The use of "Black Friday" as a descriptor for the day after Thanksgiving has nothing to do with the selling of slaves, though, and the term didn't originate until nearly a century after the practice of slavery was abolished in the U.S. The earliest known use of "Black Friday" in suc...
How did the concept of time originate? Loonger / Getty Images Time is something that most of us take for granted. Have you ever thought about why, for example, there are 12 months in a year? Why are there 30 days in September? Why are there time zones and what's with daylight-savi...
44] Julian Walker: And to me, I think if when we examine like the history of this stuff a little more closely, when even if just in the more recent past, you go and you look at 4chan, pizzagate and QAnon conspiracy theories, which basically ate the world for a while, originate on...
Delegates at the University and College Union’s annual conference said they did not want to become a branch of the UK Border Agency. This is absolutely excellent. We have said many times that the state cannot run the police state by itself; they do not have the resources. They need busin...
Lori, Cris and I took an early morning hike to the Court of the Kings while Ron went through his morning routine. With a quick turn around we then hiked up the Angel’s Landing trail. The chains were closed covid so we did not do the thrilling last 1/2 mile climb to the landing....
German Chocolate Cake "An extreme close up shot of a squares slice of German chocolate cake. Isolated on white. German chocolate cake did not originate in Germany, it is named after Sam German, who developed a brand of dark baking chocolate." Kolaches Aaron Savage/Townsquare Media Kolaches ...
Mike Mettler:Tell me about the “film for the ear” concept you deployed for how you approached makingThe Circus and The Nightwhale. Where did that idea originate? Steve Hackett:Well, I think that music, and how it worked with me as a kid, always created pictures. R...
I am a night owl. Always have been, even when I have been forced to rise early. I rose, but I did not shine. Nothing against sunshine and light and all that. There’s just something about the deep, dark, middle of the night that intrigues me and draws me in. ...
To have the metadata to understand the ability to use the data and the ability to have missing and wrong data and understand why did that originate. [This is] something we can actually deal with in a clinical trial and prospective protocol-related data collection as well. So that's ...
and did it from their own infrastructure… they’d be cut off from the rest of the net… all of them… the whole country. period. You think the “great firewall” is pretty big? wait till you piss off every single large ISP out there! You’ll be unplugged. On the other hand, if...