Old Sailors' Almanac

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY

Week 09, 2021

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U.S.-led attack on Afghanistan on March 01, 2002

U.S.-led attack on Afghanistan on March 01, 2002

U.S.-led attack on Afghanistan: On October 7, 2001, a U.S.-led coalition begins attacks on Taliban-controlled Afghanistan with an intense bombing campaign by American and British forces. Logistical support was provided by other nations including France, Germany, Australia and Canada and, later, troops were provided by the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance rebels. The invasion of Afghanistan was the opening salvo in the United States “war on terrorism” and a response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D.C.

Dubbed “Operation Enduring Freedom” in U.S. military parlance, the invasion of Afghanistan was intended to target terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida organization, which was based in the country, as well as the extreme fundamentalist Taliban government that had ruled most of the country since 1996 and supported and protected al-Qaida. The Taliban, which had imposed its extremist version of Islam on the entire country, also perpetrated countless human rights abuses against its people, especially women, girls and ethnic Hazaras. During their rule, large numbers of Afghans lived in utter poverty, and as many as 4 million Afghans are thought to have suffered from starvation.

In the weeks prior to the invasion, both the United States and the U.N. Security Council had demanded that the Taliban turn over Osama bin Laden for prosecution. After deeming the Taliban’s counteroffers unsatisfactory - among them to try bin Laden in an Islamic court - the invasion began with an aerial bombardment of Taliban and al-Qaida installations in Kabul, Kandahar, Jalalabad, Konduz and Mazar-e-Sharif. Other coalition planes flew in airdrops of humanitarian supplies for Afghan civilians. The Taliban called the actions “an attack on Islam.” In a taped statement released to the Arabic al-Jazeera television network, Osama bin Laden called for a war against the entire non-Muslim world.

U.S.-led attack on Afghanistan on March 01, 2002

After the air campaign softened Taliban defenses, the coalition began a ground invasion, with Northern Alliance forces providing most of the troops and the U.S. and other nations giving air and ground support. On November 12, a little over a month after the military action began, Taliban officials and their forces retreated from the capital of Kabul. By early December, Kandahar, the last Taliban stronghold, had fallen and Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar went into hiding rather than surrender. Al-Qaida fighters continued to hide out in Afghanistan’s mountainous Tora Bora region, where they were engaged by anti-Taliban Afghan forces, backed by U.S. Special Forces troops. Al-Qaida soon initiated a truce, which is now believed to have been a ploy to allow Osama bin Laden and other key al-Qaida members time to escape into neighboring Pakistan. By mid-December, the bunker and cave complex used by al-Qaida at Tora Bora had been captured, but there was no sign of bin Laden.

After Tora Bora, a grand council of Afghan tribal leaders and former exiles was convened under the leadership of Hamid Karzai, who first served as interim leader before becoming the first democratically elected president of Afghanistan on December 7, 2004. Even as Afghanistan began to take the first steps toward democracy, however, with more than 10,000 U.S. troops in country, al-Qaida and Taliban forces began to regroup in the mountainous border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan. They continue to engage U.S. and Afghan troops in guerilla-style warfare and have also been responsible for the deaths of elected government officials and aid workers and the kidnapping of foreigners. Hundreds of American and coalition soldiers and thousands of Afghans have been killed and wounded in the fighting.

History Channel / Wikipedia / Encyclopedia Britannica / New World Encyclopedia.org / ARMY.mil / Airforce Magzine / NAVY.mil / Rand.org / Media.Defense.gov / CFE.org / Global Security.org / U.S.-led attack on Afghanistan on March 01, 2002 (YouTube) video

Bomb explodes in Capitol building on March 01, 1971

Bomb explodes in Capitol building on March 01, 1971

Bomb explodes in Capitol building: On this day, a bomb explodes in the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., causing an estimated $300,000 in damage but hurting no one. A group calling itself the Weather Underground claimed credit for the bombing, which was done in protest of the ongoing U.S.-supported Laos invasion.

