Lucy Mangan on why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the voice we all need (Stylist)
Increasing diversity means increasing the proportion of outsiders, people from backgrounds like yours and mine. They can bring in the beliefs and ideas that truly represent us. We need to push for a lot more AOCs on both sides of the pond before we're A-OK again.
Hadrian's Wall (Latin: Vallum Aelium), also called the Roman Wall, Picts' Wall, or Vallum Hadriani in Latin, was a defensive fortification in the Roman province of Britannia, begun in AD 122 in the reign of the emperor Hadrian. It ran from the banks of the River Tyne near the North Sea to the Solway Firth on the Irish Sea, and was the northern limit of the Roman Empire, immediately north of which were the lands of the northern Ancient Britons, including the Picts.
A significant portion of the wall still stands and can be followed on foot along the adjoining Hadrian's Wall Path. The largest Roman archaeological feature anywhere, it runs a total of 73 miles (117.5 kilometres) in northern England. Regarded as a British cultural icon, Hadrian's Wall is one of Britain's major ancient tourist attractions. It was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987.
It is a common misconception that Hadrian's Wall marks the boundary between England and Scotland. In fact Hadrian's Wall lies entirely within England and has never formed the Anglo-Scottish border. While it is less than 0.6 mi (1.0 km) south of the border with Scotland in the west at Bowness-on-Solway, in the east it is as much as 68 miles (109 km) away.
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Randall was first, and correct, with:
England
Mark. said:
England.
Alan J answered:
England.
mj wrote:
Depends on which part
Most of it is in Northern England, at or near the border with Scotland.
It didn't span the entire border, just places of trade traffic (which
allowed for collecting taxes) and points of incursion for raiders. It
was heavily manned. Undesirables still got through.
Dave responded:
England. 73 miles long, it was constructed during the Roman rule of what they called the province of Britannia. Trump says that's why there aren't any Mexicans in England.
Deborah responded:
I think Hadrian's wall, built by the Roman emperor Hadrian, divides Great Britain and Scotland. So it's in Great Britain. I look forward to the correct answer.
Cold rain yesterday and overnight, with a dusting of snow on the ride to the west of us, that divides our fair city from Napa. It might be cold, but the sun is out, and that's a plus.
Dave in Tucson replied:
Hadrian's Wall was built in Britain to keep the Scottish hordes out.
Didn't seem to work too well.
John I from Hawai`i says,
"England, U.K."
Michelle in AZ wrote:
England
Billy in Cypress U$A said:
Hadrian's Wall is in the north of England, close to Scotland.
Cal in Vermont answered:
Hadrian's Wall stretched 73 miles across England. It was erected for basically political reasons and was never meant to defend from an organized invasion and was a manifestation of Hadrian's desire to keep the Empire intact and was inspired by, uh, "divine instruction". If any of this sounds familiar, it is. Just the other day Sarah Huckabee Sanders, saints preserve her, said that God placed the Pornstar Poker in office to do the same.
BttbBob responded:
Britannia...
Considered the northern most frontier demarcation of the Roman Empire and built in 6 years, it was completed in 128 CE... Here is a side diagram of the works, which is more than just a wall, and was 73 miles long, North Sea to Irish Sea...
William Burroughs' novel Naked Lunch received its title from novelist Jack Kerouac. According to Mr. Burroughs, "The title means exactly what the words say. NAKED lunch - a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork."
Gertrude Stein wrote the autobiography of her friend, Alice B. Toklas; however, Ms. Toklas did write the Alice B. Toklas Cookbook. This book describes meals with famous painters and authors - it also includes a recipe for Haschich Fudge.
As a very young ballet student in the Soviet Union, Natalia Makarova flirted with a handsome boy by saying that she could eat six quarts of ice cream. However, when she tried to do it, she disgraced herself -she was able to eat only four quarts.
The Roman emperor Claudius died after eating poisoned mushrooms. Afterward, he was deified. His successor, Nero, thereafter referred to mushrooms as "the food of the gods."
The great dancer Bill Robinson, aka Mr. Bojangles, had a serious weakness for vanilla ice cream, and reportedly ate four to eight quarts per day.
"Reciting part of a sutra with the desire to benefit others is like reciting a recipe in the hope that it will prevent people from starving." - Zen master Bassui.
"The sight of someone eating will not appease your hunger. The spiritual experiences of others cannot satisfy your yearning." - a traditional saying of Sufism.
Ludwig van Beethoven had a terrible temper. He once dumped a dish of veal and gravy over a waiter's head.
More rain, still on the chilly side, and the kitties are not pleased.
