• Near Christmas, at her school in Youngstown, Ohio, eight-year-old Mary Carter Smith waited eagerly to give her teacher a gift. When the time arrived, each of the children lined up and presented the teacher with a gift. The teacher smiled at the children and accepted their gifts, with one exception. When Mary gave her teacher her gift — a white handkerchief with pink edging — the teacher did not smile, but lifted the handkerchief up by the corner, dropped it into a wastebasket, then looked over Mary’s shoulder and smiled at the next child in line. At home, Mary cried, told her grandmother what had happened, and asked, “Why did she do that to me?” Her grandmother explained, “Child, you are colored, and that makes a big difference to some people.” Fortunately, good teachers also worked in Youngstown. A substitute teacher named Mrs. Showalter told the class about George Washington Carver and Booker T. Washington. As an adult, Ms. Smith recalled, “That was the first time I had heard of anyone my color doing anything worthwhile.” Another teacher, Miss Gilbert, told her that she would grow up to be Somebody. Ms. Smith did become Somebody — she became a famous griot (storyteller).
• African-American woman writer Ida B. Wells wrote passionately about how blacks were treated in racist America. While teaching in the public schools, she wrote weekly articles for The Living Way, but when white politicians learned that she was writing the articles, they made sure that she was fired from her teaching job. Because of this, she bought a newspaper, the Memphis Free Speech, and continued to write against injustices, such as when three black businessmen were lynched when they opened a grocery store in competition with a white businessman. A mob destroyed the offices of the Memphis Free Speech, and she moved on to New York, where she again bought a partial interest in a newspaper and wrote against racism.
• In 1961, Haki R. Madhubuti joined the United States Army. At boot camp, there were 197 white men — and only three African-American men. Stepping off the bus, Mr. Madhubuti carried a copy of Here I Stand, by the African-American singer, actor, and civil rights activist Paul Robeson. The drill sergeant seized the book, said something racist, tore the pages out of the book, and gave a page to each new recruit — with orders to use it as toilet paper. Today, Mr. Madhubuti is a famous African-American poet.
• Before World War II, Liz Carpenter, author of Getting Better All the Time and Ruffles and Flourishes, ran for vice president of the student body of the University of Texas — and was the first woman to be so elected. Her campaign posters said, “If you would vote against me for vice-president of the student body solely because I am a woman, you are a son of a ….”
• In 1951, environmentalist Rachel Carson published her best-selling book The Sea Around Us. She received a number of fan letters, including some from sexists. One man wrote his letter to Miss Rachel Carson, which was correct, but then he began his letter with “Dear Sir,” explaining that he had always felt that men were intellectually superior to women.
• Investigative reporter I.F. Stone was not welcome at the National Press Club after 1941 because he had brought a black judge as his guest for lunch. He tried to apply for readmission in 1956, but he could not find enough journalists to sponsor his application. Finally, he was readmitted in 1981, 40 years after having a black judge as his guest for lunch.
• American author Laura Z. Hobson (nee Zametkin) was proud of her Jewish heritage. At a dinner party, someone said, “Some of my best friends are Jews.” Ms. Hobson spoke up: “Some of mine are, too — including my father and mother.”
Cromniomancy is divination by onions. It is usually done by interpreting their sprouting behaviour, after some kind of ritual to state the topic of the divination. This often involves inscribing the onions, dedicating them on an altar or something similar. But cromniomancy is/was also done in idiosyncratic ways not involving sprouting them.
It is not really known why the onion was chosen for that kind of divination, not other fast-sprouting plants. A look at other divination methods shows that plants used for divination have or had some significance as important food source and/or medicinal herb. The onion is rich in Vitamin C and was important because of this, and it was widely used as medicinal herb against colds and other infections.
Cromniomancy was historically performed across Europe, Africa and northern Asia. The sphere within a sphere of the onion made it a much-revered symbol of spirituality and eternity, to the extent that the ancient Egyptians took their sacred oaths with their right hand on an onion.[citation needed] There are many forms of cromniomancy, from divining the weather by the thickness of the skin, to gaining inside information.
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Onions.
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Randall wrote:
Onions
Alan J answered:
Onions.
