The terms of my diet actual let me eat meat as long as I don't pay for it (leftovers are fine), so I could actually eat that steak... provided I could actually win the challenge and avoid paying for it. But as much as I love steak, I could not finish that in an hour. I am simply not big enough for it to fit.
The terms of my diet actual let me eat meat as long as I don't pay for it (leftovers are fine), so I could actually eat that steak... provided I could actually win the challenge and avoid paying for it. But as much as I love steak, I could not finish that in an hour. I am simply not big enough for it to fit.
They may make you eat all of the fat and gristle. If you can keep it down you've earned it!
I usually find most properly cooked meat fat pretty inoffensive, although I do tend to trim fat thicker than 1/4 in on steak, out of habit really. 1lb of pure meat I can manage, but much beyond that sounds like overkill. That said, I've never tried a 72 oz lump of beef, maybe it could happen. But 1 hour? Yikes.
Her name was Lepa Radic, she was just 17, A member of Yugoslav communist supporters. She was hanged on 8 February 1943 for taking arms against the Nazis. To the Nazi officer who offered her life save if she agreed to give the names of the members of her network she replied calmly: "My comrades will give their names when they are avenge of my death." 'LEST WE FORGET'. Rest In Eternal Peace and Tranquillity Ma'am.
Scientists Crack A 50-Year-Old Mystery About The Measles Vaccine
There is a square in New Zealand that has a statue of Riff-Raff from "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" dressed up as his alien self. It also has instructions for doing the Time Warp in front of a camera that broadcasts People doing the Time Warp in front of it on the Internet. (From Atlas Obscura)
It's located at 218 Victoria Street, Hamilton, New Zealand.
A butt is a real measurement for a cask of wine. A "Buttload" is equal to 108 Imperial Gallons.
New Yorkers have their own version of the Groundhog. It's the Mister Softee truck. When you see that, you KNOW Spring has arrived.
Remembering Boston's Deadly Molasses Flood, 100 Years Later https://www.wbur.org/news/2019/01/15/boston-molasses-flood-100-years-later?fbclid=IwAR2wpnuBrm-wKytq3Tnhd0Bs-wftgR_utmE5aHILdlPJ2gwFNso3m4q2Aqo
In January 1919, just after the end of the First World War, a tank holding 2.3 million gallons of molten molasses failed, letting a tsunami of molasses over across the docks and streets. In the chaos, 21 people died, 150 were injured (and we're talking injuries like broken backs and fractured skulls. Also, 25 horses were killed. Although it was only January, the molasses was a little warmer than the outside temperature, and quickly cooled, turning sticky. A seaman passing by found a hand sticking up above the molasses. They tried to get the person by pulling on his arm, helped by another man, but ended up pulling the person'arm off. (How horrible!)
This is a place near my home in NJ (in the town, which I am on the other side of). It's literally called "The Road to Nowhere" and "The Bridge to Nowhere". I will include a video showing the road and the bridge leading there. It's in the middle of an estuary, so it just stops at the bridge, which is all broken and half-collapsed. It was never rebuilt because the purpose it was constructed for was no longer needed.
THE ROAD AND BRIDGE TO NOWHERE EXPLAINED https://www.vandykrealestate.com/blog/279016/The+Road+And+Bridge+To+Nowhere+Explained
If you go there at night, which I have been, it's incredibly spooky (spooky AF, s one of my friends would say). The road is full of potholes and not at all well maintained. There are no streetlights at night. In summer kids party there (as witnessed by the grafitti on the concrete road dividers that prevent you from driving off into the estuary.
Thr bridge section nearest the road caught on fire and now there is a straight drop into the water. Before it did, back in the 2000's sometime, they filmed a Post Apocalyptic film there. Cars seem to be there with people getting busy, an I know it was featured on a site for closeted men to meet and get busy, so you don't look to close into the cars. I've heard rumors of drug deals out there (mostly weed) from people I knew, but they could have been pulling my leg, so your guess is as good as mine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYqbmhaccDw
The larger part of the bridge you can see here is across the water. That little tiny part? Is the end of the road. Incidentally, there is no road after the bridge, just grass. But you can see the line of telephone poles. That was part of the reason the bridge was built. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9iPJqtgGX8
Having worked in a Library, this is relevant to my interests, as they say.
Female Librarians on Horseback Delivering Books, ca. 1930s
In the 1930s, many people living in isolated communities had very little access to jobs, let alone a good education for their children. In Kentucky, they had isolated mountain communities which could only get their books and reading material from one source… librarians on horseback.
