TODAY IS FLAG DAY

On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress in Philadelphia adopted the Stars and Stripes as the national flag. According to the National Flag Day Foundation, Flag Day was born on June 14, 1885, after Bernard Cigrand, a 19-year-old teacher in Waubeka, Wisc., placed a flag on his desk and assigned essays on its significance. It took two presidents and an act of Congress, but years later Flag Day became official.
In the “crowning achievement” of Cigrand’s life, on May 30 1916, President Woodrow Wilson called for a day of observance for the flag. Then, in August 1949, President Truman signed off on the declaration from Congress, which officially marked June 14 as National Flag Day. While Cigrand died in 1932, he received his glory posthumously in 2004 when Congress voted unanimously to recognize Flag Day’s origins in Ozaukee County, Wisc.. Though the day is not a federal holiday, many cities hold Flag Day parades in honor of Old Glory.


Interesting side-note: According to The Boston Globe, before the colonists chose the official flag, they fought under whatever banner was on hand, “regimental flags, homemade insignia, green, blue, what-have-you.”


VIA: Time
 
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THE FIRST PAIR OF JORDAN'S

Here are the first pair of Jordan's. Just kidding but about 5,500 years ago someone in the mountains of Armenia put his best foot forward in what is now the oldest leather shoe ever found.

It'll never be confused with a penny loafer or a track shoe, but the well-preserved footwear was made of a single piece of leather, laced up the front and back, researchers reported Wednesday in PLoS One, a journal of the Public Library of Science.
Worn and shaped by the wearer's right foot, the shoe was found in a cave along with other evidence of human occupation. The shoe had been stuffed with grass, which dated to the same time as the leather of the shoe — between 5,637 and 5,387 years ago.
"This is great luck," enthused archaeologist Ron Pinhasi of University College Cork in Cork, Ireland, who led the research team.
"We normally only find broken pots, but we have very little information about the day-to-day activity" of these ancient people. "What did they eat? What did they do? What did they wear? This is a chance to see this ... it gives us a real glimpse into society," he said in a telephone interview.
Previously the oldest leather shoe discovered in Europe or Asia was on the famous Otzi, the "Iceman" found frozen in the Alps a few years ago and now preserved in Italy. Otzi has been dated to 5,375 and 5,128 years ago, a few hundred years more recent than the Armenian shoe.
Otzi's shoes were made of deer and bear leather held together by a leather strap. The Armenian shoe appears to be made of cowhide.
I wonder how much for the shoes?

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IN THIS EDITION OF MEANINGLESS FACTS: IT'S BEEN THIRTY YEARS SINCE WE FOUND OUT WHO SHOT JR

Who shot J. R.? Do you remember? If not find out who after the jump

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MONKEY SEE MONKEY DO: ANOTHER KKK REENACTMENT INCIDENT

Another Metro Atlanta teacher has been involved in a KKK reenactment controversy. This time the incident happened at a Gwinnett County middle school.

Sweetwater Middle School teacher Stephanie Hunt was told to report to Human Resources after school officials said she allowed students to dress up like KKK members.
School officials said Hunt told her eighth grade class to choose a period in history and act it out for a class project.
The students were in the hallway wearing the KKK robes, when another teacher saw them and reported it.
If we not backwards here in Georgia, I don't know what backwards is. Of all the time periods evereyone knows the whole slavery  KKK issue is very sensitive because things are still going on till this very day. Now it's just the police doing it. Hint Arizona

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WE CRAZY BACKWARDS HERE IN GEORGIA

North Georgia teacher Catherine Ariemma made news after she allowed her students to wear white robes resembling those worn by the KKK when she staged a reenactment in her classroom. It was meant to be a history lesson for her students, but instead, it sparked controversy.

Now, Ariemma awaits a decision about her future from the Lumpkin County School Board. She joined FOX 5 on Tuesday to talk about what happened in her classroom, and what it might mean for her career.
How stupid can you be.

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HAPPY CINCO DE MAYO

Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for “fifth of May”) is a voluntarily observed holiday that commemorates the Mexican army’s unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín. It is celebrated primarily in the state of Puebla and in the United States. While Cinco de Mayo has limited significance nationwide in Mexico, the date is observed in the United States and other locations around the world as a celebration of Mexican heritage and pride. Cinco de Mayo is not Mexico’s Independence Day, the most important national patriotic holiday in Mexico.

And that's today's history lesson

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DID YOU KNOW: WHAT WAS THE FIRST DOT COM

Symbolics logo 25 years ago

It was 25 years ago -- March 15, 1985 -- that the first dot-com domain name -- Symbolics.com -- appeared on the Internet, ushering in the commercial age of the World Wide Web. Now everyone and their mama has a webpage or is on twitter.

Having a domain name made it simpler for the average person to access a Web site. Instead of having to remember a long series of numbers and dots, you could type in ATT.com, IBM.com or CNN.com.
Development was slow, at first. It took more than two years for the first 100 sites to go online and by 1995, the number had grown to 18,000.
But from those humble beginnings the Internet has grown to more than 80 million dot-com domain names, according to the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation. for more click the jump

via: cnn

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