On June 19, 1864, during the American Civil War, there was a single-ship action between a United States Navy warship, USS Kearsarge, and a Confederate States Navy warship, CSS Alabama. Where was this battle fought?
Linseed oil, also known as flaxseed oil or flax oil, is a colourless to yellowish oil obtained from the dried, ripened seeds of the flax plant (Linum usitatissimum). The oil is obtained by pressing, sometimes followed by solvent extraction. Linseed oil is a drying oil, meaning it can polymerize into a solid form. Owing to its polymer-forming properties, linseed oil can be used on its own or blended with combinations of other oils, resins or solvents as an impregnator, drying oil finish or varnish in wood finishing, as a pigment binder in oil paints, as a plasticizer and hardener in putty, and in the manufacture of linoleum. Linseed oil use has declined over the past several decades with increased availability of synthetic alkyd resins-which function similarly but resist yellowing.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Flax seed.
Daniel in The City said:
Flax
Alan J answered:
Flax.
Randall wrote:
flax seed
mj replied:
The oil, popular with painters,
Is derived from crushed flax seed, the reproductive medium of the plant
used to make linen.
Dave responded:
Flax. At work we had an old rotary dryer in the bran flakes process that used wooden seals at the inlet end. To prepare the machined wood seals for use (purchased from Link Belt Co.), they were put in a specially made tank and soaked in a heated linseed oil bath for a day or two. That made the seals last longer. We knew the seals were worn out when bran grits started piling up on the floor.
Photo: Roto-Louvre dryer in a ready to eat cereal factory. It is large enough that I could walk upright inside of it.
Cal in Vermont wrote:
Flax, from which linen is made. Linen was used for bed sheets, among other things, and was used to make drafting paper. Wonderful stuff that was a pleasure to work with. You could take a piece of drafting paper, also called drafting cloth, and work it into something more resembling a rag and spit-shine the living poop out of your combat weejuns with it. Bricks, too. Don't ask...
Deborah responded:
Linseed oil comes from the seeds of the flax plant, ergo linseed oil is flax oil.
Later today I'll be participating in the virtual graduation of my Master Gardener's class. It's better than nothing, I guess, but it still feels off. I have an idea how kids feel with their remote learning.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Linseed oil, also known as flaxseed oil or flax oil, is a colourless to yellowish oil obtained from the dried, ripened seeds of the flax plant
zorch said:
Linseed oil comes from the flax plant.
Billy in Cypress U$A wrote:
Linseed oil comes from the FLAX plant which is also used to produce linen, both of which are very useful products. Whereas, tAnus is used to produce and promote SNAKE OIL and tons of verbal shit everytime it opens it upper anus or mouth as it is called in humans. While shit can be used as a fertilizer, in this case it only fertilizes MAGA IDIOTS and makes them even stupider and crazier. .
Jacqueline answered:
Linseed oil comes from flaxseeds. One of the common uses is a wood preservative.
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• Jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker was known by the nicknames "Yardbird" and "Bird." One story about how he got the name was that he enjoyed eating chicken, a bird that ran loose in many yards and was therefore called a yardbird. Mr. Parker would look at a menu, see chicken listed, then say, "Give me some of that yardbird." Another story is that the car that he and some other musicians were riding in hit and killed a chicken. Mr. Parker picked up the chicken and kept it, and once they had reached their destination he cooked and ate it. The other musicians teased him about this and called him "Yardbird," which was later often shortened to "Bird."
• Comedian Steve Allen was a talented musician. While attending college, he would enter an unoccupied room with a piano, start playing, then look up 20 minutes later and see 104 people in the room listening to him play. He was a serious jazz musician, but since he didn't think critics took him seriously, he sometimes recorded under a pseudonym. After he recorded an album of boogie-woogie music using the pseudonym Buck Hammer, a critic in Downbeat wrote that he had a bright future.
• When country musician Amy Grant started writing her book titled Mosaic: Pieces of My Life So Far, she did not want to think about so great an undertaking as writing an entire book. Therefore, she told Vince Gill, her husband, "You can't call it a book. We'll call it anything but a book." Therefore, for a while, they called it a flier. When she had gotten some pages written, they called it a pamphlet, and when she had written more pages, they called it a booklet. Eventually, she published the manuscript - an entire book.
• Comic singer Anna Russell was so famous that the street where she lived had its name changed to Anna Russell Way. When Ms. Russell was older and people had begun to think that perhaps she was a little deaf or a little senile, a woman asked Ms. Russell her name. Of course, she answered, "Anna Russell." Then the woman asked Ms. Russell where she lived. Of course, Ms. Russell answered, "Anna Russell Way." The woman then said, "No, no, no, dear - that is your name. Where do you live?"
