Drive-In Theater at San Francisco, 1948
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|858||Benedict III ends his reign as Catholic Pope.|
|1492||Christopher Columbus signs a contract with Spain to find a western route to the Indies.|
|1521||Martin Luther is excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church.|
|1524||Present-day New York Harbor is discovered by Giovanni Verrazano.|
|1535||Antonio Mendoza is appointed first viceroy of New Spain.|
|1758||Frances Williams, the first African-American to graduate for a college in the western hemisphere, publishes a collection of Latin poems.|
|1808||Bayonne Decree by Napoleon I of France orders seizure of U.S. ships.|
|1824||Russia abandons all North American claims south of 54' 40'.|
|1861||Virginia become eighth state to secede from the Union.|
|1864||General Grant bans the trading of prisoners.|
|1865||Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in the Lincoln assassination.|
|1875||The game "snooker" is invented by Sir Neville Chamberlain.|
|1895||China and Japan sign peace treaty of Shimonoseki.|
|1929||Baseball player Babe Ruth and Claire Hodgeson, a former member of the Ziegfield Follies, get married.|
|1946||The last French troops leave Syria.|
|1947||Jackie Robinson bunts for his first major league hit.|
|1961||Some 1,400 Cuban exiles attack the Bay of Pigs in an attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro.|
|1964||Jerrie Mock becomes first woman to fly solo around the world.|
|1969||Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Senator Robert F. Kennedy.|
|1970||Apollo 13–originaly scheduled to land on the moon–lands back safely on Earth after an accident.|
|1975||Khmer Rouge forces capture the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh.|
|1983||In Warsaw, police rout 1,000 Solidarity supporters.|
A competitor wearing a kilt & standing on a barrel throws a ball between his legs during the 'brigaball' contest at the 36th Bundanoon Highland Gathering held in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, on April 6. The annual festival showcases Scottish bands & a variety of highland games.
The boy had taken the keys off the counter at home and told the responding officer that he had never driven before and nobody had taught him how.The unnamed boy's father was called to retrieve him. The parents had been asleep, and were unaware that the child had left the house. No one was injured. More
"He said he'd never even sat on his dad's lap to steer the car or anything," said Engster.
When police asked the boy why he took the car, he told them he was going to get Chinese food. He had hit a "no left turn" sign on Park and Pine streets near his home and, seeing the damage to the car, decided he needed to head to the dealer to get it repaired.
These nanosponges, which thus far have been studied in mice, can neutralize "pore-forming toxins," which destroy cells by poking holes in their cell membranes. Unlike other anti-toxin platforms that need to be custom synthesized for individual toxin type, the nanosponges can absorb different pore-forming toxins regardless of their molecular structures. In a study against alpha-haemolysin toxin from MRSA, pre-innoculation with nanosponges enabled 89 percent of mice to survive lethal doses.
More than 15 million Americans and Europeans suffer from neuralgia, in which nerves are damaged by diabetes, surgery or traumatic injury, Moore noted. Sufferers often rely on pain medications, which have side effects and may not provide enough relief. Cryoneurolysis uses a small probe that is cooled to minus 10 to minus 16 degrees Celsius, creating a freezer burn along the outer layer of the nerve. This interrupts the pain signal to the brain and blunts or eliminates the pain while allowing the damaged nerves to grow over time, explained [William Moore, M.D., medical director of radiology at Stony Brook University School of Medicine in Stony Brook, N.Y.].Science Daily has the post: Here.
The Sun Hive is a hanging honeybee hive designed by Günther Mancke and which is growing in popularity in the UK and elsewhere. It was designed around the needs of pollinating bees and colony health and preferences, and not around prioritizing honey production. As such, it's thought to be much better for sustaining bee populations. It's also quite beautiful.
There's also a Sun Hive book, that you can read or download (4.5Mb), and which gives the background on natural beekeeping and instructions on how to construct one.