12 August 1941 | A French Jewish girl, Annie Nakache, was born in Constantine (Algeria). She lived in Toulouse. A daughter of a swimmer Alfred Nakache.
In January 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz with her parents. She was murdered in a gas chamber with her mother Paule.
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The Navy Times also quoted the wife of one serviceman aboard the #USSAbrahamLincoln who said her husband had tried to jump overboard during the current deployment.
“He’s scared,” Annabelle Loma said. “He thinks he’ll get a dishonorable discharge, & just because he was burnt out, his 13-year career is ruined, just like that. That’s not fair, that’s not right. That’s not what he should be worrying about right now.”
#US #military #Navy #Hegseth #Trump #SuckersAndLosers #MentalHealth
#OnThisDay #ThePeoplesHistory #Vote
AUG. 13, 1955: LAMAR SMITH MURDERED
Lamar Smith, 63-year-old farmer and WWI veteran, was shot dead in Brookhaven, Mississippi, for urging African Americans to vote.
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/lamar-smith-murdered
🌿 Before trees existed, Earth was ruled by 26-foot-tall mystery organisms called Prototaxites — and scientists now suspect they may belong to an entirely new kingdom of life.
For over 170 years, these towering fossils defied classification. They weren't plants, weren't fungi, and weren't like anything alive today. A 2026 study found they lack chitin, a defining feature of fungi, and have unique internal structures found in no known organism.
Some specimens grew to 26 feet tall and 3 feet wide, dominating a world where the tallest plants were just a few inches high. How they got enough energy to grow so large is still a complete mystery.
I spend hours every day on Rightmove even though I know I will never be able to afford a house of my own.
13 August 1934 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Mariza Gutfreund, was born.
In June 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
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▶ The ruins of gas chamber and crematorium III: https://bit.ly/4ql4LTV
‘Living proof damaged landscapes can recover’: exploring a vast restored forest in southern Sweden | Sweden holidays | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/aug/13/soderasen-national-park-sweden-forest-far-south
Federal judge rules Forest Service violated law by allowing off-road events in coastal marten habitat | Courthouse News Service
https://courthousenews.com/federal-judge-rules-forest-service-violated-law-by-allowing-off-road-events-in-coastal-marten-habitat/
If a school bus is stopped and they have their little stop sign blinking, you have to stop.
That's a law here.
Because we don't want you to run over anyone's babies with your stupid lifted truck.
If you are running so late that you cannot stop and let children get to safety, you should just go home and try again tomorrow.
It's bananas to me that adults can't figure out what to do when they see a stop sign with flashing lights.
When we need more toilet paper I just go down the local, buy a pint, go for a slash then bung a couple of those big industrial rolls in my backpack, been doing it for three years now, wife and kids complain it's too harsh but I'm the big dog bringing home the bacon.
Art by Richard Nadler
Night out with my girlfriend, absolutely rat-arsed, these guys asked us if we could take their dead mate's ashes home so he could (quote) "have a threesome with some hot lesbians". We did but had no way of giving him back so he's still in the bathroom so he can watch us shower.
Amazon will invest in a gas-burning power plant in Texas, which will power a new data center. That one plant can produce more carbon dioxide than countries such as Switzerland, Ireland or Bulgaria.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/amazon-data-center-largest-pollution-source-texas-usa