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McSweeney’s has a day’s worth of facts to get you through the 24-hour Wikipedia blackout.
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Ultimatum Letter from President Bush to Saddam Hussein
Operation Desert Storm began on January 17, 1991. Twelve days earlier, President George Bush sent this letter to Saddam Hussein explaining the course of action that would follow if Iraq did not withdraw from Kuwait and comply with the UN Security Resolution.
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]“Mad Sax” by Guido
What a feeling it was earlier today to hear this song for the first time and then see the name, and then read who created it. It’s almost too much, too over the top. I can’t help but smile while listening to it.
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On this day in 1865, the Ku Klux Klan was founded. The Klan, of course, has had a hand in some of the nation’s most infamous acts of racial terror and murder…
But what does the KKK look like today? Photographer Anthony Karen has documented the modern-day Klan in their homes, at rallies, and at Klan gatherings, taking us deep inside a world we would otherwise never see — a world most of us might not even want to know about
“The couple got married the day before hurricane Gustav made landfall in Louisiana in 2008,” Karen says of the newlyweds portrayed here. “It was a traditional Klan ceremony, with vows exchanged in front of a fiery cross, performed at a remote hunting camp in the middle of a nature preserve. The bride was dead-set on taking her wedding portrait with cypress trees in the background, so she put her husband and me on the back of an ATV and took us on a death-defying ride to find the perfect spot.”
(see more — LIFE Goes Inside Today’s KKK)
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A medieval monument to religious pluralism, hidden in the mountains of Afghanistan
What’s remarkable is that the writing on the minaret and archaeological remains nearby strongly suggest that the city harbored a population of Muslims, Christians and Jews. Writing on the minaret is a detailed transcription from the Koran that celebrates the life of Mary, mother of Jesus, highlighting the connections between Islam and other religions. Nearby there is a Jewish graveyard, which is another hint that people of different religions were living peacefully together.
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“A U.S. soldier inspects thousands of gold wedding bands taken from Jews by the Germans and stashed in the Heilbronn Salt Mines, on May 3, 1945 in Germany.”
Source: The Atlantic
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William Spreckley was one of Harold Gillies’ greatest successes. Spreckley lost his entire nose in the Battle of Ypres. Gillies used a section of cartilage from Spreckley’s spine and implanted it into his forehead as the foundation for a new nose. He then “swung” Spreckley’s own skin over the nasal cavity and grafted it on. Over time, the new tissue fused with the old and formed a new nose. Spreckley was so grateful to Gillies for his work that he named his son Michael GIllies after the surgeon.
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Word.
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