Posts Tagged ‘lasted’

Trump tried to ignore Haley. He barely lasted a day.

For a full 24 hours on Saturday, Donald Trump did not mention Nikki Haley by name, ignoring her both in a freewheeling address to the Conservative Political Action Conference and after he won the primary in South Carolina. His campaign said they were turning the page, focusing squarely on the general election. One aide, when […]

Triassic Period was a few thousand years old, not 200 million, and lasted a couple of days

The red bed is boiled up body parts.  The Great Flood was a super heated flood which boiled the flesh off creatures turning the ground to red mud.  Above the red bed are the grey clays.  Above those are the parts of the creatures which did not boil off, 50 times more full of silicon […]

The Anglo-Zanzibar War: The Shortest War in History Lasted Just 38 Minutes!

The shortest war in recorded history began at 9 am on August 27, 1896. It was over in less than three-quarters of an hour, with a shocking toll of 501 killed or wounded soldiers.  Read more Section:  News Weird Facts Read Later 

The US forced sterilization policies that lasted into the 21st century

THE CONVERSATION via AP — In August 1964, the North Carolina Eugenics Board met to decide if a 20-year-old Black woman should be sterilized. Because her name was redacted from the records, we call her Bertha. She was a single mother with one child who lived at the segregated O’Berry Center for African American adults […]

Anglo-Saxon Paganism lasted to at least 1016 AD

Anglo-Saxon Paganism lasted to at least 1016 AD ARTIFACTS OF ANGLO-SAXON PRE-CHRISTIANS Click for Source Article on Pre-Christian Anglo-Saxon Beliefs 100 AD: Roman writer Tacitus is quite clear that the Germanic tribes in Continental Europe used human sacrifice in the 1st century AD to Woden or Odin or Mercury, the deity whom they chiefly worship. […]

Why has the Israeli occupation lasted so long? It’s good for business.

In the last days the Obama administration offered a futile, last-minute gesture of rebuke to Israel’s undiminished drive to build more settlements in the Occupied Territories (particularly East Jerusalem). It abstained on a UN Security Council vote condemning Israel’s illegal, defiant and hostile commitment to continue this expansion.(1) This makes the question Jeff Halper poses […]

Why has the Occupation lasted this long?

Below is an excerpt from Gershon Shafir’s new book, A Half Century of Occupation: Israel, Palestine, and the World’s Most Intractable Conflict (UC Press). In it, Shafir explores the strategies, policies, and historical continuities that devised and promoted Israel’s colonization of Palestinian territory.  I Israel did not invent colonization in the wake of the 1967 War. When […]

A look at Iranian newspaper front pages on May 28

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Saturday and picked headlines from 20 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Newspapers on Saturday focused their attention on the opening of Iran’s new parliament, where the MPs are going to elect the […]

A Warning From Mrs Alf Garnett In 1972

In the video clip below, the long suffering wife of Alf Garnett reveals some uncanny truths. Else Garnet played by Dandy Nichols in the British sitcom ’till death us do part’ is seen here chatting with her on screen daughter. Seems Alf’s wife was not such a ‘silly old moo’ ( as he used to […]

Chicago Teen Laquan McDonald Shot 16 Times By Police

Chicago Police have released a Dashcam video footage of the killing of Laquan McDonald, a Chicago teenager who was gunned down in a hail of police bullets for carrying a three inch knife. 37-year old Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke has been charged with murder. The authorities released the long awaited video after an […]

Powerful 7.5 quake jolts Peru-Brazil border

The quake was extremely deep, some 600 kilometers below ground level. Besides Peru and Brazil, shaking has also been felt in neighboring Bolivia. The epicenter of the quake was located in an unpopulated area of the Amazon Basin, 175 kilometers from the closest Peruvian town of Iberia, and some 250 km from the Brazil’s Brasileia and […]

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