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Berlin Wall

When Canada finally started to remember World War II

A new book by historian Tim Cook looks at how World War II fits in Canada's historical imagination, and why it was vulnerable to neglect for so long It used to be easy to find a prime spot for watching the Remembrance Day ceremonies at Ottawa’s National War Memorial. Back…

bubmagMay 4, 2020

Biological Warfare

Health official feared biological warfare over a pandemic prioritizing smallpox vaccine over masks

President Trump's top official for public health preparedness, Robert Kadlec, dedicated billions in taxpayer dollars to fight biological and chemical weapons prioritizing that over battling a naturally occurring pandemic, a Washington Post investigation has found. Kadlec's team, for instance, cut a deal to buy up to $2.8 billion in smallpox vaccine and also purchased…

bubmagMay 4, 2020

Star Wars

Nearly every Star Wars film is free to watch on Sling TV right now

Star Wars Day is better than ever this year, as you no longer have to scour the galaxy to find where the movies are streaming. The event is well-known for all the discounts it brings on Star Wars merch, but now, Sling TV is offering one of the best Star…

bubmagMay 4, 2020

Vietnam Veterans

Kent State: Fifty Years After the Shootings

The radical notion that repression breeds resistance was borne out at Kent State in the years after the killings. Fifty years after a crisis provoked by the invasion of Cambodia, a new public health crisis prevented thousands from gathering at Kent State on May 4, 2020, to honor the dead…

bubmagMay 4, 2020

Pandemic

Now You Can Listen to Live Supreme Court Arguments

Photo: ShutterstockIf you’ve gotten to the stage of quarantine where you’ve watched every episode and season of “Law and Order,” “CSI” and “NCIS,” you may be looking for your next courtroom drama fix. Well, look no further than the highest court in the land: Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, for…

bubmagMay 4, 2020

Putin

Russia’s ventilators: plentiful, but often old and sometimes broken

By Maria Tsvetkova, Polina Nikolskaya and Gleb StolyarovMOSCOW (Reuters) - As new cases of the coronavirus accelerate in Russia, by one measure it is relatively well placed to cope with the pandemic.Russia has around 27 ventilators per 100,000 citizens, according to the government, considerably more than the 18.8 per 100,000 in…

bubmagMay 4, 2020

Brasilia

Bolsonaro picks new top cop after clashing with Brazil Supreme Court

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Monday picked a new head of the federal police following a Supreme Court decision to block his effort to appoint a family friend - a tactical retreat a day after he and supporters threatened the court in anti-democratic protests. Brazil's President Jair…

bubmagMay 4, 2020

Stalingrad

John Ericson, Star of ‘Honey West’ and Classic MGM Films, Dies at 93

John Ericson, a star of Hollywood’s Golden Age who appeared in multiple MGM films and in the 1960s TV show “Honey West,” died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, of pneumonia on Sunday. He was 93. Born Joseph Meibes in Dusseldorf, Germany, Ericson emigrated with his family to the United States…

bubmagMay 4, 2020

Exoskeleton

A new neuropeptide insect parathyroid hormone iPTH in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum

Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Jia Xie, Ming Sang, Xiaowen Song, Sisi Zhang, Donghun Kim, Jan A. Veenstra, Yoonseong Park, Bin Li x Published: May 4, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008772 ?This is an uncorrected proof. AbstractIn the postgenomics era, comparative genomics have advanced the understanding of evolutionary processes of neuropeptidergic…

bubmagMay 4, 2020

Brexit

GBP/USD: I Reiterate My Bearish View

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bubmagMay 4, 2020

When Canada finally started to remember World War II

Health official feared biological warfare over a pandemic prioritizing smallpox vaccine over masks

Nearly every Star Wars film is free to watch on Sling TV right now

Kent State: Fifty Years After the Shootings

Now You Can Listen to Live Supreme Court Arguments

Russia’s ventilators: plentiful, but often old and sometimes broken

Bolsonaro picks new top cop after clashing with Brazil Supreme Court

John Ericson, Star of ‘Honey West’ and Classic MGM Films, Dies at 93

A new neuropeptide insect parathyroid hormone iPTH in the red flour beetle Tribolium castaneum

GBP/USD: I Reiterate My Bearish View

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