Spending his last three years impoverished and in exile, this Irish poet and playwright took the name "Sebastian Melmoth". By what name is he more famously known?
There are 128 protected areas in the United States known as national monuments. The President of the United States can establish a national monument by presidential proclamation, while the United States Congress can do so by legislation. The president's authority arises from the Antiquities Act of 1906, which authorizes the president to proclaim "historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest" as national monuments. Concerns about protecting mostly prehistoric Indian ruins and artifacts-collectively termed antiquities-on western federal lands prompted the legislation. Its purpose was to allow the president to quickly preserve public land without waiting for legislation to pass through an unconcerned Congress. The ultimate goal was to protect all historic and prehistoric sites on U.S. federal lands.
President Theodore Roosevelt established the first national monument, Devils Tower in Wyoming, on September 24, 1906. He established eighteen national monuments, although only nine still retain that designation. Seventeen presidents have created national monuments under the Antiquities Act since the program began; only Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush did not. Bill Clinton created nineteen and expanded three others. Jimmy Carter protected vast parts of Alaska, proclaiming fifteen national monuments, some of which later were promoted to national parks. President Barack Obama created or expanded thirty-four national monuments by proclamation, the most of any president, with over half a billion acres of public land and water protected.
National monuments are located in 31 states as well as in the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the Minor Outlying Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands. Arizona and California have the most national monuments, each with 18, followed by New Mexico with 13.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
There are 128 current US national monuments.
Randall wrote:
128
Cal in Vermont said:
117 according to Quora.
Alan J answered:
128.
Dave responded:
128. Bill Clinton created 19, Jimmy Carter created 15, and Barack Obama created or expanded 34. Unsurprisingly the greed driven Swine presidents Nixon, Reagan and Bush Sr. created zero. Criminal fake president Trump still has until January 20th to create one, but since he is determined to corruptly allow mining and oil exploration on the already existing national monuments, that probably won't happen.
Mac Mac replied:
128
zorch said:
There are 128 national monuments.
Deborah wrote:
I had to look this up: There are 128 National Monuments in the U.S. I'd have to look at a list to know which ones I've been to; I don't remember off-hand.
Jacqueline responded:
There are 117 national monuments. Teddy Roosevelt designated Devils Tower in Wyoming in 1906. It was the first one ever listed.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
There are 128 protected areas in the United States known as national monuments.
Billy in Cypress U$A said:
Wiki says that there are 128 national monuments in the U. S., but if tRump said the same number, then I would begin to question the president's INSANITY.
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Nope, it's for real - old Larry tried to be hep in the 70s and it got him into the 80s.
When I was in AK, the owner of the station LOVED Lawrence Welk and used it as the Sunday night lead-in to 60 Minutes.
Saw a lot of Larry - and Bobby & Cissy and Anacani.
Overall, the production values of the show were excellent.
• Conductor Arturo Toscanini could get the best out of an orchestra. Occasionally, the members of one of his orchestras would be amazed at the beauty they had created under his direction. After a rehearsal of Debussy's La Mer, a violinist in the NBC Symphony said to music critic B.H. Haggin, "You can quote me on this: We come here to go to school."
• Emma Calvé was impressed by the upper notes of the castrato Domenico Mustapha, and she asked him how she could produce those notes. He told her that for 10 years she must practice singing with her mouth closed. Ms. Calvé was discouraged at first, but then she began practicing in that way. After two years, she discovered her "fourth voice."
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• American-born tenor Richard Tucker greatly impressed Pietro Moranzoni, retired conductor of the Chicago Civic Opera. Sitting with theatrical guru Danny Newman, Maestro Moranzoni listened to Mr. Tucker for a while, then asked Mr. Newman, "Theesa tenor, he ees Eetalian, no?" Mr. Newman replied, "No, Maestro, he's American." Maestro Moranzoni listened a while longer, then he asked Mr. Newman, "Eesa poppa and mamma, they Eetalian, ah?" Mr. Newman replied that Mr. Tucker's parents were Romanian Jews. Maestro Moranzoni listened yet a while longer, then he asked Mr. Newman yet another question, "Eesa stody in Eetaly, ah?" Mr. Newman replied that Mr. Tucker had studied in New York City. At this point, Maestro Moranzoni said, "Ah donta care, eesa the best Eetalian tenor ah ever hear!" By the way, Luciana Pavarotti stated in his foreword to the book Richard Tucker: A Biography, by James A. Drake, that the career of Mr. Tucker definitely showed that even non-Italians could become "great Italian tenors!"
