March is Women's History Month
via HistoryNet
Louisa May Alcott (1832 – 1888) most remembered as the author of "Little Women" and "Little Men," authored over 30 books and short-story collections, as well as writing poetry as well.
“Little Women”, her most famous book, was a novel for girls. Written in 1868, it departed from the existing practice of idealized and/or stereotypical children in books meant for young readers. Instead, it offered a fully realized young heroine in the spirited character of tomboy, Jo March.
Little Women remains a beloved classic of children’s literature today. Alcott is also remembered for her book Hospital Sketches, which she penned in 1863 based on letters she had written home while serving as a nurse in Washington, D.C., during the Civil War. She was also an activist for women’s suffrage.
1) Quinoa comes from the goosefoot plant.
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2) A chicken's gizzard acts like a second stomach.
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3) NASA is working on a new style of airplane that will make a cross country trip from NY to LA in 2.5 hours.
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4) Roquefort Cheese was a favorite of King Charlemagne and is called "The Cheese of Kings and Popes".
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5) Unchained Melody" was recorded by both Elvis Presley and The Righteous Brothers and was originally written for a prison film.
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6) George C Scott won the 1971 Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of General George S Patton.
Scott shocked the worldwide, when nstead of accepting the coveted statuette, he became the first person to ever refuse an Academy Award, saying that the politics surrounding such awards was "demeaning" and described the Oscar Presentation Show as "a two-hour meat parade".
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7) The Supreme Court has just ordered an emergency stay allowing the abortion clinics in Louisiana to stay open until the court has ruled on whether the state's clinic shutdown law is constitutional. This is good news—but it's only temporary. A federal court recently upheld Louisiana's clinic-shutdown law—forcing all but one clinic in the entire state to shut down.2
Already 50 percent of the clinics in neighboring Texas were forced to close under a similar shutdown law, and Mississippi, the state to Louisiana's east, only has one clinic left.
Now it all comes down to the Supreme Court, which will hear arguments on the Texas clinic-shutdown law NEXT WEEK. NARAL is having a huge fund raising drive to be able to warn and energize the public about this crucial vote!
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8) In Bernie News
Kansas polling was off by 45 points. Shortly before the election, Kansas polls showed Bernie behind by 10. In the end, with record-breaking turnout, Sanders defeated Hillary 67.7-32.3. He also won in Nebraska 57.1-42.9. Clinton crushed him in Louisiana, which was expected, and actually had more delegates to award than Nebraska and Kansas combined. So, Hillary ended up with more delegates than Bernie yesterday.
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via usuncut
Senator Bernie Sanders is the winner of the Maine caucuses, meaning that the Vermont senator has won three out of four states in the last two days. Sanders’ overwhelming win was likely the result of record-high caucus turnout, particularly in Portland. [Go to usuncut to see a video of the record-breaking long lines.]
Sanders won Maine by a 64.3-35.5 margin, according to New York Times election results. He is expected to take home a wide majority of the state’s 25 delegates, which are awarded proportionally. With the exception of Massachusetts, where Sanders lost by just one point, Sen. Sanders has swept New England, winning by double-digit leads in Vermont and New Hampshire as well. Maine is the fifth caucus state Sanders has won, having previously won the Colorado, Kansas, Minnesota, and Nebraska caucuses as well.
According to Townhall.com, some caucus locations had such overwhelming turnout that the precinct captains skipped the “caucus” part of the caucus and went straight to paper ballots, so voters lined up could vote quickly. The caucus process is often much lengthier than a simple secret ballot vote, and involves a candidate’s supporters separating into opposing crowds while caucus officials count heads.
As US Uncut has previously reported, caucuses are susceptible to confusion and arcane processes, like delegates in Iowa being decided by coin toss, and Nevada caucus locations devolving into hopeless catastrophe. Maine state legislators are reportedly aiming to eliminate caucuses in favor of a simple primary process in the 2020 election cycle.
[My 2¢: I can't wait to see how HRC-friendly Cable News will spin this! Clinton DOMINATES (in Lousiana). End of headline. Barely a mention of the results in the other three states! Right?]
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9) CANNABIS WATCH
via ireadculture
"We’re all aware of the epic potential for the coming green era. Competition within the cannabis industry is fierce. San Francisco-based Ackrell Capital predicts that the cannabis industry will reach $100 billion by 2029, toppling numbers achieved by the tobacco industry, in a recent report. The report predicts that not only will cannabis prohibition end, but it gives us a timeline—2020, to be exact.
Ackrell Capital monitors financial trends in the cannabis industry. According to the report, only eight states currently ban cannabis in every circumstance. This and other reasons show us that the cannabis industry isn’t going anywhere.
“The accelerating momentum toward cannabis legalization and the growth of this newly created market will result in the ‘green gold rush’ of our generation,” Founder Mike Ackrell wrote.
