Thursday, September 27, 2018
"Native-Land is a website dedicated to helping people across the world learn more about their local Indigenous history"
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Wednesday, September 26, 2018
There will be no more "turnover curls" on the Arizona State sideline
Herm Edwards said the turnover barbell curls on the sideline won’t continue. He said he didn’t know about it before the UW game.— SunDevilSource.com (@SunDevilSource) September 26, 2018
“Great idea. Not on my watch.”
"Philadelphia Threw a WWI Parade That Gave Thousands of Onlookers the Flu"
Smithsonian:
Within 72 hours of the parade, every bed in Philadelphia’s 31 hospitals was filled. In the week ending October 5, some 2,600 people in Philadelphia had died from the flu or its complications. A week later, that number rose to more than 4,500.
"Taiwan Can Win a War With China"
FP:
There are only 13 beaches on Taiwan’s western coast that the PLA could possibly land at. Each of these has already been prepared for a potential conflict. Long underground tunnels—complete with hardened, subterranean supply depots—crisscross the landing sites. The berm of each beach has been covered with razor-leaf plants. Chemical treatment plants are common in many beach towns—meaning that invaders must prepare for the clouds of toxic gas any indiscriminate saturation bombing on their part will release. This is how things stand in times of peace.
As war approaches, each beach will be turned into a workshop of horrors. The path from these beaches to the capital has been painstakingly mapped; once a state of emergency has been declared, each step of the journey will be complicated or booby-trapped. PLA war manuals warn soldiers that skyscrapers and rock outcrops will have steel cords strung between them to entangle helicopters;
"A new report estimates that more than 380,000 people have died in South Sudan’s civil war"
WaPo:
The findings of the study, conducted by a small team at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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More than 14,500 U.N. peacekeepers are deployed to the country, and the mission there cost the United Nations just over $1.1 billion in the last fiscal year.
Intimidation
Feinstein doing a very good LBJ https://t.co/hrGrHCvGBS pic.twitter.com/B80Fs0hsFw— Clare Malone (@ClareMalone) September 26, 2018
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
"A puppet specialist with the Broadway musical 'The Lion King' was arrested at the Minskoff Theater last week after he was found inside the prop room manufacturing a 3-D printed gun"
"In New York, it is illegal for an unlicensed person to 3-D print an assault weapon, pistol or revolver."
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