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Self-proclaimed emperor Macrinus banished Julia Maesa to her home in Syria, where she and her daughter Julia Soaemias began planning the restoration of Rome’s Severan Dynasty (218). Also, Count Baldwin IX of Flanders was crowned Baldwin I of Constantinople, the first emperor of the Crusade-era Latin Empire (1204), citizens of Florence drove out the House of Medici for the second time and reestablished their republic (1527), Thomas More resigned his post Lord Chancellor to Henry VIII (1532), 15-year-old Louis-Auguste, the future Louis XVI, married 14-year-old Marie Antoinette (1770), the Treaty of Bucharest ended the Russo-Turkish War and added Bessarabia to the Russian Empire (1812), the authoritarian absolutists of Dom Miguel I were defeated by the progressive constitutionalists of Dom Pedro at Asseiceira, the decisive engagement of Portugal’s Liberal Wars (1834), 1000 pioneers set out from Elm Grove, Missouri in the first major wagon train on the Oregon Trail (1843), Congress replaced the half-dime coin with the nickel (1866), the Senate acquitted President Andrew Johnson on impeachment charges (1868), 139 people died as the Williamsburg Reservoir dam burst and the Mill River flooded four towns in Massachusetts (1874), the French Parliament passed a vote of no confidence against the prime minister appointed by Royalist President Patrice MacMahon, who days earlier had dismissed the Parliament’s chosen prime minister (1877), Nikola Tesla delivered a lecture on the generation of alternating current (1888), the International Electrotechnical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, featuring the world’s first long-distance transmission of three-phase electrical current (1891), Brooklyn Field Club defeated Brooklyn Celtic 2-1 to win the first National Challenge Cup, now soccer’s Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup (1914), Congress passed the short-lived Sedition Act that made criticizing the government in wartime a felony (1918), Benedict XV canonized Joan of Arc (1920), the first Academy Awards were given (1929), El Al Israel airline began the first regular transatlantic flights between New York City and London (1951), U.S. journalist William Oatis was released after 22 months of a 10-year sentence for espionage in Czechoslovakia (1953), Theodore Maiman operated the first optical laser at Malibu’s Hughes Research Laboratories (1960), Park Chung-hee seized power in the coup d’état that ended South Korea’s Second Republic (1961), China’s Communist Party issued the declaration that began the Cultural Revolution (1966), the Soviet Venera 5 probe landed on Venus (1969), Josip Tito was elected President for Life in Yugoslavia (1974), Sikkim became India’s 22nd state, on the same day Junko Tabei became the first woman to summit Mount Everest (1975), UNESCO adopted the Seville Statement on Violence (1986), Elizabeth II addressed a joint session of Congress, the first British monarch to do so (1991), 45 people were killed as 12 suicide bombers struck Casablanca, Morocco (2003), Kuwait’s National Assembly voted to permit women’s suffrage (2005), Nicolas Sarkozy was inaugurated as President of France (2007), STS-134 launched at Kennedy Space Center, the last flight of the Space Shuttle Endeavor and the penultimate flight of the 30-year shuttle program (2011), and 12 people were killed when two bombs exploded in the Gikomba market area of Nairobi, Kenya (2014). And 2 people died when a passenter train struck a tractor-trailer that was stuck on a crossing in Ibbenbüren, Germany (2015).
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Yesterday on Campus
Things We Did This Week – Share your news of political activism!
Mixed Nuts – Brexit, the God-King, and Robert Mercer
Midday Matinee – Linda Lee with Best Customer Service
Campus Question – Should our military trust orders from a Commander-in-Chief who doesn’t bother to distinguish face from fiction?
Today on Campus
Mixed Nuts – God-King vs. Intelligence 3: “I Get Great Intel!”
Tuesday’s Tale – Ancient Order of Misanthropes
Campus Question at 6pm ET
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Photo Credit: RavenWhimsy (Tumblr)
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Good morning!
Good morning, BPI! It’s currently a mostly clear 41 degrees here, and we’re expecting a nice day for a change. The next several days are predicted to be nice, so I think we’ll be able to catch up a lot. We’re behind because of the weather, not to mention a staff that is lacking ambition. (sigh) Boots in rear ends are on the horizon today. Other than that, things are making progress in getting ready for the field. I’m mostly caught up on the paperwork, and we’re still ironing out various IT issues, most of the due to the new “enhanced security” measures that seem to be more “how can we make this inconvenient” than enhancing security. The biggest one is our e-mail. Once we go “off network,” (which we just did), we’re issued an RSA token, and have to set up a pin. In order to get our e-mail, we have to put in the PIN number and the number on the token – which changes every 60 seconds. Our payroll moved late last month off of our system over to a new system, which means a separate link, separate log in. It’s annoying and inconvenient to me, and an absolute nightmare to those of our staff who aren’t very computer literate.
