TimeGhost
Published on 27 Nov 2017On October 25, 1962 while the US Navy are looking for something to do in the Caribbean, both USSR Chairman Khrushchev and US President Kennedy are questioning the success of their actions. Meanwhile US Ambassador to the UN Adlai Stevenson is about to face off with USSR Ambassador to the UN, Valerian Zorin in a historic showdown at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
January 25, 2018
Day 10 Cuban Missile Crisis – Showdown at the U.N. Corral
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Looking deeper than just England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
H/T to @GarethSoye for posting this one (originally from Brilliant Maps):
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The Canals of Mars – Eye of the Beholder – Extra Sci Fi – #10
Extra Credits
Published on 23 Jan 2018The Canals of Mars ignited so many imaginations, especially in science fiction stories, but they never really existed. What made us believe in them? And why did so many writers keep dreaming about them even after the theory had been disproved?
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The wisdom of Zim Tzu, post-NFC Championship edition
Minnesota Vikings head coach Mike Zimmer doesn’t like talking to the press even on a good day, and the day after his team lost the NFC title game is pretty much the definition of not-a-good-day. Despite that, league rules require head coaches to speak to the media, and coach Zimmer complies. Grimly, impatiently, unhappily. Among the reporting on the press conference, one always stands head-and-shoulders above the rest because while other outlets merely report on the actual words said, The Daily Norseman‘s Ted Glover deploys his unique skills to unveil the real intent behind Zim Tzu’s words.
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What Can You Do With a Miter Saw? Should You Get One? | WOODWORKING BASICS
Steve Ramsey – Woodworking for Mere Mortals
Published on 28 Jul 2017Learn what you need to know to get started using a miter saw for woodworking.
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QotD: The New Deal
Of such sorts are the wizards who now run the country. Here is the perfect pattern of a professional world-saver. His whole life has been devoted to the art and science of spending other people’s money. He has saved millions of the down-trodden from starvation, pestilence, cannibalism, and worse – always at someone else’s expense, and usually at the taxpayer’s. He has been going at it over and over again at Washington. And now, with $4,800,000,000 of your money and mine in his hands, he is preparing to save fresh multitudes, that they may be fat and optimistic on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November, 1936, and so mark their ballots in the right box.
H.L Mencken, “The New Deal”, Baltimore Sun, 1935-05-27.
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