Two of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World were built by women! The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were planted by Queen Semiramis, of Assyria, and the Masoleum of Halicarnassus was built by Queen Artemisia, of Caria.
Aunt Jemima pancake flour was the first ready-mix food to be sold commercially, in 1889.
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Slingshots can be made with few resources, just a y-shaped branch and rubber strings. Guerrilla fighters, who by definition are often poor and unable to access the most modern weaponry, have adopted this simple weapon and inflicted serious damage on far more technically advanced enemy forces. The Irish Republican Army and the Palestinian rebels, for example, have used slingshots effectively.
And it has been reported that Saddam Hussein, when faced with a likely US invasion, released a propoganda video instructing Iraqis on how to make and use the humble slingshot to defend themselves.
Niccolo Macchiavelli, from The Prince (1513). (via historical-nonfiction)
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Too many people read this excerpt from The Prince, and think it is license to use fear for anything. Up to and including becoming hated.
In today’s terms, a hated leader would be like boss who threatens to fire an employee for everything, from losing a big customer down to a misspelling in an email. They are using fear too much, and becoming hated. That’s what Machiavelli is warning against. He would rather the boss make clear that losing a big customer could get an employee fired, but be lenient about a misspelling. The boss uses a little fear, but not too much, to motivate employees.
Machiavelli was really about being in the middle – not loved, not hated. Just a little feared.
For instance, the first movie directed by a woman to win Best Picture at the Oscars? “The Hurt Locker” in 2008.
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow, that year she also became the first woman to win Best Director at the Oscars.
This is the same facial expression I make when people confuse psychology with psychiatry!
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Born in Texas in 1892, to parents of African-American and Native American descent, Bessie Coleman moved to Chicago at twenty-three and worked as a manicurist. Somehow, Coleman began listening to and reading stories about World War I pilots. She became fascinated. She tried to enter flying school in the United States, but none would admit her.
So she learned French, and moved to France in 1921, hoping to be admitted into less-racist flying schools there. Coleman was so determined to reach her goals that she learned a foreign language in her twenties, and moved across an ocean by herself. Wow. And it was all worth it: Coleman was able to earn her pilot’s license in France, in just seven months.
As the world’s first black civilian pilot – male or female – she was nicknamed “Queen Bess.” She returned to the United States and the same year she got her license, 1922, became the first African-American woman to fly a public flight in the United States. Queen Bess kept going, earning her living doing aerial shows and barnstormings; she specialized in stunt flying and parachuting. In 1926, at the age of thirty-four, she tragically fell to her death while rehearsing for an aerial show.
At the site of Huaca de la Cruz, which is located in the Pomac Forest Historic Sanctuary in northern Peru, nine men’s skeletons have been found. The grave has the hallmarks of human sacrifice. Only men, all between 25 and 30 years old, and buried all together. Nearby is the tomb of an elite Sican, perhaps the person the sacrifices were intended for? Both the sacrificed men’s grave and the elite grave are surrounded by ceramics, and ceremonial knives.
The graves date to around 1,000 years ago, to the Sican culture which predated the Inca on the Peruvian coast. At its peak between 900 and 1100 CE, the Middle Sican had a clear social hierarchy, cities centered on imposing mounds, skilled metallurgists, intricate irrigation techniques, and apparently a taste for human sacrifice.
Astrônomos em todo o mundo estão tentando rastrear um objeto pequeno e em movimento rápido que está passando pelo nosso sistema solar.
É um cometa? Um asteroide? A NASA não tem certeza. A agência espacial não sabe de onde veio, mas ele não se comporta como as rochas do espaço e isso significa que pode não ser do nosso sistema solar.
Se isso for confirmado, a NASA diz que “seria o primeiro objeto interestelar a ser observado e confirmado pelos astrônomos”.
“Estamos esperando este dia há décadas”, disse Paul Chodas, gerente do Centro de Estudos de Objetos da Terra da NASA, em um comunicado de imprensa da NASA.
“Há muito tempo tem sido algo teórico que tais objetos existem – asteroides ou cometas se movendo entre as estrelas e, ocasionalmente, passando pelo nosso sistema solar – mas esta é a primeira dessas detecções. Até agora, tudo indica que este é provavelmente um objeto interestelar, novos dados podem ajudar a confirmá-lo”.
A NASA diz que os astrônomos estão apontando telescópios no chão e no espaço para objeto com o intuito de obter esses dados.
Por enquanto, o objeto está sendo chamado A/2017 U1. Os especialistas acham que tem menos de 400 metros de diâmetro e está passando pelo espaço a 25,5 quilômetros por segundo.
Foi descoberto em 19 de outubro pelo telescópio Pan-STARRS 1 da Universidade do Havaí em Haleakala, no Havaí.
Rob Weryk, um pesquisador pós-doutorado do Instituto de Astronomia da Universidade do Havaí, foi o primeiro a identificar o objeto e imediatamente percebeu que havia algo diferente sobre isso.
“Seu movimento não pode ser explicado usando uma órbita de asteroide ou cometas do sistema solar normal”, disse ele. “Este objeto veio de fora do nosso sistema solar”.
