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Top Comments: Ice Core from the Alps Reveals Environmental and Industrial History Since Last Ice Age
Here at Top Comments we strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most ...
by gizmo59
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on Thu Jul 17, 2025 at 07:00 PM PDT
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The Cessna Aircraft Company was founded in Wichita, Kansas in 1927. In 1911, Clyde Cessna, a farmer, built and flew his own airplane. To learn the art of building and designing airplanes, he had ...
by Ojibwa
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on Fri Jul 18, 2025 at 07:15 AM PDT
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is so freakin’ weird. On Monday, the official Department of Homeland Security X account posted an image of a painting, along with the caption, “Remember your Homeland’s Heritage. New Life in a New Land - Morgan...
by kos
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on Tue Jul 15, 2025 at 02:25 PM PDT
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A new age of the concentration camp has dawned in America. The collection of tents and cages built in the Florida swampland by Governor DeSantis, with help from his boondoggling buddies in the building trades and the encouragement of Trump is up and...
by DebtorsPrison
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on Tue Jul 15, 2025 at 06:00 PM PDT
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My wife and I live in a 140-year-old house situated in a small town within the San Francisco Bay Area. One of the things that I like about our house is the broad, flat porch that faces the street. It’s ten feet deep, and thirty feet wide with posts...
by kid oakland
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on Sun Jul 13, 2025 at 05:27 PM PDT
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In looking back at 1925, it is important to remember that American Indian religions were illegal at this time, and Indians accused of participation in Native American religious ceremonies—sweat ...
by Ojibwa
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on Tue Jul 15, 2025 at 07:15 AM PDT
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The Hall of World War II in the Tillamook Air Museum in Tillamook, Oregon is a huge exhibit showing World War II in models. During World War II German U-boats (from the German U-Boot , short for ...
by Ojibwa
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on Mon Jul 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM PDT
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By 1910, the automobile had evolved from a hand-built oddity to a commercial success. Ford’s Model T, launched in 1908 as an affordable, mass-produced car, dominated the national market while many other carmakers produced cars for local and regional...
by Ojibwa
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on Sun Jul 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM PDT
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This post is part of a series examining the darker side of United States history as the country prepares to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The Trump administration, in its push for “patriotic history”...
by Alan Singer
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on Wed Jul 09, 2025 at 02:45 PM PDT
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JULY is Disability Pride Month National Ice Cream Month National Parks & Recreation Month July 11th is: All American Pet Photo Day Blueberry Muffin Day Bowdler’s Day July 11, 1754 – Thomas Bowdler born, infamous re-writer of Shakespeare, who changed...
by officebss
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on Fri Jul 11, 2025 at 03:28 AM PDT
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UPDATE: Tuesday, Jul 8, 2025 · 8:00:54 PM +00:00 · Winter Rabbit For some who have missed the point, and complain it's not a tank. APC: Length from around 15 to 25 feet, 8 to 12 feet wide, and 7 to 9 feet high. For example, the M113 APC, a widely used...
by Winter Rabbit
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on Tue Jul 08, 2025 at 07:55 AM PDT
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By 1875, the primary American Indian policies of the United States were focused on concentrating American Indians on reservations where they would be segregated from American society while they were ...
by Ojibwa
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on Tue Jul 08, 2025 at 07:15 AM PDT
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On Friday July 4th we went to the beach in the afternoon and at night we watched fireworks from the walkway outside our 7th floor apartment. On Saturday we had a barbeque with old friends and on Sunday my cycling group stopped at parks honoring...
by Alan Singer
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on Sun Jul 06, 2025 at 03:00 PM PDT
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Reasonable people can wonder about the timeliness of this diary. After all we now live in a nation in which Trump and his minions are actively trying whitewash American history of anything other than preternaturally virtuous behavior of wise men. But...
by hegelsghost
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on Sun Jul 06, 2025 at 08:46 AM PDT
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The Yamhill County Historical Society Museum in McMinnville, Oregon has some early firefighting equipment.
by Ojibwa
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on Mon Jul 07, 2025 at 07:15 AM PDT
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Following World War II, Japan was in need of low-cost transportation. To meet this need Soichiro Honda (1906-1991), a mechanic who had attended an engineering school, began building improvised ...
by Ojibwa
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on Sun Jul 06, 2025 at 11:15 AM PDT
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Happy July 4th, Everyone “Nationalism is an infantile thing. It is the measles of mankind.” — Albert Einstein “True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on...
by JekyllnHyde
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on Fri Jul 04, 2025 at 08:07 AM PDT
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Fireworks in July were deadly in California in 1944. Navy officers, who were white, ran an unsafe operation at Port Chicago—now Concord Naval Weapons Station—, placing bets on load rates between teams of young African Americans and lying to new...
by CorpFlunky
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on Fri Jul 04, 2025 at 06:13 AM PDT
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This museum, run by the local Lehigh County Historical Society, focuses on the history of the Allentown/Bethlehem area of Pennsylvania. Some photos from a visit. The ...
by Lenny Flank
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on Sat Jul 19, 2025 at 06:58 AM PDT
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As James Baldwin wrote, “I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” Real patriotism is the courage to demand better—not just for ourselves, but for all our...
by Will Smith
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on Thu Jul 03, 2025 at 12:27 PM PDT
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