DID YOU KNOW
A Philadelphia woman named Ms. Gale invented crack cocaine?
(don’t trust everything you read on the Internet)
W. E. B. Du Bois
“The Philadelphia Negro”
~1899
A rumor is flying around — via the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, no less — that Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. wants to buy both papers from Tribune after that company exits bankruptcy.
Rupert Murdoch sending signals that he would like to acquire the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times. *sigh
With Tribune Co. expected to emerge from bankruptcy soon, News Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch is looking to acquire two of its trophy properties — the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune.
Tribune Co.’s debt holders — two investment firms and a bank — will become majority owners of the company after it exits bankruptcy, which could happen by year’s end. News Corp. executives have had preliminary talks with these debt holders about acquiring the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, according to two ranking News Corp. executives and others familiar with the situation.
These people cautioned that talks are in the early stages, and that a deal is by no means certain. Other potential buyers have expressed interest.
News Corp. has denied the reports, which surfaced in the very newspapers the company is rumored to be interested in buying. The Los Angeles Times could go for as much as $400 million. Meanwhile, Murdoch’s last foray into Chicago journalism — a purchase of the Chicago Sun-Times in the 1980s — was a disaster, with a sharp drop in circulation and the loss of many key writers.
American Red Cross nurses tend to flu patients in temporary wards set up inside Oakland Municipal Auditorium, 1918.
An electron micrograph showing recreated 1918 influenza virions.
The 1918 Flu Pandemic
The flu of 1918 wasn’t the typical influenza virus we encounter every year. This was a new strain of flu microbe, the H1N1 avian influenza A virus. Scientists suspect the disease moved from birds to humans in the American Midwest just prior to the outbreak. It was later dubbed the Spanish flu after an epidemic in Spain killed 8 million people. Worldwide, people’s immune systems were utterly unprepared for the new virus — just as the Aztecs were unprepared for the arrival of smallpox in the 1500s. Massive troop transport and supply lines at the close of World War I allowed the virus to quickly reach pandemic proportions by spreading to other continents and countries.
The flu of 1918 carried symptoms typical of normal influenza, including fever, nausea, aches and diarrhea. Also, patients would frequently develop black spots on their cheeks. As their lungs filled with liquid, they ran the risk of dying from lack of oxygen. Those who died effectively drowned in their own mucus.
The epidemic subsided within a year as the virus mutated into other, less lethal forms. Most people today have some degree of immunity to this family of H1N1 virus, inherited from those who survived the pandemic.
Albert Einstein
(Source: nickdrake)
After “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was published - pro-slavery advocates published dozens of books to show that … you know … it wasn’t as bad as it seemed. Same as it ever was.
Image from The Planter’s Northern Bride (1854) by Caroline Lee Hentz, one of the most famous examples of Anti-Tom literature. Anti-Tom literature refers to the 19th century pro-slavery novels and other literary works written in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Also called Plantation literature, these writings were generally written by authors from the Southern United States. Books in the genre attempted to show either that slavery was beneficial to African Americans or that the evils of slavery as depicted in Stowe’s book were overblown and incorrect.
I am a proud Conservative Republican,i do not hate anyone;but i truly dislike socialist democrats.
USA USA USA!!!