Jacqueline responded:
Onions.
mj replied:
It's enough to make you cry
Onions.
zorch said:
Onions are used.
Cal in Vermont wrote:
Onions are used in cromniomancy and can answer yes or no questions or help a woman choose a beau or predict the weather. In our house a sprouted onion used by others for such foretelling was subject to a summary sproutectomy and used for eating.
David of Moon Valley wrote:
Seriously?!
Onions?!….might explain how the federal government is being run now…i mean Nancy used her astrologer frequently…so why not these onionheads?
Daniel in The City answered:
Onions
Deborah, the Master Gardener replied:
I’ve never heard of this before, but the answer is right there: Onion. Who thought of that?
It’s been lovely, these past 3 days with clear air and skies, and the respite from smoke quite welcome. Too bad it’s supposed to move back in this weekend. Rats.
John I from Hawai`i says,
Onions
Rosemary in Columbus replied:
Onions
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame wrote:
The answer is onions, not to be confused with the satirical website
The Onion.
Happy to report that for the last few days the San Francisco area has had breathable air. Hope it lasts!
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Olly Crawford-Ellis - Drums, vocals
James Harding - Guitar, vocals
Luke Harding - Bass, vocals
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To top off an already shitty day, got rolled by a 4.6 earthquake. No damage, although things may look different by daylight.
Tonight, Saturday:
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'Magnum FU', followed by a FRESH'Love Island', then '48 Hours'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Stanley Cup Crap', followed by an old 'SNL'.
Of couse, 'SNL' is a RERUN (from 11/23/19), with Will Ferrell hosting, music by King Princess.
ABC fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap.
The CW offers some old 'Friends', and some old '2½ Men'.
Faux fills the night with LIVE'MLB Baseball', then pads the left coast with local crap.
MY recycles an old 'Weather Gone Viral', followed by an old 'Storm Of Suspicion'.
A&E has 'Live Rescue', followed by a FRESH'Live Rescue: Rewind', then a FRESH'Live Rescue'.
AMC offers the movie 'Men In Black III', followed by the movie 'Bad Boys', then the movie 'Bad Boys II'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - THE GREAT MELT
[7:00AM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - THE GREAT SALMON RUN
[8:00AM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - THE GREAT TIDE
[9:00AM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - THE GREAT FLOOD
[10:00AM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - THE GREAT MIGRATION
[11:00AM] NATURE'S GREAT EVENTS - THE GREAT FEAST
[12:00PM] PLANET EARTH: WILD WEST - DESERT HEARTLANDS
[1:00PM] PLANET EARTH: WILD WEST - THE HIGH COUNTRY
[2:00PM] PLANET EARTH: WILD WEST - RESTLESS SHORES
[3:00PM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - KALAHARI
[4:00PM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - SAVANNAH
[5:00PM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - CONGO
[6:00PM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - CAPE
[7:00PM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - SAHARA
[8:00PM] ANIMAL BABIES - WATER BABIES (EXTENDED)
[9:10PM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - KALAHARI
[10:20PM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - SAVANNAH
[11:30PM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - CONGO
[12:30AM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - CAPE
[1:40AM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - SAHARA
[2:50AM] ANIMAL BABIES - WATER BABIES (EXTENDED)
[4:00AM] PLANET EARTH: AFRICA - THE FUTURE
[5:00AM] PLANET EARTH: THE MAKING OF AFRICA (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has the movie 'Fifty Shades Darker', followed by the movie 'Fifty Shades Freed'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Vacation', followed by hours & hours of old 'South Park'.
FX has the movie 'The Hangover Part III', followed by the movie 'X-Men: Apocalypse'.