President Franklin Roosevelt was trying to figure out a way to resolve the Great Depression of the 1930s. His Works Progress Administration created the Pack Horse Library Initiative to help Americans become more literate so that they’d have a better chance of finding employment.
These librarians would adventure through muddy creeks and snowy hills just to deliver books to the people of these isolated areas.
The horseback librarians were mostly made up of women. They were paid salaries by the Works Progress Administration. The rule was that libraries had to exist in the counties where books would be delivered. Many of the local schools contributed to this effort by donating literature, such as newspapers, magazines, and books.
These adventurous women on horseback would ride as much as 120 miles within a given week, regardless of the terrain or weather conditions. Sometimes, they would have to finish their travels on foot if their destination was in a place too remote and tough for horses to go. (And think how remote and tough THAT had to be...)
By 1943, the horseback book delivery program had ended because employment skyrocketed during World War II.
These women had to be locally known to people too or else those living in the mountains would not trust them.
Honestly? These women sound Badass as hell. What a job! I know that out west, there are people living in Indian lands who get postal deliveries by muleback because it's too tough for horses to get there. And the supplies are delivered by planes to there the mules are kept. This sounds like a totally badass job to have. Rough and Tough, but completely badass.
Cathing up on this thread I saw some comments about vikings etcs and thought about this:
I watched a YT clip some time ago where a 'historian' (though on amateur level I think) claimed there is some indication that Oden/Woden was never the prime god of ancient Northern Europe, but rather a much later addition to the pantheon. Instead Freya/Frej was probably the prime god. I tried to google/search on YT for it, but can't find it again! It was very interesting since we have been taught since kids that Oden was the arch/prime god and this puts things in perspective. The guy made these claims based on depictions of gods and stuff and also theorized that it was based on external influences from other people that he though came later.
@JoenSo You seem very knowledgeable about swedish/nordic history, maybe you've read something about this and expand on this?
Cathing up on this thread I saw some comments about vikings etcs and thought about this:
I watched a YT clip some time ago where a 'historian' (though on amateur level I think) claimed there is some indication that Oden/Woden was never the prime god of ancient Northern Europe, but rather a much later addition to the pantheon. Instead Freya/Frej was probably the prime god. I tried to google/search on YT for it, but can't find it again! It was very interesting since we have been taught since kids that Oden was the arch/prime god and this puts things in perspective. The guy made these claims based on depictions of gods and stuff and also theorized that it was based on external influences from other people that he though came later.
@JoenSo You seem very knowledgeable about swedish/nordic history, maybe you've read something about this and expand on this?
No, I hadn't heard about that at all before! Though Odin becoming a prime god by the time of the Viking age could still be considered a "later" addition, I guess. Depending on how you look at it. Norse mythology is tricky in that way, since it goes back to the earlier beliefs of different Germanic people that we have virtually no written sources about. The Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda are still the main sources for information on Norse mythology. And they were written/compiled in the 13th century, a century or so after Scandinavia had mostly converted to Christianity.
What few written records we have about the mythology before the Viking age seem to be mostly Roman. I know that Tacitus wrote a bit about Germanic mythology in the 1st century (haven't read any of it myself though). And he was into interpretatio romana. That is, he assumed that other people's gods were in fact other interpretations of the Roman gods. So when he talks about the Suebi worshipping Mercury, it seems he is actually talking about an early version of Odin (not sure how later historians managed to make that connection though). And that is well over a thousand years before the two Eddas.
So really, it wouldn't be weird at all if Freyr had been the prime god for centuries without us knowing it. I guess it also makes kind of sense, since Freyr is a god of sunshine and fertility - which sounds more like a "classic" kind of prime god, compared to the darker Odin.
Spent 10 minutes going though my YT history to try and find it, but alas it was not there. What was there though was BLR's Seagulls about 100 times and 200 SC2 esportgames matches.
EDIT: Found it! Watching it again now. Very interesting. EDit: Tagging you again @JoenSo if you want to watch this. I also watched his episode on Frey, recommended! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C9yvEOT45I
I always love hearing about people in the entertainment industry moving into other fields that you wouldn't think they would be interested in. I'm pretty sure one of the Beastie Boys got into politics, and didn't Shirley Temple become a diplomat?
Yes. Shirley Temple-Black. Another somewhat famous person, Helen Keller (not really an artist, though) became a socialist later on in her life, which is why people rarely seem to talk about her after the Events in "The Miracle Worker".
Yes. Shirley Temple-Black. Another somewhat famous person, Helen Keller (not really an artist, though) became a socialist later on in her life, which is why people rarely seem to talk about her after the Events in "The Miracle Worker".
Helen Keller was also a founding member of the ACLU.
