Layered Rocks near Mount Sharp on Mars

By: vivian on segunda-feira, fevereiro 09, 2015

What caused these Martian rocks to be layered? The leading hypothesis is an ancient Martian lake that kept evaporating and refilling over 10 million years -- but has now remained dry and empty of water for billions of years. The featured image, taken last November by the robotic Curiosity rover, shows one-meter wide Whale Rock which is part of the Pahrump Hills outcrop at the base of Mount Sharp. Also evident in the image is cross-bedding -- rock with angled layers -- which were likely facilitated by waves of sand. Curiosity continues to find many layered rocks like this as it continues to roll around and up 5.5-km high Mount Sharp.



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By: vivian on segunda-feira, fevereiro 09, 2015

infiniterose:

senpatriarchy:

americansylveon:

zachlilley:

geekscoutcookies:

justice4mikebrown:

February 9

On the morning of the 6 month anniversary of Mike Brown’s death, protesters delivered fist-shaped tombstones, a coffin, and a list of demands to St. Louis Mayor Slay’s house.

Mayor Slay responded with jokes on Twitter.

Follow the #MondayMourning hashtag on Twitter for more.

Wow

When you think about it, mock tombstones / a mock coffin are the most appropriate since they did hold a mock trial

So, in other words, people put props in front of a mayor’s house because they still are crying over Brown’s death.

AKA, people who don’t know how the justice system works. Also See; Tards

lets mourn the death of a kid who pointed a gun at police and got shot while doing so. he was so innocent…..

Wow, can the above tumblr user get any more ignorant or misinformed? MICHAEL BROWN WAS UNARMED. MICHAEL BROWN WAS UNARMED. MICHAEL BROWN WAS UNARMED. Get the facts straight before you open your mouth and spread misinformation, hatefully, I might add. That is all.

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floridateenlibertarian:Net neutrality isn’t something we want....

By: vivian on segunda-feira, fevereiro 09, 2015

floridateenlibertarian:

Net neutrality isn’t something we want. It’s a threat to the Internet. It must die.

Some helpful links for those who don’t believe the graphic:

• FCC “secret” tax plan a threat to the Internet (Internet Freedom Coalition)


• FCC Plans Stealth Internet Tax Increase (Forbes)

[Unbiased America]

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YOU SEE THAT "SAVE THE INTERNET" BUTTON IN THE UPPER RIGHT OF YOUR DASHBOARD? FUCKING CLICK THAT SHIT. CALLING NET NEUTRALITY A BIG FUCKING DEAL IS A VAST UNDERSTATEMENT. THE CONTINUED TECHNOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE HUMAN RACE DEPENDS ON IT.

By: vivian on segunda-feira, fevereiro 09, 2015

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rtamerica:Is media misrepresenting ‘anti-vaxxers’?Are they...

By: vivian on segunda-feira, fevereiro 09, 2015

rtamerica:

Is media misrepresenting ‘anti-vaxxers’?

Are they Anti-Vaxxers or Pro-Information?

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By: vivian on segunda-feira, fevereiro 09, 2015

zachlilley:

geekscoutcookies:

justice4mikebrown:

February 9

On the morning of the 6 month anniversary of Mike Brown’s death, protesters delivered fist-shaped tombstones, a coffin, and a list of demands to St. Louis Mayor Slay’s house.

Mayor Slay responded with jokes on Twitter.

Follow the #MondayMourning hashtag on Twitter for more.

Wow

When you think about it, mock tombstones / a mock coffin are the most appropriate since they did hold a mock trial

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Source for more facts follow NowYouKno

By: vivian on segunda-feira, fevereiro 09, 2015

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Anything really, like basic myths and the actual facts behind them, or people of note such as Erik the Red or Edward Teach. I know that's still pretty vague though.

By: vivian on segunda-feira, fevereiro 09, 2015

This is my last ask from yesterday!!!!! WOOOOOO (A bit of explanation: monochromedsunshine had previously asked a very general question, so I wrote back asking for something more specific.)

Okay, so Erik the Red was pretty funny. He sailed west to Iceland because he got in a spot of trouble (he murdered a man) back home in Norway, and was exiled. Then he got exiled from Iceland too. Erik couldn’t or wouldn’t go back to Norway, so he decided to sail into the sunset. Luckily for him there was Greenland on the other side. A land of inviting fjords and fertile valleys, at least on the coasts, Erik sailed back to Iceland to convince more settlers to join him. To help persuade them, Erik called the new place “Greenland.” And he must have been persuasive because in 985 CE he set sail with 25 ships of Icelandic settlers. Fourteen survived and arrived. Unfortunately Erik had exaggerated the bounty of Greenland, which was less fertile and harder to survive on than Iceland (ironically). Some went back, but most stayed and tried to make a go of it. They founded two settlements, and by 1000 CE there were about 3,000 Norse living in Greenland on 300 to 400 farms. Life was always difficult, though, and there were conflicts with the local Inuit. By 1500 CE Greenland was abandoned by the Norse.

