From the outside, it looked like any of the other mugs in the Auschwitz museum.
But on the inside, this one had a secret — faithfully kept for seven decades.
A false bottom concealed a gold necklace and a gold ring inlaid with stones.
The enameled mug was one of more than 12,000 pieces of kitchenware that Nazis stole from people sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland.
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the Nazis would allow Jews to take only a small amount of luggage. It was a calculated move: If you were going to start a new life, and could only take a small bag, you'd fill it with your most precious possessions.
So when a victim arrived at Auschwitz, the Germans could be confident they'd be able to loot their luggage and find valuables.
On one hand, Cywinski says, that's proof that Jewish families were well aware that their belongings would be looted during their deportation.
But it's also a heartbreaking reminder of how much people didn't know about the fate they faced at Auschwitz.
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The inside of a leatherback turtle's mouth is pretty interesting.
The Great Smog of 1952 or Big Smoke was a severe air-pollution event that affected London during December 1952. A period of cold weather, combined with an anticyclone and windless conditions, collected airborne pollutants mostly from the use of coal to form a thick layer of smog over the city. It lasted from Friday 5 December to Tuesday 9 December 1952, and then dispersed quickly after a change of weather.
Although it caused major disruption due to the effect on visibility, and even penetrated indoor areas, it was not thought to be a significant event at the time, with London having experienced many smog events in the past, so-called "pea soupers". Government medical reports in the following weeks estimated that up until 8 December 4,000 people had died prematurely and 100,000 more were made ill because of the smog's effects on the human respiratory tract. More recent research suggests that the total number of fatalities was considerably greater, at about 12,000.
There was a show in BBC called The Supersizers Eat...
For 6 shows they ate the food and lived the life of someone from that era the six being the Wartime of WW2, Restoration period in the 17th century, Victorians in the late 19th century, Britons living in the 1970s, the Regency period of 1789 - 1821 and the Elizabethan era
Along with primates and corvids (crows, ravens etc) octopi have shown the ability to use tools and problem solving intelligence.
One aquarium set up a security camera when someone was stealing small sharks from a tank. The camera revealed that the octopus housed in the next tank over would climb out of its tank every night, climb into the next tank, snack on a shark, then climb back into its own tank and look innocent and hungry when the aquarium workers arrived with breakfast.
I love it when animals pick up on human behaviour.
I remember watching a clip of a raven in a zoo. It would open it's own bolt -locked cage just after the keepers made their round, close the hatch behind him and proceed to steal any food he could get his claws on.
Then he would return just in time for his own feeding, making sure to slide back the bolt after he closed his door.
Octopuses as the next civilisation after humanity screws up everything? Yeah, okay. Why not.
There's a cloak in Destiny that said that.
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Update on that chickadee nest: I managed to check on it at a moment when I guess the parents flew out for food. There were six little nestlings cuddled together in their moss bowl.
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So I've always found email spam a little fascinating. Like who sends this shit? Who reads it? How do they get the emails and what happens when you click on the links?
My wife works at a big university and sometimes she helps people with IT type stuff that she can fix without them having to call the IT guy. This morning she was forwarded an email and sent me a screenshot
This one was so specific, so unusual and indecipherable that my interest was piqued instantly. So I googled JP Monfort and boy howdy
So here's a dude who is convinced he's going to save the world. He's going to be global president in 2050. He's going to cure poverty and solve global warming. All he needs to do is create an intellectual utopia which rules the world with an oligarchic iron fist. He FLOODS university email domains with emails like this ALL THE TIME. Begging professors to join him and change the world.
I'm fascinated by this because it's an actual dude writing actual emails for what he thinks is an actual cause.
When he heard that a resident was choking, Perry Gaines, maître d’ for the Deupree House dining room, ran toward the table.
Gaines has been trained in the Heimlich maneuver and has performed it at least twice in the two years he has worked at the Hyde Park senior living facility.
When Gaines arrived at the table, Dr. Henry Heimlich, a 96-year-old resident of the Deupree House who invented the famous technique for clearing a blocked airway, was standing behind the woman, ready to perform it.
Typically, a staff member would do it. “But,” Gaines said, pausing, “it is Dr. Heimlich.”
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Heimlich also thinks his maneuver will do all kinds of crazy shit like save people from drowning and cure cystic fybrosis.
He also thinks that getting malaria will cure your HIV.
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You wouldn't think you'd need a gullet full of spikes when all you eat is jellyfish but there you go
Want to play co-op games? Feel free to hit me up!
Downside is that leatherback turtles accidentally eat plastic bags, too. Yay, pollution!
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other downside: terrible blowjobs
Don't kinkshame
inside-out Durian fruit
Real life Sarlacc?
No thanks, I never got into Pokemon.
bit late, but i'm now binge watching these.
I love Sue Perkins
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Tentacles are taking over the oceans. Rejoice!
One aquarium set up a security camera when someone was stealing small sharks from a tank. The camera revealed that the octopus housed in the next tank over would climb out of its tank every night, climb into the next tank, snack on a shark, then climb back into its own tank and look innocent and hungry when the aquarium workers arrived with breakfast.
I remember watching a clip of a raven in a zoo. It would open it's own bolt -locked cage just after the keepers made their round, close the hatch behind him and proceed to steal any food he could get his claws on.
Then he would return just in time for his own feeding, making sure to slide back the bolt after he closed his door.
fucker was fat
There's a cloak in Destiny that said that.
My wife works at a big university and sometimes she helps people with IT type stuff that she can fix without them having to call the IT guy. This morning she was forwarded an email and sent me a screenshot
This one was so specific, so unusual and indecipherable that my interest was piqued instantly. So I googled JP Monfort and boy howdy
So here's a dude who is convinced he's going to save the world. He's going to be global president in 2050. He's going to cure poverty and solve global warming. All he needs to do is create an intellectual utopia which rules the world with an oligarchic iron fist. He FLOODS university email domains with emails like this ALL THE TIME. Begging professors to join him and change the world.
I'm fascinated by this because it's an actual dude writing actual emails for what he thinks is an actual cause.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
Looks like the email was "inspired by" Rogue Nation, betting at least half of that screed was copied from it.
Yeah, ok, talk to me future man; tell me I'm gonna live past forty and you might have someone to cook for you.
He also thinks that getting malaria will cure your HIV.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
radiolab.org/story/heimlichs-maneuver/
whether a broken sternum is better than choking to death on an especially ambitious bite of chicken, that's for you to decide.
The real danger is cracking the xiphoid process and piercing the pericardium.