Portugal was at least as bad as Belgium and you don't hear about them either...
Edit: The worst current African nations as far as human rights are concerned were former Belgian, French, Italian and Portuguese possessions. The Brits may have been bad but not nearly as bad as the others...
Colonization has always been a horror story! But amongst the many wrongdoers Leopold was a blackguard for sure.
A well known fact from WW2 was that the french thought them selves safe behind the Maginot line. The Germans acknowledged the strenght of the line and invaded France by driving into the country via Belgium. Belgium was thusly invaded for their roads into France.
The leaser known fact and irony of it was that the German vehicle’s where using rubber for their tires from Belgium/Congo.
Regarding Leopold and Congo, I recall from school when we were taught colonial history that even in contemporary times, he's rule of Congo was disdained. I have no source on this though, it was something told to me by the teacher and for some reason it stuck in my memory.
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I was wrong. 1 hour to finish and instead of a side, 3 deep fried shrimp.
http://www.historybyday.com/human-stories/things-you-did-not-know-about-freddie-mercury/?utm_source=tb&utm_campaign=1537753-d-us-hd-tb&utm_medium=Desktop-tb&utm_content=1&utm_sid=1537753&utm_term=10+Things+You+Didn’t+Know+Queen+Singer+Did&utm_siteID=1093527&utm_referrer=bnmedia-patheos1
New fossil spiders with 'glowing' eyes found in South Korea
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/01/new-fossil-spiders-with-glowing-eyes-found-south-korea/?fbclid=IwAR2-zAS2J7GCHGPqip2nD4wtFaAIRnG5CH_Je_E30R3pujoz07ExIEVWQdMHer name was Lepa Radic, she was just 17, A member of Yugoslav communist supporters. She was hanged on 8 February 1943 for taking arms against the Nazis. To the Nazi officer who offered her life save if she agreed to give the names of the members of her network she replied calmly: "My comrades will give their names when they are avenge of my death."
'LEST WE FORGET'.
Rest In Eternal Peace and Tranquillity Ma'am.
Scientists Crack A 50-Year-Old Mystery About The Measles Vaccine
Scientists Model How Prehistoric Shark Cut Through Prey With ‘Scissor Jaws’
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/scientists-model-how-prehistoric-shark-cut-through-prey-scissor-jaws-180971384/#APcE8QKlpHEjk8De.99The 330-million-year-old species Edestus had one of the most unique bites in natural history
Stone Phalli of Pompeii
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/stone-phalluses-of-pompeii?utm_medium=atlas-page&utm_source=facebook.com&fbclid=IwAR1atFT7Q0-pa1o_Lgi1iwXB2eQcSqri2HsN3f1QET-Mqwjl6YRJSzGmS6EIt's located at 218 Victoria Street, Hamilton, New Zealand.
A butt is a real measurement for a cask of wine. A "Buttload" is equal to 108 Imperial Gallons.
New Yorkers have their own version of the Groundhog. It's the Mister Softee truck. When you see that, you KNOW Spring has arrived.
Edited to add:
Dorothea Lange’s Censored Photographs of FDR’s Japanese Concentration Camps
https://anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothea-lange-censored-photographs?fbclid=IwAR3SBN6_t1s5KkCoDnBGmgI1QrIPvjPJVr8RmC4QFWm04hUL9rG6e3g9KlsPeople know about Japanese internment camps, but there were ones for German and Italians as well, mostly on the east coast.
Internment of German Americans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_AmericansInternment of Italian Americans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Italian_AmericansYes, there were Black people in Renaissance Europe
http://blacknerdproblems.com/yes-there-were-black-people-in-renaissance-europe/?fbclid=IwAR0ZPxUHKPhofFRpyCsObvzN9PtT7tPsFhnYx5Z_tyQ8AghI-PKcZDmuha4Mostly the moors.
A ‘car park king’ timeline: the discovery of Richard III
https://www.historyextra.com/period/medieval/richard-iii-plantagenet-car-park-king-timeline-discovery-leicester-reburial-key-dates/?utm_source=Browser&utm_medium=Push_Web_Notifications&utm_campaign=Medieval25 Myths that are actually facts
https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/agatha-christie-disappearance-mystery-facts-poirot-miss-marple-detective/#utm_source=Browser&utm_medium=Web_Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=20th century
On Friday 3 December 1926, the English crime novelist Agatha Christie vanished from her home in Berkshire. It was the perfect tabloid story, with all the elements of one of Christie's own 'whodunnit' mysteries. So what was the truth behind her disappearance?
