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Cairo — Exactly 10 years ago tens of thousands of Egyptians packed into Cairo's Tahrir Square to demand change. The military backed the popular uprising, and President Hosni Mubarak was forced out of power after 30 years.
The protesters were lauded as heroes, and there was a new feeling of hope in the country. Egyptians had seen that peaceful, mass-demonstration could bring about real change. Many believed the square in the heart of the capital was not just a symbol, but a tool; Tahrir Square will be always there, they thought. We all know the way to Tahrir. If we want change, we fill it again and change will come.


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Tahrir Square 10 years later: What happened to Egypt's revolution?

"I would have never imagined that, within 10 years, there would be less freedom in Egypt than under Mubarak's era," one pro-democracy activist tells CBS News.
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"The famous Peanuts comic strip appeared for the final time on this day in 2000 – just one day after their creator, Charles M Schulz, died of colon cancer.

The adventures of Charlie Brown, his friends and his beagle Snoopy had turned the strip into an international success, translated into 21 languages and read in 75 countries.

The final edition took the form of a message from Schulz to his readers, presented next to a picture of Snoopy typing on top of his kennel with further images from the strip’s history above it.

“I have been fortunate to draw Charlie Brown and his friends for almost 50 years. It has been the fulfillment of my childhood ambition,” read the cartoonist’s message. “Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy... how can I ever forget them...”

One of the images included in that final collage of memories features poor 'ol Charlie Brown failing to connect with an American football placed in front of him - and snatched away - by his perennial foil, Lucy.

Schultz admitted that this reoccurring gag brought tears to his eyes as he signed off the final strip. He said: “All of a sudden I thought, 'You know, that poor, poor kid, he never even got to kick the football. What a dirty trick - he never had a chance to kick the football!'”

Schulz had successfully pitched his idea for a four-panel cartoon to the United Feature Syndicate in 1950, and the first edition of Peanuts appeared on October 2 of the same year, printed daily in seven newspapers. Years later, at its height, the strip could be seen in 2,600 publications worldwide.

Peanuts also proved a huge hit in other media. The first anthology book of its best moments was published in 1952, while popular animated versions of the strip for television began with the Emmy-winning 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' in 1965.

With its humour, its philosophical nature and its highly-recognisable cast of characters led by a good kid lacking in confidence but full of persistence, Peanuts was a huge influence on modern newspaper cartoons and remains the most popular and successful comic strip of all time."
 
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BarnBuster said:

"The famous Peanuts comic strip appeared for the final time on this day in 2000 – just one day after their creator, Charles M Schulz, died of colon cancer.

The adventures of Charlie Brown, his friends and his beagle Snoopy had turned the strip into an international success, translated into 21 languages and read in 75 countries.

The final edition took the form of a message from Schulz to his readers, presented next to a picture of Snoopy typing on top of his kennel with further images from the strip’s history above it.

“I have been fortunate to draw Charlie Brown and his friends for almost 50 years. It has been the fulfillment of my childhood ambition,” read the cartoonist’s message. “Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy... how can I ever forget them...”

One of the images included in that final collage of memories features poor 'ol Charlie Brown failing to connect with an American football placed in front of him - and snatched away - by his perennial foil, Lucy.

Schultz admitted that this reoccurring gag brought tears to his eyes as he signed off the final strip. He said: “All of a sudden I thought, 'You know, that poor, poor kid, he never even got to kick the football. What a dirty trick - he never had a chance to kick the football!'”

Schulz had successfully pitched his idea for a four-panel cartoon to the United Feature Syndicate in 1950, and the first edition of Peanuts appeared on October 2 of the same year, printed daily in seven newspapers. Years later, at its height, the strip could be seen in 2,600 publications worldwide.

Peanuts also proved a huge hit in other media. The first anthology book of its best moments was published in 1952, while popular animated versions of the strip for television began with the Emmy-winning 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' in 1965.

With its humour, its philosophical nature and its highly-recognisable cast of characters led by a good kid lacking in confidence but full of persistence, Peanuts was a huge influence on modern newspaper cartoons and remains the most popular and successful comic strip of all time."
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BarnBuster said:

"The famous Peanuts comic strip appeared for the final time on this day in 2000 – just one day after their creator, Charles M Schulz, died of colon cancer.