• John Lennon had many, many fans, including some in positions of authority. Kim Polson was a long-time fan of Mr. Lennon and the Beatles, and she lived only a block from the Dakota apartment building where Mark David Chapman murdered Mr. Lennon on Dec. 8, 1980. Four months before he died, Ms. Polson saw him in a coffee shop, so she stuck around to hear him talk to a companion. Doing this meant that she arrived two hours late for her job. Her boss was understandably irate, so she said, "Ask me why I'm late." He did, she explained that she had been listening to Mr. Lennon talk to a colleague, and her boss was no longer irate.
• Like many, many other young girls, Lilie Ferrari had a crush on Beatle George Harrison, and like many, many other young girls, she wrote him a fan letter. Fortunately, she received a reply to her letter - from George Harrison's mother, who happened to be a fan of Lilie's mother, a writer of romance novels. The correspondence continued for a while, but slowed as Lilie grew up, although she continued to be one of George Harrison's fans. Eventually, Lilie married, and her husband, Colin, was OK with her fan-adoration of George Harrison. He even signed his cards to her with "Love from George and The Other One."
CBS starts the night, as usual, with '60 Minutes', followed by the movie 'Raiders Of The Lost Ark', then a RERUN'Man With A Plan'.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'Little Big Shots', followed by a FRESH'The Wall', then a FRESH'Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist', followed by a FRESH'Good Girls'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'American Idol', then a FRESH'The Rookie'.
The CW offers a FRESH'Batwoman', followed by a FRESH'Supergirl'.
Faux has a RERUN'The Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'Bob's Burgers', then a FRESH'The Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'Duncanville', then a FRESH'Bob's Burgers', followed by a FRESH'Family Guy'.
MY recycles an old 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by another old 'How I Met Your Mother', then an old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by another old 'Big Bang Theory', then still another old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by yet another old 'Big Bang Theory'.
AMC offers the movie 'Twister', followed by a FRESH'Killing Eve', and another 'Killing Eve'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] PLANET EARTH: BLUE PLANET II - Our Blue Planet
[7:00AM] ENDER'S GAME -
[9:30AM] MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE
[12:00PM] MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE II
[3:00PM] MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III
[6:00PM] WHITE HOUSE DOWN
[9:00PM] KILLING EVE - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 4
[10:00PM] WHITE HOUSE DOWN
[1:00AM] KILLING EVE - SEASON 3 - EPISODE 4
[2:00AM] MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE II
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE - In the Cards (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Married To Medicine: LA', another 'Married To Medicine: LA', followed by a FRESH'Married To Medicine: LA', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens Live'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Men In Black', followed by the movie 'Men In Black II'.
FX has the movie 'Iron Man 3', followed by the movie 'Daddy's Home 2'.
History has 'American Pickers', 'DB Cooper: Case Closed?' (part 1), and 'DB Cooper: Case Closed?' (part 2).
IFC -
[6:00A] The Watch
[8:15A] Kingpin
[11:00A] Bad News Bears
[1:30P] Summer Rental
[3:30P] National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
[5:45P] National Lampoon's Vacation
[8:00P] Vegas Vacation
[10:00P] National Lampoon's Vacation
[12:15A] National Lampoon's European Vacation
[2:15A] The Watch
[4:30A] That '70s Show
[5:00A] That '70s Show
[5:30A] That '70s Show (ALL TIMES EST)
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[6:30am] Law & Order
[7:30am] Law & Order
[8:30am] Law & Order
[9:30am] Law & Order
[10:30am] Law & Order
[11:30am] The Longest Yard
[2:00pm] Kelly's Heroes
[5:30pm] Stripes
[8:00pm] Smokey and the Bandit
[10:15pm] Smokey and the Bandit II
[12:45am] Smokey and the Bandit Part 3
[2:30am] Silverado
[5:45am] Love Lust (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'xXx: Return Of Xander Cage', followed by the movie 'The Fifth Element'.