Ackrell estimates that cannabis prohibition will end by 2020, and that the cannabis industry will grow to nearly $10 billion by 2019. The cannabis industry is attracting more and more non-cannabis users who are looking to capitalize on the trend, and make a lot of money. Ackrell believes, that once legalized, the market will grow to $37 billion within five years, and $50 billion within ten years.
“We believe that it is a question of when—not if—the federal prohibition on cannabis will end,” Ackrell said in the report. The general consensus seems to agree."
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10) via rollingstone
"After Donald Trump's Super Tuesday victories, Miley Cyrus turned to Instagram to tell her 38.1 million followers, 'Donald Trump is a fucking nightmare!'
Cyrus wrote the caption next to a publicity photo of Trump; Cyrus' Instagram burn gained (her) 239,000 likes since it was posted Tuesday. On Wednesday, the Dead Petz singer continued lobbying against the GOP frontrunner with a photo of Trump's delegate totals over Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio and a caption where Cyrus wrote 'Honestly, fuck this shit, I am moving if this is my president.'"
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11) via history-dot-com
On this day in 1899, the Imperial Patent Office in Berlin registered Aspirin, the brand name for acetylsalicylic acid, on behalf of the German pharmaceutical company Friedrich Bayer & Co.
Now the most common drug in household medicine cabinets, acetylsalicylic acid was originally made from a chemical found in the bark of willow trees. In its primitive form, the active ingredient, salicin, was used for centuries in folk medicine, beginning in ancient Greece when Hippocrates used it to relieve pain and fever. Known to doctors since the mid-19thcentury, it was used sparingly due to its unpleasant taste and tendency to damage the stomach.
In 1897, Bayer employee Felix Hoffman found a way to create a stable form of the drug that was easier and more pleasant to take. (Some evidence shows that Hoffman’s work was really done by a Jewish chemist, Arthur Eichengrun, whose contributions were covered up during the Nazi era.) After obtaining the patent rights, Bayer began distributing aspirin in powder form to physicians to give to their patients one gram at a time. The brand name came from “a” for acetyl, “spir” from the spirea plant (a source of salicin) and the suffix “in,” commonly used for medications. It quickly became the number-one drug worldwide.
Aspirin was made available in tablet form and without a prescription in 1915. Two years later, when Bayer’s patent expired during the First World War, the company lost the trademark rights to aspirin in various countries. After the United States entered the war against Germany in April 1917, the Alien Property Custodian, a government agency that administers foreign property, seized Bayer’s U.S. assets. Two years later, the Bayer company name and trademarks for the United States and Canada were auctioned off and purchased by Sterling Products Company, later Sterling Winthrop, for $5.3 million.
Bayer became part of IG Farben, the conglomerate of German chemical industries that formed the financial heart of the Nazi regime. After World War II, the Allies split apart IG Farben, and Bayer again emerged as an individual company. Its purchase of Miles Laboratories in 1978 gave it a product line including Alka-Seltzer and Flintstones and One-A-Day Vitamins. In 1994, Bayer bought Sterling Winthrop’s over-the-counter business, gaining back rights to the Bayer name and logo and allowing the company once again to profit from American sales of its most famous product.
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12) via YahooNews
"People are losing their minds over peeled oranges at Whole Foods!
Twitter user Nathalie Gordon tweeted a picture of peeled oranges in plastic containers at a Whole Foods.
“If only nature would find a way to cover these oranges so we didn’t need to waste so much plastic on them,” she tweeted.
LOL, but also, a solid point. What’s next? Peeled bananas in styrofoam? Mashed-up avocados in containers? (Oh, wait, that’s guacamole. But still.) And many seemed to agree with Gordon’s tongue-in-cheek assertion, because it’s been retweeted over 60,000 times. Whole Foods responded quickly to the viral debacle, tweeting that the oranges are “our mistake” and that they’ve been pulled from the shelves. “We hear you, and we will leave them in their natural packaging: the peel,” they tweeted.
“[A] lot of our customers love the convenience of our cut produce offerings, but this was a simple case where a handful of stores experimented with a seasonal product spotlight that wasn’t fully thought through,” a Whole Foods spokesperson told Huffington Post. “We’re glad some customers pointed it out so we could take a closer look.”
However, various people then pushed back, expressing their views that Whole Foods should actually keep the peeled oranges, for mobility reasons or painful conditions such as arthritis, tweeting:
@WholeFoods I'm so sorry you've decided to do that. I have rheumatoid disease and it's often impossible to peel an orange.
@WholeFoods Please dont. A lot of ppl with disabilities like arthritis see them as a lifesaver, and don't appreciate the "joke"
@WholeFoods Guess I can continue not eating oranges then since pain in my hands makes removing the peel hard on me, thanks!
and this:
@WholeFoods how do you feel about preventing disabled people from eating fresh fruit because some cracker complained
What do you think? Would you buy a peeled orange in a plastic container? Should Whole Foods keep the oranges on the shelf, or were they right in pulling them?"
[I'm wondering. Can't people who have trouble peeling an orange use a knife and cut it into wedges? That's one of my favorite ways to eat an orange. They are always perfectly fresh that way.]
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