The adventures of Charlie Brown, his friends and his beagle Snoopy had turned the strip into an international success, translated into 21 languages and read in 75 countries.

The final edition took the form of a message from Schulz to his readers, presented next to a picture of Snoopy typing on top of his kennel with further images from the strip’s history above it.

“I have been fortunate to draw Charlie Brown and his friends for almost 50 years. It has been the fulfillment of my childhood ambition,” read the cartoonist’s message. “Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy... how can I ever forget them...”

One of the images included in that final collage of memories features poor 'ol Charlie Brown failing to connect with an American football placed in front of him - and snatched away - by his perennial foil, Lucy.

Schultz admitted that this reoccurring gag brought tears to his eyes as he signed off the final strip. He said: “All of a sudden I thought, 'You know, that poor, poor kid, he never even got to kick the football. What a dirty trick - he never had a chance to kick the football!'”

Schulz had successfully pitched his idea for a four-panel cartoon to the United Feature Syndicate in 1950, and the first edition of Peanuts appeared on October 2 of the same year, printed daily in seven newspapers. Years later, at its height, the strip could be seen in 2,600 publications worldwide.

Peanuts also proved a huge hit in other media. The first anthology book of its best moments was published in 1952, while popular animated versions of the strip for television began with the Emmy-winning 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' in 1965.

With its humour, its philosophical nature and its highly-recognisable cast of characters led by a good kid lacking in confidence but full of persistence, Peanuts was a huge influence on modern newspaper cartoons and remains the most popular and successful comic strip of all time."
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His wife was on BBC's World Service (radio program) last night talking about his life and Charley Brown.
 
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On February 14, 2018, an expelled student entered Parkland, Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and opened fire, killing 17 people and wounding 17 others, in what became the deadliest shooting at a high school in United States history.

Dressed in a maroon shirt adorned with the school logo, Nikolas Cruz exited his Uber outside the campus at 2:19 p.m. He approached the school wearing a backpack filled with magazines and carrying a black duffel packed with his legally purchased AR-15 semi-automatic rifle.

School staff had been warned after Cruz’s expulsion for "disciplinary reasons" in 2017 that the troubled teen was a risk to student safety. So when a staff member saw him outside, he radioed a “Code Red” to initiate a lockdown of the school. It was too late.

Cruz entered the high school’s Freshman Building, on campus—which was mostly filled with freshman students—at 2:21 p.m. and unpacked his rifle in a stairwell. According to NBC Miami, freshman Chris McKenna, 15, spotted Cruz there and received a chilling warning from the gunman. “You better get out of here. Things are going to start getting messy.” McKenna ran outside, where he spotted Aaron Feis, a coach and school security monitor who took him to the baseball field 500 feet away and turned back to “check it out.”

Cruz exited the stairwell into a first-floor hallway, firing a stream of bullets down the corridor, shattering windows and shooting through doors. In just under two minutes, he murdered 11 people and injured 13 others. He then headed up the stairs. He was on the second floor for less than a minute, firing but hitting no one, before going to the third floor where he killed his last six victims, and injured four more in the final 45 seconds of the attack.

Terrified students ran for their lives. Others remained holed up, hiding in classrooms, closets and bathrooms, desperate to reach their parents. Many began broadcasting the horror on social media through video and live posts.

According to the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Cruz left the hallways and went to the faculty lounge, where he set up a bipod—like a tripod on which to rest the gun—reloaded his weapon and began firing, like a sniper, at the fleeing students outside. Only hurricane impact-resistant glass in the windows kept the death toll from growing.

In all, Cruz’s attack lasted less than four minutes and left 17 dead. At 2:28 p.m., just seven minutes after entering the building, he ditched the rifle in another stairwell and left the school, attempting to blend in with the crowd of escaping students. The gunman successfully left the campus, running to a Walmart at 2:50 p.m, stopping at a Subway restaurant to get a drink and eventually heading to McDonalds. He was apprehended shortly thereafter after being spotted by a Broward County police officer.

