Albany Ledger, Missouri, June 17, 1898

Double Trouble

The names Minnesota, in the US, and Winnipeg, in Canada, have the same meaning. Minnesota means “murky water” in Sioux. Winnipeg means “murky water” in Cree.

Hand-colored ambrotype portrait of an Iroquois man posing with a knife and spear, c. 1855.

Source: Heritage Auctions.

Experts think this photo suggests Amelia Earhart may have survived her last flight

The circumstances surrounding famed pilot Amelia Earhart’s 1937 disappearance have remained a mystery for the past 80 years, but a recently discovered photo may offer some answers.

The photo — found in a previously classified National Archives file — suggests Earhart may have survived the crash landing that many assume killed her.

The picture appears to show Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, on a dock at Jatuit Atoll in the Marshall Islands.

According to former FBI executive assistant director Shawn Henry this newly unearthed evidence suggests the pair was captured by the Japanese after successfully rolling out an emergency landing in the Marshall Islands.

Henry told People that the photo proves “beyond a reasonable doubt” that Earhart and Noonan were then held captive on the Japanese island of Saipan, where he said he thinks Earhart died two years later. Read more (7/5/17)

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SLYTHERIN: “I am a great believer that anything not expressly forbidden is explicitly allowed.” -Garth Nix (Mogget: Clariel)

A quick comic about net neutrality.

If you don’t know what this is check out this video by Pyrocinical:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeRnDQmMf2Y

Please, please don’t let this happen. I can’t link the site at risk that this post won’t show up in tags. We don’t want to be rid of Net Neutrality!!

Some ways to be patriotic today:

- Take a moment to read about the history of Native Americans, their beautiful and varied pre-colonisation societies, and their gradual extermination by white planters, frontiersmen and the US military.

- Consider putting those fireworks away for the evening, as many veterans who have returned home from far-away battlefields with PTSD report Independence Day celebrations can act as a trigger.

- Do something worthwhile to turn America into the place you want it to be: talk to your neighbours about how to solve a problem in your hood, join a workplace union, donate to Planned Parenthood.