IFC -
[6:00am] Saved By The Bell
[6:30am] Saved By The Bell
[7:00am] Saved By The Bell
[7:30am] Saved By The Bell
[8:00am] Saved By The Bell
[8:30am] Saved By The Bell
[9:00am] Saved By The Bell
[9:30am] Saved By The Bell
[10:00am] Saved By The Bell
[10:30am] Saved By The Bell
[11:00am] Saved By The Bell
[11:30am] Saved By The Bell
[12:00pm] Saved By The Bell
[12:30pm] Zookeeper
[2:45pm] This Is 40
[5:45pm] Get Hard
[8:00pm] The Goonies
[10:30pm] Ferris Bueller's Day Off
[1:00am] Zookeeper
[3:15am] Ferris Bueller's Day Off
[5:45am] The Three Stooges - The Ghost Talks (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am] the andy griffith show
[6:30am] the andy griffith show
[7:00am] the andy griffith show
[7:30am] the andy griffith show
[8:00am] the andy griffith show
[8:30am] the andy griffith show
[9:00am] the andy griffith show
[9:30am] the andy griffith show
[10:00am] the andy griffith show
[10:30am] the andy griffith show
[11:00am] hogan's heroes
[11:30am] hogan's heroes
[12:00pm] hogan's heroes
[12:30pm] hogan's heroes
[1:00pm] hogan's heroes
[1:30pm] hogan's heroes
[2:00pm] hogan's heroes
[2:30pm] hogan's heroes
[3:00pm] hogan's heroes
[3:30pm] the november man
[6:00pm] the green mile
[10:00pm] the green mile
[2:00am] escape from new york
[4:00am] perry mason
[5:00am] perry mason (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Back To The Future, Part II', followed by the movie 'Back To The Future, Part III'.
Drunk Earthworms, Frozen Poop Knives, And Alligators On Helium
Ig Nobel Awards
The co-winner of this year's Ig Nobel prize for physics, Dr Ivan Maksymov, has proven lockdowns needn't stop the march of scientific progress by getting earthworms drunk on vodka, putting them on a speaker, and measuring their vibrations with a laser.
Bizarre as it sounds, the study is a spin-off of some genuinely important brain research.
A project of the Annals of Improbable Research, the Ig Nobel awards initially mocked work that “Cannot or should not be replicated,” but has since expanded to cover any science that “First makes you laugh, then makes you think.” Many fine and important papers have been honored in this way, along with some that fit the original description.
Maksymov and collaborator Dr Andriy Pototsky, both of Australia's Swinburne University, are seeking to test a hypothesis that sound waves, as well as electrical impulses, carry information within the brain. Naturally, some preparation needs to occur before one starts vibrating living brains to test the idea, so Maksymov decided to establish the response of a simple organism.
Other Ig Nobel winners include a Materials Science prize awarded for proving knives made from frozen human poop don't cut. Many entomologists are scared of spiders but not the insects they study, and an award in Entomology was created for the discovery these arachnophobes' least favorite thing about spiders is the way they move, followed by fear of being bitten.
Fifty years ago, on Sept. 18, 1970, guitar legend Jimi Hendrix died of asphyxia while intoxicated. He was only 27 years old, and his stint as a superstar lasted less than five years, but he obviously made his indelible mark — being declared by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as “arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music” and by Rolling Stone as the greatest guitarist of all time.
And one of the first mainstream rock acts to recognize Hendrix’s greatness was the Monkees. Unfortunately, the Monkees’ young fans weren’t quite as enthusiastic when that TV band’s Micky Dolenz came up with the seemingly bizarre idea to hire Hendrix as the opening act for the Monkees’ first U.S. tour in 1967.
Hendrix ended up playing only seven of that tour’s 29 dates, dropping out after having to contend nightly with thousands of nasty, impatient, jeering teenyboppers. “Yeah, it was kind of embarrassing,” Dolenz admits to Yahoo Entertainment. “Jimi would go, ‘Purple haze!’ and the kids would be like, ‘We want Davy!’ He’d go, ‘Foxy lady!’ and they’d yell, ‘We. Want. The. Monkees! We. Want. The. Monkees!’ He was coming up against that very typical opening-act dilemma for anyone touring with a big headliner, really.”
The odd pairing might have been doomed from the start, given the two artists’ very different audiences. But Dolenz had been a fan of Hendrix since the guitar god was still known as “Jimmy James” and performing in Greenwich Village nightclubs with the Blue Flames. “It was 1966 or so, and the Monkees were in New York on a press junket,” he recalls of the first time he saw Hendrix live. “Someone said, ‘You gotta come down to the Village and check this cat out.’ The actual act was, I think, the John Hammond Band or something. But when we went down there, I remember sitting in the front row and there was this young kid, and he was playing guitar with his teeth! I didn't even know his name at the time. I don't even know if he was introduced, but he was going under the name Jimmy James at that point. He was just great.”