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Source for more facts follow NowYouKno

By: vivian on segunda-feira, fevereiro 09, 2015

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jupiter and solar corona, photographed by stereo b, march...

By: vivian on segunda-feira, fevereiro 09, 2015

jupiter and solar corona, photographed by stereo b, march 2009.

33 images, photographed over 7 hours, 15th-16th march. you can also see jupiter’s galilean moons as faint dots. left-to-right: europa, io, jupiter itself, ganymede, and much more separated callisto (look closely).

image credit: nasa/stereo. animation: ageofdestruction.

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thoughts on srebrenica?

By: vivian on segunda-feira, fevereiro 09, 2015

The UN declared a safe zone, then failed to protect it. There were Dutch troops located there, who were charged with defending the town, who failed. And the UN then declared it a tragedy and a genocide, completely ignoring their own fault. Yes, it was terrible and the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) under the command of General Ratko Mladić should have been punished. But the UN needed to take responsibility. They needed to analyze how this was allowed to happen, and take steps so that similar massacres get prevented. Through today, UN safe zones and refugee camps are points of attack in war zones. We have seen this in Srebrenica, in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon and Syria, in the Congo War….it keeps happening, and it keeps being called “tragedy” not “preventable.”

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Any thoughts on the expansion of virginity in the middle ages and its relationship to the eruption to modern gender ideas?

By: vivian on segunda-feira, fevereiro 09, 2015

It sucked? And it was all about ensuring that the patrilineal line was preserved. The laws got tighter and tighter to ensure easy passing of possessions with minimal disputation. Without the guarantee that any child would be the child of the husband, crazy things could happen when it came time for inheritances.

Classic example: King Louis X of France married Margaret of Burgundy in 1305. She gave birth to a daughter, Joan, then was convicted for adultery and imprisoned. While in prison, Margaret conveniently died. Louis X remarried, impregnated his new wife, and promptly died. Suddenly there was a huge problem: if the unborn child was a girl, would Joan get precedence? Normally yes, but there were serious questions about her paternity. So Louix X’s brother, Philip, asserted that he should inherit the throne, and Joan should be bypassed. Joan’s maternal uncle asserted that Joan should inherit, over a possible younger sister. (The uncle wanted to become regent.) For months before the queen’s due date, there were clashes and power struggles throughout France between the powerful nobles and their personal armies. No one was sure who was runnign the country. The baby turned out to be a boy, was poisoned, and died five days after birth. Philip took the throne by a combination of force and bribery, and Joan was married off to the King of Navarre. Philip then had laws passed ensuring that royal inheritance would always go to males, and never to females; which he based on sketchy sort-of-related Salic laws. This law was kept, with few changes, until the fall of the ancien régime. Margaret of Burgundy’s infidelity cost women dearly for centuries.

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February 9th 1825: John Quincy Adams elected On this day in...

By: vivian on segunda-feira, fevereiro 09, 2015

John Quincy Adams





John Quincy Adams

February 9th 1825: John Quincy Adams elected

On this day in 1825, the disputed presidential election of 1824 was resolved when the House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams as the sixth President of the United States. No presidential candidate in that election won a majority of Electoral College votes and so, as specified in the Constitution, the decision came to Congress. Despite Andrew Jackson winning a plurality of the popular and electoral vote, the third candidate Henry Clay agreed to transfer his electoral votes to John Quincy Adams, which handed Adams the Presidency. Clay was then made Secretary of State, which Jackson and his legions of loyal supporters criticised as a ‘Corrupt Bargain’. Jackson eventually won the presidency in 1828, capitalising on the vote of the ordinary man, which led to the period being known as ‘Jacksonian Democracy’. Jackson pursued several aggressive policies as President, including a violent ‘Indian Removal’ programme, threatening military action against South Carolina during the Nullification Crisis, and attacking the national banking system.

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What do you think triggered the fall of the Roman Republic?

By: vivian on segunda-feira, fevereiro 09, 2015

People thinking Caesar would be the fall of the Roman Republic. There had been many dictators in the century before him, the Gracchi and Sulla and Marius and Pompey and Crassus. Each time the Republic went right back to power when they were defeated or died. Why was Caesar so special? Because the elites, the senatorial families, decided he was and assassinated him. That was the true end of the Roman Republic. Sure Octavian called himself “First Citizen” but everyone knew the truth.