Activist and Academy-Award Winner Robert Redford and his son James Redford wrote a scathing opinion piece for NBC calling out "the cost of failed leadership" under President Trump (R-Failure).
"As the pandemic began its global march," they write, "President Donald Trump failed to act quickly and decisively, likely increasing its toll and worsening our pain and suffering."
The Redfords say this as a direct result of Trump's "failure…to embrace or even understand sound scientific consensus about what must be done to protect this nation and its people."
And they see the ramifications of these deficiencies extending beyond even the massive impact of the coronavirus crisis. The Redfords remind us that, even after the virus is defeated, "the potential calamity of climate change…looms on the horizon."
U.S. environmental policies, they say, "are held hostage by stakeholders desperately clinging to their profits and power."
One big gap in all of our nerd lives during the drought in Hollywood releases brought on by the pandemic is the lack of good fight choreography. Crunchy, thrilling, silly, engaging fight scenes are some of my biggest delights in genre fiction, and oh, do I miss them. So does stuntwoman, actress, and stunt choreographer Zoë Bell. So she did what she could.
In a lockdown-style video (you know the drill by now, a bunch of personally shot little clips threaded together), Bell recruits some of the coolest and most dashing women in Hollywood to throw down. Or, as she puts it, "play a game." Bell, the stunt double for stars like Lucy Lawless in Xena or Uma Thurman in her role as The Bride in Kill Bill, is extremely well connected, so the list of stars she's able to pull here is pretty stunning.
Like, have you ever wanted to see Florence Pugh throw down with Hallie Berry? Zoe Saldana vs. Thandie Newton? Margot Robbie vs. Cameron Diaz? Well, this video will give you a little taste of that action. It's not quite the same as a full-on Hollywood fight scene, but it's plenty fun. It even works in some great fight scene tropes, including the furious realization that, hey, I'm bleeding! and the waffling to find a weapon that you're willing to break over your opponent's head. There's also a cameo appearance from, well, I'll let you guess which one I'm talking about.
Both Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and the Auschwitz Memorial Museum have condemned the presence signs that included Nazi slogans at a Friday rally against the state's stay-at-home order.
In one instance, photos posted to social media showed a woman wearing an American flag face mask holding a sign that read "Arbeit macht frei," a German phrase meaning "work sets you free."
On Twitter, the Auschwitz Memorial Museum stated "arbeit macht frei" was a false, cynical illusion the SS gave to prisoners of the concentration camp.
"Those words became one of the icons of human hatred. It's painful to see this symbol instrumentalized & used again to spread hate," the museum stated. "It's a symptom of moral & intellectual degeneration."
When the bizarre world of quantum physics - where a "cat" can be both alive and dead, and particles a galaxy apart are connected - is merged with computer technology, the result is unprecedented power to anyone who masters this technology first.
There is an obvious dark side. Imagine a world where online bank accounts could be easily hacked into and robbed. But this power can also be turned to good, allowing new drugs to be designed with unprecedented speed to cure disease. To prepare for such a future, many countries are investing billions to unlock the potential of what is called quantum computing. With an eye toward the future, a group of researchers at Fermilab,a particle physics laboratory in Batavia, Ill., has worked with high-school teachers to develop a program to train their students in this emerging field.
This program, called "Quantum Computing as a High School Module," was developed in collaboration with young students in mind. But it's also a perfect diversion for science enthusiasts of any age who suddenly have a lot of time on their hands.
This online training course introduces students to quantum concepts, including superposition, qubits, encryption, and many others. These additional concepts include quantum measurement, entanglement and teleportation; students will also learn and how to use quantum computers to prevent hacking. The course is also appropriate for community college or undergraduate students in areas outside of physics, such as computer science, engineering or mathematics, as well as a science literate public. One of the course's teachers, Ranbel Sun wrote, "It was great to work with a couple of America's smartest researchers to make sure that the science was right. Combining their knowledge and our teaching experience, we have developed an understandable learning program which bridges the gap between popular media and college textbooks."