The so-called Weathermen were a radical faction of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS); the Weathermen advocated violent means to transform American society. The philosophical foundations of the Weathermen were Marxist in nature; they believed that militant struggle was the key to striking out against the state to build a revolutionary consciousness among the young, particularly the white working class. Their primary tools to achieving these ends were arson and bombing.

Bomb explodes in Capitol building on March 01, 1971

The bomb, planted by members of the Weather Underground, an anti-war group that claimed responsibility for a series of bomb attacks in the early 1970s. These days, the group's most famous member is Bill Ayers, a retired college professor whose tenuous connection to then-candidate Barack Obama became an issue in the 2008 presidential campaign. Ayers was never charged in relation to any of the bombings.

Among the other targets of Weathermen bombings were the Long Island Court House, the New York Police Department headquarters, the Pentagon, and the State Department. No one was killed in these bombings, because the bombers always called in an advanced warning. However, three members of the Weather Underground died on March 6, 1970, when the house in which they were constructing the bombs exploded.

History Channel / Wikipedia / FBI.gov / CIA.gov / ATF.gov / Boundary Stones.org / Washington Post / Library Of Congress.gov / Bomb explodes in Capitol building on March 01, 1971 (YouTube) video


“This Day in History”

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• 1562 French Wars of Religion: Sixty-three Huguenots Massacre of Wassy, France: Marking the start of the French Wars of Religion.

• 1565 Rio de Janeiro is founded.

• 1692 Salem Witch Trials: Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials.

• 1713 Tuscarora War: The siege and destruction of Fort Neoheroka effectively opening up the colony's interior to European colonization.

• 1781 Articles of Confederation goes into effect in the United States.

• 1790 The first United States census is authorized.

• 1793 French Revolutionary War: Flanders Campaign Battle of Aldenhoven

• 1805 Justice Samuel Chase is acquitted at the end of his impeachment trial by the United States Senate.

• 1836 Convention of 1836: A convention of delegates from 57 Texas communities convenes in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, to deliberate independence from Mexico.

• 1872 Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park.

• 1873 E. Remington and Sons Begin production of the first practical typewriter.

• 1893 Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.

• 1896 Henri Becquerel discovers radioactive decay.

• 1919 March 1st Movement begins in Korea under Japanese rule.

• 1932 Charles Lindbergh's son is kidnapped.

• 1936 Hoover Dam is completed.

• 1942 World War II: Japanese forces land on Java, the main island of the Dutch East Indies, at Merak and Banten Bay (Banten), Eretan Wetan (Indramayu) and Kragan (Rembang).

• 1946 Bank of England is nationalised.

• 1947 International Monetary Fund Begins financial operations.

• 1950 Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data.

• 1954 Nuclear weapons testing: Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.

• 2003 International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague

Wikipedia.org


Understanding Military Terminology: At the Marine Corps Museum: Norman Rockwell's “The War Hero”

Understanding Military Terminology

Presail

(DOD) The time prior to a ship getting under way used to prepare for at-sea events.

Joint Publications (JP 3-04) Joint Shipboard Helicopter and Tiltrotor Aircraft Operations

Presidential Reserve Call-up

Provision of a public law (Title 10, United States Code, Section 12304) that provides the President a means to activate, without a declaration of national emergency, not more than 200,000 members of the Selected Reserve and the Individual Ready Reserve (of whom not more than 30,000 may be members of the Individual Ready Reserve), for not more than 365 days to meet the requirements of any operational mission, other than for disaster relief or to suppress insurrection.

Also called PRC.

See also Individual Ready Reserve; Mobilization; Selected Reserve.

Joint Publications (JP 4-05) Joint Mobilization Planning.

