Israel recorded zero COVID-19 deaths in a day for the first time in 10 months
Israel continues to provide what appears to be a real-time look at the success of COVID-19 vaccinations.
For the first time in 10 months, Israel did not record a single COVID-19 death in a 24-hour period on Friday. The last time this happened, the country had enacted strict lockdown measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus, but that s not the case now. Cases are plummeting even as Israel has gradually been lifting restrictions, including an outdoor mask mandate. Israelis are joyously resuming routines that were disrupted more than a year ago,
Marjorie Taylor Greene mockingly impersonates Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez while recounting her debate challenge
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) remains very determined to debate Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).
On Saturday, while speaking at the America First Rally at the Indian River County Fairgrounds in Florida, Greene recounted an apparent conversation the congresswomen had when Greene approached Ocasio-Cortez in the House chamber about going head-to-head on national television over the contents of the Green New Deal, which Greene believes will destroy the U.S. economy.
While telling her version of the story, Greene mockingly impersonated Ocasio-Cortez, who she claims has no clue what she s talking about because she hasn t owned a business. The crowd certainly seemed to enjoy the narrative, but Greene s critics did not, comparing it to something a middle schooler would tell, rather than a sitting congresswoman.
Biden breaks with predecessors, calls 1915 mass killings of Armenians a genocide
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While addressing Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day on Saturday, Biden said the American people honor all those Armenians who perished in the genocide that began 106 years ago today. The statement fulfills a campaign promise Biden made to Armenian-Americans, and makes him the first president in 40 years to call the mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 1915 a genocide.
Biden s gesture is significant for Armenia and its diaspora, and it s not controversial among most historians, who estimate that 1.5 million Armenians were systematically killed in 1915. But, as is often the case, politics have rendered the language debate more challenging for the U.S. For instance, former President Barack Obama also made a campaign promise to call the killings a genocide; ultimately, though, he refrained from using the politically-charged term. Former President Ronald Reagan was the last comman
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April 21, 2021 By Capt. David Smith
The Charles Ward Engineering Works, Charleston, W.Va., was a pioneer in the advent of the screw propeller as a means of providing thrust to towing vessels. The James Rumsey, built by Ward in 1903 as a 350 hp. steam, single-screw towboat for the U.S. Engineer Department, created a lot of attention with a celebrated shoving contest against the steam sternwheel D.T. Lane of the Campbells Creek Coal Company, which had similar horsepower rating. The winner of the contest was debated by rivermen for years, and it was judged to be an even draw by most, though many felt the Rumsey was the victor.