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Canada is putting Terry Fox on its money. The Bank of Canada has confirmed that the Marathon of Hope runner will appear on the country’s next $5 bank note. The new polymer note will be predominantly blue and use the vertical format being introduced for Canada’s newer bank notes. Fox was chosen...

Almost everyone knows the name Jonas Salk, rightly celebrated for conquering polio. Almost no one knows the names Pearl Kendrick, Grace Eldering, and Loney Clinton Gordon -- three women who, working after hours in a cash-strapped Michigan laboratory during the Great Depression, defeated a...

This claim captures a real political clash, but it should not be presented as a direct quote. In July 2025, Mike Johnson said he did not understand Thomas Massie’s “motivation” or “how his mind works” while criticizing Massie’s effort to force the release of Epstein related Justice Department...

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Ewan Forbes was a country doctor in Scotland who, in 1952, quietly did something almost no one in Britain could imagine: he re-registered his own birth as male, corrected a record he said had been wrong his whole life, and married soon after. The trouble came in 1965, when his brother died and...

She invented it

Just saying Just in case you slept thru it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair

And Vance on single mothers https://www.facebook.com/reel/1095701559630936

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Before vaccines, children died in huge numbers from diseases which are now almost unheard of. Sometimes whole families died in a matter of a few days, as in this sad case. We want to be up front: we aren't certain that these specific children died from a vaccine preventable disease, although...

Learning new words ..... https://www.facebook.com/reel/1347218079177032

There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't ..... August 10, 1937. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A twenty-one year old submitted his master's thesis in electrical engineering. The title was dry and technical and almost aggressively...

And back to washrooms ..... https://www.facebook.com/reel/1448085207139726

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed H.R. 2616, the “Stopping Indoctrination and Protecting Kids Act,” which would restrict the use of federal education funds for teaching or promoting gender ideology in public elementary and middle schools. The bill also requires parental consent for...

Ireland passes bill banning imports of goods from Israeli settlements The Irish parliament approved legislation on Tuesday banning imports of goods from 'certain Israeli settlements' in the occupied Palestinian territories. Those include residential, agricultural and business interests that lie...