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Julia Davis: Russian Media Freak Over Joe Biden's Election Resurrection (Daily Beast)
Former Vice President Joe Biden's Super Tuesday victories in 10 out of 14 state primaries caused shock waves not only in the United States, but in Russia. State media there have been confidently predicting the Democratic Party's nomination of Bernie Sanders, which would lead, they are sure, to the re-election of their favorite, President Donald J. Trump.
Winning the Oscar for Best Original Song at the 32nd Academy Awards, it was introduced by Frank Sinatra in a 1959 film, and describes animals doing seemingly impossible acts. With altered lyrics, it also served as the theme song for the 1960 Presidential Campaign of John Kennedy. What is the title of this song?
Sometimes known as "The Hero of the Two Worlds" for his accomplishments in the service of both France and the United States, by what name is Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier more commonly known?
Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette (6 September 1757 - 20 May 1834), known in the United States simply as Lafayette, was a French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War, commanding American troops in several battles, including the Siege of Yorktown. After returning to France, he was a key figure in the French Revolution of 1789 and the July Revolution of 1830.
Lafayette was born into a wealthy land-owning family in Chavaniac in the province of Auvergne in south central France. He followed the family's martial tradition and was commissioned an officer at age 13. He became convinced that the American revolutionary cause was noble, and he traveled to the New World seeking glory in it. He was made a major general at age 19, but he was initially not given American troops to command. He was wounded during the Battle of Brandywine but still managed to organize an orderly retreat, and he served with distinction in the Battle of Rhode Island. In the middle of the war, he sailed for home to lobby for an increase in French support. He returned to America in 1780 and was given senior positions in the Continental Army. In 1781, troops under his command in Virginia blocked forces led by Cornwallis until other American and French forces could position themselves for the decisive Siege of Yorktown.
In 1824, President James Monroe invited him to the United States as the nation's guest, and he visited all 24 states in the union and met a rapturous reception. During France's July Revolution of 1830, he declined an offer to become the French dictator. Instead, he supported Louis-Philippe as king, but turned against him when the monarch became autocratic. He died on 20 May 1834 and is buried in Picpus Cemetery in Paris, under soil from Bunker Hill. He is sometimes known as "The Hero of the Two Worlds" for his accomplishments in the service of both France and the United States.
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Mark, in Lafayette, IN. was first, and correct, with:
Marquis de Lafayette.
Randall wrote:
Marquis de Lafayette
Mac Mac said:
Marquis de Lafayette
Alan J answered:
Marquis de Lafayette.
mj replied:
One of many who helped the Continentals prevail
The Maruis de Lafayette was one of the European military men who helped
salvage the Revolutionary cause.
Dave responded:
Lafayette. The French aristocrat held the title of Marquis de Lafayette. For his volunteer service in the Revolutionary War (he was wounded leading troops at the Battle of Brandywine), The Frenchman became an American icon. Receiving news of his death in 1834, President Jackson ordered a 30 day period of mourning, the same honor George Washington had received. Another reflection of the esteem in which he was held is the fact that 36 US cities and towns are named Lafayette.
zorch said:
Lafayette.
Cal in Vermont wrote:
The Marquis De La Fayette. At the age of 19, when most people are busy being 19, he came to the American Colonies and, without any battle experience, convinced the Continental Army to commission him a Major General and help sustain the birth of We The People. The rest is great history, which The People seem to presently be unable to live up to. The Trumps and other small people of the world will come and go; the La Fayettes come but once. Long live Western Civ!
Kevin K. in Washington, DC, replied:
That French Guy
Lafayette. Just Lafayette, because Americans aren't sure they can pronounce Marquis.
Roy, the Socialist Scum and retired Enemy of the People in Tyler, TX responded:
We just called that guy Lafayette. The marquis was a French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War, commanding American troops in several battles, including the Siege of Yorktown. He was also something of a futurist, proclaiming centuries in advance that...
I'm guessing that kind of thinking wasn't very popular at Sunday Mass.
Deborah wrote:
That's quite a name - the man is better known as the Marquis de Lafayette.
Warm and windy. I wish some of that rain you're going to get would drift north. I dislike having to water my yards and gardens when it's still the rainy season.
Harry M. said:
Lafayette
Daniel in The City answered:
Lafayette
Billy in Cypress U$A responded:
Marquis de Lafayette
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
Marquis de Lafayette
Rosemary in Columbus said:
Lafayette
Joe ( -- Vote Blue, No Matter Who -- ) said:
Marquis de Layette, I am a history major you know. I am very disappointed in Bernie Sanders' second place finish to Joe Biden Tuesday, especially in Michigan. But what happens, happens. If Biden goes on to be the Democratic nominee I will of course support him unconditionally. Vote Blue, no matter who. I mean it.
