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The Deadliest Tornado in U.S. History
Via: Kavika • History & Sociology • 9 Comments • 8 Likes • 7 years ago
Overturned trains. Timber found miles away from where it had been stored. Trees felled. Fires and close calls. A letter that flew almost 100 miles. On a normal day in the Midwest in 1925, any one of these stories would have been worthy of front-page coverage. But March 18, 1925 was a day like no...
Things to Know on Dog Farting Awareness Day - Today April 8th
Via: Kavika • Pets & Animals • 23 Comments • 2 Likes • 7 years ago
Who farted? Credit: Mike Burke Unsplash Even before the children’s book Walter the Farting Dog hit bookstores in 2001, the youngest members of society have known the truth. Dogs fart. They pass gas. The science-minded among us might refer to fart gas as ‘flatus’ (not to be confused with...
Woman arrested in racist graffiti that targeted Democrats and Native Americans in Oklahoma
Via: Kavika • News & Politics • 20 Comments • 6 Likes • 7 years ago
April 4, 2019, 10:16 PM EDT / Updated April 5, 2019, 12:25 AM EDT By Suzanne Ciechalski and Phil Helsel A woman has been arrested in a series of racist graffiti in the Oklahoma town of Norman, and she is also thought to have been behind Nazi and other hate messages at an Oklahoma City...
Nobody knew who this USAF academy janitor was until the President came to see him
Via: Kavika • History & Sociology • 9 Comments • 2 Likes • 7 years ago
William Crawford poses with his statue in Pueblo, Colorado -just an hour away from the USAF Academy. Growing up, many of us were told not to judge people we didn’t know due to the fact that we have no idea what they have been through. While that old lesson has stayed with most of us...
How the Three Mile Island Accident Was Made Even Worse By a Chaotic Response
Via: Kavika • History & Sociology • 1 Comments • 2 Likes • 7 years ago
For tellers at a Shrewsbury, Pennsylvania bank, the final days of March 1979 should have felt like business as usual. Instead, they were sheer chaos: customers piled up, trying to withdraw money in the days before ATMs. “Customers were stopping by with their cars packed up to flee, withdrawing...
After 'Total EXONERATION' ... it's an 'all out war' against the health care system
Via: Kavika • Anishinaabe - The First People • 3 Comments • 1 Like • 7 years ago
Indian Health Care Improvement Act would be struck down if courts decide Affordable Care Act is Unconstitutional President Donald J. Trump tells the world he has been exonerated by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and the whole probe was a waste of time. (And, of course, the news media...
You can't talk to a man with a shotgun in his hand, you can't talk to a man that don't want to understand.
Via: Kavika • Other • 12 Comments • 2 Likes • 7 years ago
Perhaps you recognize those words from the song by Carole King, ''Smack Water Jack''....Truer words were never spoken. This is a bit of a tribute to one of the great song writers of our time, or perhaps any time. Carole burst onto the scene in 1971 with the release of her album, Tapestry...
The reason Army helicopters are named after native tribes will make you smile - Navy to name a new class of ships after the Navajo Nation
Via: Kavika • History & Sociology • 39 Comments • 8 Likes • 7 years ago
Dec. 03, 2017 08:02PM EST The reason Army helicopters are named after native tribes will make you smile The Army's helicopters have a number of names you recognize immediately: Apache, Black Hawk, Kiowa, Lakota, Comanche. They are also known as the names of Native...
How the Vietnam War Ratcheted Up Under 5 U.S. Presidents
Via: Kavika • History & Sociology • 21 Comments • 2 Likes • 7 years ago
At the end of World War II, the United States was broadly popular in Vietnam for having repelled the Japanese occupiers. Even Ho Chi Minh, the nationalist and communist revolutionary, started off pro-American. But, through the terms of five U.S. presidents, that relationship deteriorated and the...
WWII aircraft carrier USS Wasp found in Coral Sea
Via: Kavika • History & Sociology • 5 Comments • 2 Likes • 7 years ago
The wreck of another historic WWII aircraft carrier has been found by the expedition crew aboard research vessel (R/V) Petrel who discovered wreckage of USS Wasp (CV 7) on January 14. The ship was found in the Coral Sea, 4,200 meters (nearly 14,000 feet) below the surface. USS Hornet,...