O que quer que seja, o objeto não é uma ameaça para a Terra.
Para onde vai? Os cientistas acham que o objeto está indo em direção à constelação de Pegasus e está a caminho do nosso sistema solar.
“Esta é a órbita mais extrema que já vi”, disse Davide Farnocchia, cientista do Centro de Estudos de Objetos da Terra. “Está indo extremamente rápido e em tal trajetória que podemos dizer com confiança que este objeto está a caminho do sistema solar e não está voltando”.
In 1970, President Nixon had the White House guards’ uniform redesigned. Nixon had been impressed by palace guard uniforms that other countries had, and Nixon wanted the White House guards to be just as fancy. So he dressed up the Secret Service, including giving them braiding on the shoulders and a jaunty hat on top.
The new look was widely criticized, among other things for being “like a palace guard of toy soldiers.” Nixon gave in, and the uniforms were eventually sold to the Meriden-Cleghorn High School Marching Band in Iowa.
The ivory-billed woodpecker is one of the most elusive animals. It was believed to be extinct since the 1930s due to the loss of its natural habitat, but in 2004 and 2005 it was sighted in Arkansas and Florida. Attempts to confirm these sightings have not been successful.
A photograph of three women and a girl by Bitolj Monastery at Smilevo, near Bitola. The photographer’s notes say they are in “urban costume.” It was taken in May, 1913, just before World War I.
Although the word “Macedoine” or “Macedonia” is written at the top, when the photograph was taken the area was part of Serbia. Today, Smilevo is again in Macedonia.
An anti-Semitic nobleman once allegedly told Moses Montefiore, a British financier and banker who was Jewish, that the nobleman had recently visited Japan, where “they have neither pigs nor Jews.”
Montefiore replied “in that case, you and I should go there, so it will have a sample of each.”
The first movie to include a swear word was a silent movie! The Big Parade, which came out in 1925, had “damn” appear on a dialogue card.
Orangutans are named not for the color, orange. Their name comes from the Indonesian and Malay words “orang” meaning “person” and “hutan” meaning “forest.” Orangutans are forest people! The term was originally used for human beings who lived in the forest, but was given to the ape by a Dutch physician and naturalist who put it in his book in 1631.
John Kennedy was known as a serial cheater. While John F. Kennedy was still a senator, Jacqueline paid a surprise visit to his office and caught him receiving oral sex at his desk from a temp. She had to be offered over $1 million by John’s father to stay in the marriage, because Jacqueline leaving would ruin John’s presidential hopes.
After one particularly ugly fight between Jacqueline and John Kennedy over his infidelities, he had her briefly sent to a psychiatric clinic in Massachusetts. There she received electroshock therapy, which she called “the nightmare ride of my life,” according to one recent biography.
Just to repeat: for being angry that her husband was cheating on her, the future president of the United States had Jacqueline declared mentally unfit and given electric shocks. And having his wife incarcerated for mental instability hurt John’s political career not at all, whereas Jacqueline divorcing him would have potentially ended his political career.
Brilliant optical illusion painting by Oleg Shuplyak featuring two portraits of Van Gogh.
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Cientistas da NASA revelaram a existência de uma cauda magnética invisível atrás do Planeta Vermelho.
Descoberto pela nave Mars Atmosphere e Volatile Evolution Mission (MAVEN), o fenômeno seria causado pelos efeitos dos ventos solares e poderia ajudar a fornecer mais luz sobre como a atmosfera marciana escapou para o espaço.
“Nós descobrimos que a cauda magnética de Marte, ou magnetotail, é única no Sistema Solar”, disse a cientista da NASA, Gina DiBraccio.
“Não é como a cauda magnética encontrado em Venus, um planeta sem campo magnético próprio, nem é como o da Terra, que é cercada por seu próprio campo magnético gerado internamente”.
“Em vez disso, é um híbrido entre os dois”.
Quando os ventos solares, que carregam seus próprios campos magnéticos, atingem uma região de Marte com um campo magnético orientado na direção oposta, causa um efeito conhecido como reconexão magnética.
“Nosso modelo previu que a reconexão magnética fará com que o magnetotail marciano gire 45 graus do que se espera com base na direção do campo magnético carregado pelo vento solar”, disse DiBraccio.
“Quando comparamos essas previsões com os dados de MAVEN, sobre as direções dos campos magnéticos do vento marciano e solar, eles estavam em um consenso muito bom”.
Meet Rosa Richeter, a noted English aerialist and protege of Canadian tightrope walker the Great Farini. She made her big debut in 1877 as Zazel, the world’s first “human cannonball.” She was just fourteen. Popped out of a metal cylinder loaded with springs, flying sixty feet in the air, passing over the heads of spectators, Zazel would land safely and to great applause in a large net. The act made her very, very famous. At her height she performed for 20,000 people crowds every night.
She was so popular that other performers stole her act, the spring-loaded cannon idea, and even her stage name, Zazel! Rosa went back to walking the tightrope. Ironically, it was a fall from a tightrope that ended her career by breaking her back, at the age of just 29.
