On This Day
939 – Battle of Andernach: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, crushes a rebellion against his rule, by a coalition of Eberhard of Franconia and other Frankish dukes.[2]
The Battle of Andernach, between the followers and the opponents of King Otto I of Germany, took place on 2 October 939 in Andernach on the Rhine river and ended with a decisive defeat of the rebels and the death of their leaders.
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1392 – Muhammed VII becomes the twelfth sultan of the Emirate of Granada.
Muhammad VII (Arabic: محمد السابع) (c. 1370 – 13 May 1408; reigned 3 October 1392 – 13 May 1408) was the twelfth Nasrid ruler of the Muslim Emirate of Granada in Al-Andalus on the Iberian Peninsula. He was the son of Yusuf II (reigned 1391–1392) and grandson of Muhammad V (reigned 1354–1359 and 1362–1391). He came to the throne upon the death of his father. In 1394, he defeated an invasion by the Order of Alcántara. This nearly escalated to a wider war, but Muhammad VII and Henry III of Castile were able to restore peace.
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Born On This Day
1470 – Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, Daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1498)[36]
Isabella, Princess of Asturias (2 October 1470 – 23 August 1498) was the eldest daughter and heir presumptive of King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile. She was Queen of Portugal as the wife of King Manuel I from 30 September 1497 until her death the following year.
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1390 – Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (d. 1447)[10]
Humphrey of Lancaster, Duke of Gloucester (3 October 1390 – 23 February 1447) was an English prince, soldier and literary patron.[1] He was (as he styled himself) “son, brother and uncle of kings”, being the fourth and youngest son of Henry IV of England, the brother of Henry V, and the uncle of Henry VI. Gloucester fought in the Hundred Years’ War and acted as Lord Protector of England during the minority of his nephew. A controversial figure, he has been characterised as reckless, unprincipled, and fractious, but is also noted for his intellectual activity and for being the first significant English patron of humanism,[2] in the context of the Renaissance.
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Has anyone used this app in Alaska and been able to view the Starlink satellites?
Find Starlink Satellites Check when you can see them!
People across the world have been spotting an amazing line of bright moving lights in their night sky. These are Starlink satellites launched by SpaceX, and they look like a “train” of moving lights since 60 satellites are launched together at a time.
Find out when you can see this phenomenon at your location!
This app is the official mobile version of the findstarlink.com website, which has been successfully serving Starlink predictions to people since May 2019 (when Starlink first launched). The findstarlink.com website has been mentioned on several press outlets like Yahoo! News, WIRED.it, and Florida Today, and receives daily user confirmations of successful Starlink sightings. This app additionally lets you set reminders, and works offline.
Designed to be simple and easy to use. First, please select your nearest city (or coordinates), and click on ‘Find Visible Times’. The app will list the times when you can see Starlink. You can also click ‘Remind me’ next to any timing, to get a reminder 30 minutes before Starlink will be visible at your location. A ‘Live Map’ lets you track where Starlink is currently in the world.
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My favorite quote is actually a song lyric. It’s from “Saturday” by Fall Out Boy. “I read about the afterlife but I never really lived.” It just reminds me to just live my life on my own terms instead of comparing myself to others and trying to get to their own goals instead of mine.
Wickersham’s Conscience: Playback and Those Damn Ant-Things
I like to write junk… THE LAST WORD “I’ve never looked at having the last word as totally bad, because someone has to be that person, and it might as well be me.”
Dry Bar Comedy: Nothing Will Ruin Your Life Like A Bad Nickname. Louis Smith
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Katherine deHoop, Realtor, Anchorage, AK
My Dad SGM James O Schmidt would have been 96 today. He died Nov 6 2022 in Anchorage holding my Moms hand. He was 14 years old when he earned his jump wings in WWII and 15 the night he jumped into Sicily with the 82nd Airborne. After getting wounded earning the Purple Heart the Army found out his age and sent him home. He ran off again and joined the Navy. He was on a destroyer headed to Europe when the discovered he was only 16.
He went on to earn a Silver Star at the Chosin Reservoir and was SGM 7th Special Forces in Vietnam.
You can learn more about my Dad by watching his documentary narrated by Liev Schreiber called Grandpas War Story goes Viral.
https://vimeo.com/454218119
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By Whisking Wolf, Food Talk Daily: Purple Sweet Potato Pie
Just the Recipe: Paste the URL to any recipe, click submit, and it’ll return literally JUST the recipe- no ads, no life story of the writer, no nothing EXCEPT the recipe.
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- Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for November 24 November 24, 2024Picture of the day The Scroll of Eighty-Seven Immortals, drawn by an unknown painter, measuring 30cm high and 292cm wide, is a line-drawing Chinese figure painting. Drawn on a long silk scroll with lines, the painting depicts 87 taoist immortals, including three supreme gods with halo, ten divine generals, seven deities and 67 celestial maidens […]
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