricks an hour!

 

[noirua]

Sinking of SS Princess Alice
SS Princess Alice, formerly PS Bute, was a passenger paddle steamer that sank on 3 September 1878 after a collision with the collier Bywell Castle on the River Thames. Between 600 and 700 people died, all from Princess Alice, the greatest loss of life of any British inland waterway shipping accident. No passenger list or headcount was made, so the exact figure of those who died has never been known.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_SS_Princess_Alice

"The Great Disaster on the Thames: Recovering Bodies from the Wreck of the Princess Alice"; The Illustrated London News, 14 September 1878[39]
Creekmouth Village: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creekmouth

Memorial to those killed in the disaster. http://deceasedonlineblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/normal-0-ss-princess-alice-londons.html

"The Great Disaster on the Thames: Burial of the Unknown Dead at the Woolwich Cemetery, East Wickham"; The Illustrated London News, 14 September 1878[57]

Explore the Princess Alice and the disaster
https://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/behind-the-scenes/blog/princess-alice-disaster

 

[noirua]

Radon
Rock and soil release this gas. There’s a little in the air around us, but it’s dangerous if too much is trapped in your home. Its radioactive particles cause damage when breathed in or swallowed. It gets into buildings through cracks and holes in floors and walls, and around plumbing and wiring. You can’t smell or see radon, but a simple test can tell you if your home has too much. If you do, hire a certified contractor to make fixes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radon

Radon map of Australia
https://www.arpansa.gov.au/understa...tion-sources/more-radiation-sources/radon-map

British nuclear weapons testing in Australia
https://www.arpansa.gov.au/understa...ation-sources/british-nuclear-weapons-testing

It’s produced when uranium, thorium, and radium break down in soil, rock, and water. It’s then released into the air. Radon is odorless, tasteless, and invisible.
https://www.healthline.com/health/healthy-home-guide/radon-poisoning

 

[noirua]

Under federal law, the minimum age to buy tobacco products is 18 years, although in California and several other states it is 21.

US lawmakers push bipartisan bill to raise the federal minimum buying age for tobacco to 21
30 April 2019
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/30/law...federal-minimum-tobacco-buying-age-to-21.html

• It also would prohibit retailers from selling tobacco products to anyone under the age of 30 without photo identification.

 

[noirua]

Panwalkar Balu a DALIT was India's first known cricketer and not Ranjit Singhji...RAMCHANDRA GUHA
http://mindmoodsandmagic.blogspot.com/2014/10/panwalkar-balu-dalit-was-indias-first.html

Dalit, meaning "broken/scattered" in Sanskrit and Hindi, is a term mostly used for the ethnic groups in India that have been kept depressed by subjecting them to untouchability (often termed backward castes).

India’s first Dalit cricketer Palwankar Baloo fought against caste barriers on the field and off it
https://www.hindustantimes.com/spor...-and-off-it/story-Cz10GUgvkQoLI4b7fhNVEO.html

 

[noirua]

One of the greatest Generals was
Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebhard_Leberecht_von_Blücher

Blücher (as he appeared ca. 1815–1819)
After Ernst Gebauer [Public domain]

His 30,000 strong Prussian army arrived on June 18 1815 to join the British, Belgian, German and Dutch to defeat Napolean near a small village named Waterloo in Belgium.

Blücher mausoleum, Krobielowice (2012)
Sebastian Panwitz [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krobielowice

Clément-Auguste Andrieux's 1852 The Battle of Waterloo - Clément-Auguste Andrieux (1829–1880) [Public domain]
Waterloo (French pronunciation: [watɛʁlo],[2] Dutch pronunciation: [ˈʋaːtərloː], Walloon: Waterlô) is a Walloon municipality in the province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium, which in 2011 had a population of 29,706 and an area of 21.03 km² (8.12 sq mi). It is north of Braine-l'Alleud, which is the site of the Battle of Waterloo, where the resurgent Napoleon was defeated for the final time in 1815. Historically Flemish, Waterloo is now a Francophone town on the very border between Flemish Brabant and Walloon Brabant.

 

[Tink]

Mary Helen MacKillop RSJ (15 January 1842 – 8 August 1909) was an Australian nun who has been declared a saint by the Catholic Church, as St Mary of the Cross. Of Scottish descent, she was born in Melbourne but is best known for her activities in South Australia. Together with the Reverend Julian Tenison Woods, she founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart (the Josephites), a congregation of religious sisters that established a number of schools and welfare institutions throughout Australia and New Zealand, with an emphasis on education for the rural poor.

The process to have MacKillop declared a saint began in the 1920s, and she wasbeatified in January 1995 by Pope John Paul II. Pope Benedict XVI prayed at her tomb during his visit to Sydney for World Youth Day 2008 and in December 2009 approved the Catholic Church's recognition of a second miracle attributed to herintercession.[3] She was canonised on 17 October 2010, during a public ceremony in St Peter's Square at the Vatican.[4] She is the first Australian to be recognised by the Catholic Church as a saint.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_MacKillop

 

[noirua]

AINU
The Ainu or the Aynu (Ainu: アィヌ, Аину, Aynu; Japanese: アイヌ, Ainu; Russian: Айны, Ajny) or the Ezo (蝦夷) in the historical Japanese texts, are an indigenous people of Japan (Hokkaido and formerly Northeastern Honshu) and Russia (Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, Khabarovsk Krai and the Kamchatka Peninsula).[6]

Official estimates place the total Ainu population at 25,000, but unofficial estimates place its total population at 200,000, because many Ainu have been completely assimilated into Japanese society and as a result, they have no knowledge of their ancestry.

