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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8226; On September 27, 1951, a team of anthropologists from Indiana University discovered the oldest shopping cart ever found. Working at a dig site in Egypt, the team believed at first that the relic was some sort of bronze cage or basket. Once they unearthed the handlebar and wheels, they realized the magnitude of their find. The cart was strikingly similar in dimension to its modern equivalent, and even featured an infant seat with openings for the legs. A hieroglyphic on the seat flap depicted two children with jackal heads &#8212; a clear warning that children should not be allowed to stand within the cart and should remain safely seated and buckled. A structural analysis of the cart showed that it was in remarkably good condition, though the front left wheel swiveled uncontrollably. Further examination of the dig site strongly suggested that it had in fact been a parking lot. A nearby chariot had been dented, very likely by a direct impact from the cart. &#8226; On September 28, 1971, the United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox was robbed of every last ounce of gold. The crime was never solved, and the facility has stood empty ever since. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Fortnight In History</title>
		<link>http://analog-nation.com/2009/09/07/this-week-in-history-20/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8226; On September 1, 1904, Cardinals pitcher Reginald &#8220;Pants&#8221; Dixon was beaned in the head by one of his own pitches. &#8226; On September 2, 1906, Reginald &#8220;Pants&#8221; Dixon mistakenly arrived in Pittsburgh for a game against Philadelphia. Dixon pitched five innings against the Pirates anyway, getting tagged for a 5-0 loss. &#8226; On September 3, 1906, Reginald &#8220;Pants&#8221; Dixon attempted to steal first. The catcher was too confused to make a pick-off throw, but Dixon slipped and fell halfway to the base. After regaining his composure, he calmly walked back to the batter&#8217;s box, and struck out on the next pitch. &#8226; On September 4, 1905, Reginald &#8220;Pants&#8221; Dixon lost track of a pop fly in the sun, and kept waving off his teammates to make the catch even after the ball was caught to end the inning. The opposing pitcher was too polite to say anything, so he took his warm-up tosses around him. &#8226; On September 5, 1907, Reginald &#8220;Pants&#8221; Dixon broke both legs sliding into third base. (His slide left him nearly eight feet short of the bag.) &#8226; On September 6, 1905, Reginald &#8220;Pants&#8221; Dixon made the lone start of his career &#8212; and by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Week In History</title>
		<link>http://analog-nation.com/2009/08/17/this-week-in-history-19/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8226; On August 18, 1883, Thomas Edison completed a working prototype for what is widely regarded as his worst invention, the pedal-operated pencil breaker. The shoebox-sized contraption, which weighed over thirty pounds, was designed to sit on the desk of a clerk or accountant, who powered it with his feet. Why an accountant would need broken pencils was never fully explained, a fact cited repeatedly by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in their unusually vitriolic denial of Edison&#8217;s patent application. &#8226; On August 20, 1984, former president Jimmy Carter shattered all previous records for continuous breakdancing, collapsing after 23 hours and 17 minutes. In his book, &#8220;Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President,&#8221; Carter called it &#8220;the single achievement of which I am most proud, a feat of unadulterated substance that cannot be diluted by politics.&#8221; &#8226; On August 21, 1905, Cardinals pitcher Reginald &#8220;Pants&#8221; Dixon was nearly killed by an errant fastball from his nemesis, Julian &#8220;Shrap&#8221; McGuiness. The pitch missed Dixon&#8217;s head by less than an inch, nearly instigating a brawl as a furious Dixon charged the mound and was met by every single one of McGuiness&#8217; teammates. (The Cardinals remained quietly on the bench.) McGuiness insisted the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Week In History</title>
		<link>http://analog-nation.com/2009/07/19/this-week-in-history-18/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8226; On July 21, 1989, the worst domino-related incident on record occurred at Union Station in Kansas City, MO. Over 846,000 dominoes experienced an &#8220;unplanned collapse event&#8221; (UCE), tumbling haphazardly after a passer-by slipped on the freshly mopped floor. Domino wranglers on hand were powerless to stop the event once it began. When the dust settled, only 14 of the dominoes remained upright. The display &#8212; a work titled &#8220;You Knock Us Over&#8221; which was arranged as a tribute to America&#8217;s pecan growers &#8212; was canceled due to the severity of the incident. Ian Tremont, then-president of the International Association of Domino Wranglers, summed up the feelings of the entire domino community: &#8220;Man, it is seriously going to take a long time to stand those back up again.&#8221; &#8226; On July 23, 1994, a ninja infiltrated the White House, evading detection by the Secret Service for ten hours before scaling the outside of the building and escaping. What, like you can prove me wrong? &#8226; On July 24, 1910, Cardinals pitcher Reginald &#8220;Pants&#8221; Dixon began a new exercise regimen, wearing ice skates whenever he wasn&#8217;t at the ballpark. The move was supposedly to improve his &#8220;balance, agileness, and other such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Week In History</title>