Tonight, Monday:
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'The Neighborhood', followed by a FRESH'Man With A Plan', then a FRESH'Big Bother', followed by a FRESH'Bull'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are John Oliver and BLACKPINK.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Kelsey Grammer, Jay Baruchel, and Alessia Cara.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'America's Got Talent', followed by a FRESH'Manifest'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Adam Sandler, Stephen Merchant, Big Bird, and Metro Boomin featuring Gunna.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Debra Messing, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and the Prom.
Scheduled on a FRESHCarson 'The Scab' Daly are Aya Cash, GOGGS, and Michael Malarkey.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'The Bachelor', followed by a FRESH'The Good Doctor'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Steve Harvey, Adam Devine, and Leon Bridges.
The CW offers a FRESH'Arrow', followed by a FRESH'Black Lightning'.
Faux has a FRESH'The Resident', followed by a FRESH'The Passage'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: CI', followed by another old 'L&O: CI'.
A&E has 'Biggie: The Life Of Notorious BIG', 'Michael Jackson: Life Of An Icon', and 'Studio 54'.
AMC offers the movie 'Jurassic Park', followed by 'Dynasties' (Painted Wolf), and the movie 'Jurassic Park'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 8-A Matter of Honor
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 9-The Measure of a Man
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 10-The Dauphin
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 11-Contagion
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 12-The Royale
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 13-Time Squared
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 14-The Icarus Factor
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 15-Pen Pals
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 16-Q Who
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 17-Samaritan Snare
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 18-Up the Long Ladder
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 19-Manhunt
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 20-The Emissary
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 21-Peak Performance
[8:00PM] Apocalypto (2006)
[11:00PM] Apocalypto (2006)
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 16-Q Who
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 17-Samaritan Snare
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 18-Up the Long Ladder
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 19-Manhunt (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Vanderpump Rules', another 'Vanderpump Rules', followed by a FRESH'Vanderpump Rules', then a FRESH'Vanderpumped'.
FX has the movie 'Hitman: Agent 47', followed by the movie 'The Amazing Spider Man'.
History has 'American Pickers', another 'American Pickers', followed by a FRESH'American Pickers', then a FRESH'Pawn Stars'.
IFC -
[6:00A] Pee-wee's Playhouse-Stolen Apples
[6:30A] Miss March
[8:30A] Why Stop Now?
[10:30A] The Heartbreak Kid
[1:00P] Portlandia-Most Pro City
[1:30P] Portlandia-Peter Follows P!nk
[2:00P] Portlandia-Long Way Back
[2:30P] Portlandia-Rose Route
[3:00P] That '70s Show-Romantic Weekend
[3:30P] That '70s Show-Kitty's Birthday (That's Today?!)
[4:00P] That '70s Show-The Trials of Michael Kelso
[4:30P] That '70s Show-Eric's Naughty No-No
[5:00P] That '70s Show-Holy Craps!
[5:30P] That '70s Show-Fez Dates Donna
[6:00P] Two and a Half Men-A Kosher Slaughterhouse Out in Fontana
[6:30P] Two and a Half Men-Frankenstein and the Horny Villagers
[7:00P] Two and a Half Men-Yes, Monsignor
[7:30P] Two and a Half Men-The Salmon Under My Sweater
[8:00P] Two and a Half Men-Last Chance to See Those Tattoos
[8:30P] Two and a Half Men-A Lungful of Alan
[9:00P] Two and a Half Men-Zejdz Zmoich Wlosow (Get Off My Hair)
[9:30P] Two and a Half Men-Those Big Pink Things With Coconuts
[10:00P] Two and a Half Men-Smell the Umbrella Stand
[10:30P] Two and a Half Men-Can You Eat Human Flesh With Wooden Teeth?
[11:00P] Two and a Half Men-Woo-Hoo, A Hernia-Exam!
[11:30P] Two and a Half Men-It Was Mame, Mom
[12:00A] Two and a Half Men-Lotta Delis in Little Armenia
[12:30A] Two and a Half Men-Dial 1-900-Mix-A-Lot
[1:00A] That '70s Show-Romantic Weekend
[1:30A] That '70s Show-Kitty's Birthday (That's Today?!)
[2:00A] That '70s Show-The Trials of Michael Kelso
[2:30A] That '70s Show-Eric's Naughty No-No
[3:00A] That '70s Show-0Holy Craps!