On June 6, 2008, the Japanese Diet passed a bipartisan, non-binding resolution calling upon the government to recognise the Ainu people as indigenous to Japan, and urging an end to discrimination against the group. The resolution recognised the Ainu people as "an indigenous people with a distinct language, religion and culture". The government immediately followed with a statement acknowledging its recognition, stating, "The government would like to solemnly accept the historical fact that many Ainu were discriminated against and forced into poverty with the advancement of modernisation, despite being legally equal to (Japanese) people."[18][25] In February 2019, the Japanese government consolidated the legal status of the Ainu people by passing a bill which officially recognises the Ainu as an indigenous people. Furthermore, the bill aims at simplifying procedures for getting various permissions from authorities in regards to the traditional lifestyle of the Ainu.[26] A bill passed in April 2019 officially recognized the Ainu of Hokkaido as an indigenous people of Japan.[27]

According to the Asahi Shimbun, the Ainu will participate in the opening ceremony of the Olympic games 2020 in Japan.[28] The space will open on April 24, 2020, prior to the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games scheduled in the same year, in Shiraoi, Hokkaido. The park will serve as base for the protection and promotion of Ainu people, culture and language.[29]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainu_people

By Unknown - [1], taken from the book "Ainu: Spirit of a Northern People " ISBN: 0967342902., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1221269

 

[noirua]

Conspiracy, involvement or what:
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2005/s1300651.htm

Bill Clinton pardon controversy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton_pardon_controversy
While most presidents grant pardons throughout their terms, Clinton chose to make nearly a third of them on January 20, 2001, his last day in office. This came to be known as Pardongate.[2] While Clinton pardoned a large number (450)[3] of people compared with his immediate one-term predecessor Republican George H. W. Bush, who pardoned only 75, the number of people pardoned by Clinton was comparable to that pardoned by two-term Republican Ronald Reagan and one-term Democrat Jimmy Carter, who pardoned 393 and 534 respectively.[4]

Marc Rich: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Rich

Marc Rich (born Marcell David Reich; December 18, 1934 – June 26, 2013) was an international commodities trader, hedge fund manager, financier and businessman.[2] He founded the commodities company Glencore, and was later indicted in the United States on federal charges of tax evasion and making oil deals with Iran during the Iran hostage crisis. He was in Switzerland at the time of the indictment and never returned to the United States.[3] He received a widely criticised presidential pardon from U.S. President Bill Clinton on January 20, 2001, Clinton's last day in office.[4]

He cornered the market in mercury, aluminium and silver. He bust sanctions to sell oil to the world's most notorious states. He was one of the FBI's most wanted men. But was winning a controversial pardon Marc Rich's smartest coup?
That's a question the US attorney's office in New York would also like an answer to. For years, Rich's name appeared alongside the likes of Osama bin Laden on the FBI's Most Wanted Fugitives list. Then in the early hours of 20 January, after an extraordinary lobbying campaign involving former White House counsel Jack Quinn, the US Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder, Rich's ex-wife Denise and a last-minute phone call from Israeli former prime minister Ehud Barak, Clinton ignored the misgivings of his law enforcement officials and granted the pardon.
https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2001/may/13/features.magazine37

The Canton of ZUG from where Marc Rich centred his empire. : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zug

FBI Abruptly Releases New Documents in Marc Rich Pardon Case — Why?
https://forward.com/news/breaking-n...s-new-documents-in-marc-rich-pardon-case-why/
It was widely reported at the time that federal prosecutors launched a grand jury investigation into whether Rich’s ex-wife, Denise, procured the pardon by making donations to Democratic Party accounts and the Clinton Foundation.
There was also speculation that Bill Clinton pardoned Rich, a major pro-Israel donor, as a nod to Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu.

 

[noirua]

... in the 19th century that Heroin was marketed to cure morphine addiction. Morphine was marketed to cure opium addiction.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carmen...roins-curious-chemistry-history/#5fbc6d87157c
https://www.therecoveryvillage.com/heroin-addiction/heroin-facts-history/#gref

 

[noirua]

Natural chemicals called sterols, which you get from plant foods, help your body absorb less cholesterol. Now, many foods from granola bars and yogurt to orange juice are fortified with plant sterols, which can help reduce cholesterol levels by 6% to 15%. Just check the label to make sure you're not getting too many calories.

 

[bi-polar]

Noirua's next post will be his 9,347th. Followed by 9,348th.

 

[noirua]

... that burglars nearly always raid bedrooms first. The largest room is their main target.

 

[SirRumpole]

... that burglars nearly always raid bedrooms first. The largest room is their main target.

Source of that info ?

I would have thought they would go for tvs, computers, dvd/blueRay players first.