White Supremacists Hit Charlottesville: This Date in History

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“On August 6, 1991, without fanfare, British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee published the first-ever website while working at CERN, the huge particle physics lab in Switzerland.”

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Is that a Paul Jones nickname?
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No, it was mentioned briefly in the article and I hadn't thought of it for years. It was a client program for browsing internet resources (internet referring to ftp, telnet-based, directories, but not web/www since they weren't popular yet). People messing with the internet in the very early 90's might have used gopher before it quickly became obsolete due to the web/http/WWW.
 
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#OTD in 1945: U.S. B-29 #bomber Enola Gay drops the first #atomic bomb in war known as "Little Boy" on #Hiroshima, Japan, killing ~70,000 people immediately and thousands more later due to radiation exposure. #history #WW2 #WWII #EnolaGay #OTD Major Thomas W. Ferebee of Mocksville, NC was the bombardier. Enola Gay Bombadier Thomas Ferebee of Mocksville h/t @URDailyHistory
 
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“Worn #onthisday in 1992 at the @Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, by the Lithuanian men's basketball team, who beat the former Soviet Union to win bronze. Their Grateful Dead-inspired uniforms paid tribute to the band that sponsored the talented but financially-strapped squad. #OTD” @WornOnThisDay O
 
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“Worn #onthisday in 1992 at the @Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, by the Lithuanian men's basketball team, who beat the former Soviet Union to win bronze. Their Grateful Dead-inspired uniforms paid tribute to the band that sponsored the talented but financially-strapped squad. #OTD” @WornOnThisDay O
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In 1988, four of the starters on the Soviet gold medal winning team were Lithuanians.

In 1992, the Lithuanians beat the “Unified Team” (Commonwealth of Independent States; the Soviets) to win the bronze medal.
 
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This date 56 years ago: August 8, 1969. On that day in London, freelance photographer Iain Macmillan shot the picture that became the album cover for "Abbey Road" (released late the following month). And in Los Angeles the same date, The Manson gang kicked off a horrific two-night murder spree.
 
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#OnThisDay (August 11) in 2017. #TheseAreNotGoodPeopleTheyAreWhiteSupremacists #Charlottesville
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On that Saturday, my family and I were driving to the beach and having read and chatted about it on the old ZZLP, I flipped over to the news to see if there was any coverage. And was floored to hear what was going on. I’ll always associate that with listening to coverage on the way to the beach and then a few days later watching the Vice report that really changed the coverage of the event:




And then of course the infamous Trump meltdown second press conference …

 
nycfan said:
On that Saturday, my family and I were driving to the beach and having read and chatted about it on the old ZZLP, I flipped over to the news to see if there was any coverage. And was floored to hear what was going on. I’ll always associate that with listening to coverage on the way to the beach and then a few days later watching the Vice report that really changed the coverage of the event:




And then of course the infamous Trump meltdown second press conference …

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“… In the video [shared by Trump in August 2019], conservative CNN political commentator Steve Cortes claims that the media committed “journalistic malfeasance” by reporting that Trump had referred to neo-Nazis as “very fine people” after the death of counterprotester Heather Heyer.

“Thank you Steve!” Trump wrote in a tweet that included a link to the video, titled “The Charlottesville Lie,” which was produced by PragerU, a conservative nonprofit organization that produces political videos.

… Afterward [when Biden launched his campaign in April 2019 by focusing on Charlottesville], when asked by a reporter whether he still believed there were “very fine people on both sides”at the Charlottesville rally, Trump said he had previously answered that question “perfectly.”

“I was talking about people that went because they felt very strongly about the monument to Robert E. Lee, a great general whether you like it or not,” Trump said. “He was one of the great generals. … People were there protesting the taking down of the monument of Robert E. Lee. Everybody knows that.” ..”

 
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