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This is a stupid graph. They both fluctuate a decent amount if you look at them on your own, it just doesn't look like it on the combined graph because the number of times "fluctuating" has been used is so much smaller than the number of times "constant" has been used. Harder to see fluctuations in a smaller value.
EDIT: Since this appears to be the top comment, I'll post OP's separate graphs, taken from his post further down.
Seems to me that both vary by approximately the same amount relative to their proportions used.
EDIT 2: Thanks for the gold!
EDIT 3: /u/herptydurr pointed out that even when you blow each graph up to the same size, the usage of "constant" has changed more over time. But you wouldn't be able to tell that from the original graph OP put in the link since the scales are so different. My original intent was more to point out that using the same axis for data sets that differ by an order of magnitude is a poor way to communicate trends. This data would make more sense with 2 y-axes.
He also used to take people hunting on his ranch. He had a convertible with a bar built in so you could drink, drive, and shoot deer at the same time.
edit: adding source [link]
Context:
The US joined WW2 after the beginning. They tried to gather information about various European states to plan their strategies. The US was doing an effort to break with its isolation policy. Unfortunately, Hungary was just plain inconsistent and strange. Hungary was indeed a Monarchy, ruled by an Admiral without a fleet in a landlocked country. Also, Hungary and Romania were allies even if Romania held some lands claimed by Greater Hungary. This conversation happened between a Department of State official and the diplomat of Hungary in Washington, 1942. So yeah, the Americans had the right to be confused.
EDIT: The source for this dialogue is the Diary of the Italian Foreign Minister (Count Galeazzo Ciano). You can find it here.
EDIT2: A polandball comic has already been made about this event by November14. As it is based on the same source, they are very similar. I had no idea of the existence of his/her comic, but you can find this version here.
Edit: Apparently the cause for this phenomenon is the existence of a homonym of the word 'reddit,' which was used more classically, as the "third-person singular present active indicative" of the word reddo, which means "to give back, return" or to "return in profit." Seems pretty similar to the current use of 'Reddit'. To give [share ideas and observations] to the community for profit [sweet, sweet imaginary internet points].
Honestly, anyone that doesn't believe in evolution at this point is the dumb motherfucker. How in the fucking world can somebody look at a process as rapid as anti-biotic resistance and still claim it doesn't exist?
EDIT:To the "macro vs. micro" evolution crowd:
jump to the one minute mark
EDIT2: For those asking for a link to a scientific journal. It might be a little outdated (hey, a lot of books are, am I right?) but it's a decent starting place.
It's not. When my little brother was 8, my grandmother bought him Joyce Meyer's "Battlefield of the Mind for Kids" -- there was a chapter about thinking deeply. She warned that when we "lose focus," and allow our thoughts to wander, we open a door for Satan to fill us with doubts.
The whole thing was bat shit, but that part really got me. I hid the book under a sofa and tivo'd Cosmos (a few weeks later) for little bro to watch instead. No sibling of mine is going to grow up in fear of his own thoughts. What the absolute fuck.
edit: here's an excerpt
Actually it does in a sense.
The criminal-justice system allows detention for months, even years, after a suspect has been formally <em>“placed under investigation”</em>, but not yet charged. Police can also continue to interrogate suspects during that time.
In addition to that there is a system of special non-jury courts for terrorism trials and it has a broad terrorist offence – the so-called <em>“association of wrongdoers”</em> offence – which allows it to cast the net wide and imprison a broad range of suspects.
On the one hand, you have Napoleon's stated intentions, and on the other, what he might have actually had in mind. Here's the former, in a statement he drafted while exiled on St. Helena:
>I went with confidence to England, with the intention of living there, or in America, in the most profound retirement, and taking the name of a colonel, killed at my side, resolved to remain a stranger to every political occurrence, of whatever nature it might be...
>I am at any time prepared to retire into private life, and I reiterate, that when it shall be judged proper to discontinue this cruel place of Exile, I am willing to remain a stranger to politics, whatever events may occur in the world. This is my intention, and anything which may have been said to the contrary is incorrect.
As for his real plans, given his personality, what happened at Elba, and his state of mind at St. Helena, it's hard to believe he would have been content to live quietly in private life for long.
EDIT: Here's another quote—from Emil Ludwig's Napoleon—which sheds some light on the subject:
>From that vantage ground [America] I should have been able to guard France against humiliation from abroad, reaction from within; the dread of my return would have sufficed. In America I should have established the center of a new French fatherland. Within a year, I should have had sixty thousand men grouped around me...It would have been a most natural place of refuge—a land of vast expanses where a man can live in freedom.
First off, many slaves in the ancient world did run away and the possibility was always there. There were also numerous large-scale slave revolts, most famously the one led by Spartacus that had to be put down by a Roman army. To prevent mass escapes, Roman slave owners used either the carrot or the stick. Branding, shackling, abuse, and torture were used to keep many slaves in check, while others in more favored positions were given a stipend (Lat. peculium) and much more independence. The most-favored slaves were those belonging to the emperor, who, along with his freedmen, had a hand in administering the empire.
Harper, Slavery in the Late Roman World, AD 275-425 is excellent recent study on the subject. Here he discusses different types of incentives offered to slaves.