[3:30A] That '70s Show-Fez Dates Donna
[4:00A] Why Stop Now? (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00am] m*a*s*h
[6:30am] m*a*s*h
[7:00am] m*a*s*h
[7:30am] m*a*s*h
[8:00am] m*a*s*h
[8:30am] m*a*s*h
[9:00am] m*a*s*h
[9:30am] m*a*s*h
[10:00am] m*a*s*h
[10:30am] m*a*s*h
[11:00am] roots: the next generations
[1:15pm] roots: the next generations
[3:30pm] roots: the next generations
[5:45pm] roots: the next generations
[8:00pm] roots: the next generations
[10:15pm] roots: the next generations
[10:15pm] Roots: The Next Generations
[12:30am] Roots: The Next Generations
[3:00am] Gone Baby Gone
[5:30am] Barney Miller (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Need For Speed', followed by the movie 'Limitless', then hours & hours of old 'Futurama'.
Michelle Obama made a surprise appearance at the 2019 Grammys on Sunday night.
After Alicia Keys opened the show, she welcomed friends, who she described as "magnificent goddesses" to the stage, including Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, Jada Pinkett Smith and surprise guest - the former first lady.
Starting with Lady Gaga, each woman noted how much music means to them personally.
As soon as Obama, wearing a silver sequin suit, started to speak, the audience erupted, offering Obama a standing ovation and a prolonged applause before she could get her speech out.
"From the Motown records I wore out on the South Side to the 'Who Run the World' songs that fueled me through this last decade, music has always helped me tell my story, and I know that's true for everybody here," Obama said. "Whether we like country or rap or rock, music helps us share ourselves, our dignity and sorrows, our hopes and joys. It allows us to hear one another, to invite each other in. Music shows us that all of it matters, every story within every voice, every note within every song."
Former president Jimmy Carter is now a three-time Grammy winner.
The 39th president won the best spoken word album honor at Sunday's Grammy Awards for his work, "Faith - A Journey for All."
It is Carter's third win, all in the spoken word category. He won in 2016 for "A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety" and his first Grammy in 2007 for "Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis."
Carter did not attend the Grammys' pre-telecast ceremony, where dozens of awards are handed out before the main show starts at 8 p.m. Eastern. The early awards are being livestreamed on www.grammy.com and the main show is airing on CBS.
Joni Mitchell made a rare public appearance on Saturday night at Clive Davis' annual pre-Grammys gala at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
The 75-year-old singer, who has been a regular at the star-studded party throughout its 43 years, received a standing ovation during the event after Davis introduced her.
The wheelchair-bound singer flashed a smile as she got help to briefly stand up and face the crowd.
Mitchell's outing on Saturday night was just one of very few appearances that she had made in public since she suffered from a brain aneurysm in March 2015 and was found unconscious in her home in Los Angeles. In the four years since her health scare, she has appeared once at Davis' party in 2017 and, three months ago, she stepped out for an event held in her honor around her 75th birthday.
The audience at Clive Davis' white-hot gala included Barbra Streisand, Joni Mitchell and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, but it was House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who got the most requests to take a selfie.
Pelosi received rock star treatment Saturday night from attendees at the annual pre-Grammy event, which also featured a stunning tribute to the late Aretha Franklin, an artist Davis worked closely with for decades.
Pelosi's sarcastic handclap and smirk to President Donald Trump (R-Sad Hair) at his State of the Union address went viral last week and launched hundreds of memes. So when Davis announced that she was in the audience - Pelosi has attended in the past - she received a standing ovation, while some people even imitated her now-famous handclap.
At the top of the event and as she tried to exit, people asked to take selfies, almost creating a line as Pelosi smiled through them all.
A wide range of celebrities attended event at the Beverly Hilton, including Apple's Tim Cook, Netflix's Ted Sarandos, recent Super Bowl champ Julian Edelman, Wolfgang Puck, Earth, Wind & Fire, Dionne Warwick, Kathy Griffin, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Calvin Klein, Angela Bassett, Berry Gordy, Fred Armisen, George Clinton and Darren Criss.
Two Texas newspapers compiled a database of more than 200 sexual abuse offenders involving 700 victims within the Southern Baptist Church despite decades of convention leaders refusing demands to create a list of sexual predators.
The Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News collected the mugshots and sexual abuse reports of hundreds of Southern Baptist church leaders from the past two decades. More than 220 leaders including ministers, pastors and Sunday school teachers from the SBC's 47,000 churches have been convicted of sex crimes including disturbing and heart-wrenching anecdotes of church affiliates raping young children.
The cases detailed in the Texas newspapers' first of three reports published Sunday reveals how more than 700 victims routinely had their stories of sexual assault and molestation pushed under the rug by church leaders. Southern Baptist Convention leaders have rejected decades of demands from victims and families to create a list of sexual predators within their affiliated churches.
As the Express-News and Chronicle report after years of investigation, dozens of sexual predators and child molesters were allowed to move from church-to-church or even return to their positions after being credibly accused or civilly sued by victims and their families. Many of these young victims were forced to forgive their abusers, get abortions or face accept hushed plea deals instead of being shunned by their local communities.
