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While the massive Essex-class fleet carriers grabbed the headlines with their sprawling air groups and high-speed strikes, the "Jeep carriers" of the Casablanca class provided the indispensable backbone of Allied maritime operations. Note: Just because you can think up a reason to criticize doesn't mean that you are obligated to do so. Pedantic is not a compliment folks. Kaiser's Coffins: The Casablanca Class | 21:02 The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered 1.64M subscribers | 67,484 views | May 15, 2026

A new study suggests that about 59,000 years ago, someone used a small stone tool to drill into a badly decayed tooth, remove diseased tissue and expose the pulp chamber. The patient may have done it himself, or allowed another Neanderthal to do it. Either way, the procedure points to a striking level of skill, pain tolerance and practical medical understanding...By the time archaeologists found it in Chagyrskaya Cave, in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia, the molar had lost nearly all of its crown. Its enamel was gone and the chewing surface had been worn flat by a hard...

In this Blaze Media article, Christian Toto argues that Hollywood has been warning audiences about the dangers of artificial intelligence for decades, often more prophetically than the tech industry would like to admit. The article opens with the “Terminator” franchise as perhaps the most famous cinematic warning about unchecked AI, with Skynet representing the nightmare scenario of machines turning against humanity. * “Her” is presented as a quieter but deeply relevant warning about AI replacing human intimacy, especially as real-world AI companionship and digital romance become increasingly normalized. * “Ex Machina” explores the danger of artificial beings that can manipulate...

VERONA, Wis. -- It's the end of an era for one of Wisconsin's most iconic beers. Pabst Brewing Co. is no longer brewing Schlitz, the brew that played a huge role in cementing Milwaukee as America's Beer Capital. The last batch will be brewed, not by Pabst, but by Wisconsin Brewing Company in Verona. WBC Brewmaster Kirby Nelson said he'll be basing this final batch on operations logs from 1948, when Schlitz was in its prime. The beer was America's top-seller in 1950. "Since Schlitz is ‘The Beer that Made Milwaukee Famous,’ I decided to brew a beer that would...

The Jiuzhang 4.0 can manipulate and detect 3,050 photons at once, which is 10 times more than its predecessor. Jiuzhang 4.0, China’s latest photonic quantum computer, is staking a claim to quantum supremacy. The photonic supercomputer completed a complex calculation in microseconds, which the world’s fastest supercomputer would take 10^42 years to complete. Often referred to as the next frontier of computing, quantum computers are being sought to complete calculations that are impossible for classical computers. Scientists hope that quantum computers will help us solve problems like climate change and accelerate drug discovery. At the core of quantum computing are...

Michigan man Stephen Huesgen got a set of lucky numbers from a Zoltar machine 30 years ago and immediately started buying lottery tickets using them. And in traditional midwestern fashion, he didn't let decades of failure persuade him to stop using his mystical digits. If Zoltar could fulfill Tom Hanks's wish to be big, surely it could fulfill Stephen Huesgen's wish to be rich. And then, just like the in the movie, he woke up, and Zoltar had made him a wealthy man. The man used a set of three-decade-old lucky numbers from an animatronic fortune-teller machine to score a...

Nikola Tesla’s research seems to be popping up quite frequently these days. From researchers in Finland and Japan testing wireless energy transmission systems to using copper to creating giant plants. It would seem more people are discovering the benefits of tapping into the electricity and electrons in the air via what Tesla called the æther. Even French scientist Mr. Christofleau tapped into it to cause plants to explode in growth! How is it done? Well, one of the main tools is…copper. Here’s a short clip that shows the results of using copper in gardening (given the nickname: electro culture)

Heather Cox Richardson is a historian and academic who teaches at Boston College. In a recent video made for her subscribers, she claimed that Republicans use a 'propaganda technique' of accusing other people of what they themselves are doing. There are MOUNTAINS of evidence that show this is actually, exactly what the left does, but it gets even worse. She goes on to suggest that this makes Republicans just like the Nazis because that's where she claims this tactic comes from. Now before you dismiss this woman as the idiot she clearly is, you should know that she holds a...

A suspected terrorist with ties to Iran’s military has been arrested and hauled to New York to face charges of carrying out and plotting nearly 20 attacks across Europe and Canada – with plans to blow up a Big Apple synagogue – to punish Americans and Jews over the Iran war. Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi, an accused commander in a terrorist organization linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, allegedly orchestrated the firebombing of the Bank of New York Mellon in Amsterdam, the stabbing of two Jewish victims in London and other foiled counter-attacks in the US in response...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani was blasted for “corrupting history” about the creation of Israel in a vile social media post paying tribute to Palestinians – sent out just before Jewish New Yorkers observed Shabbat. Mamdani, a staunch critic of Israel, honored “Nakba Day” – marking what Palestinians call the “catastrophe” of the Jewish State’s declaration of independence on May 14, 1948 – in a Friday night post, that included a polished video interview with “Nakba survivor” and city resident Inea Bushnaq. “Today marks Nakba Day, an annual remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949...