To give just one example of a fugitive slave from a documentary source, P.Cair.Preis. 1 (148 CE) (image) is a report of judicial proceedings from the province of Egypt concerning an enslaved woman named Eutychia, who was purchased for 1,160 drachmas (a hefty sum, enough to employ some 40 men for a month). According to the report, "after she stayed with him (the new owner) for a short time, she ran away taking with her the sale contracts and much of his belongings."
Your engineering example is spot on, and it is not specific for USSR only. This recent photo from India has made rounds because the world suddenly realized that in India most space engineers are women. It does not mean however that modern India is great in terms of gender equality. It means that different cultures can have different interesting idiosyncrasies about which occupations are more suitable for men and women, producing results that are strange for a Westerner. For example, in USSR, as well as in modern Russia, most physicians were women (about 70% overall, up to 95% in some fields of medicine). Compared to the US, it is great. But is it because of the gender equality? Not quite; it's just a local peculiarity. Somehow during the 20th century caring about the sick became a specialization of women (even though in 19th century it was firmly and undoubtedly a male-dominated profession).
It reminds me of this story about how Navy pilots are ordered to dump fuel before the end of the fiscal year or they'll receive cut-backs to their budget. It's a ludicrous and broken system.
Is there context that makes it clear that 'piece' is not simply a misspelling of 'peace?' The reading that stands out to me is a request that the artillery give things a rest.
EDIT: In the book cited, there is no context given whatsoever, not even to the extent of which side sent the telegram.
More women buy underwear for men than men do, so yes, having a nice bulge is attractive to the buyer: men's significant others. Source
Edit: here's another, non-blog source - The Story of Men's Underwear
Men are now buying more of their own underwear, but women still buy a significant portion: anywhere from 25% to over 50%.
Side note on the onside kick: A "surprise" onside kick works 60% of the time. It's mathematically benificial to try them more often than coaches do because the 60% probability of getting the ball back is worth losing the average 30 yards of field position. However, these statistics were taken when the kick off was on the 30 rather than the 35. So take these statistics with a grain of salt.
Source: Jeffery Ma, The House Advantage
Actually, seating like this is called "short term seating". It's for exactly the purpose op states, moving customers quickly. Though, this is a bit of an extreme example. Source: [link]
Sounds like her and her friend decided to set up her husband for a nice lucrative divorce case. Cheating and "rape!" What could better convince a family court that she deserves all his assets?
The fact is, peaceful negotiations won't overturn these abuses of law and egalitarianism.
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It's called "war" and until men realize and start acting like it is "war" - these women will continue to get away with these immense tyrannies and injustices. Women are just as capable of taking responsibility for their own choices when they drink as men. There is no greater insult to actual rape victims than stating that getting drunk and having sex is pretty much the same thing.
The use of women for sexual seduction in war is nothing new - and the liberals are employing it wholeheartedly:
The Red Cross segregated white and black blood until 1950, despite the knowledge that segregation served no real medical purpose. Segregated blood supplies became an especially heated issue during WWII.
Thank you for this comment.
This seems like a rehashed idea from the mid-20th century. I was instantly reminded of a Buckminster Fuller quote:
>“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”
As much as it makes sense, maybe the hippie ideal doesn't mesh with mass society and bureaucracy?
Their exploits during WWII were detailed in hundreds of letters which were 'discovered' and compiled into a fascinating (to me, at least) book. If anyone's interested in WWII history stuff, it's worth checking out.
EDIT: Looks like the book is available via Google Books!
Why does the bump mean there was temporary internet? Doesn't this search through books for a word or phrase, not the number of web searches for it? Also, when you actually search "pokemon", the bump in year 1870 doesn't appear.
I can't believe someone would just make something up on the internet.
The turning of the cheek is to refuse being treated as an inferior, or being humiliated. The verses following it show Jesus taking the idea of fair revenge(Old Testament teaching), and teaching his followers to forget revenge all together: fair revenge or not.
The catholic teaching acknowledges the natural human reaction is one of retaliation.
When someone robes you of your clothes, he is doing you wrong and it's understandable that you want to rob him back. But "do not seek revenge."
It's important to understand that -not seek revenge- is not pretending a problem doesn't exist, or ignoring it. It's not head-in-sand syndrome.
Rather seeking other ways of solving a problem and calming the immediate situation.
edit: so let's say you're an average person during that time. You're walking back to your village and someone robs you with a knife. You could pull out your knife and get into a knife fight that might kill you, him or both of you. Jesus is saying instead diffuse the situation and deal with it later.
If you like this, you might also like another book from 1825 called "The Physiology of taste".
Link: [link]
It's sort of blend of philosophy and food... a series of meditations on not just matters of cooking and eating, but also sleep, dreams, exhaustion, and even death, which the author defines as the "complete interruption of sensual relations" He was like an early foodie!
One little thing I found interesting is how similar the recipe for cheese fondue between both texts:
> The Cook Book > Place five or six eggs in a saucepan, mix in a third of their weight of grated Parmesan cheese, and half this quantity of butter, and stir well over a slack fire until the eggs are set. Pour the mixture into a dish, and serve very hot. Slices of toast should go with this.
vs.
> The Physiology of Taste > Calculate the number of eggs in proportion to the guests. Take one-third of the weight of Gruyere and one-sixth of the weight of butter. Beat the eggs and mingle them with the butter and cheese in a casserole. Put the kettle on a hot fire and stir it until the mixture is perfect. Put in more or less salt in proportion as the cheese is old or new. Serve it hot, with good wine, of which one should drink much. The feast will see sights.
