Ten moneysaving tips when you travel to Thailand. Oh, I'd love to be headed there...
Five days inside Seattle's CHAZ zone. I would NOT love to be headed there.
Ten discoveries, based on ancient DNA. Did you know that Irish people can have trouble digesting milk? (From Listverse)
Homemaking on pennies...including a charming story about a friend who made a home with no money. (From Kate Singh)
A fascinating look at the real Aunt Jemima...and how she got the short stick in unpaid royalties.
All the ways traveling for a while changes you. We've experienced some of this. (From Millenial Revolution)
An amazing young climber just died -- fell from a cliff in France. She was 16.
Mamie Eisenhower's fudge. Hey, why not... (From Taste of Home)
Who are Picasso's true heirs? Decades after his death, that question still isn't answered. (From Wealth Advisor)
A hidden chapel, hundreds of years old, under your floor? That's what this Shropshire, England couple found. In keeping with that:
A statue of the Virgin Mary, found while fishing. Yes, it's old.
The pariah ship: The MS Zaandam cruise ship waits it out. (Hey, we can relate.)
Unsung heroes of terrible attacks. (From Listverse)
Emmett Till's death, and the trial of his murderers, was a travesty. (In 2008, the lady who accused him finally admitted she lied.) But it changed the heart of the civil rights movement, as well.
Two weird facts stood out in Emmett Till's biography: the truckload of men who kidnapped and killed Till included 4 white men...and 2 African-Americans.
One of his murderers, Roy Bryant, admitted he'd killed Till after he was acquitted. Bryant owned a grocery store whose customers were mostly black. Not surprisingly, they boycotted the store, and it was forced to shut down.
Another strange twist: the son of one of the murderers was implicated in the Panama Papers for cheating clients out of millions of dollars.
Poor old Michael Moore...the 'green' proponents don't like him much anymore. What can you do...
It is now legal in New York to kill an unborn child up to the moment of birth. You knew this, right?? Even if you did, and agree with it, there's a consequence that you might find unsettling. The bill provides no legal protection if the baby is killed (stabbing, shooting, etc.) pre-birth. In other words, no charging anyone for murder, if a pregnant mother is attacked and loses the fetus. Yow. From the article:
"Last year...Livia Abreu of the Bronx, NY was stabbed repeatedly in the abdomen by her fiance following a dispute. This caused Abreu to miscarry at 26 weeks and resulted in the death of her child. Prior to the passage of the RHA, Abreu's alleged attacker could have been charged with criminal abortion. Under the RHA, however, those who commit similar acts of violence against the unborn can only be charged with assaulting the mother, not the child. 'I cannot imagine living in a world where harming or killing an unborn child is not a crime,' Abreu said..."
A stray cat leads shoppers to the catfood section... and gets herself a permanent home, in the bargain.
A new 'island' in Michigan's Lake Muskegon.
I'm tired, but keeping on. This has got to end sometime -- and it will.
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