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• R' Elya Chaim, the Rav of Lodz, discovered that a shopowner had been desecrating the Sabbath by opening up his shop on the holy day. Therefore, the good Rabbi rose on the Sabbath, sent a message to the synagogue that no one was to wait for him, then he went to the store and sat down in front of its door. The shopowner soon arrived, keys in hand and ready to open his shop for business. He saw the Rabbi, figured that he was waiting for someone, and decided to wait for the Rabbi to leave so he could open the shop. A couple of hours passed, and the shopowner finally realized what the Rabbi was doing, so he admitted defeat and told R' Elya Chaim, "Rebbe, I give up. Go home and eat. I swear by my wife and children that from now on my store will remain closed on Shabbos."
• Rabbi Zushia of Hanipol never rebuked a sinner for sinning. Instead, when he saw a person commit a sin, he would sit near that person, then begin crying, "Zushia, how could you commit such a sin? Don't you know that you will have to account for that sin in the World-to-Come?" The sinner always listened to Zushia and eventually repented.
Royalty and Aristocracy
• Prima donnas can be vigilant in the pursuit of what they regard as their rights. While traveling with Colonel James H. Mapleson (1830-1901) and his opera company, two prima donnas - Caroline Salla and Anna De Belocca - feuded over who would get the best suite at a hotel. The good Colonel solved the problem by having the hotel manager mention that an equally good suite - which had been reserved for Lady Spencer - existed upstairs. Ms. Belocca asked to see the reserved suite, and when the door was open, she ran inside and locked the door, telling the hotel manager to find another suite for Lady Spencer.
• The Quakers used to be persecuted in the early years of the colonization of America; however, King Charles II ended the practice by sending a Quaker as his envoy to America. Quakers believe in the equality of Humankind, so they don't take their hats off before humans of high rank. The American Governor was so displeased by the Quaker's not taking his hat off that he knocked the hat to the ground. However, as soon as he learned that the Quaker was the envoy of the king, he hurriedly picked up the Quaker's hat - and took off his own.
• Leo Slezak, the famous tenor, was disembarking from Vienna to go on tour with his opera company. As part of his luggage, he carried a stage prop - a jeweled crown (with fake jewels, of course) in a hatbox. At the border, the customs officer went through Slezak's luggage. When the officer saw the crown, he was startled, then bowed respectfully to Slezak, saying, "I trust your Highness will forgive my having inconvenienced you. Please pass, your Highness."
• Mary Lidbetter was a very pretty Quaker woman. In Brighton, England, in 1797, she caught the eye of the Prince Regent, and he followed her and kissed her. She immediately slapped his face, and he thereafter left her alone.
CBS starts the night with a FRESH'Survivor', followed by FRESH'SEAL Team', then a FRESH'SWAT'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Hank Azaria and Suzy Nakamura.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Emily Blunt, Sam Heughan, and Niall Horan.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'Chicago Med', followed by a RERUN'Chicago Fire', then a RERUN'Chicago PD'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Sen. Bernie Sanders, Angela Bassett, and Isabel Hagen.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Nick Offerman, Michael Mando, D Smoke featuring Davion Farris, and Steve Ferrone.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh are Rob Corddry and Pete Holmes.
ABC fills the night with RERUN'Modern Family'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are David Spade, Eiza González, and Grace VanderWaal.
The CW offers a FRESH'Riverdale', followed by a FRESH'Nancy Drew'.
Faux has a FRESH'The Masked Singer', followed by a FRESH'Lego Masters'.
MY recycles an old 'Dateline', followed by another old 'Dateline'.
A&E has 'Live PD Presents: PD Cam', another 'Live PD Presents: PD Cam', followed by a FRESH'Live PD Presents: PD Cam', then another FRESH'Live PD Presents: PD Cam', followed by a FRESH'America's Top Dog'.
AMC offers the movie 'Road House', followed by the movie 'Speed', then the movie 'Deep Impact'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Homeward
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Sub Rosa
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Lower Decks
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Thine Own Self
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Masks
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Eye of the Beholder
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Genesis
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Journey's End
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Firstborn
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Bloodlines
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Emergence
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Preemptive Strike
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - All Good Things... (Part 1)
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - All Good Things... (Part 2)
[8:00PM] BRAVEHEART (1995)
[12:00AM] BRAVEHEART (1995)
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - All Good Things... (Part 1)
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - All Good Things... (Part 2) (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NJ', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NJ', then a FRESH'Summer Home', 'Real Housewives Of NJ', followed by a FRESH'Watch What Happens: Live'.
Comedy Central has 3½ hours of old 'South Park', followed by a FRESH'Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens'.
Scheduled on a FRESHThe Daily Show are Mayor Bill de Blasio and Dave "Lil Dicky" Burd.