The latter text also has gems such as this:
> All the guests looked at each other with a perceptible smile on every face. A bishop from Paris, however, must know how to eat. On the next day there was a great deal of gossip, and people that met at the corners, said “Well did you see how our bishop ate his fondue? I heard from a person who was present that he used a spoon!” The bishop had some followers, innovators who preferred the spoon, but the majority preferred the fork, and an old grand-uncle of mine used to laugh as if he would die, as he told how M. de Madot ate fondue with a spoon.
And just to add some more salt.
The real-life Kisaragi didn't get sunk by some fancy 1000-lb AP bombs dropped from a naval bomber.
Nope.
TL;DR Ur waifu got owned by a sparkler.
No, what he is mistaking for teeth are actually what we geologists call hackle fringe fracture pattern.
During the Cold War, the fear of an "atomic Pearl Harbor" was recurrent phrase used by US policymakers to describe an unexpected, undeclared Soviet sneak attack that might try to decapitate the US policy structure or the US military structure. (When the favored terminology shifted from "atomic" to "nuclear" in the late 1950s, the "Pearl Harbor" term shifted too.)
So there's a sort of connection there — it became more than the event itself, it became a symbol of vulnerability, surprise attacks, of "expecting the unexpected," and etc.
But did Pearl Harbor qua Pearl Harbor have the kind of cultural resonance that 9/11 did? After WWII, I'm not so sure. The end of WWII provided so many other cultural resonances — the power of the Soviets, the power of the atomic bomb, the power of the long-range bomber, etc. — whose influence vastly overshadows the actual events of Pearl Harbor. It seems to me that the invocation of Pearl Harbor in the postwar/Cold War is in reference to these events — e.g. the "atomic Pearl Harbor" where the atomic bomb is really the subject, and Pearl Harbor is just the way to say "it could happen."
There's surprisingly little info on the net about the toxicity of crocodile bile. The vast majority of search results are about this news story. Anyone have any info on this? I'm curious, didn't know this was a thing.
EDIT: I looked a bit further, I found one source that says that in certain areas of Tanzania and Mozambique, it is widely believed that crocodile bile is highly poisonous.
> Thus, in several African countries, it is added to beer or porridge of an unsuspecting person, the victim is supposed to die within 24 hours. Recent investigations in Zimbabwe showed no signs of toxicity in mice and monkeys which were given solutions orally with bile material.
So I guess it's a thing, but the science is certainly lacking. The story may very well be fake or exaggerated, but as of right now, it's been picked up by just about ever major news source out there.
This seems culturally appropriative to me. You're using the stereotype of the "mystical" Native American medicine man, exaggerating the drug use. I saw your post above and I understand what you are saying about everyone's "medicine man" but they way you use it on the shirt seems somewhat disrespectful to Native American culture.
I the work itself is amazing. You definitely made it your own with the psychedelic elements and I love the pattern work. I just question some of the content.
Relevant links:
Book on cultural appropriation in psychedelic imagry
I also linked this before but it doesn't really make sense here [link]
The Grand Marshall of the NYC St. Patrick's day parade have historically been militant IRA supporters.
One of the former Grand Marshalls of it was one of the ringleaders of the main US-Ireland gunrunning from the late 60s to 1980 (they brought over all the armalites). Him and all of his co-defendants walked free after a FBI sting that caught them skimming money from NORAID and caught them red handed with hundreds of guns, rounds of ammo, and grenades. FBI called it "Operation Bushmills". They claimed they were working with the blessing of the CIA, when the CIA was asked to verify this claim by the trial judge the CIA stated that they could not confirm or deny anything the judge asked.
USA was polishing, USA holds. After the Civil War the United States became singular as seen here
Try another word instead, "drunkard". That one goes to Middle English, 500 years ago, from Middle German.
i'm not sure about the historic origins but your pretty much correct on this point. Essentially waving the white flag needs to be accompanied by an envoy for negotiations as a white flag either denotes surrender or simply a wish to parley (according to Hague convention in 1899). The white flag is a flag of truce intended to stop hostilities enough that an envoy can reach the opposing side/communicate with the other side and discuss terms (which may or may not involve surrender).
On your "no point was it a direct sign for surrender" idea: in a siege waving a white flag before the start of an assault especially if terms had already been given the white flag was at the very least an implicit declaration of surrender
It appears that the "Playpen" was designed for retirees rather than current workers.
edit: Seriously. Anyone who spends a moment looking at the source for the word frequencies realizes that this is a side-effect of modern OCR on older typographic standards.
This might as well say "The archaic word 'ftick' seems to have fallen out of use Since 1820." It's not like people in Georgian times were busily writing the scripts for modern crime dramas.
You might find this book interesting, especially the section on "Wives and Crusading: The 'Canonical Quandry'."
According to Hodgson, "the fact that crusaders needed constant reminders about their behaviour suggests that adultery was a genuine problem." But angering wives wasn't the center focus. Angering God was. Prostitutes (& wives) were occasionally thrown out of the military camps in order to soften God's wrath (138).
