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PuckSR t1_j6pf5ry wrote

Orion's belt is one of the easiest patterns to pick out of the sky. Three stars that are relatively bright and look almost like a straight line.

From what I've seen, nearly every group that could SEE Orion's belt had some kind of constellation attached to it.

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RandoCalrissian11 t1_j6pf3no wrote

No; Nobody refers to Congress as The House of Representatives unless they are as uneducated as you. Congress is a bicameral system. That’s taught in elementary school if you are lucky; middle school if you are not, and again in high school if you aren’t paying attention.

Fred Rogers knew that, and so should you.

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Succulentmeditator t1_j6peha6 wrote

It’s spelled “Hofmann”; the other well known, 60’s yippie activist, Albert “Abbie” spelled his name as Hoffman. Here’s an article on the sequence of western rediscovery of ceremonial Psilocybe species use: https://inecol.repositorioinstitucional.mx/jspui/bitstream/1005/111/1/8451_2008-10264.pdf

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Future_Direction5174 t1_j6pebv3 wrote

Robert Fripp is local to me. He had some involvement with a local whole food shop in a nearby town. The shop is still there and has been trading for over 30 years.

As a teenager, he took guitar lessons with Mrs. Kathleen Gartell in Corfe Mullen. She was my music teacher, and also related to me through my paternal grandfather we discovered. I went to see her in the early 80’s as I was taking up playing my cornet again as the brass section with a London rock band. She pulled out the magazine in which he had mentioned her in a interview to show me. She was so chuffed to be honoured by him.

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scsnse t1_j6peaq0 wrote

This happened in my neck of the woods where I grew up and still live next to, on Fort Hood.

So Camp Hood was put in once Pearl Harbor happened and the US entered the War. The Army policy at the time was to have integrated busses for soldiers to travel to recreational areas in surrounding cities. However, the army due to exploding demand contracted out local bus lines and drivers to provide services to soldiers at the brand new base. Circa 1940s, the surrounding area consisted of mostly rural areas and very small railroad and farm towns like Killeen, which of course this is the South and the Cotton Belt built on slavery, too. You can still see the former Cotton Gin in downtown Belton about 20 minutes away.

Jackie was a newly minted college educated officer in the 761st Tank Battalion, a segregated unit of all black tankers that would earn the nickname "Black Panthers". He definitely understood his basic civil rights and self-worth as a human being. The local bus driver told him to give up a seat for a white servicemember, and he refused not just because it wasn't right ethically, but the Army regulations said he shouldn't have to. Sadly, he was still arrested by MPs that were called, and a Court-Martial was threatened. His original commander refused to file the charges, and the chain of command decided to transfer him to another unit whose commander agreed to. The NAACP and other national organizations heard about this case and quickly built up pressure on the DoD to stop the process, which helped the charges to be reduced, but he still had to go to court. Thankfully, the all white jury found him not guilty, and he was quickly transferred away from the 761st to Kentucky.

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ktempest t1_j6pdyee wrote

Sorry, let me be clear! In Bauval's theory they're meant to be flipped. That's not a hole in the theory, that's part of it.

That said, I do not agree with the Orion alignment theory.

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ktempest t1_j6pdj0k wrote

Yeah, you are. As I stated, ask any archaeoastronomer. Literally folks who study the ancient stars and how ancient cultures studied and related to them. Hell, ask any Egyptologist. This isn't some controversial theory from the ancient aliens people, this is accepted in academia.

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IdlyCurious t1_j6pd7q3 wrote

> Meanwhile in the UK during the war, American GIs complained that a bar was serving black soliders, so the bar responding by kicking out the white soliders.

True, but a bit misleading. That's how they treated guest black people who were going to leave. Those black persons (and other minorities) that immigrated later to stay were badly treated. Not as badly as the US treated black people, certainly, but not treated well.

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TIGHazard t1_j6pck11 wrote

The original TV footage of the moon landing has a bunch of animations of the lunar craft landing... because obviously there was no TV crew who went to the moon first - then they'd be the first ones.

https://youtu.be/sJv5_y2l5as?t=360

(At 8:17 there is even the text displayed message "CBS News Simulation")

Some people use this as 'evidence' that they didn't go.

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OneBlueHopeUTFT t1_j6pbpek wrote

He’s a rookie lol, if you don’t think there’s room to improve while learning under the greatest player of all time you’re pretty dumb ngl.

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