Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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11 years ago today, Michael Phelps won an unprecedented third consecutive Olympic gold medal in the 200-meter individual medley, his 16th gold medal in total, becoming the first man ever to win the event in three Olympics in a row. This win also marked Phelps’s fifth Olympic title in the individual medley, breaking the record […]
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Happy 40th birthday to one of the finest Dutch goalscorers to ever play the beautiful game, Robin Van Persie. A legend at Arsenal and Manchester United across 11 seasons in the English Premier League, he boasted a goalscoring rate of almost 1 every 2 games, a haul he also enjoyed under the colors of the […]
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August 13, 2023, 11:30 am
Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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August 16, 2023, 12:00 am
On this day in 2008 and 2009, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt broke the Olympic all-time record for the 100-meter sprint with a time of 9.69s, and then the world record at the Berlin World Athletics Championships of 9.58s. On August 5th in 2012, Usain Bolt broke his own Olympic record during the 100-meter sprint in […]
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August 18, 2023, 12:00 am
60 years ago today, James Meredith became the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi, 2 years after his famous challenge on the grounds of his civil rights as decided in Brown vs the Board of Education, and one year after his admission to the college sparked riots so large that 31,000 members of […]
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Our partner Rob Brezsny provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How All of Creation Is Conspiring To Shower You with Blessings. (A free […]
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August 22, 2023, 12:00 am
369 years ago today, Jacob Barsimson stepped off the boat on North American soil at “New Amsterdam” (Manhattan, New York City) on a mission to discover the potential for Jewish immigration to the New World. He was followed by a party of 23 Jews that established the Congregation Shearith Israel, the oldest synagogue in the […]
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August 25, 2023, 11:00 am
A Great Pyrenees who saved his foster family from a fire on their houseboat has been adopted just 1 day later by a secret admirer. The fluffy white dog named Moose alerted Sheila Janes and her husband Chris, asleep on their houseboat, that a fire had broken out on another boat moored nearby which quickly […]
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September 1, 2023, 12:00 am
59 years ago today, relief pitcher Masanori “Mashi” Murakami trotted onto the mound for the SF Giants to pitch the final inning of a 4-1 loss against the New York Mets—facing 4 batters, striking out two, and preventing any runs while becoming the first Japanese-born player ever in Major League Baseball. Sent over to the […]
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September 1, 2023, 6:00 am
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September 4, 2023, 12:00 am
Happy 61st birthday to the Japanese Nobel laureate, Sinya Yamanaka, whose pioneering work in the science of stem cells led him to identify the “Yamanaka Factors”— 4 different genetic transcription factors that he used to turn any adult human cell into a stem cell. He shared the prize jointly with Sir John Gordon of England, […]
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September 7, 2023, 8:00 am
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September 8, 2023, 12:00 am
57 years ago today, the Severn Bridge was opened in the UK to span England and Wales, 140 years after it was first proposed. After the Second World War, plans began to be made for a nationally funded network of roads, including a Severn Bridge. Permission for one had been sought 20 years earlier in […]
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September 10, 2023, 12:00 am
Happy 84th birthday to Roy Ayers, sometimes called the “Godfather of Neosoul,” who pioneered a variety of off-mainstream jazz and funk genres with his creative compositions and blistering vibraphone solos. His best-known songs are Searchin’, Everbody Loves the Sunshine, and Running Away. Ayers is also a talented producer and session player, collaborating with the lines of Whitney Houston, […]
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September 11, 2023, 12:00 am
On this day across history, imperial aggression was resisted or rolled back by indigenous peoples in both the Battle of the Teutoberg Forest (9) and the Battle of Stirling Bridge (1297). In the first case, it was one of the greatest defeats in the history of the Roman Empire, and dissuaded them, even commanded as […]
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September 12, 2023, 12:00 am
92 years ago today, the English actor Sir Ian Holm was born. He became a successful actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company before launching a career in film and television which won him several BAFTAs. However, all this is simply a leadup to the career footnote that most people will be familiar with—that Holm was […]
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September 12, 2023, 8:00 am
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September 13, 2023, 12:00 am
439 years ago today, the building of the royal palace at San Lorenzo de El Escorial was completed. The historic residence of the King of Spain, El Escorial is the world’s largest Renaissance building. Over its long life, the building nestled 28 miles in the countryside outside of Madrid, has served as a monastery, basilica, […]
