Horsepower: James Watt and the Transition from Horse to Steam How much power is there in a horsepower, where does the term come from, and how did it become the most common way of talking about the power of a car engine? In fact the history of horsepower begins in the 18th century, and with …
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Jan 14 2021
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Sam Bee returned last night and had a lot to say. v After four years of holding it all in, Sam is finally free to torch all of her sick Trump burns. It’s a Little Too Late For Republicans To Denounce Trump Pt. 1 After a violent far-right insurrection of the nation’s Capitol, many former …
Jan 13 2021
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The volcano Kīlauea in Hawaii on the Big Island (Hawaii) is one of the world’s most active volcanoes. It erupted nearly continuously from 1983 to 2018. Then on December 20, 2020, a new eruption broke out in Halemaʻumaʻu, with the lava boiling off a water lake that had been growing for more than a year …
Jan 12 2021
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Ed Note: I have been Neuschwanstein Castle twice, once in the 60’s when i was living in Europe and the second time with my daughter in the early 80’s. It was like walking into a fairy tale. TMC Neuschwanstein Castle’s secrets Neuschwanstein Castle is said to have inspired Walt Disney. This is the untold story …
Jan 11 2021
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Stop Saying “This Isn’t Who We Are”: Week In Review | The Amber Ruffin Show Like most Americans, Amber Ruffin was glued to the news this week watching that insane series of events unfold. A mob of Trump-supporting terrorists stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, in an effort to overturn a fair and legal election …
Jan 10 2021
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And I said, at one point, that this was a historical memo, that it was — it was not based on new threat information. And I said, “No one could have imagined them taking a plane, slamming it into the Pentagon” — I’m paraphrasing now — “into the World Trade Center, using planes as a …
Jan 08 2021
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Angry man Kieth Olbermann sums up the last 2 days. THIS WAS DONALD TRUMP’S 9/11 ATTACK ON AMERICA. You and I have known something like this was coming. We have tried to tell the politicians enabling it, ignoring it, exploiting it, that they were playing with fire. Now they’ve all been burned. It goes without …
Jan 07 2021
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Robertson, Phillips, and the History of the Screwdriver Canadian P.L. Robertson, though he was not the first person to patent the idea of socket-head screws, was the first to successfully commercialize them, starting in 1908. Socket screws rapidly grew in popularity, and are still used for their resistance to wear and tear, compatibility with hex …
Jan 05 2021
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Clearly all this dog wanted to do was play Dog Interrupts Soccer Match in Bolivia Paws the Game: A dog ran onto a soccer field during a match in Bolivia. The game had to stop for a few minutes before a player was able to pick up the dog and carry it off the field …
Jan 04 2021
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There are Twelve Days of Christmas. Little Christmas is still 2 days away, January 6. So keeping with the spirit, here is the Forgotten History of the Christmas Tree from the History Guy. The history of the Christmas tree is rather interesting, being both surprisingly ancient, and surprisingly new, with a host of different traditions, …