“He looked like a typical high school student, and for a quick moment I thought, ‘Could this be the person who I need to stop?’” said Officer Michael Leonard in an interview after arresting Cruz.

Broward Sheriff's deputy school resource officer Scot Peterson, who was assigned to the school that day, would later be accused of retreating during the shooting while victims were still under attack. Peterson was arrested in June 2019 and faced charges of neglect of a child, culpable negligence and perjury.

The devastation felt by the Florida community—once considered the safest city in the state—was immeasurable. Previous school shootings throughout the country had prompted Stoneman Douglas (and other schools) to practice active shooter drills, and the school had employed an armed officer on campus. But it hadn’t been enough to stop the carnage. Chants for “No More Guns!” broke out at candlelight vigils and over a thousand people showed up to funerals in the days after.

Student survivors took to social media to make their anger known, giving interviews and becoming activists for gun safety legislation. One student, David Hogg, went from school newspaper reporter to activist when his plea to legislators in a CNN interview went viral.

“Please, take action,” he begged lawmakers.

On March 24, less than six weeks after their lives were shattered by violence, students helped organize the March for Our Lives, a demonstration in support of gun violence prevention. Students across the country were encouraged to stage walkouts, and a rally was held in Washington, D.C. There, anti-gun violence protesters from around the country—some survivors of school shootings, and others whose daily lives were affected by gun violence—celebrities, and other activists, spoke to a crowd of thousands, demanding legislative change.

Three weeks later, Florida Governor Rick Scott, a supporter of the NRA, responded. He signed a bill imposing a 21-year-old legal age requirement for gun purchases and a three-day waiting period on all gun transactions. The law also controversially permitted the arming of some school employees.

Nikolas Cruz was charged with 17 counts of first-degree murder and 17 counts of attempted murder.
 
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“...as my eyes grew accustomed to the light, details of the room within emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues, and gold - everywhere the glint of gold. For the moment - an eternity it must have seemed to the others standing by - I was struck dumb with amazement, and when Lord Carnarvon, unable to stand the suspense any longer, inquired anxiously, 'Can you see anything?' it was all I could do to get out the words, 'Yes, wonderful things.”
― Howard Carter, at The Tomb of Tutankhamen - Feb 16, 1923​


"On February 16, 1923, in Thebes, Egypt, English archaeologist Howard Carter enters the sealed burial chamber of the ancient Egyptian ruler King Tutankhamen.

Because the ancient Egyptians saw their pharaohs as gods, they carefully preserved their bodies after death, burying them in elaborate tombs containing rich treasures to accompany the rulers into the afterlife. In the 19th century, archeologists from all over the world flocked to Egypt, where they uncovered a number of these tombs. Many had long ago been broken into by robbers and stripped of their riches.

When Carter arrived in Egypt in 1891, he became convinced there was at least one undiscovered tomb–that of the little known Tutankhamen, or King Tut, who lived around 1400 B.C. and died when he was still a teenager. Backed by a rich Brit, Lord Carnarvon, Carter searched for five years without success. In early 1922, Lord Carnarvon wanted to call off the search, but Carter convinced him to hold on one more year.

In November 1922, the wait paid off, when Carter’s team found steps hidden in the debris near the entrance of another tomb. The steps led to an ancient sealed doorway bearing the name Tutankhamen. When Carter and Lord Carnarvon entered the tomb’s interior chambers on November 26, they were thrilled to find it virtually intact, with its treasures untouched after more than 3,000 years. The men began exploring the four rooms of the tomb, and on February 16, 1923, under the watchful eyes of a number of important officials, Carter opened the door to the last chamber.