Joint Publication - Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms


110707-N-GT324-029 CORONADO, Calif. (July 7, 2011) Vice Adm. Robert S. Harward, commander of Combined Joint Task Force (CTF) 435, walks through sideboys during the SEAL Team 5 change of command ceremony. Harward was the guest speaker at the event. SEAL Team 5 is a special operations component responsible for the training and deployment of personnel in support of U.S. and allied forces missions throughout the Asian and Pacific theaters of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Marc Rockwell-Pate/Released)

The Old Salt’s Corner

Going Ashore

During your period of training, it is possible that the ship will visit a port (foreign or domestic). Tradition requires that you obtain permission from the OOD to leave the ship (in the same fashion that you obtained permission to board originally). When requesting permission to leave, present your ID card and have a copy of your orders with you. Before making your way to the Quarterdeck, obtain permission to leave from your supervisor. Formal permission to leave the ship is requested in the following manner:

Salute the OOD and say, “I request permission to go ashore, sir.” (In the same manner as boarding, always address the OOD as “sir”, as he or she represents the authority of the ship’s commanding officer.). The OOD will reply, “Very well”, and return the salute. If the ship is tied up in port, proceed down the gangplank. Remember to pause halfway and face to salute the national ensign aft during daylight hours. If at anchorage, make your way to the launch boarding area. When returning to the ship, follow the same boarding procedure outlined earlier in this section.

When going ashore by launch, junior officers always board first and take the forward seats. Senior officers and VIPs take the rear seats of the launch. Disembarking the launch is done in the reverse order; namely, seniors leave first followed by juniors.

Order of Debarkation

Maritime tradition dictates an order of debarkation at the conclusion of each at-sea period that is never deviated from.

Debarkation at the end of cruise is in the following order:

● Bodies of any casualties.

● Wounded.

● Ship’s commanding officer and/or his personal aide

● Mail.

● All ship’s personnel who have permission to go ashore


“I’m Just Sayin’”

“I’m Just Sayin”

“There can be no good without evil.”

“The cat shuts its eyes when stealing cream.”

“Trouble never comes alone.”

“God keeps those safe who keep themselves safe..”

~ Russian proverb


“Thought for the Day”

“Thought for the Day”

“A crisis is an opportunity riding the dangerous wind.”

“A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood.”

“Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. .”

“A bird does not sing because it has an answer.

It sings because it has a song.”

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.

The second best time is today.”

~ Chinese proverb


“What I Have Learned”

“What I Learned”

“You should examine yourself daily.

If you find faults,

you should correct them.

When you find none,

you should look even harder.”

~ Anonymous


Second Hand News

Second Hand News: Articles from Week 09 - March 01, 2021 - March 07, 2021

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Trump: Supreme Court 'did not have the guts and the courage' to look into election concernsTrump urges Republicans with 'spines of steel' to oppose Democrats' agendaCPAC signals big 'election integrity' fight ahead of 2022 midterms

Revolving door: Top Biden aides cashed in advising major corporationsFormer Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urges Biden to boycott 2022 Winter Olympics if not moved from ChinaWhite House shifts thinking on Beijing Winter Olympics boycott as pressure mounts over Uyghur genocide

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Impeach Obama? Judicial Watch

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Who Was “Miranda” of the Miranda Warning? Mr. Answer Man Please Tell Us: Who Was “Miranda” of the Miranda Warning?

Even if you’ve never had your own brush with the law, you no doubt know the Miranda warning. Somehow, maybe through the mass quantity of Law & Order and CSI-type shows, those words have seeped into our brains:

“You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you. Do you understand the rights I have just read to you? With these rights in mind, do you wish to speak to me?”

Those words are the result of the Miranda v. Arizona Supreme Court trial of 1966.

Who Was “Miranda” of the Miranda Warning?

The roots of the Miranda decision go back to March 2, 1963, when an 18-year-old Phoenix woman told police that she had been abducted, driven to the desert and raped. Detectives questioning her story gave her a polygraph test, but the results were inconclusive. However, tracking the license plate number of a car that resembled that of her attacker’s brought police to Ernesto Miranda, who had a prior record as a peeping tom. Although the victim did not identify Miranda in a line-up, he was brought into police custody and interrogated. What happened next is disputed, but officers left the interrogation with a confession that Miranda later recanted, unaware that he didn’t have to say anything at all.

The confession was extremely brief and differed in certain respects from the victim’s account of the crime. However, Miranda’s appointed defense attorney (who was paid a grand total of $100) didn’t call any witnesses at the ensuing trial, and Miranda was convicted. While Miranda was in Arizona state prison, the American Civil Liberties Union took up his appeal, claiming that the confession was false and coerced.