Some other interesting points Hodgson brings up:
The wives' potentially infidelity was the focus of discussion during the Crusades, with the husbands unable to fulfill their marital roles came the fear women would commit adultery. Also, wives not wanting their husbands to join the crusades was seen as a serious problem, and sermons/speeches encouraged men to leave behind "the alluring affection of wives" for the greater religious good. According to Guibert of Nogent: "the most beautiful wives were reviled like something corrupt, and formerly more valued than any jewel." William of Newburgh "blamed the failure of the Second Crusade on a large presence of women" (Louis VII was supposedly bewitched by a woman's beauty & couldn't leave her behind).
So seeing prostitutes was seen as bad by the people who wrote stuff down (elite white men). Even having sex with your wife (unless she encouraged you join the Crusades by doing so) was even seen as bad at some junctures.
Korean folk tale.
There is a very easy answer to the question re: de Beauvoir and Radio Vichy, which is that Sartre (and likely the French Resistance hierarchy) knew about it entirely, and probably all had a laugh at how they pulled a fast one right under the noses of Petain and Hitler.
It must always be remembered that the Resistance was a clandestine army (and largely an extension of Allied intelligence), and in order to maintain its clandestine nature it had to allow for a certain illusion that nothing was amiss.
Nevertheless, there were formal decisions about what was allowed in order to keep up appearances and what was outright cooperation --the same as undercover cops are formally allowed to do certain crimes (say, consume drugs) but not others (like murder) for the sake of infiltration.
For intellectuals and artists, the line in radio was actually quite simple: it was considered outright cooperation to work with the German-controlled Radio Paris (which produced outright propaganda). It was considered acceptable to work with Radio Vichy, which was not under formal German control and which produced entertainment.
Simone de Beauvoir was not producing propaganda for the Nazis. According to all records, she was on a program that aired French medieval literature and practically all of her scripts were thinly disguised propagnda for the Resistance by choosing books about French outlaws and Robin Hood type figures.
Source: Edith Thomas, "A Passion for the Resistance"
If you search for British English you see that this is still the regular spelling.
The German wartime propaganda employed the term «Flintenweib». «Flinte» is the term for an outmoded gun and «Weib» is the derogatory term for a cantankerous woman. English cognates: «flintlock wife». Rough translation: «shotgun bitch». According to the dictionary of war that term was in use since 1918 in rightwing literature. According to ngrams it indeed appeared in 1918 and entered common parlance during the civil war in Spain.
>"It is known that behind the red lines there were Flintenweiber who stopped the routed men in the case of a panic and when their flight was unstoppable, they had to shoot in into their own people. These Flintenweiber were cruel furies, as they could have only been a product of Bolshevism. If compassion could be roused in the hearts of Red Guards at the sight of the suffering of innocent people, these Weiber were utterly brutalized and devoid of human emotion."
>Cordt v. Brandt, Baltikumer. Schicksal eines Freikorps, Berlin 1939. The German text is available if you click on "term" above.
During the war in the USSR the German propaganda would also paint the «Flintenweiber» as part-time whores. In 1944 there was a directive to treat them as «political» prisoners rather than prisoners of war which means, in accordance to the «Komissarenbefehl» of 1941, that they had to be shot.
edit: mopping up bad grammar
Mustafa Kemal and Kemalist forces also had a huge part in the Greek Genocide of 1914-1923. 750,000-900,000 Anatolian Greeks were slaughtered at the hands of Turks. Eventually, both sides agreed to a massive ejection and de jure denaturalization of 1.5 million orthodox Greeks in Turkey and 350,000 Muslims in Greece
Edit: also culpable in Armenian Genocide
Edit2: also also Assyrian Genocide
Credit to /u/philanthrosaurus
Erm, no:
Publications using the term in the 1960s and 1970s:
Some samples:
1957: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Issue 13
> And then suppose you were to get a good droid mechanic to convert them
1976: The Colorado Engineer, Volumes 73-79:
> Back in 1969, Quazar Industries, Inc. of New Jersey was the "parent" of Klatu, a full- sized working droid, and began leasing it to various corporations as an attention-getter. This droid has over thirty-one brother and sister droids being used to ...
That is correct. Our weapons are designed to kill. Evidence has shown that 5.56 x 45 mm rounds are effective at short to medium ranges, for which they were designed. Shots that wound but do not kill are the result of shot placement rather than an intentional design aspect of the bullet or weapon. To quote this article (pdf download):
"Shot placement trumps all other variables"
(Pg 7, pt 2)
Also according to this book:
"Military doctrine has never been simply to wound the enemy, and a wounded enemy might still be able to fight back. Granted, there are instances when the enemy attempts to wound soldiers and use them as bait to fire on rescuers, but such incidents are simply taking advantage of the situation. Weapon developers do not design firearms with the aim of only wounding the enemy."
(Middle of the first paragraph.)
Allow me to help with some minor research:
El Dorado, the Golden one, was in reference to the mass amounts of gold worn by the chief of the Muisca tribe of Colombia. Through rumors and hear-say, the man became a city, city became a kingdom, kingdom became an empire and the empire became a legend. The Muisca believe in the Sun-God Sue and some others, but none in the form of an armadillo.
The Munduruku people of Brazil have a creation story involving the armadillo Daiiru who help their creation God in the beginning. They don't have a lot of cases involved with large amounts of gold.
Finally, Cortes in the movie is likely Hernán Cortés, conqueror. He was not quoted as affecting the Muisca or the Munduruku, but felling the Aztec empire. As far as I have snooped, they have no deities that are armadillo oriented.