• Stephen Foster decided to write a song, and he asked his brother to name a Southern river that he could write the song about. His brother suggested the Pee-dee River, but Mr. Foster rejected his suggestion and instead wrote the lyric "Way Down Upon the Swanee River." (The title of the song is "Old Folks at Home.") Advertising copywriter Edward S. Jordan writes that Mr. Foster's brother knew geography, but Mr. Foster knew rhythm.
• Frank Zappa and Gail, his wife, gave their children odd names: Dweezil, Ahmet, Diva, and Moon Unit. Actually, Dweezil's legal name is not Dweezil - it's Ian. When Dweezil was born, a nurse at the hospital refused to write the name "Dweezil" on the birth certificate.
• Many rappers have interesting names. L.L. Cool J's name is short for Ladies Love Cool James. KRS-One's name is short for Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everyone. And the "Kane" in Big Daddy Kane's name is short for King Asiatic Nobody's Equal.
• At Birdland, emcee Pee Wee Marquette showed a lot of originality in introducing the musicians. For example, Mr. Marquette introduced one-of-a-kind jazz musician Thelonious Monk as "The Onliest Monk."
• Composer Jean Madeleine Schneitzhoeffner's name was so consistently mangled by the French that he had cards made up that stated, "Schneitzhoeffner (pronounced Bertrand)."
CBS starts the night, as usual, with '60 Minutes', followed by the movie 'Mission: Impossible'.
NBC opens the night with a FRESH'Little Big Shots', followed by the FRESH'Beverly Hills Dog Show', then a FRESH'The Wall'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'American Idol'.
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 'GI Jane', followed by a FRESH'Killing Eve', then another 'Killing Eve'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] HIDDEN HABITATS - Monterey Bay
[6:30AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - Jungles
[7:30AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - Oceans
[8:30AM] PLANET EARTH: THE HUNT - Plains
[9:30AM] SUMMER RENTAL
[11:30AM] KINGPIN
[2:00PM] THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY
[5:00PM] MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL
[7:00PM] THE PRINCESS BRIDE
[9:00PM] KILLING EVE - End of Game
[10:00PM] THE PRINCESS BRIDE
[12:00AM] MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL
[2:00AM] KILLING EVE - End of Game
[3:00AM] THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of Atlanta', then a FRESH'Married To Medicine: LA', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens Live'.
Comedy Central has all old 'Chappelle's Show' all night.
FX has the movie 'Transformers: Age Of Extinction', followed by the movie 'Transformers: The Last Knight'.
History has all old 'The Men Who Built American: Frontiersmen' all night.
IFC -
[6:00A] The Three Stooges - Punchy Cowpunchers
[6:15A] The Three Stooges - Ants in the Pantry
[6:45A] The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
[9:00A] Summer Rental
[11:00A] National Lampoon's European Vacation
[1:00P] Up in Smoke
[3:00P] Old School
[5:00P] Fantastic Four
[7:30P] Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
[10:00P] Fantastic Four
[12:30A] Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
[3:00A] The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
[5:15A] The Three Stooges - Punchy Cowpunchers
[5:30A] The Three Stooges - Ants in the Pantry (ALL TIMES EST)
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[6:00am] Law & Order
[7:00am] Law & Order
[8:00am] Law & Order
[9:00am] Law & Order
[10:00am] Law & Order
[11:00am] True Grit
[2:00pm] The Sons of Katie Elder
[5:00pm] Joe Kidd
[7:00pm] Pale Rider
[9:30pm] Unforgiven
[12:30am] High Plains Drifter
[3:00am] Young Guns
[5:30am] Hogan's Heroes (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'John Wick', followed by the movie 'John Wick: Chapter 2'.
Former President Barack Obama on Saturday criticized U.S. leaders overseeing the nation's response to the coronavirus, telling college graduates in an online commencement address that the pandemic shows many officials "aren't even pretending to be in charge."
Obama spoke on "Show Me Your Walk, HBCU Edition," a two-hour event for students graduating from historically black colleges and universities broadcast on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. His remarks were unexpectedly political, given the venue, and touched on current events beyond the virus and its social and economic impacts.
"More than anything, this pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they're doing," Obama said. "A lot them aren't even pretending to be in charge."
Obama did not name President Donald Trump (R-Incompetent) or any other federal or state officials in his comments. But last Friday, he harshly criticized Trump's handling of the pandemic as an "absolute chaotic disaster" in a call with 3,000 members of his administrations obtained by Yahoo News.