At least 35 church pastors, volunteers and employees were able to find jobs within churches despite Southern Baptist Convention leaders knowing of past sexually predatory behavior. Many church leaders deliberately failed to inform law enforcement, parents or other congregation members about allegations of sexual misconduct.
Five paintings attributed to Adolf Hitler have failed to sell at a controversial auction in the southern German city of Nuremberg after questions surfaced about whether they were genuine.
High starting prices of between 19,000 and 45,000 (£16,600 and £43,800) and lingering suspicions about the authenticity of the artworks were suspected to have frightened away potential buyers at Saturday's bidding.
The auction was criticised by several of the city's politicians and citizens. The watercolours were said to have been painted by the Nazi dictator during his early days as a struggling artist.
Three days before Saturday's auction, prosecutors seized 63 other paintings attributed to Hitler from the auction house to investigate allegations they were fakes.
In Berlin last month, three other alleged Hitler watercolours were seized after complaints over their authenticity.
Scientists have discovered a brand-new kind of magnet hiding out in a uranium compound.
The compound, USb2 (a compound of uranium and antimony), a so-called "singlet-based" magnet, is novel in that it generates magnetism in an entirely different way than any other magnet known to scientists.
USb2 is like many other substances in that the electrons inside it don't tend to point their magnetic fields in the same direction, so they can't generate magnetism through their combined magnetic field strength.
However, the electrons in USb2 can work together to form quantum-mechanical objects called "spin excitons."
Spin excitons aren't like the normal particles you learned about in physics and chemistry class: electrons, protons, neutrons, photons, etc. Instead, they're quasiparticles, particles that aren't discrete objects in our universe but act like they are when groups of physical particles start acting together in strange ways.
Mapping technology is infinitely better than it used to be, but satellites and LiDAR can never recapture the craft that went into making old-school US Geological Survey Maps. Instead, graphic designer Scott Reinhard is trying to bring a modern touch to the old designs using 3D technology. He used elevation data from the United States Geological Survey to create 3D elevations of the topography, then merged the data with the vintage designs of the old maps.
Reinhard produced the maps as a way to better grasp a region's geography himself while also telling a story about what forces created it. He tended to choose regions with a personal connection or those that piqued his curiosity. "I am from Indiana, which always felt so flat and boring," he told Colossal. "When I began rendering the elevation data for the state, the story of the land emerged. The glaciers that receded across the northern half of the state after the last ice age scraped and gouged and shaped the land in a way that is spectacularly clear."
Many students struggle to decipher geology and geography maps, so for Reinhard, the project was a way to gain a better understanding of the forces that shaped American landscapes. "As a visual person, I was most intrigued by the ability to visually harness data and create images that helped me gain insight into locations," he said. "I felt empowered by the ability to collect and process the vast amounts of information freely available, and create beautiful images."
The US Geological Survey created maps starting in the 1800s not only to aid industry, but as educational tools for tourists and students. As such, it tried to make them as accessible as possible through the use of color and other touches.
"The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part" was easily the top ticket-seller in theaters over the weekend, but the film's $35 million opening failed to stack up to its expected haul, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The animated sequel had been forecast to draw around $50 million. Instead, it debuted with half the $69 million the 2014 original did, despite good reviews and an A-minus CinemaScore.
With about a $100 million budget, Warner Bros.' "The Lego Movie 2" had been pegged as a dependable, star-studded franchise release sure to kick-start a moribund box office. But after record ticket sales last year, Hollywood's 2019 has gotten off to such a bad beginning that the movie's tagline of "Everything is not awesome" is looking more like accurate industry analysis.
Until now, 2019's sluggish box office was partly blamed on lack of quality releases, with only a handful of highly promoted films from major studios. This weekend saw a relatively robust slate of releases, including Taraji P. Henson's "What Men Want" and the Liam Neeson thriller "Cold Pursuit." Both did solid if not spectacular business.
China's first big-budget space-movie spectacle "The Wandering Earth" bowed in China over the Chinese New Year holiday weekend with a staggering $172.7 million Friday to Sunday, and nearly $300 million since opening Tuesday.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Where available, the latest international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. "The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part," $35 million ($18.1 million international).
2. "What Men Want," $19 million.
3. "Cold Pursuit," $10.8 million ($2.8 million international).
4. "The Upside," $7.2 million.
5. "Glass," $6.4 million ($6.6 million international).
6. "The Prodigy," $6 million ($1.1 million international).
7. "Green Book," $3.6 million ($11.4 million international).
8. "Aquaman," $3.3 million ($6 million international).
9. "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse," $3 million.
10. "Miss Bala," $2.7 million.
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