		<link>http://analog-nation.com/2009/06/07/this-week-in-history-17/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8226; On June 8, 1654, Louis XIV celebrated his coronation as King of France by kicking off a feast that lasted 94 days. For the duration of the feast, the sixteen-year-old monarch rose from his chair only to relieve himself, returning swiftly to his place at the head of the table. He slept in short bursts, propped up by servants. The 658-course meal ended only when the palace and all outlying provinces ran out of food. &#8226; On June 11, 1952, Raytheon announced the development of a weaponized turkey sandwich. The prototype, GX-113, was the result of a decade&#8217;s worth of research, beating the Soviets&#8217; sandwich program by nearly two years. The GX-113 featured aggressive levels of toasting and deli-style mustard, as well as a lettuce crispness factor (LCF) of 11.5 &#8212; unheard of at the time. The sandwich had a blast radius of 10 meters, with an 95% kill rate within 25 meters. Turkey was the first luncheon meat to be effectively weaponized. The British had promising results with a hot open-faced sandwich as early as 1945, but its limited range ultimately shelved the device. &#8226; On June 13, 1903, Cardinals pitcher Reginald &#8220;Pants&#8221; Dixon faced Julian &#8220;Shrap&#8221; McGuiness [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Week In History</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 02:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8226; On May 11, 1071, Lord Archibald Renton first proposed the theory that humans need to breathe air. Renton, who was court physician to William the Conqueror, broke from standard medical theory of the time, which held that the purpose of breathing was to expel dark vapors from the body. Such vapors were considered a natural by-product of sinful flesh, and were basically being vented &#8212; inhaling was an afterthought. Renton&#8217;s suggestion that air actually contains something that the body requires earned him scorn among the King&#8217;s court. At the behest of his advisors, William dismissed Renton from his post, a process involving six boulders and a vat of boiling lead. &#8226; On May 12, 1977, Led Zepplin&#8217;s John Bonham began a drum solo that lasted nearly four and a half hours. Though very few fans left the stadium, many were seen glancing at their watches towards the end, since it a weeknight and most had somewhere to be in the morning. It remains the only known drum solo to technically end the day after it started. When asked why the outburst was allowed to go on so long, Jimmy Page made it clear that one simply does not interrupt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Week In History</title>
		<link>http://analog-nation.com/2009/04/19/this-week-in-history-15/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8226; On April 20, 1998, physicists at the International Slumber Research Center broke the 5,000 thread count barrier. Bedding of such magnitude was previously thought to be impossible. Early experiments yielded sheets that remained stable for mere fractions of a second, and required the use of massive hyperbaric chambers. It wasn&#8217;t until the ISRC developed so-called &#8220;quantum thread&#8221; in 1995 that the 5,000 mark came within realistic reach. The sheets remain highly experimental to this day, producing comfort levels not yet deemed safe for consumer use. &#8226; On April 22,1971, the first Starbucks opened in Seattle. By the end of the following day, over 500 were in business nationwide; another 1,100 greeted customers the day after that. The chain went international inside of 72 hours, establishing themselves in 35 countries including the then-Soviet Eastern Bloc. They reached China by the end of the month. Despite reduced growth in the wake of the current economic crisis, it is estimated that six Starbucks open somewhere on Earth every second. &#8226; On April 20, 1908, Cardinals pitcher Reginald &#8220;Pants&#8221; Dixon began a bout of hiccups that lasted nine days. In his two starts over that period, he went 0-2 with a 19.34 ERA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Week In History</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of Opening Day, we present an all-baseball edition of &#8220;This Week.