This has just been during my lunch hour on my iPhone, so there could be something deeper there.
a) Skinny shaming is irrelevant to fat acceptance. It kind of invalidates your point when you resort to the same kind of abuse.
b) Skinny shaming has been going on a lot more and longer than you seem to realize, there's just far less stigma attached to it. Look at the 90s when the media made it a fad to shame anorexia and bulimia, and anyone naturally slender got thrown in the same boat.
There is one important prerequisite for cheese: domesticated dairy animals. So /u/Hinmatoowyalahtqit is asking the right question here. Our only good candidate for dairy production in the Americas is the llama. In the modern Andes, llama milk is consumed, but not at a level worth mentioning. Camelids have rather small mammary organs and have not been bred as dairy animals.
There's no archaeological evidence for the practice that I know of, but we do see two historical documents mentioning llama milk.
- Bishop Vincente de Valverde wrote in a 1553 letter that folks in Cuzco were selling: >lana de ovejas de aca; queso y leche; algodon, pescado seco, quando se toma; cantidad en las pesquerias; coca... >Llama wool; cheese and milk; cotton, weighed dry; stuff from the fish markets; coca leaves...
His is an isolated mention, and if you read Spanish you can see that the colonists had to make up a few phrases for new encounters. Here Valverde calls llamas ovejas de aca, "the sheep from here." Najera in the next reference calls them ovejas de tierra, "Ground Sheep." There's some questions over whether Valverde did mean what we know as queso and leche today.
- Alonso González de Nájera mentions that los indios consumed llama milk in his ~1605 book. However, he points out that they do it especialmente en tiempo de hambre, "especially in times of hunger," and that they can get no less milk from a llama than they can blood from a ram's head without doing it harm (read: not much).
And that's about it. Valverde does not specify that it is leche de llama, and Najera writes too far after conquest to assume it happened before. We cannot say that it never happened, but it's not worth bringing up in any discussion of pre-Columbian diet.
Everyone needs to take a look at this google ngram search, which puts words used in literature in perspective.
"Isolationism" and "isolationist" were just never used, until there was a tiny trickel in the 1920 leading up to an explosion post 1940. It follows the ussage tragectory of almost any other polically loaded term I searched for. It's a invented word used to politically justify the massive interventionism we've used ever since the end of World War II.
Had to google this... it's a widespread belief that it's super-poisonous:
Lab tests say no. However, someone clarified that it was supposed to be mixed with 2 plant roots to make a poison. It's said yes it was poisonous, but with hardly any attempt to justify that. I mean when a lab does science you usually get chemical names and stuff.
From US. Congressional Hearings on Immigration in 1920:
> Mr. Hudspeth. ... I stood here and did all in my power to keep the "wetback " and the " grayback" and the " blueback " from coming across. And I stand here to-day asking for that. > >The Chairman. Let us get a definition of those terms. What is a wetback "? > >Mr. Hudspeth: You have heard a "wetback" described; he is a fellow that crosses the river surreptitiously. > >The Chairman: What is a "blueback"? > >Mr. Hudspeth. That is just a little bit of pleasantry; they are all the same. They are the fellows that come through the underground passage, that has been very ably and aptly described by Mr. Roberts, and that I know nothing about in my district. > >Mr. Welty. The reason they are called "wetbacks" is because they get wet in coming across, is it? > >Mr. Hudspeth. Yes: they get wet when they swim the river coming to this country. They come over here; and the only ambition they have is to fill their stomachs when they come here.
Reminds me of this excerpt from the sci-fi novel by John Ringo, Gust Front.
Read from the top of the page down the break, trust me...
Also, those spices weren't just spices. They were mostly opium.
We can see from this graph that the change really occoured in the mid-1980s.
The story as to how that happened is here:
What are you talking about, you are arguing how you feel things should be I am stating the official position of Cuba. How you feel things should be is irrelevant.
Cuba offered to pay and was paying before relations went to shit.
edit
to clear up the poster's confusion below. They confused the US registry of claims which demanded $6 billion in 1972 with Cuba's sincere offer of compensation to make amends
In 1972, the Justice Department’s Foreign Claims Settlement Commission (FCSC) registered 5,911 claims for confiscated personal and business property with an estimated value $6 billion.[2]
The United States established a registry of claims against the Cuban government, ultimately developing files on 5,911 specific companies. The Cuban government has refused to discuss the effective and adequate compensation of U.S. claims.
Cuba has offerred to make compensation but will not acknowledge the registry of claims.
That kind of thinking about personal responsibility is addressed so nicely in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
First the options were inside the installer.
Then, the option was placed before the download.
Then, they moved the option further and further away from the download button. Guess not enough people were tricked into doing so.
N.B. Why the fuck is this entire self post a repost?! I can't even reproduce the issue anymore (though that may be because of platform detection or so - I'm on Linux.)
Make it case-insensitive, and mess around with the smoothing. There actually is a tiny bump in 1894 or so, along with a slightly bigger bump around 1947.
Edit: It shows up as "Pokemon" not "pokemon", which is why you may have missed it. A more rational explanation is bad OCR, like /u/ChronosDrag0n mentioned
I believe it is percentage of occurrences of that ngram across all ngrams for that year. So if you have a single word like "reddit" it is the percentage of occurrences of the unigram (in this case, word) "reddit" across all unigrams that occurred each year. If you searched for the phrase "to be or not" it would be looking at all combinations of four consecutive words (4gram) across all english language books and giving you the percentage that are the phrase "to be or not".