Miranda later said he was forced into confessing because he was never made aware of his constitutional right to say nothing. His case wound up in front of the Supreme Court in 1966; they ruled that nothing Miranda "confessed" to could be used to try him because he was not properly educated on his rights. Almost immediately following the trial, the Miranda warning became a mandatory part of arrests.

And what became of Miranda? The case was retried without the confession in 1967, but it turned out the jury didn’t need one to convict. Miranda was sentenced to up to 20 years in prison but got out in 1972. For a while, he made a living signing Miranda cards (small cards with the required saying printed on them) and selling them for $1.50. He had been out of prison for less than four years when he was killed in a bar fight in Phoenix in 1976 at the age of 36.

AZ Central / Mental Floss / Wikipedia / Encyclopedia Britannica / United States Courts.gov / Constitution Center.org / Thirteen.org / Cornell Law School / Miranda Warning.org / Legal Zoom / History Channel / Who Was “Miranda” of the Miranda Warning? (YouTube) video


NAVSPEAK aka U.S. Navy Slang - U.S. Navy

NAVSPEAK aka U.S. Navy Slang

Sea and Anchor Detail: Every sailor has an assigned duty station to be manned when the ship is either pulling into or out of port. On submarines it's called the Maneuvering Watch. (Coast Guard: Special Sea Detail.)

Seabag: A large green canvas bag issued to the sailor during boot camp as part of his uniform issue, the nearest civilian equivalent would be a suit case or several pieces of luggage, the seabag is constructed to hold close to 150 lbs.

Seabag Inspection: Formal uniform/personal item inspection for an E-4 and below sailor upon check in to a new command. In reality, consists of an E-5 signing a piece of paper and giving the warning, “If you go up for mast, I will testify under oath that I inspected and saw every item.”

Seabag Locker: A room, usually on board ship, where extra uniforms, or item materials are placed until needed.

Wiktionary.org


Just for MARINES - The Few. The Proud.

Just for you MARINE

SDI: Senior Drill Instructor, the leader of a recruit platoon.

Seabag or Sea Bag: Duffel bag used to carry one's personal belongings. “Duffel bag” is an Army term not used by Marines.

Seabag Drag: Manually carrying personal items (often within seabags) to new or temporary living quarters.

Wikipedia.org


Naval Aviation Squadron Nicknames

Naval Aviation Squadron Nicknames

HSC-23 Helicopter Sea Combat (HSC) Squadron TWO THREE - nicknamed the “Wild Cards”

United States Navy Naval Air Station - Helicopter Sea Combat (HSC), Naval Air Station North Island - Naval Base Coronado / San Diego, California / Coronado, California / Squadron Lineage: HSC-23: October 1, 2006 - present.


Where Did That Saying Come From

Where Did That Saying Come From?

Where Did That Saying Come From? “Don't shut the stable door after the horse has bolted”

Don't shut the stable door after the horse has bolted:

Meaning: Don't waste time taking precautions when the damage has already been done.

History: The advice 'don't shut the stable door...' is one of the most long standing English proverbs.

A form of it is found in 1390 John Gower's enormously long Middle English poem Confessio Amantis. This was published in 1390 and it may be that the proverb was in use in everyday language for some time before that:

“For whan the grete Stiede Is stole, thanne he taketh hiede, And makth the stable dore fast.”

It appears again in John Heywood's 1546 collection A dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the prouerbes in the englishe tongue:

“To late this repentance shewd is.

Whan the stede is stolne, shut the stable durre.”

For a more modern English version of the same proverb we can look to Daniel Defoe's Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe, 1719:

“It was only shutting the Stable-door after the Steed was stolen.”

It's notable that many of the early citations use 'steed' rather than 'horse' or 'mare' which are more commonly used now. It's likely that is how the proverb was used in the spoken language for most of its life.