Scheduled on a FRESHLights Out with David Spade are Tony Rock, Cristela Alonzo, and Jim Jefferies.
FX has the movie 'Spider-Man: Homecoming', followed by the movie 'Pitch Perfect 3'.
History has 'Forged In Fire', followed by a FRESH'Forged In Fire: Cutting Deeper', then a FRESH'Forged In Fire', and another 'Forged In Fire'.
IFC -
[6:30A] Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
[8:30A] Predator 2
[11:00A] AVP: Alien vs. Predator
[1:00P] Underworld: Evolution
[3:30P] Underworld
[6:00P] Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
[8:00P] Elysium
[10:30P] Year of the Rabbit
[11:02P] Elysium
[1:32A] Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
[3:32A] Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem
[5:37A] The Three Stooges - Shivering Sherlocks (ALL TIMES EST)
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[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] Bride Wars
[12:30pm] Sleepless in Seattle
[3:00pm] Criminal Minds
[4:00pm] Criminal Minds
[5:00pm] Criminal Minds
[6:00pm] Criminal Minds
[7:00pm] Criminal Minds
[8:00pm] Criminal Minds
[9:00pm] Criminal Minds
[10:00pm] Criminal Minds
[11:00pm] Criminal Minds
[12:00am] Criminal Minds
[1:00am] Criminal Minds
[2:00am] Criminal Minds
[3:00am] Hap and Leonard: Mucho Mojo - Bad Mojo
[4:00am] Hap and Leonard: Mucho Mojo - Pie a la Mojo
[5:00am] Hap and Leonard: Mucho Mojo - No Mo' Mojo (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows: Part 2', followed by a FRESH'The Magicians'.
Producer Scott Rudin is slashing ticket prices to $50 through March for whatever seats remain available at his five usually sold-out Broadway productions, a move designed to help keep theaters full if coronavirus concerns begin to take a significant toll on attendance.
Rudin's productions To Kill a Mockingbird, West Side Story, The Lehman Trilogy, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and The Book of Mormon are among the most popular and successful on Broadway, and typically play to, or near, full houses. A quick and random search for seats at To Kill A Mockingbird this month shows relatively few remaining seats available, though of course that wouldn't reflect last-minute cancelations.
In a statement, Rudin said, "As long as New York City is open for business, its beating heart remains the Broadway stage. This is an unprecedented opportunity for everyone to see a show that they otherwise might not have had easy and affordable access to. I can't pretend that great theater is the panacea we've been waiting for, but in the meantime I think we could all use a few hours away from the evening news."
The $50 ticket price will be available from March 12 through March 29. The tickets go on sale Thursday at noon ET.
A valuable piece of art was almost lost, until someone with a sharp eye found it at a thrift store on the Outer Banks late last year.
Art lover Wendy Hawkins' keen eye discovered the Salvador Dali original.
Wendy volunteers twice a week at the Hotline Pink Thrift Shop in Kitty Hawk, which is where she first saw the piece of art.
She wanted an expert opinion, and with the permission of the thrift shop, she took it down the road to the Seaside Art Gallery in Nags Head for a second look.
The piece of art is a wood engraving by Salvador Dali and comes from a series called The Divine Comedy. It still has his signature.
The mayor of a small French town on Tuesday defended hosting a record-breaking gathering of 3,500 people dressed as Smurfs at the weekend, after accusations that the event increased the risks of spreading the coronavirus.
"We must not stop living... it was the chance to say that we are alive," mayor Patrick Leclerc of Landerneau in western France told AFP.
The gathering came a day before France banned all gatherings of more than 1,000 in a bid to contain the spread of the virus, which has infected 1,412 people and killed 25 in the country.
Fans of the hit Belgian cartoon about a colony of blue human-like creatures living in houses shaped like mushrooms descended on Saturday on the Breton town to break the world record for a gathering of Smurfs.
Leclerc insisted that the revellers, who painted their hands and faces blue and sported white pointy hats, had violated no ban and were a necessary antidote to an "ambient gloom".
A Louisiana woman was arrested on drug charges after police determined the $5,000 cash she used to post an inmate's bail had a "strong odor of marijuana."
Authorities began investigating Stormy Lynn Parfait, 33, on Friday, shortly after she showed up at the Ashland jail to pay the bond fee for an inmate being held there on drug charges, the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office said in a statement obtained by news outlets.
After catching a whiff of the cash, a detective searched her car while she was still at the jail and found nearly $40,000 more inside, along with about 100 Klonopin pills and a food stamp card that wasn't registered to Parfait, according to the sheriff's statement.
Investigators found hundreds of additional pills and cash as well as marijuana, cocaine and paraphernalia, during a search of Parfait's home later, news outlets reported. Four unattended children there were turned over to a relative.