This is why the word "the" is at 6%. Basically 6% of all words in english language books are usually the word "the".
I agree the screen capture isn't particularly beautiful visualization, but the interactive visualization on the Google site I'd say is pretty good at doing exactly what you want a visualization to do.
21st century America has had a big propaganda push to "Support the Troops" in the first and second Gulf War. Nifty graph!
Part of it is probably jingoism and a manipulative attempt to garner support for the war.
On the other hand, veterans who fought in the Vietnam war were targeted for abuse as part of the ongoing protest against that war. Young men were drafted against their will, sent around the world, fought in a gruesome and vicious civil war that scarred many of them for life, then returned home to be vilified and blamed for the violence they suffered.
Lessons from that generation have been taken to heart, and the US now generally blames the politicians for policy and respects the soldiers as guys doing a tough job. Thus, "Thanks for your service" carries a lot of baggage.
Now look at this:
The difference is that Bill Gates was already CEO of Microsoft and Bill Clinton was already president when they played golf, while Putin and Rotenberg were friends since they were children. How lucky is it that one of Putin's close childhood friends became a billionaire? I consider it especially lucky since he went to college to be a PE teacher, worked as a judo instructor, then took his knowledge of physical education to open a bank and make billions.
But you're right- the idea that Rotenberg receives some kind of special treatment is absurd.
Yo, don't be overly reliant on tools you do not understand.
The only text Google has from before the advent of the internet was printed materials. Informal slang didn't get into the printed corpus.
For example "23 Skidoo"
23 skidoo (phrase)
From Wikipedia
23 skidoo (sometimes 23 skiddoo) is an American slang phrase popularized during the early 20th century, first attested before World War I and becoming popular during the 1920s.
23 skidoo has been described as "perhaps the first truly national fad expression and one of the most popular fad expressions to appear in the U.S," to the extent that "Pennants and arm-bands at shore resorts, parks, and county fairs bore either [23] or the word 'Skiddoo'."[1]
OH, LOOK! NO HITS ON 23 SKIDOO BEFORE 1938 - OVER 25 YEARS LATE!!!
Your assertion that the Allies used the term "Axis of Evil" is not supported by facts.
A Google Ngram search of the terms "Rome - Berlin axis" "axis powers" and "axis of evil" shows that the first two terms were widely used from 1935-45, but that "axis of evil" was essentially unheard-of in English language media until 1975.
Edit- A search of French written media also indicates that les puissances de l'Axe was/is the preferred term, and Axe du mal was similarly unheard of.
Humans weren't necessarily at the top of the food chain. There used to conspiracy theorists who posited that round holes found in early human skulls were "evidence" of aliens or civilizations with guns or at least arrows. The holes were actually caused by the fangs of great cats preying on humans. This may have had an impact on populations.
Cites: A Hominid Skull's Revealing Holes
Eocene Biodiversity: Unusual Occurrences and Rarely Sampled Habitats
Edit2: google "leopards and hominid skulls" to get more cites. It's kinda unobvious how to get this topic in google so as to avoid a wall of conspiracy theorists and creationist websites
The Israeli War Crimes Commission indicates that less than 0.1% of Polish gentiles collaborated with the Nazis.
>Postwar statistics of the Israeli War Crime Commission indicated that only 7,000 Poles out of a population of over twenty million ethnic Poles collaborated with the Nazis
So I think I figured out what the book Nono was reading at the end was in reference too.
The book was titled Chavvot.
Some googling brought me to this link:
The important part copied here:
"Bacharach published Chavvot Yair, his great collection of 'teshuvot' ... Within Chavvot Yair, Bacharach responds to the question as whether a woman, who is in the early stages of pregnancy, who has conceived in the context of an adulterous relationship, and who is now profoundly remorseful and in deep sorrow for what she has done, may abort"
Teshuvot are written rulings and decisions of Jewish law.
You can read more about that here:
That specific example I cited above directly correlates to the story. Was it okay for Machiko, sad and remorseful of her decision, to sacrifice her unborn child from an adulterous relationship?
My take is this. Machiko sacrificed herself to save her husband. This should be something that grants her reincarnation, not the void. However, she was pregnant, and if also choosing to sacrifice her child was considered murder, then she should be sent to the void.
Nono was basically looking up religious rulings on the situation to see if they made the right call or not.
Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil By Tom Mueller
P. 173 "Yet the trade in bogus olive oil continued undisturbed: in 1922, two years into Prohibition, US Health Commissioner Royal S. Copeland observed that "there is more profit in adulterating olive oil than there is in bootlegging. The practice of adulterating this oil has grown until it has become a menace to the honest importers in the trade."
Continued testing by the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health, and later by the FDA, revealed extensive adulteration in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s not only by oil importers but also by certain California producers themselves. In the late 1990s, having failed to halt oil adulteration, the FDA stopped testing for it.
I did not read this book, there may be more information in the book.
What do you mean "how so"? The instructions are insuring that jurors don't hold the prosecution's case to an unreasonable standard of proof. They aren't saying "oh hey if she says it happened it happened". Physical evidence is not required...but that is not unusual for many different types of cases.
