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Post by esty on Mar 5, 2022 10:19:04 GMT -5
March 5, 1616, Nicolaus Copernicus' revolutionary book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium is banned by the Catholic Church In the book, Copernicus claimed that the Earth revolves around the sun. The Church maintained Ptolemy's geocentric system. The book is considered a milestone in the history of astronomy. Thanks for the post. This has an important instruction for us today about how we can benefit from religious community life but must still remember that religion is not science. Religion nearly always takes too much authority into areas that are aa mystery and therefore unknowable.
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Post by sandipaws on Mar 5, 2022 11:20:19 GMT -5
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March 5th is also known as National Absinthe Day. This day is for those who are 21 years or older to celebrate a drink called absinthe.
Often mistaken for a liqueur, it is truly a spirit because it isn’t sweetened. It belongs to the vodkas, gins, and whiskeys when categorizing absinthe.
The spirit is made by infusing wormwood, fennel, anise, and other herbs into alcohol through distillation. Pierre Ordinaire, a French doctor, is credited with the creation of absinthe. He developed and prescribed the elixir in the early 19th century as a cure for many illnesses.
It has a strong licorice flavor to it and has a high alcohol content. The spirit is often served with ice, a sugar cube placed on a slotted spoon over the glass, and water poured over the sugar.
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Post by BillG on Mar 5, 2022 14:27:28 GMT -5
Who Knew??? March 5th is "National Cheese Doodle Day".
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Post by MidnightSun on Mar 5, 2022 23:35:26 GMT -5
A Gallon of Gasoline Contains 31,000 Calories. Disclaimer: do not drink gasoline. If you could drink gasoline, it would provide you with 31,000 calories of energy, the equivalent of 15 to 20 days' worth of food. Scientists figured this out when they were trying to compare the efficiency of a car to that of a human peddling a bicycle. By calculating how many calories it takes to bike for one mile at 15 mph, they found out that a person could bike about 912 miles on a single gallon of gas. Who knew?
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Post by johnmori on Mar 6, 2022 6:51:07 GMT -5
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March 6, 1992 The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
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Post by sandipaws on Mar 6, 2022 11:52:54 GMT -5
Who Knew??? A Little Cereal History: Ferdinand Schumacher, a German immigrant, began the cereal revolution in 1854 with a hand oats grinder in the back room of a small store in Akron, Ohio. His German Mills American Oatmeal Company was the nation’s first commercial oatmeal manufacturer. In 1877, Schumacher adopted the Quaker symbol, the first registered trademark for a breakfast cereal.
Granula, the first breakfast cereal, was invented in the United States in 1863 by James Caleb Jackson, operator of Our Home on the Hillside, which was later replaced by the Jackson Sanatorium in Dansville, New York. The cereal never became popular since it was inconvenient as the heavy bran nuggets needed soaking overnight before they were tender enough to eat.
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Post by MidnightSun on Mar 6, 2022 23:18:30 GMT -5
Your Smartphone Could Send Astronauts to the Moon. You probably know that the phone you carry around in your pocket is light-years ahead of the technology of five decades ago. However, it's hard to grasp just how advanced it is. In terms of processing ability, your phone is millions of times more powerful than the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) that NASA used to send astronauts to the moon in 1969. AGCs cost $3.5 million each and were the size of a car, but even just the clock function of an iPhone 6 is comparable to sending 120,000,000 simultaneous Apollo-era spacecraft to the moon and back. Who knew?
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Post by johnmori on Mar 7, 2022 5:50:28 GMT -5
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March 7, 1876 Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
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Post by soutxed on Mar 7, 2022 9:00:52 GMT -5
March 7, 1965, a march by civil rights demonstrators was violently broken up at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, by state troopers and a sheriff’s posse in what came to be known as “Bloody Sunday.”
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Post by sandipaws on Mar 7, 2022 10:04:28 GMT -5
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March 7th delivers National Flapjack Day with piping hot flavor and goodness. The day honors the sturdy, wholesome cakes we’ve been cooking up for generations! Recipes handed down from grandmother to son and mother to daughter continue to bring smiles to families all across the country.
Flapjacks were a staple of pioneers pursuing new lives on the frontier. Packed with nutrients and energy, flapjacks provided the fuel they needed to withstand the often-arduous trails.
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Post by BillG on Mar 7, 2022 11:27:01 GMT -5
Who knew??? CENTRAL PARK'S LAMPPOSTS CONTAIN A SET OF FOUR NUMBERS THAT CAN HELP YOU NAVIGATE. The first two tell you the nearest street, and the next two tell you whether you're closer to the east or west side of the park (even numbers signal east, odd signals west).
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Post by johnmori on Mar 8, 2022 5:27:13 GMT -5
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March 8, 1817 The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
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Post by soutxed on Mar 8, 2022 9:05:01 GMT -5
March 8, In 1948, the Supreme Court, in McCollum v. Board of Education, struck down voluntary religious education classes in Champaign, Illinois, public schools, saying the program violated separation of church and state.
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Post by BillG on Mar 8, 2022 9:49:59 GMT -5
Who Knew??? March 8th is "National Peanut Cluster Day".
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