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Thanksgiving in space
Posted Nov 24, 2017
Yum just had a sumptuous feast at the Hogetts today. Turkey, green bean caserole, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes and pumpkin pie. There have always been attempts to get turkey as part of astronauts diets, here is the history of space turkey courtesy from the archives of 'Time'.
http://time.com/4578327/thanksgiving-space-turkeys/?utm_source=time.com&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=history&utm_content=2017112400am&xid=newsletter-history
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An intriguing website for h2g2ers.
Posted Feb 25, 2016
It's interesting and ecclectic and quirky. It is called Atlas Obscura.
Here is today's issue:
http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=399fc0402f1b154b67965632e&id=5762fe259d&e=dd0ff72548
The Psychiatry and Cats article is really 
. A Victorian artist named Louis Wain was a very popular illustrator of the time. Later in his life he seemed to suffer from some sort of mental illness and his shrink collected his strange pictures of cats and used them to 'teach' students about the stages of mental illness.
This fits right in with all the discussions of cats and ferns wearing galoshes going on currently in various threads.
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Let us hear it for how great Anglo-Saxon researchers were!
Posted Apr 1, 2015
According to an item in the BBC, an ancient remedy for eye infections has been shown to effectively kill methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, otherwise known as MRSA. This is the stuff that caused a lot of problems in hospitals do to the misuse by the public of too many antibiotics when they are NOT useful.
The remedy has garlic with leek or onion ground up with cow bile and wine.It comes from an 1000 year old manuscript called 'Bald's Leechbook' from the British Library.
Evidently the researchers who put this together had used sound scientific methods for establishing their efficacy. Here is the link:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-32117815
Let's hear it for the scholars and librarians who kept this treasure trove safe all these years!
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Rest in Peace - Dr. Maya Angelou
Posted May 30, 2014
I would like to let people know about a great citizen of the United States of America, who died this week at the age of 86 in North Carolina . Ms Maya Angelou was an artist,a poet,a theatre person,a Civil Rights activist,autodidact and teacher. She grew to be six feet tall, and was a powerful speaker with a sense of humour that never quit.
She was courageous and she motivated and influenced many people who heard her.
Here are 9 of her poems you can read on the internet:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/28/maya-angelou-poems_n_5403816.html
http://www.openculture.com/2014/05/maya-angelou-reads-still-i-rise-and-on-the-pulse-of-the-morning.html
You can click on her thoughts about the Great Depression here just choose her name
from the list:
http://www.openculture.com/2014/01/watch-and-search-newly-digitized-conversations-with-148-people-who-witnessed-the-great-depression.html
Also here are some obituraries:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HTcES-WDv0
http://www.openculture.com/2014/05/maya-angelou-reads-still-i-rise-and-on-the-pulse-of-the-morning.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/maya-angelou-writer-and-poet-dies-at-age-86/2014/05/28/2948ef5e-c5da-11df-94e1-c5afa35a9e59_story.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/29/arts/maya-angelou-lyrical-witness-of-the-jim-crow-south-dies-at-86.html?_r=0
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Latest reply: May 30, 2014
Inventions helped along by WW I.
Posted Apr 14, 2014
I don't know how World War One is taught in the UK or all the other countries that our researchers are located in, but in the US it definitely gets covered very briefly and is really confusing. I think kids sort of have a feeling that war is STUPID anyway but the weird politics of defense treaties and all that and no direct cause of this action MAKES NO SENSE at all. How governments can be dumb enough to let good portions of their male citizens engage in this mass slaughter? For glory? For prestige? I don't think ANY of the countries participating in this activity WON anything. It was a thoroughly horrible waste of energy and human lives.
Be that as it may in the US we had very little time to take all this in. Teachers had spent way too long in dwelling how we won our freedom from King George and what terrific documents like the 'Declaration of Independence' and the 'Constitution of the United States' were. And then there was the Civil War and there was very little time left for recent events of the twentieth century. Our school year was too short for all of that even though it might have helped the baby-boomers understand a bit more of what our parents and grandparents had gone through.
Evidently the United Kingdom is going to be talking about the Great War this year as it has been 100 years since it ended. In the BBC news magazine there is an article describing 10 inventions that came of the First World War that are still making a difference to our life now. I think that most of these would make interesting Guide Entries. Here is the BBC link:
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26935867
Let me know what sort of takes you have on World War One or how it was taught to you in school. The devastation it worked in the UK and Europe probably made it feature more highly in history as it is taught there since America was rather made a late contribution to it. However the stupidity of the 'powers' involved in it tend to make it rather embarrassing to governments---but they can't deny that it occurred.
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