From what I understand, engineers and stokers were paid pretty decent. They had to be. Shoveling 4 tons of coal per stoker per day (625 tons per day, 24 boilers = ~26 tons per boiler per day = 1.085 tons per boiler per hour, split between two men. So half a ton per hour per person. Stokers worked 2 four hour shifts per 24 hours - 4 on, 8 off.) is back breaking work. Also, very dangerous. Some guys had to get into the ships machinery while it was running to keep it lubricated. They weren't rich, but it was among the best paying jobs you could get if you weren't educated. I can't find a source that shows what they were actually paid atm though =/
EDIT - found something. [link]
A stoker was paid about 5 pounds per month, which translates into 433 pounds or $707 in todays money. So it would be a poverty wage today, for sure. It appears I was mistaken.
> Not even Bart Ehrman would assert that with a straight face.
"Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John did not write the Gospels." - Bart Ehrman, <em>Jesus, Interrupted</em> - page 5
In fairness, I don't know for certain what Mr. Ehrman's face looked like when he wrote that.
The First Battle of Meggido is believed to be the first battle ever accurately recorded, and took place around 1469BCE. Not only was it the first battle recorded, it also included mercenary involvement. This was an important battle, as it helped to revive Egyptian power as well as established an Egyptian presence in Asia.
Alan Axelrod's book, Mercenaries: A Guide to Private Armies and Private Military Companies states that the Egyptian army was too large to be made up of just Egyptians, due to their population at the time, and that they must have outsourced help from elsewhere. Many of the mercenaries were vagabonds, known as The Sea Peoples.
To be fair, his response wasn't exactly the most clever turn of phrase ever either.
"Yes I have. "
Also, I think that ("you've / I've never _____ such ______") may have been a common exclamation format back then.
E.g. "oh dear, it was quite the commotion! You've never seen such a ruckus! "
Found some evidence of that, actually:
Google's NGram suggests that you might be right (though of course it won't account for massive mentions in documentaries and television programs.
It appears that there was a spike around 1780 or so, another one at the beginning of the 19th century, another one in 1822, and then a long decline until 1980 when it started going back up.
Gibbons published his Decline and Fall of the Roman Civilization in 1783 (which is why I pointed to him as the primary culprit in /r/badhistory). In 1802 there's another spike which might be a result of Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the reports back to Europe of the various scientists, naturalists, zoologists, etc. that had come with the expedition.
In 1822 the Rosetta Stone was translated, so the increased spike in reference to the Library of Alexandria in that year might be a result of renewed interest due to that.
Since then it's been a steady decline until 1980, where it starts it's slow creep back up.
It was always called climate change. That was the preferred scientific nomenclature. Global warming is what is driving climate change, but there was never any 'switch' between the terms.
EDIT: For the butthurt downvoters, I have proof, so kindly fuck off.
Henri Giffard invented the steam ejector in 1858 to pump feedwater into steam boilers against the tremendous pressure inside. A feedwater pump must be extremely reliable because if you can't pump water in, the water level will drop and you'll get a boiler explosion. The invention is the first practical application of Bernoulli's principle and had no moving parts hence its extraordinary reliability.
The conservative minds of the day didn't quite know what to make of it. [source]
Theodora and her daughters had the title of senatrix in the 9th-10th centuries.
The Anonymous German Facebook page is a cesspool. It is and was a propaganda page for a very long time. You get the point as soon as you scroll through their posts. For example, at the moment they are heavily bashing on German Media for being allegedly biased while they use RT as a source on a daily basis. They hate on Islam and use Nazi-slang like "Lügenpresse". Just take a look at this graph and you get why. Another example for bias? While totally supporting PeGiDa as the true movement they discredit the Anti-Demos as organzied by zionist goverment agencies. This is NOT an Anonymous page. I know about this 'everyone can be anonymous', but the admins of this page are AGAINST what anonymous stands for. Because last time I checked, spreading propaganda and hate on the internet wasn't on the menu.
There's a lot of concern in this thread about sources, and I actually wrote a paper inspired by this podcast, so if anyone would like a couple of sources:
Yes, and in particular, "decapitated head" is well-established: Google ngrams quickly confirms that through the 20th century, about 3-6% of occurrences of "decapitated" in the Google books corpus are followed by "head". So heads are one of the most common things to get described as decapitated.
The phrase "computer codes" is dated. I went to the Google Ngram Viewer and searched for "computer codes" (without the quotes) between 1900 and 2010. Results: the phrase never showed up (in books) before 1940. Then appearances rose steadily until around 1986. It has been in steady decline since then. I'd give you an URL but it doesn't seem like there's an easy way to share one. The overall site is [link]
Started summarizing this review article, then found someone had already done it in Melanoma: Critical Debates. The takeaway is: you should have no problem with HRT.
Their summary of current knowledge about the relationship between hormones and melanoma includes: > - Women diagnosed with melanoma have a better prognosis than men, irrespective of known differences in site of disease. > - Recent data show no evidence for oestrogen receptors in melanoma. > - There is no evidence that use of either the oral contraceptive pill or HRT increases the risk of melanoma. > - There are no data to deny women with a previous history of melanoma subsequent use of either the pill or HRT.
I hope this cheers you up a bit, and I hope things go well for you at the dermatologist and beyond.
Most first-generation immigrants actually work towards assimilation, and stay well-clear of extremism. The vast majority of those "immigrants," involved in these sorts of acts are actually second-generation or third-generation, meaning they're not immigrants, but rather the children or grandchildren of immigrants. There are a lot of potential explanations for this, but regardless, the problem is definitely not new immigrants choosing to isolate/segregate. The CRS talks a bit about this, and then of course there's Leiken's work, though he's a bit angry for me.