https://www.historyextra.com/period/elizabethan/william-shakespeare-kenneth-branagh-facts-life-plays-playwright-writer-bard/?utm_source=Browser&utm_medium=Push_Web_Notifications&utm_campaign=Medieval
Remembering Boston's Deadly Molasses Flood, 100 Years Later
https://www.wbur.org/news/2019/01/15/boston-molasses-flood-100-years-later?fbclid=IwAR2wpnuBrm-wKytq3Tnhd0Bs-wftgR_utmE5aHILdlPJ2gwFNso3m4q2Aqo
In January 1919, just after the end of the First World War, a tank holding 2.3 million gallons of molten molasses failed, letting a tsunami of molasses over across the docks and streets. In the chaos, 21 people died, 150 were injured (and we're talking injuries like broken backs and fractured skulls. Also, 25 horses were killed. Although it was only January, the molasses was a little warmer than the outside temperature, and quickly cooled, turning sticky. A seaman passing by found a hand sticking up above the molasses. They tried to get the person by pulling on his arm, helped by another man, but ended up pulling the person'arm off. (How horrible!)
Untouched and Unlooted 4,400-yr-old Tomb of Egyptian High Priest Discovered
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/12/19/4400-year-old-tomb/?fbclid=IwAR0q44spSULq5h5aG0t474q_5S2jeKzpoio0JSLiKF8YcdbY80oY3Yor3Q4
He’s not just a former president. Jimmy Carter is also a nine-time Grammy nominee
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/la-et-ms-grammys-jimmy-carter-preacher-plains-church-20190208-story.html?utm_medium=social&utm_content=curated,link&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=organic&fbclid=IwAR06pwxzCGKldqTsVP3Js1m1xzuRtsCUmSfJDf6vRh0MHWjz5qwmCVYjZx4
This is a place near my home in NJ (in the town, which I am on the other side of). It's literally called "The Road to Nowhere" and "The Bridge to Nowhere". I will include a video showing the road and the bridge leading there. It's in the middle of an estuary, so it just stops at the bridge, which is all broken and half-collapsed. It was never rebuilt because the purpose it was constructed for was no longer needed.
THE ROAD AND BRIDGE TO NOWHERE EXPLAINED
https://www.vandykrealestate.com/blog/279016/The+Road+And+Bridge+To+Nowhere+Explained
If you go there at night, which I have been, it's incredibly spooky (spooky AF, s one of my friends would say). The road is full of potholes and not at all well maintained. There are no streetlights at night. In summer kids party there (as witnessed by the grafitti on the concrete road dividers that prevent you from driving off into the estuary.
Thr bridge section nearest the road caught on fire and now there is a straight drop into the water. Before it did, back in the 2000's sometime, they filmed a Post Apocalyptic film there. Cars seem to be there with people getting busy, an I know it was featured on a site for closeted men to meet and get busy, so you don't look to close into the cars. I've heard rumors of drug deals out there (mostly weed) from people I knew, but they could have been pulling my leg, so your guess is as good as mine.
The larger part of the bridge you can see here is across the water. That little tiny part? Is the end of the road. Incidentally, there is no road after the bridge, just grass. But you can see the line of telephone poles. That was part of the reason the bridge was built.
Female Librarians on Horseback Delivering Books, ca. 1930s
In the 1930s, many people living in isolated communities had very little access to jobs, let alone a good education for their children. In Kentucky, they had isolated mountain communities which could only get their books and reading material from one source… librarians on horseback.
President Franklin Roosevelt was trying to figure out a way to resolve the Great Depression of the 1930s. His Works Progress Administration created the Pack Horse Library Initiative to help Americans become more literate so that they’d have a better chance of finding employment.
These librarians would adventure through muddy creeks and snowy hills just to deliver books to the people of these isolated areas.
The horseback librarians were mostly made up of women. They were paid salaries by the Works Progress Administration. The rule was that libraries had to exist in the counties where books would be delivered. Many of the local schools contributed to this effort by donating literature, such as newspapers, magazines, and books.
These adventurous women on horseback would ride as much as 120 miles within a given week, regardless of the terrain or weather conditions. Sometimes, they would have to finish their travels on foot if their destination was in a place too remote and tough for horses to go. (And think how remote and tough THAT had to be...)
By 1943, the horseback book delivery program had ended because employment skyrocketed during World War II.
These women had to be locally known to people too or else those living in the mountains would not trust them.
Honestly? These women sound Badass as hell. What a job! I know that out west, there are people living in Indian lands who get postal deliveries by muleback because it's too tough for horses to get there. And the supplies are delivered by planes to there the mules are kept. This sounds like a totally badass job to have. Rough and Tough, but completely badass.