"Reason I'm Gone" from the Walter Trout DVD Documentary of the recording of Relentless in concert at the Paradiso in Amsterdam, NL. With almost 20 tracks and special footage, this DVD is a must have for any guitar lover and fan of Walter Trout. This is a 10 min sample of this wonderful 165 minute full-length and high quality DVD. At the link

President Trump downplayed the effect redistricting will have on the midterm elections and said the outcome of the Iran war will be a bigger factor. “It helps. I mean, I don’t know [if it will be the] difference,” Trump said of how new congressional districts in several states will impact Republicans in November. “I think a bigger difference would be if I win quickly [in Iran], as opposed to after [the elections], but again, I’m not going to let the election determine what’s going to happen with respect to Iran, because they cannot have a nuclear weapon,” he told Fox...

Letter from King Abdi-Heba of Jerusalem to the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep III, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin The seven Jerusalem-Amarna Letters (EA 285–291) tell us about the local ruler ‘Abdi-Ḫeba, “Servant of Ḫebat,” a Hurrian goddess, and his struggles to keep control of this city.[1] Similarities in the language, orthography, formulae, paleography, and the scribal marks in these letters suggest that they were the work of a single scribe, who was not trained in Canaan. Petrographic analysis, conducted after Moran’s work on this scribe, showed that the clay of letters 286–290 was made from local materials around Jerusalem. Yet two letters...

The stretch between Svalbard and the North Cape of mainland Norway constitutes the Bear Gap, which is the Arctic Circle analogue to the better-known Greenland-Iceland-UK Gap.4 Svalbard’s proximity to the Kola Peninsula and Novaya Zemlya—home to Russia’s Northern Fleet and its nuclear weapons test site, respectively—further helps explain Moscow’s enduring interest in Svalbard. The archipelago’s importance is likely to grow as maritime trade increases in the Arctic. The Pentagon’s 2024 Arctic Strategy notes, “Reduction in sea ice due to climate change means chokepoints such as the Bering Strait between Alaska and Russia and the Barents Sea north of Norway are...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is working to increase the retirement age for U.S. Capitol Police officers as the number of threats to lawmakers continues to climb and the department struggles to recruit and retain enough officers. Legislation passed unanimously by the Senate on Thursday would allow Capitol Police officers to apply to extend their service until age 62, while a bill passed by the House earlier this year would allow them to serve until age 65. That would raise the current age from 60 for officers who apply for waivers to work beyond the legal forced retirement age of 57...

Former Vice President Kamala was dragged online for her laundry list of progressive “bad ideas” she wants to bring to the table at what she’s dubbed a “No Bad Idea Brainstorm” for Democrats. Harris said during a Wednesday night livestream on the “Win with Black Women” podcast that Democrats need “an expanded playbook” and need to consider radical positions ahead of the 2026 Midterm elections — including abolishing the Electoral College and packing the Supreme Court. “Look, this is a moment where there are no bad ideas, a no bad idea brainstorm is what I’d like to call it,” Harris...

A Washington-based super PAC that has spent a staggering $3.5 million to support physician Ala Stanford for an open Philadelphia congressional seat pulled its television advertising off the air this week with just days left until the election. That is according to media tracking firm AdImpact, which shows that the “pro-science” political action committee, 314 Action Fund, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars a week to air pro-Stanford TV commercials through much of March and April. However, that changed last week. The group has spent virtually nothing on television since May 5, according to AdImpact, and has not reserved any...

"This is the house of Tarzan, the killer of beasts and many black men". This is how Tarzan introduces himself to Jane in Tarzan of the Apes (1914). Later in the book he rescues her from a “black ape rapist”. Tarzan started off as a character written by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) in the 1912 All-Story Magazine before being edited into a series of books and films. The story charts the life of an aristocratic offspring of Lord Greystoke, who is orphaned as a child in Africa, raised by apes in the jungle, and soon becomes the King of that...

From the team that brought you “Why is Snow White Latina?,” “Why are there Black people in ‘The Rings of Power?,’” and “Star Wars has gone woke,” comes the latest online onslaught against an anticipated Hollywood project that committed the unfathomable sin of having a diverse cast. In recent days, Twitter trolls have formed a phalanx and pointed their sarissas squarely at “The Odyssey,” Christopher Nolan’s $250 million adaptation of Homer’s epic scheduled to hit cinemas July 17. They have not actually seen the film yet, mind you, but have nevertheless managed to work themselves into a lather over a...

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