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Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:45:47 -0400

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

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 14:27:34 -0400

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.

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 10:10:19 -0400

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

shortformblog:

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.

collective-history: American Red Cross nurses tend to flu...

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 19:58:23 -0400

collective-history:

American Red Cross nurses tend to flu patients in temporary wards set up inside Oakland Municipal Auditorium, 1918.

via

collective-history: An electron micrograph showing recreated...

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 17:58:37 -0400

collective-history:

An electron micrograph showing recreated 1918 influenza virions.

CDC

collective-history: The 1918 Flu Pandemic The flu of 1918...

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:59:59 -0400

collective-history:

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.

Discovery Channel

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Thu, 06 Sep 2012 14:00:13 -0400

Albert Einstein

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:58:11 -0400

Albert Einstein

After “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was published -...

Thu, 06 Sep 2012 09:12:10 -0400

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.

tradethecycles: flagwaiver: I am a proud Conservative...

Sun, 02 Sep 2012 23:40:58 -0400

tradethecycles:

flagwaiver:

I am a proud Conservative Republican,i do not hate anyone;but i truly dislike socialist democrats.

USA USA USA!!!

itstactical: It happened in early 1990 in the Persian Gulf,...

Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:11:24 -0400

itstactical:

It happened in early 1990 in the Persian Gulf, while U.S. carriers and B-52s were holding joint exercises. Two B-52s called the carrier (USS Ranger) and asked if they could do a fly-by, and the carrier air controller said yes.

When the B-52s reported they were 9 kilometers out, the carrier controller said he didn’t see them. The B-52s told the carrier folks to look down. The paint job on the B-52 made it hard to see from above, but as it got closer, the sailors could make it out, and the water the B-52 jets were causing to spray out. It’s very, very rare for a USAF aircraft to do a fly-by below the flight deck of a carrier.

But B-52s had been practicing low level flights for years, to come in under Soviet radar. In this case, the B-52 pilots asked the carrier controller if they would like the bombers come around again. The carrier guys said yes, and a lot more sailors had their cameras out this time.

via Tailhook Daily

collective-history: Some of the S.S. women whose brutality was...

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 13:50:07 -0400

collective-history:

Some of the S.S. women whose brutality was equal to that of their male counterparts at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Bergen, Germany, on April 21, 1945. (AP Photo/British Official Photo)

historicaldetailsandstuff: Jamestown was the first permanent...

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:57:07 -0400

John Smith’s map of Virginia first appeared in 1612. The first decade of Jamestown's settlement was disastrous. Not until the discovery of tobacco did the settlement manage to profit.

"John Smith," line engraving from the 18th century.

Chief Powhatan in a longhouse at Werowocomoco (detail of John Smith map, 1612)

historicaldetailsandstuff:

Jamestown was the first permanent English colony in the New World, founded in 1607 under the direction of the Virginia Company. Although the settlement struggled to survive at first, the discovery of tobacco made Jamestown a success and it remained the capital of the Virginia colony until 1699. In 1605, a group of influential merchants seeking to profit materially from the natural resources of America petitioned England’s King James I for permission to settle in America. The following April, the king chartered the London Company (later known as the Virginia Company) and granted it the right to settle a colony between 34 and 41 degrees north latitude. The charter created a joint-stock company, which allowed the merchants to seek investors and operate as a private business. The charter provided that the colony would be governed by two councils, one in America and one in England, and guaranteed that colonists would enjoy the “liberties, franchises, and immunities” of English subjects. On the April 26th, 1607, the Sarah Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery arrived in Virginia carrying 105 passengers, who named their settlement Jamestown after the king. From the start, the colony was beset by troubles. The Chesapeake Bay region was then controlled by a confederation of Algonquian Indian tribes led by the paramount chief Powhatan. Powhatan was instrumental in helping provision the colonists in the early years, but the two groups often came into conflict thereafter. More immediately, the colonists died in large number of disease and starvation: Only 38 of the original passengers survived “seasoning,” or their first winter in America. Ultimately, the colonists proved unwilling to grow their own food, preferring instead to search for gold, leading to internal dissension. A series of governors tried with varying degrees of success to salvage the colony, including most notably John Smith, who ordered that “he will not work, shall not eat.” Yet such attempts often proved fruitless such as in the winter of 1609–10, appropriately termed “the starving time,” when desperate colonists turned to cannibalism and ate the dead. Only the constant infusion of new colonists kept Jamestown afloat. Relations with the Indians improved in 1614 when Powhatan’s daughter Pocahontas married John Rolfe, yet it was Rolfe’s introduction of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) two years later that finally made the colony profitable. Because tobacco sold in London for five to 10 times as much as it cost to grow, soon “the marketplace and streets, and all other spare places were planted with tobacco.” Within a decade, Virginia became the wealthiest and most populous colony. Despite Jamestown’s success, the Virginia Company teetered on the verge of bankruptcy. In the late 1610s, the company tried to make the settlement more profitable by giving more control to colonists. It instituted the headright system, which gave land to settlers, and the House of Burgesses, the first representative assembly established in America. Yet when a violent Indian attack in 1622 wiped out a fifth of the colony’s population, the king revoked the company’s charter and, in 1624, he placed Virginia under the control of the English government.

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Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:42:36 -0400

Members of the Vietnam National Liberation Front (Vietcong)...

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:30:49 -0400

Members of the Vietnam National Liberation Front (Vietcong) fire a machine gun at US aircraft during a raid in South Vietnam

April, 1969

vietnamization: Sarajevo, Bosnia 1992.

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:19:35 -0400

vietnamization:

Sarajevo, Bosnia 1992.

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Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:29:34 -0400

bonnyeswm: A Brief History of the Evolution of Tattoos

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 09:37:44 -0400

bonnyeswm: A Brief History of the Evolution of Tattoos:

bonnyeswm027:

A Brief History of the Evolution of Tattoos
Tattoos have long been a part of human cultures. From ancient Egypt to contemporary New York, tattoos have served a variety of purposes in their cultures ranging from the marking of criminals to the identification of warriors, from serving medicinal…

History of tattoos.
Would’ve loved this in Germantown

todaysdocument: Married at 80 While many slave couples formed...

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 19:58:58 -0400

todaysdocument:

Married at 80

While many slave couples formed lasting bonds during their enslavement, slave marriages had no legal foundation or protection. The abolishment of slavery not only meant citizenship but the ability to have legally recognized marriages without fear of the loss of a spouse through sale. The Bureau helped facilitate and record marriages. This is an 1865 register of marriages among freemen in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. The register contains information about the couple’s former relationships and family while enslaved. Listed on September 10th is the oldest man on the register, John Barter age 80 and his wife Rachel Lee, age 52.

Register of Marriages Among Freedmen During 1865, 08/09/1865

via DocsTeach

ilovecharts: howstuffworks: huffingtonpost: discoverynews: Th...

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 17:56:01 -0400

ilovecharts:

howstuffworks:

huffingtonpost:

discoverynews:

This is a disturbing graphic…

everlane:

An alarming visualization of when the Earth’s non-renewable resources will run out from the BBC.

Horrifying.

Ugh.

Ruh-Roh.