I was gonna offer to help, once I get my IT business up and running…
I figure as soon as I learn to cut and paste…
Lol
The recent cyber attack is scary as heck. RSA tokens, PIN #s — what next. Pretty soon it’ll take a half hour to log in.
I’m just guessing that if getting into your system is such a pain, hackers may take one quick look and skip you.
Good Morning. We had a big thunderstorm over night and maybe more today.
I planted 3 containers that fit over the deck railing yesterday. We have the start of a nice little herb garden. I got some plants as well as some seeds. I bought the stuff at HomeDepot. They had one whole side of a plant isle filled with peppers. In the old days, there were green and maybe red. Now there’s all kinds of hot, hotter and hottest peppers.
My granddaughter has a double ear infection. It explains a lot including her fever of the last couple of days. She is also teething so her head is kind of a mess. Considering all that, she’s awfully pleasant. She just wants to be held and I am happy to oblige.
Stay cool and hug the ones you love.
That’s the awful truth about when they’re sick, isn’t it?
They want to be held… Guess what? We are, as you say, “happy to oblige.” 🙂
I hope she’s feeling better soon!
Thank you
Hope your granddtr is better to Linda. She’s teething! I’m so jealous. Hot Chili Peppers!
I am jealous too. You’d think that with our longer life spans, we would have evolved to growing a third set of teeth. I can just see a new mid-life crisis of missing front teeth. Giggles
I hope ypur granddaughter recovers quickly. Ear infections are no fun. Glad you have the time to hold her.
I hope Maddie recovers soon. Ear infections are the pits for babies. I am so glad you are there to hold her.
I am on my iPad and can’t link. CNN has a photo of the D.C. Trump hotel. Protected above the door, “Pay Trump Bribes Here” with an arrow pointing to the door. Great statement!
Cool! Oh yeah, the emoluments clause. That’s so January 2017.
https://twitter.com/bellvisuals/status/864388423808843776
Wish me luck…Speaking at a health care rally today, AKA protest at our Congressman’s office. I’m doing a rift on the damage AHCA can do to our safety net hospitals — talk about what you know, right.
OK, another log in the fire…how much longer will the Republicans tut tut about Trump and do – nothing.
You’ll do splendidly, Mike. Wishing you all the luck you asked for.
Good luck. You’ll do great.
Good morning!
Sunny and 71 already/still. Gonna be hot today again, yesterday we hit 90! I took the garden irrigation pump and motor to town yesterday early, so as to see what was what, but nobody in the shop… I left the thing and drove home, cultivated and watered in the garden. Saw a message right before lunch that the motor was un-repairable, so went and got it. Shop guy said new ones run around $300. Headed home again. Saw a STOP sign down where one of our township roads meets a State highway, reported to Commissioner, or tried to, but he was out planting beans. Took matters into my own hands, went out in the afternoon, and re-set the sign. Went to work on changing the irrigation pump to a new mounting board and a different motor. Old motor was 1/2 HP the used one (free) I had on the shelf is 1/3 HP salvaged out of our old furnace. Same RPM though…
Road Commissioner came by about 6, we drank 2 very cold Budweisers apiece, and solved many world and local problems. He thanked me for fixing the sign, but said it was a State sign, not ours. Then he literally gave me a pat on the back and said, “Thanks. You could have saved a life!” 🙂
Another hot day in store. I should get going early, I reckon, we’ll see if that really happens… I am anxious to get going on the pump job… Hoping all are well!
Best, G
Good that you put the stop sign back up! Good that your spare parts shelf had a usable motor.
Good morning! Huggs for those so inclined.
Bright sunny day at 60 degrees. High 81 degrees low tomorrow 61 degrees. High tomorrow 91 degrees.
Trump tweet just cancelled intelligence sharing agreements with ours allies. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-washington-post-report_us_591a393be4b05dd15f0aa0e6?b8&ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009&ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
No additional words required. Hugggs and good morning, everyone!
https://twitter.com/sullivanamy/status/864295900629409792
Mind boggling. What a nightmare.
What a disaster! It’s only going to get worse.