Other 'Don't...' proverbs:

Don't cast your pearls before swine

Don't change horses in midstream

Don't count your chickens before they are hatched

Don't get mad, get even

Don't cut off your nose to spite your face

Don't keep a dog and bark yourself

Don't let the cat out of the bag

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth

Don't put the cart before the horse

Don't shut the stable door after the horse has bolted

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater

Don't throw good money after bad

Don't try to teach your Grandma to suck eggs

Don't upset the apple-cart

Phrases.org.uk


Science & Technology

Science & Technology

Science & Technology

How NASA’s new rover will search for signs of ancient life on MarsEarthquakes trigger landslides. Can landslides also trigger earthquakes?‘Greenland drilling campaign aims for bedrock to trace ice sheet’s last disappearanceAncient DNA reveals a Bronze Age bias for male horsesAmid protests against racism, scientists move to strip offensive names from journals, prizes, and more Science AAAS

Toward lasers powerful enough to investigate a new kind of physicsEnhancing the performance of solar cells with 'graphene armor'Crystal structure discovered almost 200 years ago could hold key to solar cell revolutionScientists dissociate water apart efficiently with new catalystsHow old is your dog in human years? Scientists develop better method than 'multiply by 7' Phys.org / MedicalXpress / TechXplore


Bizarre News (we couldn’t make up stuff this good – real news story)

Bizarre News (we couldn’t make up stuff this good - real news story)

Transparent, reflective objects now within grasp of robots

Transparent, reflective objects now within grasp of robots

Source: Carnegie Mellon University

Summary: Kitchen robots are a popular vision of the future, but if a robot of today tries to grasp a kitchen staple such as a clear measuring cup or a shiny knife, it likely won't be able to. Transparent and reflective objects are the things of robot nightmares. Roboticists at Carnegie Mellon University, however, report success with a new technique they've developed for teaching robots to pick up these troublesome objects.

Roboticists at Carnegie Mellon University, however, report success with a new technique they've developed for teaching robots to pick up these troublesome objects. The technique doesn't require fancy sensors, exhaustive training or human guidance, but relies primarily on a color camera. The researchers will present this new system during this summer's International Conference on Robotics and Automation virtual conference.

David Held, an assistant professor in CMU's Robotics Institute, said depth cameras, which shine infrared light on an object to determine its shape, work well for identifying opaque objects. But infrared light passes right through clear objects and scatters off reflective surfaces. Thus, depth cameras can't calculate an accurate shape, resulting in largely flat or hole-riddled shapes for transparent and reflective objects.

But a color camera can see transparent and reflective objects as well as opaque ones. So CMU scientists developed a color camera system to recognize shapes based on color. A standard camera can't measure shapes like a depth camera, but the researchers nevertheless were able to train the new system to imitate the depth system and implicitly infer shape to grasp objects. They did so using depth camera images of opaque objects paired with color images of those same objects.

Transparent, reflective objects now within grasp of robots

Once trained, the color camera system was applied to transparent and shiny objects. Based on those images, along with whatever scant information a depth camera could provide, the system could grasp these challenging objects with a high degree of success.

“We do sometimes miss”, Held acknowledged, “but for the most part it did a pretty good job, much better than any previous system for grasping transparent or reflective objects.”

The system can't pick up transparent or reflective objects as efficiently as opaque objects, said Thomas Weng, a Ph.D. student in robotics. But it is far more successful than depth camera systems alone. And the multimodal transfer learning used to train the system was so effective that the color system proved almost as good as the depth camera system at picking up opaque objects.

“WOur system not only can pick up individual transparent and reflective objects, but it can also grasp such objects in cluttered piles”, he added.

Other attempts at robotic grasping of transparent objects have relied on training systems based on exhaustively repeated attempted grasps - on the order of 800,000 attempts - or on expensive human labeling of objects.

The CMU system uses a commercial RGB-D camera that's capable of both color images (RGB) and depth images (D). The system can use this single sensor to sort through recyclables or other collections of objects -- some opaque, some transparent, some reflective.