The commencement remarks were the latest sign that Obama intends to play an increasingly active role in the coming election. He has generally kept a low profile in the years since he left office, even as Trump has disparaged him. Obama told supporters on the call that he would be "spending as much time as necessary and campaigning as hard as I can" for Joe Biden, who served as his vice president.
President Donald Trump (R-Grifter) reposted a video of a reporter being hounded by angry anti-lockdown protesters in New York, calling the demonstrators "great people."
The president tweeted the video on Saturday morning, commenting: "People can't get enough of this. Great people"
The video was posted to Twitter by Kevin Vesey, a reporter with News 12 Long Island, who was reporting on an anti-lockdown demonstration organized by a pro-Trump group called the Setauket Patriots in Commack, Long Island on May 14.
The journalist was met with hostility as protesters started aggressively shouting and jeering at him while he walked past, recording his report on Facebook Live. One woman confronts Vesey, shouting, "You are disgusting. You are the virus", while another woman says in the background: "You are the enemy of the people."
After the video racked up thousands of likes on social media, Vesey followed up by saying: "I'll probably never forget what happened today. I was insulted. I was berated. I was practically chased by people who refused to wear masks in the middle of a pandemic. All the while, I was there to tell THEIR story."
New York's Museum of Modern Art has thrown its considerable cultural weight behind the campaign to rescue Oslo's brutalist Y-block building and its two gigantic sandblasted murals by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.
Martino Stierli, chief curator of architecture and design at the museum, and Ann Temkin, chief curator of painting and sculpture, co-signed a letter to Norway's Prime Minister Erna Solberg expressing their "grave concern" at the building's impending destruction, and asking for her government to "reconsider the approved decision for the demolition".
The building, the letter said, was "a significant example of European brutalist architecture," designed by the noted Norwegian architect Erling Viksjö, while murals had marked a new stage in Picasso's career.
Gro Nesjar Greve, the daughter of Carl Nesjar, the Norwegian painter who executed the murals, told the Art Newspaper that the building had been fenced in at the start of this month.
Norway's government announced its plan to demolish the Y-block in 2014, three years after it was abandoned after sustaining damage in Anders Breivik's twin terror attack.
President Trump To Rouse The Citizens
As the nation slowly crawls back to economic activity, President Donald Trump (R-Failure) has borrowed a speech from the film Independence Day to encourage people to take back the night.
In the original 1996 film, Bill Pullman plays the role of the President Thomas J. Whitmore, a former fighter pilot attempting to inspire his rag-tag collection of pilots to keep the faith in their battle against interplanetary invaders.
For the Tweet, President Trump (or, more likely, someone else) has superimposed his head onto Pullman's body. It's the same speech, only targeting the coronavirus. "We're fighting for our right to live, to exist," thunders the Pullman/Trump image. "We're going to live on. We're going to survive. Today, we celebrate our Independence Day!"
Monday was a day of triumph for Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Thanks to the efforts of the entire nation, she said, New Zealand had been largely successful in meeting its ambitious goal of eradicating, rather than just controlling, outbreaks of COVID-19. The lockdown she had put in place March 25 could now end.
Ardern's success is the latest data point in a widely noticed trend: Countries led by women seem to be particularly successful in fighting the coronavirus.
Germany, led by Angela Merkel, has had a far lower death rate than Britain, France, Italy or Spain. Finland, where Prime minister Sanna Marin, 34, governs with a coalition of four female-led parties, has had fewer than 10% as many deaths as nearby Sweden. And Tsai Ing-wen, president of Taiwan, has presided over one of the most successful efforts in the world at containing the virus, using testing, contact tracing and isolation measures to control infections without a full national lockdown.
Having a female leader is one signal that people of diverse backgrounds - and thus, hopefully, diverse perspectives on how to combat crises - are able to win seats at that table. In Germany, for instance, Merkel's government considered a variety of different information sources in developing its coronavirus policy, including epidemiological models; data from medical providers; and evidence from South Korea's successful program of testing and isolation. As a result, the country has achieved a coronavirus death rate that is dramatically lower than those of other Western European countries.
By contrast, the male-led governments of Sweden and Britain - both of which have high coronavirus death tolls - appear to have relied primarily on epidemiological modeling by their own advisers, with few channels for dissent from outside experts.
An esteemed medical journal has called out President Trump for his administration's response to the coronavirus crisis in a highly-critical editorial.
In an editorial published this week, The Lancet, a peer-reviewed medical journal, blasts the national response to the coronavirus pandemic as "inconsistent and incoherent" and criticizes that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention "has seen its role minimized and become an ineffective and nominal adviser" during the crisis.