A new study out Tuesday seems to confirm a remarkable achievement in the world of HIV research. A London man living with HIV who received an experimental stem cell transplant has appeared free of the virus for at least 30 months despite no longer taking medication. They say it's strong evidence that he may be cured of HIV-the second such case ever documented.
Nearly four years ago, the man known as the London patient received a bone marrow transplant primarily meant to help treat his advanced blood cancer, Hodgkin's lymphoma. But the transplant was sourced from a donor with a rare mutation that makes people nearly impervious to the most common type of HIV infection, HIV-1. Doctors hoped the transplant would not only help treat the man's cancer but also reboot his immune system to resemble the donor's, transferring that same resistance to HIV.
Last March, his doctors reported that the man had no detectable traces of the virus in his system for 18 months since he stopped taking antiretroviral medication (typically, it only takes weeks for the virus to start proliferating again after standard treatment is stopped). At the time, they still cautioned that it was too early to declare him cured. But in a study published today in the Lancet HIV, they're now much more confident about that possibility.
"The London patient has been in HIV-1 remission for 30 months with no detectable replication-competent virus in blood, CSF, intestinal tissue, or lymphoid tissue," they wrote. "We propose that these findings represent HIV-1 cure."
Late last week, the President of the United States gave public health experts and responsible Americans alike heartburn by suggesting that working people may end up getting better by going to work - even if they think they may be infected with coronavirus.
Obviously, this sort of talk is completely irresponsible and should not be taken seriously - especially by people with compromised immune systems or those who end up coming in contact with people with compromised immune systems. However, as we know, a large swath of the American people do take the president's words seriously and many of his of supporters - like this woman - do not believe that coronavirus is real because they "don't trust anything the Democrats do or say".
President Trump (R-Inept) and his surrogates - like Director of the National Economic Council, Larry Kudlow (R-Delusional) - have turned the recognition of deadly disease into a political football and are endangering public health, either wittingly or unwittingly, with unclear or erroneous information that counters what public experts are saying.
The United States is unique in this way. It is the only industrialized nation without any federal paid sick leave policy. The extent of the US federal sick leave policy is the requirement in the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) that requires that companies with 50 or more full-time employees allow their workers to take time off - unpaid. This, of course, offers no paid sick leave for people at all. It also provides no unpaid leave for individuals who work at small businesses. According to the Small Business Administration, as of 2015, small businesses employed 47.5 per cent of the United States' private workforce, so basically half.
A white female giraffe, thought to the last of its kind in the world, has been killed by poachers, conservationists in Kenya have announced.
The mother her and calf were found in a "skeletal state", and were thought to have died at least four months ago, Ishaqbini Hirola Conservancy said in a statement.
The statement added the animals had been killed by armed poachers.
After the killing of the mother and calf, only one white giraffe, a lone bull, remains.
40 percent of the giraffe population has been lost in just 30 years, with poaching and wildlife trafficking are contributing to this decline, according to the Africa Wildlife Foundation.
A retired U.S. Navy submarine commander has won a lawsuit forcing the Navy to release its report on what happened to the USS Thresher, a nuclear-powered attack submarine that sank during diving tests in 1963. The loss of the submarine has never been fully explained, and the Navy has never released the report on the sub's sinking.
USS Thresher was the first of its class, a new type of fast, deep diving attack submarine. The Thresher-class subs used a streamlined hull designed for fast underwater travel. With a torpedo-like hull design and a S5W nuclear reactor, the Thresher class could make 20 knots on the surface and 30 knots underwater-the reverse of World War II-era submarines designed to spend most of their time on the surface. The submarines were 278 feet long, 31 feet wide, and carried Mk. 37 homing torpedoes for use against surface and subsurface targets, SUBROC anti-submarine torpedoes, and sea mines.
On April 9, 1963, the Thresher was 220 miles east of Cape Cod, conducting diving tests. It was the first submarine to use the new HY-80 steel alloy, and the Navy was eager to determine how deep the new design could safely dive. At 9:13 a.m., while at a depth of 1,300 feet, the submarine radioed the submarine rescue ship USS Skylark, waiting above:
"Experiencing minor difficulties. Have positive up angle. Am attempting to blow (ballast tanks). Will keep you informed."
But Thresher never surfaced, and the Navy later found the sub in six pieces on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. All 129 personnel on board were killed. People have come up with many theories about how the sub sank, including blaming the faulty welds that failed during the tests, shorting out the sub's critical electrical systems and sapping its power.
Capt. Jim Bryant, a retired Navy submarine officer, wanted to see the Navy's 1,700-page report on the Thresher's sinking, but the Navy refused to release it. So Bryant, Stars and Stripes reports, sued the Navy, and last month a federal judge ordered the service to release it in 300-page chunks.
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