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By: vivian on segunda-feira, fevereiro 09, 2015

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Who in your mind is the most influential person to how the three branches of the American govt. work together nowadays (I personally think it's John marshal he made the Supreme Court what it is today and he's my favorite person in all of history too)

By: vivian on segunda-feira, fevereiro 09, 2015

I would agree — either John Marshall for creating Judicial Review or James Madison for laying out the outline of the three branches of government before the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. Without Madison, the government might have a very different shape (it was definitely going to be suggested that a new government was needed, but whether the proposed form would have passed without Madison’s input is another argument).

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By: vivian on segunda-feira, fevereiro 09, 2015

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My silly two cents about looking for a job with an MLS - a fast growing niche market is in the fundraising/philanthropy sector, the jobs in the prospect research field. They're often looking for qualified MLS grads and particularly in Canada and the US (that's what I'm most familiar with) it pays really well and is quite rewarding. I'm not an MLS grad, I worked my way through to prospect research, but I am a history grad and I couldn't be happier with this line of work.

By: vivian on segunda-feira, fevereiro 09, 2015

Hope this helps the original anon!

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I don't think enough people realize that history can be as "fun" as other subjects, but your blog's light touch helps a lot with that notion. I, myself, have learned a lot about history from games such as Civilization and Assassin's Creed (such great notes, if you bother to look at them). My question is, do you have any games, movies, or other pieces of historical fiction you find both fun and informative?

By: vivian on segunda-feira, fevereiro 09, 2015

Watch Rome!!!! Great, great series. Should have been renewed; the original timeline was supposed to be seven seasons and go to the birth of Jesus Christ. It was a tragedy for history buffs and tv fans alike when HBO canceled it. Also, Pharaoh (the PC game) is historically accurate and you get to build cities and pyramids and armies, based on what those cities were doing during those time periods. I remember spending days at a time playing. I enjoyed this question. Thanks for asking!

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Your Amazing Brain

By: vivian on segunda-feira, fevereiro 09, 2015

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What do you know about Maronites?

By: vivian on segunda-feira, fevereiro 09, 2015

It is an ethnoreligious group that has existed since at the 400ss in what is today Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. They have their own patriarch (and might be named after their first one, John Maron) but are in communion with the Catholic Church and are considered part of it. They survived the Arab conquest, and remained a separate identity for over 1,000 years despite Crusaders and successive Muslim rulers in the region. Recently their numbers have declined due to low birth rates. Maronites today make up about 1/4 of the population of Lebanon. As part of a longstanding agreement, they hold the presidency — all Lebanese presidents have been Maronites — and the other two highest positions are held by a Shia Muslim and a Shiite Muslim. Interestingly, they believe they are Phoenician descendents and value this genetically tenuous claim.

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Space Station Flyover of Gulf of Aden and Horn of Africa

By: vivian on segunda-feira, fevereiro 09, 2015

European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti took this photograph from the International Space Station and posted it to social media on Jan. 30, 2015. Cristoforetti wrote, "A spectacular flyover of the Gulf of Aden and the Horn of Africa. #HelloEarth" Image Credit: NASA/ESA/Samantha Cristoforetti



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valentinescards:valentines cards

By: vivian on segunda-feira, fevereiro 09, 2015

valentinescards:

valentines cards

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kanyewildwestern:whyshoulddothing:The ValentinesCards blogGIVESMELIFEI COULDN’T HAVE HIT ‘FOLLOW’...

By: vivian on segunda-feira, fevereiro 09, 2015

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for career anon: Contract work, too! Advisors for video games, documentaries, TV shows or movies, things like that.

By: vivian on segunda-feira, fevereiro 09, 2015

hope this helps!

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What could you tell us about the Makhnovshchina?

By: vivian on segunda-feira, fevereiro 09, 2015

Called the “Black Army” it was an anarchist army of Ukrainian and Crimean peasants and workers, led by the famous anarcho-communist Nestor Makhno during the Russian Civil War. They protected communes and tried to start a stateless, anarchic society from 1918 - 1921 during the chaos of the Russian Revolution. They controlled around 7 million people within their “Free Territory" in eastern Ukraine.

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What is your opinion on American imperialism during the Gilded Age? Theodore Roosevelt, Hawaiian annexation, Open Door Policy, Philippine War, etc.

By: vivian on segunda-feira, fevereiro 09, 2015

Americans deciding that they were so special they got to spread their specialness while somehow also believing that by expanding where it was not wanted, America was not becoming an empire (which it was).

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A new DNA study of North and South American dogs suggests that...

By: vivian on segunda-feira, fevereiro 09, 2015

A new DNA study of North and South American dogs suggests that dogs came to the Americas much later than their human companions did — it seems they first migrated across the land bridge with Asia only 10,000 years ago.

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By: vivian on segunda-feira, fevereiro 09, 2015

GO HERE —> http://ift.tt/1eWNk1f To Learn All About Psychology.

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