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@100YearsAgoLive Has he been trying to get out?

A permanent armed military guard is posted at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier for the first time.

@25YearsAgoLive It’s fine. I didn’t even notice it was sponsored. Some people will always react negatively to any kind of sponsorship but the reality of the situation is that maintaining this kind of accounts is not free, and very few are willing to pay for it.

[Fourth-Wall Break] I want to sit down with you all and seriously address something that happened today: I posted a piece of sponsored content and the backlash was overwhelmingly severe and extreme. I lost hundreds of followers and my replies and DMs were filled with accusations of being a “sellout,” a “grifter,” a “scammer,” and a “Jew.” I want to introduce myself and my case a little bit. I have worked on this project for several years, and each and every week I put 20-30 hours of work into this project. I make almost nothing - from X revenue sharing, I can usually expect less than $100/month, and from Patreon, another $75. I’m really passionate about this project and I want to continue it as a hobby while balancing my real job and my real life, but that’s difficult when I’m bringing in almost nothing from it, so that’s why I decided to run ads. Many creators on YouTube thank their sponsors. They spend many minutes of video time doing so. Many Instagram posts are devoted wholly to sponsored content. But when a post of mine on X featured sponsored content, many of you felt that was intolerable and lashed out in extreme ways. A concern some of you expressed in DMs was that posting sponsored content is a “slippery slope” that inevitably leads to “selling the account” or “making every post sponsored.” I want to reassure you all that this account is my life’s passion and I will continue doing it until the day I die. But I have to make a living as well. I have run sponsored content in the past; I am running sponsored content in the present. I am not sure why that act merits anger, if it’s only one post a day and it’s one reply that you can disregard easily. I make sure that the companies with whom I partner are ethical, and are doing it for the right reasons. I will never ever push a scam, crypto product, or meme coin on you. And today’s sponsor was none of those things, as much as many of you aggressively claimed that it was. Anyway, I welcome your feedback.

@50YearsAgoLive I’m sure many more supersonic aircraft will follow from Boeing, Lockheed and McDonnell-Douglas. Soon we’ll all be crossing the oceans in just a couple of hours.

A British Airways Concorde makes the first flight by a Concorde from the UK to the United States.

@25YearsAgoLive I hope he gets his money back.

A Ghanaian youth, Aleobiga, dies after smearing a lotion all over himself that he believed would make him impervious to bullets, and then asking his friends to test it by shooting him.

@25YearsAgoLive I still remember when he adopted her as if it had been only a few months ago.

Sabiha Gökçen, pioneering Turkish aviatrix and adopted daughter of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (in 1925), dies in Ankara. She was 88.

@50YearsAgoLive Justice has prevailed, being rich won't save her from spending each and every one of those years in prison.

Kidnap victim turned militant Patty Hearst is convicted of bank robbery and use of an illegal firearm during the commission of a felony. She is sentenced to 35 years in federal prison.

@50YearsAgoLive At least he won't have to play the role again after this movie flops.

Sir Alec Guinness, who was expected to play “Obi Wan” on the new George Lucas film “The Star Wars,” almost quits. He calls the dialogue “rubbish,” but admits that “the bread [salary] is lovely.”

@50YearsAgoLive In the next 50 years there will be cities on Mars, possibly even Ceres.

Happy 50th birthday to liquid-fueled rocketry! Incredible that in the first half-century of this technology, we’ve managed to launch satellites and put dozens of men on the Moon. I’m optimistic for what the next 50 years will hold!

@100YearsAgoLive A curious toy but, just like the airplane, I don't think it'll go anywhere.

American engineer Robert Goddard launches his invention, a “liquid-fueled rocket,” from a farm in Auburn, Massachusetts, for the first time. The rocket reaches an altitude of 41 feet (12.5m) and the flight lasts 2.5 seconds. Goddard dreams one day of launching rockets that can reach outer space.

Did you know vending machines kill more people than sharks? Sharks rarely use vending machines.

@100YearsAgoLive This wouldn’t have happened if they had strong financial institutions like the USA.

The Belgian Franc collapses and there is a run on the banks.

@25YearsAgoLive I wonder if at some point there will be a band of them. A maid band of sorts

A curious new restaurant, the Cure Maid Café, opens in Akihabara, Tokyo. In this café, waitresses dressed in French maid costumes treat their customers as masters, as if they were in a private home. Women’s rights groups denounce the practice as shameless fetishism.

@DJSnM Maybe this’ll help?

Seeing ‘real programmers’ complain about only 8Gb of memory while I try to work with 8kb of memory on this device. (Please don’t use the wiring as reference I can’t remember which photo showed the working version)

@DJSnM What about $30 ?

Of course they’re not getting my phone number for a chance to win a $25 gift card

I had to get up at 3:30 to get to the airport but car trivia just demanded my attention

@VBro262143 @100YearsAgoLive Exactly! Germany is a prosperous nation and has learned that peace will keep it that way.

@rb3m @100YearsAgoLive Why would they, the Weimar Republic is a civilized democracy, not some maniacal dictatorship.

Denmark begins a unilateral disarmament in the interest of pursuing a lasting peace.

@25YearsAgoLive I think that’s faster than the Millennium Falcon.

@rb3m 12 parsecs?

The spacewalk endurance record is set when American astronauts James Voss and Susan Helms spend eight hours and 56 minutes outside the space shuttle Discovery during a mission to the International Space Station.

@BobGolen I never expected this from the sea.

Is there no limit to their treachery

@Raeyyne @Math_files This is actually a very good observation on your part. But Cavendish was aware of it and designed the experiment so that the pull of Earth would be countered and only the pull of the balls affected the twist of the wire. In this way he measured the mass, not the weight.

@Math_files I think this does not determine the weight of the earth instead it determines the weight of 2 lead balls and 2 rods in an atmosphere under the influence of magnetic attraction and gravitational pull!

In 1798, a scientist effectively “weighed” the Earth — without leaving his laboratory. The English scientist Henry Cavendish designed an incredibly sensitive experiment. Inside a quiet wooden shed, he hung a horizontal rod from a very thin wire. Two small lead spheres were attached to the ends of the rod. Nearby, he placed two much larger lead balls. Because of gravity, the large spheres slightly pulled the smaller ones. The force was extremely tiny — so small that the rod twisted by only a minute fraction of a degree. Yet that tiny twist held a big secret. By carefully measuring this small movement, Cavendish determined the strength of the gravitational attraction between objects. From this, scientists could calculate the mass of the entire Earth. His estimate was remarkably close. Cavendish calculated Earth’s mass to be about 6 × 10²⁴ kilograms, while modern measurements give 5.97 × 10²⁴ kilograms. Sometimes the biggest discoveries come from measuring the smallest forces.