The homie sent over the new music video and single from Austin indie rock band Animals On TV. Called “MTV 2095” the synth pop drenched garage rock single draws on music from the ’60s and into the early 2000’s. MTV 2095 addresses the future in a fun way referencing “digital Japan,” as a stand-in for an exotic future destination.
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This is a photo of the students at Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, c. 1900.
The school was established in 1879 in order to forcibly assimilate Indigenous children into western society by stripping them of their native language, culture, traditions, and clothing. Physical, emotional and sexual abuse were rampant as was forced labor in these schools.
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(photo: “Methuselah, White Mountain, California” by Desires Photo)
Methuselah, the Great Basin bristlecone tree located high up in the White Mountains in California is recognized as the oldest non-clonal tree in the world and is 4,852 years old.
Named after the Biblical figure that lived for 969 years, the Methuselah Tree grows in the Methuselah Grove, which is in Inyo National Forest’s “Forest of Ancients,” where it is surrounded by other ancient trees. The exact location of the tree, though, is kept secret to protect it against vandalism.
It is estimated that the tree germinated in 2832 BCE, making Methuselah one of the oldest known living trees and non-clonal organism in the entire world. A germination date of 2832 BCE makes Methuselah older even than the Egyptian Pyramids.
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Meet Brendan Walsh, Professional Poo Diver
Brendan Walsh runs a commercial diving business in Melbourne and spends his days in all sorts of no-air environments, with a small part being sewage.
Sewage diving in Australia is essential because we use bacteria instead of chemicals to break down the solids.
Big stirring machines run 24 hours a day and moving parts constantly break, which is when Mr Walsh’s business is called in to repair them.
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The only known picture of President Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe together, 1962
This black and white image, taken by White House photographer Cecil Stoughton, is the only known photograph of JFK and Monroe together. Monroe is still wearing the infamously tight-fighting, sheer rhinestone-studded dress she wore when singing earlier at Madison Square Garden.
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Seventy one years ago, literary icon Virginia Woolf wrote two suicide notes. One was addressed to her sister and the other was addressed to her husband — who was in his study nearby. She then put on her Wellington boots, filled the pockets of her fur coat with rocks, and walked out into the middle of the River Ouse in England.
Her body wasn’t found until three weeks later, at which point her husband had her cremated and buried beneath a tree on their property. To commemorate her, he engraved a stone with the last lines from one of her novels: “Against you I fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death! The waves broke on the shore.”
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The German machine gun, the MG42, fired at twice the speed of its counterparts, was nicknamed “Hitler’s Buzzsaw”, and the U.S. Army even created training films to help soldiers cope with the trauma of facing the weapon in combat.
The official US position during WW2 was that the 42 wasted ammunition compared to the American equivalent- the 30 calibre Browning.
But in fact, the brass recognized that it was a superior weapon, and an engineering team was set to work in 1943 to reverse engineer the 42 for American use.
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The Maiden, is the mummy of a teenage girl who died more than 500 years ago in a Incan ritual sacrifice in the Andes Mountains.
The girl and two other children were left on a mountaintop to succumb to the cold as offerings to the gods, according to the archaeologists who found the mummified remains in Argentina in 1999.
She was found dressed in a ceremonial tunic and adorned with a headpiece, tokens of her new status as a messenger to the heavens. The girl had also drunk corn liquor, likely to put her to sleep, scientists say, and her mouth still held fragments of coca leaves, which the Inca chewed to lessen the effects of altitude sickness.
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One of the only two known authentic Jolly Roger pirate flags in the world.
Prior to the advent and popularization of the "Jolly Roger" we know today, western pirates flew a simple black flag, initially devoid of design.
The black flag was part of a flag signal combo, together with a plain red flag. After closing in on a target ship, the black flag would be raised, signaling that "quarter" will be given if the target crew surrendered their cargo/valuables without a fight. Followed by warning shots, if the enemy did not strike their own flag to signal surrender, the red flag (or bloody flag as it is known) was raised, signaling that the target’s cargo/valuables will be taken by force and that "no quarter" will be given if the enemy ship continued to refuse surrender.
The pirate captain Jean Thomas Dulaien would wait for the enemy to fire three or more cannon shots after raising the red flag before giving the order to attack with no quarter given.
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A weeping George Gillette in 1940, witnessing the forced sale of 155,000 acres of land for the Garrison Dam and Reservoir, dislocating more than 900 Native American families
These lands were owned by the Three Affiliated Tribes, which “had been their home for perhaps more than a millennium”. Threatened by confiscation under eminent domain, the tribes protested…