"The Trump administration further chipped away at the CDC's capacity to combat infectious diseases," the editorial reads. "More recently, the Trump administration has questioned guidelines that the CDC has provided. These actions have undermined the CDC's leadership and its work during the COVID-19 pandemic."
It also criticizes the administration for being "obsessed with magic bullets," including a "hope that the virus will simply disappear," alluding to a claim President Trump has made. The editorial ultimately concludes by suggesting Trump should not be re-elected.
"Americans must put a president in the White House come January, 2021, who will understand that public health should not be guided by partisan politics," the op-ed reads.
The Trump administration has repeatedly claimed that the US is "leading the world" with its response to the pandemic, but it does not seem to be going in any direction the world wants to follow.
Across Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America, views of the US handling of the coronavirus crisis are uniformly negative and range from horror through derision to sympathy. Donald Trump's musings from the White House briefing room, particularly his thoughts on injecting disinfectant, have drawn the attention of the planet.
"Over more than two centuries, the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world: love and hatred, fear and hope, envy and contempt, awe and anger," the columnist Fintan O'Toole wrote in the Irish Times. "But there is one emotion that has never been directed towards the US until now: pity."
The US has emerged as a global hotspot for the pandemic, a giant petri dish for the Sars-CoV-2 virus. As the death toll rises, Trump's claims to global leadership have became more far-fetched. He told Republicans last week that he had had a round of phone calls with Angela Merkel, Shinzo Abe and other unnamed world leaders and insisted "so many of them, almost all of them, I would say all of them" believe the US is leading the way.
None of the leaders he mentioned has said anything to suggest that was true. At each milestone of the crisis, European leaders have been taken aback by Trump's lack of consultation with them - when he suspended travel to the US from Europe on 12 March without warning Brussels, for example. A week later, politicians in Berlin accused Trump of an "unfriendly act" for offering "large sums of money" to get a German company developing a vaccine to move its research wing to the US.
The collapse of an unstable mountain slope in Alaska could trigger a catastrophic tsunami in Harriman Fjord. A retreating glacier is producing this precarious situation, highlighting yet another type of hazard caused by climate change.
An open letter signed by 14 experts in landslides, tsunamis, and climate change describes an unstable mountain slope above the leading edge of the retreating Barry Glacier in Alaska. Frighteningly, this pending landslide could spawn an enormous tsunami in Harriman Fjord, which is located some 60 miles (100 kilometers) from Anchorage. Rolling through Prince William Sound, this massive wall of water would threaten "potentially hundreds of people at one time," as the region is popular among tourists, fishers, and hunters, according to the letter, co-authored by Steve Masterman, director of the Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys.
The slope is currently creeping very slowly, but it could turn into a fast-moving landslide at virtually any moment. Factors that could trigger a catastrophic collapse include earthquakes, significant rainfall, and lots of snow. The ongoing retreat of Barry Glacier could also contribute to the timing of the imminent collapse.
Predicting precisely when this unstable slope might fail is not easy, but the scientists said this "landslide-generated tsunami will happen within the next year, and likely within 20 years." Importantly, large landslides are commonly "preceded by rockfalls and other signs of increasing instability," wrote the authors.
A rare bit of good news (just in time for Endangered Species Day) saw a rare species of blue bee "back from the dead" as it was spotted in Florida this spring for the first time since 2016. Researchers say the blue calamintha bee, Osmia calaminthae, was believed to have gone extinct shortly after they were first discovered in 2011 but the new sightings have stoked hopes that it might be possible to bring them back from the brink.
The solitary bees are known to nest alone and have a rather choosey diet, feeding on Ashe's Calamint, which is unfortunately also threatened as a plant species and found only in Florida. Efforts were made to protect the bee when it was first discovered with petitions to protect their threatened habitat in central Florida, but just five years later they seemingly disappeared.
Researcher Chase Kimmel, from the Florida Museum of Natural History, returned to the patch of pine forest previously inhabited by the bees this spring, with no great hopes of finding any evidence of the species. "I was open to the possibility that we may not find the bee at all," Kimmel said in a release from the museum. "When we spotted it in the field it was really exciting."
In light of the exciting comeback, the museum has launched a two-year study to get a better idea of the bee's current population status, and we have much to learn about the elusive insect's behaviors. Researchers believe the bees nest alone though, despite them only coming from one small patch of forest, no nests have ever been discovered. They're also known to practice a sort of head-banging behavior when in flowers, which helps them to collect as much pollen as possible on their hairy heads. Rock n' roll, baby.
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