If you remove smoothing, the jump will be even sharper:
I call statistical shenanigans.
If you search for the particular years (1920-1921):
You will see a lot of latin texts...
Interestingly enough, it gives you 6 pages of searches, while similar search for 1918-1919 gives you 9 pages of searches.
We're not really having a conversation about what's "acceptable", but whether it was a mistake or not. Considering the rest of that story was not written in 18th century British English and contained other minor typographical errors, it was a spelling mistake, not a a purposeful effort to use an archaic spelling. It wouldn't matter so much, but we're talking about a school teacher, whose writing serves as an example of correct spelling to children. Nobody today should be learning 18th century English instead of 21st century English; it only makes them look foolish in front of potential colleges and employers.
Well Pat Conroy once referred to the popularity of Gone With the Wind as "the last great posthumous victory of the Confederacy," which is a quote that's stuck with me.
Source - [link]
Andre did not say this. According to some research I've done in like two minutes, it's a letter to him. He did not write it.
Which study would you like? The Encyclopedia of School Crime and Violence mentions the study referenced in the article as well as two others that suggest the number is actually in the 23-33% range. I'm actually surprised any of these studies even get completed, because the universities do everything in their power to make sure no one really knows how many assaults go on in their backyards. Can't really blame them for that, 'cause it would definitely be bad for business. Then again, due to their reluctance to share (and issues that are fairly unique to the investigation of sexual assault) there are lots of problems with the current methodology used to acquire and make sense of those statistics.
I have no idea whether the documentary in question is "slanted bullshit" or not. Do you think the police followed proper procedure in handling the Winston case?
The one in Nebraska is a stretch. The location on the map looks to be closer to Big Alkali Lake too, not Walgren Lake (formerly Alkali Lake) which is where the myth exists. I grew up nearby, but never heard anything about it except from a couple older people and they all said it was just a beaver. Excitement seemed to die out in the 1980s. Plus, the guy who popularized the legend is a known hoaxer. Here's a recent article with more information.
I'm pretty into cryptids, but this one never interested me. The place has always just been somewhere you go to fish and drink excessive amounts of alcohol.
I am sure it is simply a change of spelling from original Leksvold. For the etymology (in Swedish), which suggests it is in origin a place name, see:
Ortnamnen i Göteborgs och Bohus län: Ortnamnen i inlands nordre härad. 1. del. Bebyggelsenamn. 2. Naturnamn, Göteborgs högskola. Institutet för ortnamns-och dialektforskning, Elanders boktr., 1975, p. 399. [link]
"Leksvold skulle kunna innehålla appell. lek, betecknande forntida lekplatser."
"Leksvold could contain the root 'play' [lek], denoting ancient playgrounds."
Vold can mean "wall, bank, rampart" (thus, an enclosed place).
> Tell me what you want done, and I will try it, if I have to walk from here to the East of East and fight the wild Were-worms in the Last Desert.
The Hobbit, Or, There and Back Again By John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, page 19
The ICC, like the UN, is perceived by Israel to be biased against them. And with good reason.
> During the December 1997 session, this provision generated heated debates, as a result of which four options were submitted for discussion at the Rome Conference.‘°' At Rome, it soon became clear that a large majority of delegations preferred a provision based on the wording of the Additional Protocol. However. the Arab delegations wanted to adapt this language. in order to make clear that an occupying power is not only responsible for this act if it deliberately organizes the transfer of its own population into occupied territory, but also if it does not take effective steps to prevent the population itself from organizing such a transfer. After some negotiations, the words “directly or indirectly" were added to this provision.
The Arab delegations exercise their influence in the ICC to attack their enemy (Israel).
Bonvin is right: it's not a typo. "they nere" = "thine ear."
The n is written with following word, cf. "my nuncle" in early Modern English. This is slight orthographic quirk of Middle English and Early Modern English.
Interestingly, the same process behind these spellings--i.e. linking final /n/ to the following vowel--led to the reinterpretation of napron to apron, numpire to umpire, and norange to orange, just to name a few.
See here for more
By the way, "theyn" is a nattested spelling for "thine". NB: the difference between the letters y and i is negligible in this period.
Source: Trust me, I'm a medievalist.
Edit: More links for your enjoyment.
The best I could find is the story.
It's on page 43.
The game was on October 14 2006 against the LA Kings. Marty was thrown out because of Rule 76.1 saying goalies cannot take faceoffs.
Using google books ngram viewer, probably...
Hopefully it has an API, most stuff does.
You're welcome! This just happened to be on my front page...otherwise I'd never have seen it. If you Google "ian fieggen inge wilhelm gustloff sinking"...it pulls up several links, including an excerpt from the book, 'Death in the Baltic: The World War II Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff' where Inge is talking about her Mother's retelling/experience.
My fingers are crossed Ian or Inge might pop in to share some of their knowledge, but it's been ages since we've had any contact...so there's no knowing.
A quote from the book: "What hurt me most about it the most was everybody would talk about the Titanic," Inge Bendrich Roedecker said, remembering her mother's experience. "My mother said, 'I was on a boat that sank.' And people snickered. I feel the ridicule in the room to this day."
*Edit for formatting.