I watched a YT clip some time ago where a 'historian' (though on amateur level I think) claimed there is some indication that Oden/Woden was never the prime god of ancient Northern Europe, but rather a much later addition to the pantheon. Instead Freya/Frej was probably the prime god. I tried to google/search on YT for it, but can't find it again! It was very interesting since we have been taught since kids that Oden was the arch/prime god and this puts things in perspective. The guy made these claims based on depictions of gods and stuff and also theorized that it was based on external influences from other people that he though came later.
@JoenSo You seem very knowledgeable about swedish/nordic history, maybe you've read something about this and expand on this?
No, I hadn't heard about that at all before! Though Odin becoming a prime god by the time of the Viking age could still be considered a "later" addition, I guess. Depending on how you look at it. Norse mythology is tricky in that way, since it goes back to the earlier beliefs of different Germanic people that we have virtually no written sources about. The Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda are still the main sources for information on Norse mythology. And they were written/compiled in the 13th century, a century or so after Scandinavia had mostly converted to Christianity.
What few written records we have about the mythology before the Viking age seem to be mostly Roman. I know that Tacitus wrote a bit about Germanic mythology in the 1st century (haven't read any of it myself though). And he was into interpretatio romana. That is, he assumed that other people's gods were in fact other interpretations of the Roman gods. So when he talks about the Suebi worshipping Mercury, it seems he is actually talking about an early version of Odin (not sure how later historians managed to make that connection though). And that is well over a thousand years before the two Eddas.
So really, it wouldn't be weird at all if Freyr had been the prime god for centuries without us knowing it. I guess it also makes kind of sense, since Freyr is a god of sunshine and fertility - which sounds more like a "classic" kind of prime god, compared to the darker Odin.
EDIT: Found it! Watching it again now. Very interesting. EDit: Tagging you again @JoenSo if you want to watch this. I also watched his episode on Frey, recommended!
https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/mi-amigo-b-17-bomber-plane-crash-sheffield-park-history/?utm_source=Web_Push_Notifications&utm_medium=Browser&utm_campaign=Second_World_War
In New Zealand, it is a criminal offense to carry a copy of the game Manhunt.
And for Black History Month...
This is a real thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula_hawk
A brief history of Valentine’s Day – from the patron saint of epilepsy to Chaucer’s love tales
https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/valentine-day-history-saint-who-real-story-cured/?utm_source=Web_Push_Notifications&utm_medium=Browser&utm_campaign=Romans
In short, St. Valentine, Patron of love and Marriage, didn't exist.
Medieval Nun Faked Her Own Death to Pursue ‘Carnal Lust’
https://www.thecut.com/2019/02/medieval-nun-faked-her-own-death-to-pursue-carnal-lust.html?fbclid=IwAR25iu-qoT6xOEsjwGsUpHJd9bnzHI5UndejgQ-BkibpNK3rKBAlpDnLG2Y
Helen Keller was also a founding member of the ACLU.
https://www.historyextra.com/period/ancient-history/border-walls-history-mexico-trump-china-great-wall/?utm_source=Browser&utm_medium=Web_Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=Ancient history
https://allthatsinteresting.com/king-leopold-ii-congo?utm_campaign=pdthp&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR2pVRsy6hKzKE_NEOO56DuXA-dUsnIN6OodxXA0ZWdzE0wJpoYEbHwMDDw
Leopold II's rule over the Congo was a horror story with a body count on par with Hitler's, so why haven't more people heard of him?
An Entire Village of Miniature Disney-Esque Castles Sits Empty in the Bolu Province of Northern Turkey
https://laughingsquid.com/empty-village-of-castles/?fbclid=IwAR32eJXOTVWqF5ZIsaXvJO7sSeiOKNJTCT7wGEunu9dAAZZdajx5uU8SvdI
Portugal was at least as bad as Belgium and you don't hear about them either...
Edit: The worst current African nations as far as human rights are concerned were former Belgian, French, Italian and Portuguese possessions. The Brits may have been bad but not nearly as bad as the others...
A well known fact from WW2 was that the french thought them selves safe behind the Maginot line. The Germans acknowledged the strenght of the line and invaded France by driving into the country via Belgium. Belgium was thusly invaded for their roads into France.
The leaser known fact and irony of it was that the German vehicle’s where using rubber for their tires from Belgium/Congo.
https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/who-were-the-original-independent-group-a-very-brief-history-of-the-radical-1950s-movement-that-challenged-the-art-establishment/?utm_source=Web_Push_Notifications&utm_medium=Browser&utm_campaign=20th_Century