&#8221; &#8226; On April 5, 1985, the San Diego Zoo placed a lifelong ban on Goose Gossage, on the same day that the zoo&#8217;s entire giraffe population was found slaughtered and half-devoured. When asked about a possible connection, both parties refused to comment. &#8226; On April 5, 1958, Whitey Ford won a bet with teammate Enos Slaughter by lifting a Buick Skylark over his head and holding it there for ten seconds. Making good on his bet, Slaughter cooked Ford a pot roast every day for the rest of the season. &#8226; On April 6, 1972, Tom Seaver was kidnapped by the Soviets and replaced with a communist decoy. The decoy finished the season with a 21-12 record and pitched 14 more years, earning Seaver a place in the Hall of Fame. The real Seaver resurfaced in 1995. &#8226; On April 7, 1960, Pittsburgh celebrated its industrial heritage by holding &#8220;Steel Day&#8221; at Forbes Field. All fans under 12 received a free ingot of pig iron, and the Pirates took the field with similar ingots tied around their necks. They lost to the Cubs 27-0. &#8226; On April [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of the 81st Annual Academy Awards, we present an all-Oscar edition of &#8220;This Week.&#8221; &#8226; On February 16, 1996, a visibly drunk Dianne Wiest mistakenly awarded the Best Supporting Actor award to the pig from Babe. Unwilling to admit any implication of error on their part, the Academy has never corrected the mistake. Oscar statues were delivered to all 48 piglets who were used in the filming of the movie. &#8226; On February 18th, 1982, citing a lack of a worthwhile recipients from the previous year, the Academy gave the Best Picture award to Casablanca again. &#8226; On February 20, 1977, the David Niven streaker and the Native American who accepted Marlon Brando&#8217;s Godfather Oscar began a bank robbing spree, which would span 18 days and 7 banks before the pair &#8212; both of whom were armed to the teeth &#8212; were cut down in a hail of police gunfire. &#8226; On February 21, 1987, Short Circuit received the first (and last) Academy Award for Best Robot. It remains the only time that Steve Guttenberg has ever been allowed within five blocks of the ceremony.]]></description>
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		<title>This Week In History</title>
		<link>http://analog-nation.com/2008/12/22/this-week-in-history-12/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8226; On December 22, 1879, President Rutherford B. Hayes gave a speech in Philadelphia during which he extolled, at great length, the health values of vinegar. The speech rambled on for some 45 minutes, well beyond its allotted time, and made it vividly clear that Hayes consumed nearly a quart of malt vinegar each day. For many today &#8212; even some history buffs &#8212; this is the only thing people really remember about Hayes, i.e. &#8220;Is he the one who drank vinegar or the one with the mutton chops?&#8221; &#8226; On December 23, 1962, representatives of the late Ernest Hemingway&#8217;s estate uncovered a hidden cache of notes and first drafts. While most of what the papers reveal is minor (he briefly tried to work a lovable dachshund named Lucky into For Whom the Bell Tolls, but scrapped the idea), by far the biggest revelation was the existence of a fully written alternate ending to The Old Man and the Sea, detailing how the fisherman was able to fight off the sharks with a knife and return home with his prize catch. Hemingway&#8217;s estate decided it was best to leave the ending in its original form, so as to properly bum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Week In History</title>
		<link>http://analog-nation.com/2008/11/16/this-week-in-history-11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:39:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8226; On November 18, 1967, meteorologists from around the world came together in Barcelona for a intense, three-day summit. They met behind closed doors, allowing no contact with the outside world. On the third day, five hours behind schedule, the doors finally opened, and a lone weatherman emerged from the smoke-filled conference room to announce their final verdict. Once and for all, low-pressure fronts would be depicted as blue half-circles, and high-pressure fronts would be depicted with the red triangle things. Anyone deviating from this method would be expelled, forever &#8212; a ruling that stands to this day. &#8226; On November 19, 1953, the Department of Defense released its controversial report detailing theoretical ways in which nuclear fallout could benefit the environment. The report, titled &#8220;But Here&#8217;s The Good News,&#8221; was intended to provide a measure of relief from the constant, scythe-like prospect of being completely irradiated. &#8226; On November 22, 1823, on the floor of the House of Representatives, Burwell Bassett (Republican, VA) called Elijah Hunt Mills (Federalist, MA) &#8220;a tack-footed naysayer, a tremulous cheese-juggler, and a swiggled fop with the liver of a haberdasher and the brains of an Irish solicitor.&#8221; Curators at the Library of Congress swear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Week In History</title>
