On This Day
1190 – Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the river Saleph while leading an army to Jerusalem.
Death and Burials
Barbarossa opted on the local Armenians’ advice to follow a shortcut along the Saleph river. Meanwhile, the army started to traverse the mountain path. On 10 June 1190, he drowned near Silifke Castle in the Saleph river.[97] There are several conflicting accounts of the event:[98]
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Born On This Day
867 – Emperor Uda of Japan (d. 931)
Emperor Uda (宇多天皇, Uda-tennō, June 10, 866 – September 3, 931) was the 59th emperor of Japan,[1] according to the traditional order of succession.[2]
Uda’s reign spanned the years from 887 through 897.[3]
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Theodore John Kaczynski (/kəˈzɪnski/ kə-ZIN-skee; May 22, 1942 – June 10, 2023), also known as the Unabomber (/ˈjuːnəbɒmər/), was an American domestic terrorist and mathematics professor.[2][3] He was a mathematics prodigy but abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a more primitive life. Between 1978 and 1995, Kaczynski killed three people and injured 23 others in a nationwide mail bombing campaign against people he believed to be advancing modern technology and the destruction of the environment. He authored Industrial Society and Its Future, a 35,000-word manifesto and social critique opposing industrialization, rejecting leftism, and advocating for a nature-centered form of anarchism.[4]
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By Alex Traub, The New York Times: Ted Kaczynski, ‘Unabomber’ Who Attacked Modern Life, Dies at 81 Alone in a shack in the Montana wilderness, he fashioned homemade bombs and launched a violent one-man campaign to destroy industrial society.
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SHOWER THOUGHTS
In the 30 years since Pulp Fiction was released, a $5 milkshake has gone from ridiculously expensive to incredibly cheap.
Storm Trooper armor is pretty useless. One hit from a blaster and they go down. They might as well just wear normal, lighter clothing.
Maple trees live in a world dominated by superintelligent vampires.
We as a human race have accepted the fact that silverware needs no more technical advancement.
You don’t need to be the sharpest tool in the shed when you are a hammer.
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