Obviously correlation does not imply causation, especially since most attacks occur to surfers who are white and male in majority, but I still found it pretty amusing that sharks know to attack the ruling population.
(via iisabelle, clingtomymouth:
history of palestine since 1878.
anyone still trying to pull that land without a people for a people without a land crap better watch this shit.
“In rural India, feminine sanitary pads are extremely difficult to come by, according to the CEO of the school, who goes simply by Renuka. Factory-produced maxi-pads are way too expensive, particularly for families with several daughters.
Beyond causing women to feel embarrassed, a lack of hygienic cloth causes serious problems. Renuka says that she’s seen many women drop out of school and develop long-term health issues due to a dearth of options.
And thus, between math classes and embroidery lessons, the young women at Pardada Pardadi learn to make maxi-pads.”
The Tramp Chair
Invented in the early 1800s, the tramp chair was a cage made of bent and riveted metal strapping into the shape of a chair. An individual could be placed inside the chair and locked up securely (thus also acting as a jail cell in towns too small to build a jail). It was sometimes placed on a wheeled platform so that it (and the prisoner) could be moved around easily.
It was often used for vagrants (earning it its name) who could be left inside it for a day or two as encouragement to move along. Made of iron, it would heat up or cool down uncomfortably depending on the weather, and town residents could jeer at and harass the occupant. It left no room to move around, so would be very uncomfortable to sit in for a prolonged stretch of time. The American Police Hall of Fame and Police Museum in Miami states that “often the prisoner was stripped naked and the kids from the area would poke him with sticks.” (Via)
Image from a postcard depicting a tramp chair located at the SamOset Hotel in Rockland, Maine.
What I learned today via Youtube.
Britain has a Hung Parliament! Actually, I had to learn this via countless articles a couple days ago, but Alex Day’s summary is way clearer. And has post-its!
A 13th century skeleton unearthed on the grounds of a friary may be the earliest physical evidence that Africans lived in England in medieval times, a team of researchers said Sunday.
Forensics experts at the University of Dundee Scotland say that the bones most likely belonged to a man from modern-day Tunisia who spent about a decade living in England before he died.
THE PRISON CELL OF LUDGER SYLBARIS - “THE MAN WHO LIVED THROUGH DOOSMADAY”
“Ludger was not a nice guy. Born in 1875 on Martinique, in 1902 Ludger (his actual name was Louis-Auguste) was 27 and frequently getting himself into trouble. A convicted felon, he liked to drink and he liked to fight. So it was no surprise that on the night of May 7th Ludger was arrested for getting in another fight. Irritated with his antics the police threw him into solitary confinement, a tiny half underground cell with no windows and only a very narrow slit in the door facing out to sea. What the police didn’t realize is that they had just saved Ludger’s life. “The next morning, (May 8, 1902) Mt. Pelee in Martinique erupted, destroying the city of St. Pierre and instantaneously killing more than 30,000 people. ( Via)
There are only three.
Holy crap, this is sort of incredible.
The New York Society Library, the oldest in the city, has discovered that George Washington owes them money. Lots of it. Washington borrowed two books and never returned them. They were due November 2, 1789. The library has done the math, and the late fees come to approximately $300,000. They would be glad to have the books back instead, though. There’s a lesson here, kids. Don’t fuck with librarians.
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An annual report by the US State Department on human rights in Zimbabwe has said that gays and lesbians in the country face harassment and rape by people trying to ‘cure’ them.
It said that lesbians were sometimes raped, even by their family members, to try and turn them straight, while gay men were forced into heterosexual sex.
Associated Press reports that Amanda Porter, political officer at the US Embassy in Harare, said yesterday: “Some families reportedly subjected men and women to corrective rape and forced marriages to encourage heterosexual conduct.”
Sodomy is illegal in Zimbabwe and punishable with up to a year in prison or a heavy fine.