		<link>http://analog-nation.com/2008/10/05/this-week-in-history-10/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8226; On October 6, 1965, a new musical called The Moon And The Rose opened at the Longacre Theatre on 48th Street. The show received rave reviews, but closed the following afternoon after just one performance. Critics and audiences alike were stunned. No reason was given by the play&#8217;s producers, though it was widely rumored to have been the result of a bitter dispute between Ian Hartford Smith, who wrote the music, and John Quincy Boulderman, who wrote the book &#38; lyrics. Supposedly &#8212; and this has never been proven — Smith discovered that Boulderman was a serial killer. Smith pulled the rights, and the musical has never been heard since. Samuel Weiss, one of the show&#8217;s producers, lamented the loss of a potential American classic in a 1974 New Yorker interview. &#8220;The lyrics brought tears to the eye,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So what if a few dozen vagrants died by ritual strangulation?&#8221; &#8226; On October 9, 1986, a Cedar Rapids, IA auto mechanic named Philip Redman became the first U.S citizen to own 50,000 pens. Redman promptly retired from pen collecting, noting that he could never catch up to Swiss record-holder Claude Meine and his 234,783 pens. &#8226; On October [...]]]></description>
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		<link>http://analog-nation.com/2008/08/18/this-week-in-history-9/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8226; On August 18, 1992, a promotion at the newly opened Mall of America in Bloomington, MN sparked chaos as a banner that was supposed to read &#8220;Free Slush Puppy for every MOA customer&#8221; instead read &#8220;Free Puppy for every MOA customer.&#8221; Parents and children swarmed the food court for hours, waiting for &#8212; and eventually demanding &#8212; their free puppy. When none materialized, roaming groups of would-be puppy owners spread throughout the huge mall, searching in vain and questioning employees, who began to hide once they caught wind of what was happening. Persistent claims of false advertising led to a class action suit against the mall&#8217;s ownership, which offered gift certificates from local pet stores rather than go to court. All told, more than 6,500 gift certificates were claimed. PR manager Ted Gundersen, who had ordered the banner from a printer, noticed prior to hanging it that the proper spelling of the drink is actually &#8216;Puppie,&#8217; but decided it was too late to print a new one. He completely missed that they had left out the &#8216;Slush.&#8217; &#8226; On August 21, 1830, famed Italian violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini played before a packed audience at La Scala in Milan. So [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Week In History</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8226; On July 1, 1891, New York state passed the Youth Labor Act, a significant victory for the child labor movement. The law was considered a benchmark of the time, setting strict standards: &#8220;Child laborers shall not work more than 85 hours in a given week, and no more than 19 hours in a given day. They shall have Sunday morning free from work, to attend services of worship. No child under the age of 5 shall be allowed to work, unless said child is the eldest remaining male of the family. Any workspace occupied by child laborers must A) have at least one window with access to fresh air, no less than 6 inches on any side and no more than 35 feet off the ground; B) have no more than two deadbolts on any given door, with a key that cannot leave the premises at any time; C) be illuminated at least 85% of the time. Child laborers are allowed one 10-minute break for every 6-hour period. Sleeping quarters shall be reasonably free from vermin, and cannot be locked for more than 36 consecutive hours. If any child is too sick or injured to stand, they may request [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Week In History</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keating</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8226; On June 22, 1936, British astronomer Melvin Tinsdale stunned his Oxford colleagues by announcing that he had discovered a new planet. Located between Uranus and Neptune, the planet was to be called Demeter, after the Greek goddess of fertility.* Tinsdale had already mailed a paper for submission to The Astronomical Journal when it was determined that what he had been looking at was, in fact, a spot of ice cream on the lens of his telescope. A frenzied transatlantic dash to the AJ&#8216;s publishing office in Albany just barely saved his career. Tinsdale, an otherwise gifted cross-disciplinary scientist, had a habit of making brash announcements. Two years later, while engaged in chemistry research, he became convinced he had discovered an element with an atomic number of 42. Element #42, of course, is molybdenum—known for over 150 years by that point. Tinsdale had consulted a periodic table, but assumed that the word &#8220;molybdenum&#8221; was made up as a joke. &#8226; On June 25, 1986, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev commenced a nuclear non-proliferation summit in Lisbon, moderated by Max Headroom. &#8226; On June 28, 507 AD, during the Siege of Vouillé, Gaulish forces defending twin keeps on opposite sides of [...]]]></description>
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