Robots Use Machine Learning to Grab Transparent Objects video

Science Daily (07/14/2020) video


Second Hand News

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Trump says the Supreme Court should be “Ashamed” for not having guts to overturn “Rigged” Election, hammers Biden, Big Tech, internal Republican enemies and Cancel CultureTrump accuses Biden of being in the pocket of Beijing due to his “very close, personal relationship with China:” “Most disastrous first month of any president”

“Get rid of them all!:” Trump urges Republicn Party to purge 17 members who voted to impeach him including Mitt Romney and Liz Cheney“Young girls and women are incensed:” Trump slams Equality bill that it's feared would allow transgender females to compete in women's sport Daily Mail

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SONG FACTS

“Let It Be Me” - The Everly Brothers 1959

“Let It Be Me” video - The Everly Brothers
Album: “The Everly Brothers - The Very Best Of The Everly Brothers”
Released 1959 video

Let It Be Mevideo is a reworking of a French song recorded in 1955 by Gilbert Bécaud called “Je T'Appartiensvideo.

The first English version of this song was released in 1957 by an actress named Jill Corey, who recorded it with Jimmy Carroll and his orchestra video. This version went to #57 in 1957, two years before The Everly Brothers version.

Don Everly heard an instrumental rendition on the 1959 album Chet Atkins In Hollywood and fell in love with the melody. When he found out there were lyrics, he brought the song to producer Archie Bleyer. Wesley Rose, owner of the publishing company Acuff-Rose that signed the Everly Brothers as songwriters and connected them with Bleyer's Cadence label, sparred with Bleyer over the tune but lost. Don recalled:

“I went to Archie and told him I wanted to do it with strings. Wesley just sat there pouting through the whole session like a kid.”

This was one of the first pop songs to use a string section - eight violins and a cello were used. It was also the first Everly Brothers song to use strings.

Just before this became a hit, The Everly Brothers left their original label, Cadence Records, and signed with Warner Brothers for a $100,000 bonus, which was huge at the time.

In America, six other versions of this song charted in the '60s:

Betty Everett & Jerry Butler video

Arthur Prysock video

Nino Tempo & April Stevens video

Glen Campbell & Bobbie Gentry video

Willie Nelson video returned the song to the charts in 1982 when he took it to #40.

Bob Dylan video recorded this on his 1970 album Self Portrait. We asked Ron Cornelius, who played guitar on the album, why Dylan recorded it. He replied:

“No one would be being truthful with you to tell you what was ever in Bob Dylan's mind. No Way.”

The Everly Brothers official site / Rock & Roll Hall of Fame / Billboard / All Music / Song Facts / The Everly Brothers

Image: The Very Best Of The Everly Brothers (album)” by The Everly Brothers


Trivia

Trivia

● What original animal mascot for Trix cereal was replaced by a rabbit in 1967?

Answer to Trivia

● What is the only state that grow pineapples?

Answer to Trivia

● On what holiday did Harry Houdini die in 1926?

Answer to Trivia

● Which was the first suspension bridge over the River Thames in London?

Answer to Trivia


Jeopardy

A Test for People Who Know Everything

From the Jeopardy Archives Category - “INVENTORS” ($200)

“Nicolas-Jacque Conté mixed graphite & clay to make this writing tool easily produceable for the masses.”

Answer to Jeopardy

From the Jeopardy Archives Category - “INVENTORS” ($400)

“This German was working in Manchester, England when he made a device to count alpha particles.”

Answer to Jeopardy

From the Jeopardy Archives Category - “INVENTORS” ($600)

“British sea captain John Ward made one of these in the 1850s by combining blocks of cork on a vest.”

Answer to Jeopardy

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“In 1907 James Spangler invented a portable vacuum cleaner - then sold the rights to this man.”

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“Alois Senefelder used grease to draw an image onto limestone, inventing this printing technique in the 1790s.”.”

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Joke of the Day

Joke of the Day

Joke of the Day

“A Matter Of Punctuation”

An English professor wrote the words:

“Woman without her man is nothing”

on the blackboard and directed his students to punctuate it correctly.

The men wrote:

“Woman, without her man, is nothing.”

The women wrote:

“Woman! Without her, man is nothing.”