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September 15, 2023, 8:39 am
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September 19, 2023, 12:00 am
1,937 years ago today Antoninus Pious, the fourth of the Five Good Emperors of Rome, was born. Keeping in mind that ‘good’ in this case did not mean morally upright, but rather effective. But the 23 years of the Principate under Antoninus Pious were probably the most peaceful in its 400-year history, and there are […]
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September 23, 2023, 12:00 am
134 years ago today, the Nintendo company was founded in Kyoto. For lovers of Super Mario Bros., Pokémon, Zelda, and all other contributions from the third great pillar of console video gaming, it might be surprising to know the company, founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi, essentially predates home electricity. They did however open shop selling entertainment—in […]
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September 27, 2023, 12:00 am
Happy 47th Birthday to Il Capitano—Francesco Totti. The most iconic Italian forward of the 21st century, Totti spent a 25-year professional career in the red and orange of AS Roma and is remembered as one of the greatest players of his generation. In 619 appearances for Roma he scored 250 goals, the second most of any […]
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September 28, 2023, 12:00 am
36 years ago today, Star Trek: The Next Generation debuted on syndicated TV. Spanning 178 episodes over seven seasons, it starred English actor Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Starship Enterprise. It received many accolades, including 19 Emmy Awards, two Hugo Awards, five Saturn Awards, and a Peabody Award. READ more about how the show got […]
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September 28, 2023, 4:00 am
An industry research non-profit has found that battery-electric big rigs have doubled their range and charging speed numbers in just 2 years of operation. In conducting a real-world test on 21 freight trucks for three weeks, North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE) found this lighting-fast innovation occurring across the market for battery-electric big rigs […]
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October 4, 2023, 12:00 am
108 years ago today, Dinosaur National Monument was established in Colorado and Utah. Dictated into existence by the executive power of the Antiquities Act, the monument ensured that an area of rocky desert containing vast numbers of dinosaur skeletons was undisturbed for all time. Three therapod species, five sauropod species, a stegosaurus, an Iguanadontid, and […]
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October 9, 2023, 11:00 am
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October 11, 2023, 4:00 am
Chinese scientists have created some experimental sponges out of starch and gelatin that can soak up microplastics which could be adopted in various places to reduce plastic pollution from entering the oceans. The sponges are literally as light as a feather, and inside their pores, not only microplastics, but nanoplastic particles of less than one […]
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October 11, 2023, 8:30 am
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October 19, 2023, 12:00 am
3 years ago today, the high-profile sale of a Ming Dynasty artwork brought the world not only into contact with the most remarkable painting of a stone ever made, but also the depth of the Chinese relationship with the natural world. Called Ten Views of Lingbi Rock, the painting sold for $77 million at auction, the highest […]
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October 20, 2023, 6:03 am
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November 3, 2023, 12:00 am
118 years ago today, the prolific African-American painter Lois Mailou Jones was born. With her best works exhibited in a half-dozen fine arts museums across the US, including the Met and Smithsonian, she brought the color and flavor of Africa and the Caribbean to the world through her extensive personal traveling. Prolific at the canvas, […]
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November 5, 2023, 7:11 am
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November 6, 2023, 12:00 am
806 years ago today, the Charter of the Forest was signed in England by King Henry III. This law document is sometimes described as the sister of the Magna Carta, and granted rights of free men to use the forests of England once reserved for King William I and his descendants. Many today learn from […]
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November 10, 2023, 9:10 am
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November 11, 2023, 12:00 am
202 years ago today, Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky was born in Moscow. Numerous literary critics consider him the greatest novelist in all world history. Most of his major works are considered masterpieces, and are given out to students in literature classes all around the world. Dostoevsky’s books have been translated into more than 170 languages, and […]
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November 11, 2023, 3:00 am
Our partner Rob Brezsny, who has a new book out, Astrology Is Real: Revelations from My Life as an Oracle, provides his weekly wisdom to enlighten our thinking and motivate our mood. Rob’s Free Will Astrology, is a syndicated weekly column appearing in over a hundred publications. He is also the author of Pronoia Is the Antidote […]
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November 13, 2023, 4:00 am
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