Inside lay a sarcophagus with three coffins nested inside one another. The last coffin, made of solid gold, contained the mummified body of King Tut. Among the riches found in the tomb–golden shrines, jewelry, statues, a chariot, weapons, clothing–the perfectly preserved mummy was the most valuable, as it was the first one ever to be discovered. Despite rumors that a curse would befall anyone who disturbed the tomb, its treasures were carefully catalogued, removed and included in a famous traveling exhibition called the “Treasures of Tutankhamen.” The exhibition’s permanent home is the Egyptian Museum in Cairo."

www.openculture.com

The Opening of King Tut’s Tomb, Shown in Stunning Colorized Photos (1923–5)

Inquiring minds want to know, immediately and without any egghead qualifications: Does King Tut’s tomb have hidden rooms or does it not have hidden rooms? Answer? Well, it depends who you ask…. That’s unsatisfying isn’t it?
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Colorized Photos Reveal the Historic Moment King Tut’s Tomb Was Discovered

These images give us an incredible view of one of the most important archeological discoveries of all time.
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42 years ago today, on October 20, 1977, a Convair CV-240 chartered by Lynyrd Skynyrd ran out of fuel and crashed in Gillsburg, Mississippi, near the end of its flight from Greenville, South Carolina, to Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist/vocalist Steve Gaines, backing vocalist Cassie Gaines (Steve's older sister), assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, pilot Walter McCreary and co-pilot William Gray all died as a result of the crash. Twenty others survived.
The pilots attempted an emergency landing on a small airstrip, but the plane crashed in a forest near Gillsburg, Mississippi.
Cassie Gaines was a member of Lynyrd Skynyrd's backup vocal group "The Honkettes". One of the other members of the group, JoJo Billingsley, was not on the plane and was home sick as she had been planning to join the tour in Little Rock, Arkansas, on October 23. Billingsley has said that she had dreamed of the plane crash and begged Allen Collins by telephone not to continue using it.
Do you remember your first thoughts when you heard of the crash?
RIP Cassie, Steve, Ronnie, Dean, Walter and William. They are as free as a bird now...
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big bummer.
 
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Pope Gregory's Edict
On February 16, 600, Pope Gregory I issued a papal edict ordering everyone within earshot of a sneeze to immediately issue a short, three-word prayer asking God for his blessing upon the unfortunate person. Feb 16, 2020

"Pope Gregory I ordered unceasing prayer for divine intercession. Part of his command was that anyone sneezing be blessed immediately ("God bless you"), since sneezing was often the first sign that someone was falling ill with the plague. By CE 750, it became customary to say "God bless you" as a response to one sneezing.
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injinji

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I don’t know who that is.
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He's just your average thru hiker. Other than the corporate sponsorship, award winning trail documentaries, tens of thousands of followers on social media, etc, etc. It is kind of funny him and his friends calling themselves hiker trash with all of them wearing new button down shirts. I'm pretty sure he has never gone into a trashcan after replacement trail runners. He does live out of a converted 8 X 10 storage trailer, which is kind of hiker trashish.

 
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injinji said:
He's just your average thru hiker. Other than the corporate sponsorship, award winning trail documentaries, tens of thousands of followers on social media, etc, etc. It is kind of funny him and his friends calling themselves hiker trash with all of them wearing new button down shirts. I'm pretty sure he has never gone into a trashcan after replacement trail runners. He does live out of a converted 8 X 10 storage trailer, which is kind of hiker trashish.

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Ok I am officially unhip.

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cannabineer said:
Ok I am officially unhip.

(grunts)

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Darwin is not a bad guy, but most hikers make fun of him. (might be a little jealousy there, as he hikes for a living) When he was hiking the PCT and had an injury, Night Crawler was trolling him daily because he was catching up to him everyday. (Night Crawler also hikes for a living, but he is the real deal hiker trash) Most years I send NC 100 bucks at Christmas, but he wasn't on the trail this past season due to covid, so no Christmas bonus from me.
 
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On February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, initiating a controversial World War II policy with lasting consequences for Japanese Americans. The document ordered the removal of resident enemy aliens from parts of the West vaguely identified as military areas.

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese in 1941, Roosevelt came under increasing pressure by military and political advisors to address the nation’s fears of further Japanese attack or sabotage, particularly on the West Coast, where naval ports, commercial shipping and agriculture were most vulnerable. Included in the off-limits military areas referred to in the order were ill-defined areas around West Coast cities, ports and industrial and agricultural regions. While 9066 also affected Italian and German Americans, the largest numbers of detainees were by far Japanese.