High-profile human rights lawyer Amal Clooney has written to UK foreign secretary Dominic Raab to submit her resignation from her post as Special Envoy on Media Freedom.
In the letter, revealed by UK national The Guardian, she cites Boris Johnson’s government’s “lamentable” recent actions on Brexit as the key factor.
A storm has been brewing this past week in the country over Johnson’s decision to override parts of the UK’s Brexit agreement with the European Union through an ‘Internal Market Bill’, which would contravene international law.
“I have been dismayed to learn that the government intends to pass legislation – the internal market bill – which, if enacted, would, by the government’s own admission, ‘break international law’,” wrote Clooney.
Van Morrison has condemned scientists for spreading “crooked facts” about coronavirus in a series of new anti-lockdown songs.
The musician has released three songs targeting lockdown restrictions, bearing the titles “No More Lockdown”, “Born to Be Free” and “As I Walked Out”.
“I’m not telling people what to do or think, the government is doing a great job of that already,” Morrison said in a statement. “It’s about freedom of choice. I believe people should have the right to think for themselves.”
In “No More Lockdown”, Morrison rallies against science. The track also compares lockdown to slavery.
Taxpayers' bills for Trump Organization properties have surpassed $1.1 million, The Washington Post reports.
As the Post has consistently reported via Secret Service bills, President Trump (R-Churl) and his administration have repeatedly funneled government money to the family's properties throughout his term. That has included above-market rates for rentals that ensured Secret Service agents stayed close to Trump and, most recently, payments to one club that was closed for the COVID-19 pandemic, the Post's David Fahrenthold reports via the latest round of receipts and invoices.
The coronavirus pandemic shut down much of the service industry this spring, including the Trump Organization's Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club. But while the club was closed, it still charged the Secret Service more than $21,800 to stay on the property, the Post reports. That included $567-a-night charges for a three-bedroom cottage close to Trump's villa — an "unusually high for a rental home in the area," the Post writes. The invoices also detailed charges for one or two additional rooms, at $142 to $283 per night. Trump didn't visit the club during the pandemic, but his daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump did, The New York Times reported at the time.
The newly obtained invoices also revealed that Trump's Turnberry resort in Scotland "once charged the Secret Service $1,300 to move furniture," and that the Trump Organization tacked on "resort fees" when agents were guarding Vice President Mike Pence in Las Vegas.
Jared Kushner (R-Human Skin Tag), President Donald Trump (R-Corrupt)'s son-in-law and senior adviser, made comments at a March 21 meeting in the Situation Room so egregious that those present leaked them to Vanity Fair in a new report.
When someone else tried to explain to Kushner that under the situation at the time, states were outbidding each other and driving up the price of PPE, the 39-year-old with just a couple years of government experience brushed it aside.
"Free markets will solve this," Kushner said. "That is not the role of government."
Today, the nation is nearing 200,000 deaths, with the Johns Hopkins University tally sitting at more than 198,000 as of Friday afternoon.
Kushner's comments fit the Trump administration's laissez-faire approach to the pandemic and are not ground breaking on that front, but they do reveal that as a key decision maker, Kushner stymied any sort of a national response on something as basic as ensuring enough PPE was manufactured and distributed to America's health care systems, according to the meeting attendees quoted by Vanity Fair.
Just after the turn of the first millennium A.D., a young child living in Egypt contracted a deadly illness — most likely pneumonia — and died. His tiny body was prepared for mummification and burial; some of his organs were removed, his remains were wrapped in criss-crossed linen bindings and a portrait of his face was affixed to the front of his mummy.
This so-called "mummy portrait" was part of a popular tradition among some Egyptians in Greco-Roman times, from about the first through the third centuries A.D. But how accurate were these portraits? To find out, a team of scientists in Austria and Germany CT scanned this little boy's body and created a 3D digital reconstruction of his face.
The results show that the portrait was fairly accurate, except for one aspect — the artist made the youngster look older than his 3 or 4 years.
This single portrait, however, doesn't reveal whether it was a common practice for ancient Egyptian artists to make younger people look older in their mummy portraits.
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