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Climate activists us constitution
Climate activists (Dumb and Dumber) dumped red powder
Wednesday on the protective display case holding the U.S. Constitution.
 

climate activists red powder rotunda
The suspects were arrested by D.C. police.

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PICTURE OF EARTH TAKEN ON THIS DAY IN 1990

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The picture, known as Pale Blue Dot (above) depicts our
planet as a nearly indiscernible speck roughly the size
of a pixel. 

On Valentine’s Day, 1990, 3.7 billion miles away from the sun,  
the Voyager 1 spacecraft looked back at our solar system and
snapped the first-ever pictures of the planets from its perch at
that time beyond Neptune. This is the last image Voyager 1 ever
beamed back after which the cameras were turned off to save
power and memory.

Voyager-1 spacecraft: 40 years of history and interstellar flight
Artist impression of Voyager-1.

   
   

   

    
    
    
     
       

                  
                  
                 

    
  
     









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ASCAP WAS FOUNDED IN 1914

Founding of ASCAP — Mystic Stamp Discovery Center

On February 13, 1914, the American Society of Composers, Authors
and Publishers
(ASCAP)
was founded to help music creators make
a living from their work.

“If music did not pay, it would be given up.” So wrote Associate
Justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes in a landmark Supreme Court
decision in 1917.

Holmes wasn’t referring to musicians themselves in that statement,
but to places of business in which copyrighted musical works could
be heard, whether such music was live or recorded—and, critically, whether or not it generated direct revenues. “Whether it pays or not,” continued Holmes, “the purpose of employing it is profit and that is enough.” Narrowly speaking, the decision in Herbert v. Shanley Co. forced Shanley’s Restaurant in
New York City to pay a fee to the American songwriter Victor Herbert for playing a song of his on a
player-piano during dinner service. The case represented a much broader victory, however, for the new musicians’ advocacy
organization of which Herbert was the head: ASCAP.

Among the founding members of ASCAP were the musical giants
of the day: Irving Berlin, James Weldon Johnson, Jerome Kern
and John Philip Sousa.

Unfair to Genius: Popular Music and Copyright Law in the Age of the Songwriter - by Gary Rosen
Victor Herbert, on piano stool, poses with the founding
members of ASCAP in 1914.
(Courtesy ASCAP)

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POP-TART INVENTOR HAS DIED AT AGE 96

Death – Obituary News : Inventor of Pop-Tarts, William “Bill” Post, Dies at 96. RIP Legend ...

William “Bill” Post, the Michigan man widely credited
with inventing Pop-Tarts for the Kellogg’s breakfast
food company, died on Saturday.

Post’s invention debuted in 1964 with four flavors,
strawberry, blueberry, brown sugar cinnamon, and
apple currant. There are now more than 20 flavors.

Pop-Tart Flavors, Ranked By Their Fillings and Frostings | Pop tart flavors, Pop tarts, Easy ...
The snack has $1 billion in U.S. annual sales.

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FIRST MEDAL OF HONOR ACTION IN 1861

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Bernard John Dowling Irwin
(June 24, 1830 – December 15, 1917)

U.S. Army assistant surgeon Bernard John Dowling "J.D." Irwin
rescued a kidnapped boy and 60 soldiers encircled by legendary
Apache warrior Cochise on this day in history, Feb. 13, 1861.

Irwin’s heroic volunteer effort under dire circumstances in the
Arizona Territory
has gone down in American military lore as
the first Congressional Medal of Honor action.

It took place before the award even existed.

Cochise - Character Description

Cochise Stronghold | Visit Arizona
The Cochise Stronghold in Arizona.

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