On the West Coast, long-standing racism against Japanese Americans, motivated in part by jealousy over their commercial success, erupted after Pearl Harbor into furious demands to remove them en masse to relocation camps for the duration of the war. Japanese immigrants and their descendants, regardless of American citizenship status or length of residence, were systematically rounded up and placed in detention centers. Evacuees, as they were sometimes called, could take only as many possessions as they could carry and were housed in crude, cramped quarters. In the western states, camps on remote and barren sites such as Manzanar and Tule Lake housed thousands of families whose lives were interrupted and in some cases destroyed by Executive Order 9066. Many lost businesses, farms and loved ones as a result.

Roosevelt delegated enforcement of 9066 to the War Department, telling Secretary of War Henry Stimson to be as reasonable as possible in executing the order. Attorney General Francis Biddle recalled Roosevelt’s grim determination to do whatever he thought was necessary to win the war. Biddle observed that Roosevelt was [not] much concerned with the gravity or implications of issuing an order that essentially contradicted the Bill of Rights. In her memoirs, Eleanor Roosevelt recalled being completely floored by her husband’s action. A fierce proponent of civil rights, Eleanor hoped to change Roosevelt’s mind, but when she brought the subject up with him, he interrupted her and told her never to mention it again.

During the war, the U.S. Supreme Court heard two cases challenging the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, upholding it both times. Finally, on February 19, 1976, decades after the war, Gerald Ford signed an order prohibiting the executive branch from re-instituting the notorious and tragic World War II order. In 1988, President Ronald Reagan issued a public apology on behalf of the government and authorized reparations for former Japanese internees or their descendants.
 
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February 21, 1965: In New York City, Malcolm X, an African American nationalist and religious leader, is assassinated by rival Black Muslims while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights.

Born Malcolm Little in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1925, Malcolm was the son of James Earl Little, a Baptist preacher who advocated the Black nationalist ideals of Marcus Garvey. Threats from the Ku Klux Klan forced the family to move to Lansing, Michigan, where his father continued to preach his controversial sermons despite continuing threats. In 1931, Malcolm’s father was murdered by the white supremacist Black Legion, and Michigan authorities refused to prosecute those responsible. In 1937, Malcolm was taken from his family by welfare caseworkers. By the time he reached high school age, he had dropped out of school and moved to Boston, where he became increasingly involved in criminal activities.

In 1946, at the age of 21, Malcolm was sent to prison on a burglary conviction. It was there he encountered the teachings of Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the Nation of Islam, whose members are popularly known as Black Muslims. The Nation of Islam advocated Black nationalism and racial separatism and condemned Americans of European descent as immoral “devils.” Muhammad’s teachings had a strong effect on Malcolm, who entered into an intense program of self-education and took the last name “X” to symbolize his stolen African identity.

After six years, Malcolm was released from prison and became a loyal and effective minister of the Nation of Islam in Harlem, New York. In contrast with civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X advocated self-defense and the liberation of African Americans “by any means necessary.” A fiery orator, Malcolm was admired by the African American community in New York and around the country.

In the early 1960s, he began to develop a more outspoken philosophy than that of Elijah Muhammad, whom he felt did not sufficiently support the civil rights movement. In late 1963, Malcolm’s suggestion that President John F. Kennedy’s assassination was a matter of the “chickens coming home to roost” provided Elijah Muhammad, who believed that Malcolm had become too powerful, with a convenient opportunity to suspend him from the Nation of Islam.

A few months later, Malcolm formally left the organization and made a Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, where he was profoundly affected by the lack of racial discord among orthodox Muslims. He returned to America as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz and in June 1964 founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity, which advocated Black identity and held that racism, not the white race, was the greatest foe of the African American. Malcolm’s new movement steadily gained followers, and his more moderate philosophy became increasingly influential in the civil rights movement, especially among the leaders of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.
www.nytimes.com

Who Really Killed Malcolm X? (Published 2020)

Fifty-five years later, the case may be reopened.
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