Quantum computing uses the principles of quantum physics, which were developed in the early 1900s. Quantum physics describes the tiny realm of atoms, where the laws of nature seem to be very different from the world we can see. In this microcosm, electrons and particles of light called photons simultaneously act as both waves and particles - a seeming absurdity, but one that is well accepted among scientists.
Rarely have two words ignited such a firestorm of controversy.
"So what?" said Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday when a journalist asked him about the fact that more than 5,000 Brazilians had died of the coronavirus.
The far-right leader's off-the-cuff comment has been sparking anger ever since, with governors, politicians, healthcare professionals and media figures all weighing in to express their outrage at his lack of empathy.
Bolsonaro is no stranger to controversy. But his latest remark sparked such a fury because Brazil is facing a seemingly uncontrollable outbreak of the disease and is still several weeks away from the peak of the pandemic, with a death toll that threatens to surpass even the most dire predictions.
There have been more than 91,000 officially confirmed cases so far but scientists warn the real figure could be 15 to 20 times higher.
A Manhattan federal judge on Friday dismissed a nurse association's lawsuit against a New York City hospital for allegedly failing to provide safety equipment and adopt measures to stop the spread of COVID-19.
The New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) sued Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, saying among other things that the hospital was ignoring requirements that healthcare workers receive an N95 respirator mask daily.
U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman in Manhattan on Friday granted Montefiore's motion to dismiss the case, saying he lacked authority to address the nurses' concerns.
But he urged both sides to "continue their efforts to reach an amicable resolution of their disputes."
The judge said the parties were "in a better position than either the Court or an arbitrator to find the best ways to achieve that goal despite limited resources and ever-changing circumstances."
A roughly two-inch long insect known as the "murder hornet" has made its way to the U.S. for the first time ever, researchers said. The Asian giant hornet, Vespa mandarinia, has been known to kill up to 50 people a year in Japan, according to The New York Times, and has the potential to devastate U.S. bee populations, which have already been declining.
Susan Cobey, bee breeder with Washington State University's Department of Entomology, told WSU Insider that the hornets are "like something out of a monster cartoon with this huge yellow-orange face."
The hornets are usually between 1.5 to 2 inches long, have large yellow-orange heads with prominent eyes, and a black and yellow striped abdomen.
The hornets made their way to the U.S. for the first time in December, when the Washington State Department of Agriculture verified four reports of sightings. The hornets were also spotted in two locations in British Columbia in the fall, according to WSDA.
Scientists say the Asian giant hornet's life cycle begins in April. Researchers told WSU that is when the queen wakes up from hibernation and scouts out spots to build underground nests and grow colonies.
Deprived of the juicy scraps left by bars and restaurants that they normally gorge on, Rome's notoriously aggressive seagulls have become cold-blooded killers.
Two months into Italy's lockdown and with trattorias and cafes all closed, the big gulls are now killing rats and pigeons on the mean streets of the capital.
"They are going back to being predators," said Bruno Cignini, a zoologist from the capital's Rome University Tor Vergata.
"They are catching mostly pigeons but also swallows and black birds. They're also going after fish in the Tiber. Luckily, they are also eating rats. Animals are changing their habits as we change ours," he told Corriere della Sera newspaper.
Rome's sharp-beaked gulls developed a taste for pigeon and rat in the past but the prey was usually dead - road kill left by the city's chaotic traffic. The gulls are now switching from pecking at carrion to killing.
It's unlikely that your farts are spreading coronavirus, according to a top official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Jay Butler, the deputy director for infectious diseases at the CDC, discussed the theory on Monday during a phone call with representatives from the private sector, per audio of the call reviewed by Politico.
It came up after Butler was asked a question about wastewater, which the federal government is looking at as a potential means of tracing the spread of the novel coronavirus.
"There is not a lot of evidence of transmission through stools," Butler said. "I know at least one tabloid in the UK got a lot of coverage by someone speculating that Covid-19 could be spread by flatulence or, to quote the headline, by farting. There really is not a lot of science behind that."
Though Butler dismissed the prospect of spreading COVID-19 by passing gas, he went on to say that the virus can sometimes be present in human waste and that raises the "intriguing possibility...that wastewater could potentially be monitored for the presence of the RNA (the genetic material of the virus) as a marker for whether or not it's in the community."
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