FYI January 13, 2020

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On This Day

1435 – Sicut Dudum, forbidding the enslavement of the Guanche natives in Canary Islands by the Spanish, is promulgated by Pope Eugene IV.
Sicut dudum (English: Just as Long Ago) is a papal bull promulgated by Pope Eugene IV in Florence on January 13, 1435, which forbade the enslavement of local natives in the Canary Islands who had converted or were converting to Christianity. Sicut dudum was meant to reinforce Creator Omnium, issued the previous year, condemning Portuguese slave raids in the Canary Islands. Over forty years after Creator omnium and Sicut dudum, Pope Sixtus IV found it necessary to repeat the prohibition in his papal bull Regimini gregis, which threatened the excommunication of all captains or pirates who enslaved Christians.

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Born On This Day

1810 – Ernestine Rose, American suffragist, abolitionist, and freethinker (d. 1892)[6]
Ernestine Louise Rose (January 13, 1810 – August 4, 1892)[1] was a Jewish suffragist, abolitionist, and freethinker. Her career spanned from the 1830s to the 1870s, making her a contemporary to the much more widely celebrated suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Largely forgotten in contemporary discussions of the American women’s rights movement, she was one of its major intellectual forces in nineteenth-century America.[2] Her relationship with Judaism is a debated motivation for her advocacy.[3] In 1996, she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.[4]

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FYI

By Mark Jacob | LocalNewsIni: The Arkansas Gamble: Can a Tablet and a Print Replica Rescue Local News?
 
 
 
 
Stan C. Smith – Awesome Animal: Reindeer
 
 
 
 
Open Culture: Witness Rush Drummer Neil Peart’s (RIP) Finest Moments On Stage and Screen; Artist Ed Ruscha Reads From Jack Kerouac’s On the Road in a Short Film Celebrating His 1966 Photos of the Sunset Strip; The First & Last Time Mister Rogers Sang “Won’t You Be My Neighbor” (1968-2001)

 
 
 
 

By Marisa Abeyta, Beyond Bylines: Blog Profiles: Fitness Blogs
 
 
 
 
By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN Business: Corvette wins North American Car of the Year Award

 
 
 
 
By JAKE BLEIBERG and STEFANIE DAZIO Associated Press: Design of AR-15 could derail charges tied to popular rifle A subtle design feature of the AR-15 rifle has raised a technical legal question that is derailing criminal cases tied to one of America’s most popular weapons

 
 
 
 

By David Montanaro | Fox News: Fort Hood survivor: Pensacola attack, Saudi trainees’ extremist ties show ‘nothing has changed’
 
 
 
 

The Rural Blog: How high-deductible insurance can hurt rural hospitals and patients; Jan. 24 journalism talk to cover farmers’ role in fighting climate change; you can watch via livestream; Most rural counties gained jobs over the past year, but job growth rate lags metros; map has county-level data and more ->
 
 
 
 
Alaska Health Fair 2020 Schedule of Health Fairs + Affordable Blood Tests
 
 
 
 

Today’s email was written by Michael Tabb and Annaliese Griffin, edited by Whet Moser, and produced by Tori Smith. Quartz Obsession: Multitasking: The myth of doing it all
 
 
 
 

Ideas

By scoochmaroo: How to Make Leather Sneakers
 
 
By Inchman: Coffee in A… Pen?
 
 

Recipes

Hank Shaw, Hunter Angler Gardener Cook: Chinese Braised Mushrooms
 
 
By Creative Mom CZ: Coffee Flan
 
 
By SomethingSoSam: How to Bake, Decorate, and Ship Vegan Watercolor Sugar Cookies