FYI July 31, 2018

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1874 – Dr. Patrick Francis Healy became the first African-American inaugurated as president of a predominantly white university, Georgetown University.
Patrick Francis Healy (February 27, 1834 – January 10, 1910) was a Jesuit priest, educator, and the 29th President of Georgetown University (1874–1882), known for expanding the school following the American Civil War. Healy Hall was constructed during Healy’s tenure and is named after him. It was designated as a National Historic Landmark in the late 20th century.[1]

Although Healy was accepted as and identified as Irish-American during his lifetime, in the 1950s and 1960s his mixed-race ancestry became more widely known and acknowledged. He was recognized as the first person of African-American descent to earn a PhD; the first to become a Jesuit priest; and the first to be president of Georgetown University, or any predominantly white college in the United States.

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Born On This Day

 
 
1919 – Primo Levi, Italian chemist and author (d. 1987)
Primo Michele Levi (Italian: [ˈpriːmo ˈlɛːvi]; 31 July 1919 – 11 April 1987) was an Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor. He was the author of several books, novels, collections of short stories, essays, and poems. His best-known works include If This Is a Man (1947) (U.S.: Survival in Auschwitz), his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland; and The Periodic Table (1975), linked to qualities of the elements, which the Royal Institution of Great Britain named the best science book ever written.[1]

Levi died in 1987 from injuries sustained in a fall from a third-story apartment landing. His death was officially ruled a suicide, but some have suggested that the fall was accidental.

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FYI

 
 
By Scott Fowler: Tom Higgins, legendary NASCAR writer for Charlotte Observer, dies at age 80
 
 
 
 
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By Andrew Liszewski: The Perfect Nerf Knock-Offs
 
 
 
 
By Ryan F. Mandelbaum: How Does Your Self-Control Fare Against Great Tits’?
“The great tit, a small song bird that is very good at learning, performs almost in level with chimpanzees and ravens in this test,” the authors from Lund University in Sweden write in the study published in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.
 
 
 
 
Can you actually delete posts or are they recoverable?

By Chris Thompson: Nationals’ Sean Doolittle Does Some Good And Wise Tweets
 
 
 
 
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By Laura Staugaitis: Watch Amazonian Butterflies Take Sips of a Turtle’s Salty Tears

 
 
By Kate Sierzputowski: Photographs of Antarctica’s Blue Ice at Eye Level by Julieanne Kost
 
 
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By Elizabeth Segran: How a warehouse fire sparked company-wide innovation at Gap
 
 
 
 
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Ideas

 
 

By Kelly-n-Tony Hometalk Helper: Hangin’ With My Gnomies Tire Swing Planter
 
 
 
 

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Recipes

 
 
By mataw: Simple and Delicious BBQ Teriyaki Ribs
 
 
 
 
By ptevyesaur: Barbecue Doughnuts
 
 
 
 
By Penolopy Bulnick: Peanut Butter Cheerio Bars


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