Good one.
Another fine choice.
The "mutiny" on Skylab. It was a minor error that actually led to a needed discussion about the crew’s workload and scheduling.
Also- that kinds will act like Lord of the Flies- which should be needless to say but isnt- is FICTION.
In the handful of times that occured- , kids did not “go all Lord of the Flies”.
Ty Cobb, the greatest baseball player in Major League Baseball before Babe Ruth, was never the racist he is wrongly depicted to be. Thank Al Stump, a writer who wrote some really fabricated stories.
In reality, Cobb (albeit hard scrabble and volatile) was very progressive for his time. (He was also rich, having been an early investor in Coca Cola)
(Johnny Carson) I did not know that.
A corollary of sorts to this myth: a purported confrontation between Ty Cobb and Honus Wagner in the 1909 Wprld Series.
It was claimed that while on first base, Cobb yelled to Wagner at shortstop, “Hey Krauthead, I’m coming down on the next pitch”, only to be thrown out and injured when Wagner planted the ball in his face. Wiki says the story was spread by the “creative press” of the time.
Cobb’s agressive playing style did indeed earn him enemies. One was Giants manager John J. McGraw, whose clash with Cobb was written about in detail in “The Tiger Wore Spikes”, a Cobb biography written in 1956 while he was still alive.
When I was a kid, I read a book that said the speed of sound was 750 miles per hour. I memorized that and kept in head for many years until later on learning that that wasn’t true; the speed of sound is variable depending on many factors like air pressure, altitude, medium, etc.
What do you think a spaceship would see if it went thru a asteroid belt? Rocks everywhere, right?
Nope. You might just see one or two tiny points of reflected light. You could fly thru our asteroid belt and very likely not even come close to hitting anything.
History Channel does it again. One of their so called experts, talking about the missing Tomb of Alexander, casually mentions that old base canard that Christians destroyed the Library of Alexandria.
Cowboys did not wear Stetsons. Well, not until later in the period. But despite what one person wrote (poorly researched- they found that the Stetson came later and saw pictures of the Butch Cassidy gang dressed up wearing bowlers)- they didnt wear bowlers either, except maybe in town.
Look at period photos- they wore wide brimmed wool felt hats- kinda shapeless- which could be called “proto-Stetsons”-_and Sombreros.
I thought Stetson is a make of western hat, not a generic term for them. They are expensive, too. Cowboys I’ve known don’t call their hats ‘Stetsons’. They call them ‘hats’.
A lot less than teenagers, ask them.
It is- but they made the first shaped and stylish western hats. The earlier felt hats look a bit like the Stetson “Boss of the Plains” hat, which came out in 1865, and was indeed shaped, and stiffer, but without the dip in the middle of the crown.
wiki- Stetson’s western adventures came to an end in 1865. Stetson, then 35 years old and in better health, returned east and established his own hat firm in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which produced high-quality hats for outdoor use. After producing some initial designs based on popular styles of the day, Stetson decided to create a hat based on his experiences in the American West, which he called the “Boss of the Plains”.[6]
The original “Boss”, manufactured by Stetson in 1865, was flat-brimmed, had a straight-sided crown with rounded corners. These lightweight, waterproof hats were natural in color, with four-inch crowns and brims.[7] A plain hatband was fitted to adjust head size.[8] The sweatband bore John B. Stetson’s name.
So, certainly the Boss of the Plains was available during the Cowboy main period.
Take a look at
you dont see many bowlers.
Aside from higher primates, Corvids (crow family) are the only animals to use tools. Everyone knows that. Oh, hang on, Parrots do too - in fact they make tools. Errr - turns out the woodpecker finch does that too. And then there’s…
Here’s the list
There are also many other non-primate, non-bird tool users (including, intriguingly, fish). All in the same article.
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Isn’t Greek both a nationality and an ethnicity? Considering Cleopatra was the descendant of multiple generations of Ptolemies she would have likely been more Egyptian than Greek.
True, more and more animals are found to use tools. None but the primates- afaik- make tools.
Goffin’s cockatoos make tool kits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6feNOrOsB0&t=6s
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Interesting.
The Heathkit Cockatoo then sells them to other birds…
Is there any information on how much of Cleopatra’s ancestry was Egyptian and Persian (vice Greek)?
To expand on your example, an American with one sixth-generation Irish ancestor would probably feel differently from an American who had traced most of their ancestry back to Ireland, and embraced it through cultural and religious tenets.
That said, it’s different with royalty. AIUI English monarchs for many years before Victoria were predominantly of German extraction.