April 21, 1943 – One of the greatest horror films of all time, I Walked With A Zombie, premieres.

April 19-26, 2026 is National Library Week in the USA

Trump labor secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigns amid misconduct investigation Chavez-DeRemer, entangled in string of controversies, leaving for private sector, president’s spokesperson says

WOO HOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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4/20

The Iran war could cost the American taxpayer $1 trillion, says Harvard academic As efforts to reach a lasting settlement have so far proved unsuccessful, one Harvard academic estimates the total could end up far higher than was promised.

Yeah. But also, no.

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Let's say China starts seeing food shortages. It not only shuts off its exports to retain food at home, but bids up food prices worlwide.

Same with India, Indonesia, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, some Central Asian oil-rich nations.

That would impact the U.S. very badly.

This tariff-refund portal is about to be America's hottest website Exactly two months after the Supreme Court struck down most of President Trump's tariffs, the U.S. government has set Monday as the day when some companies can begin requesting refunds.

U.S. Customs estimates it owes $166 billion in tariff refunds. Importers owed $127 billion have already signed up for e-transfer for their refunds.

Retailers are supposed to pass the refunds to whoever paid the actual customs bill. *snort*

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White House offers no hint of Iran war cost as it seeks military funding surge "I don't have a ballpark," White House budget director Russell Vought told lawmakers Wednesday about the cost of the Iran war.

The war costs America $2 billion dollars each day. It's now the 51st day, which means it has cost you, the taxpayer, $1.02 TRILLION.

And Trump won't stop.

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Another victim of Cesar Chavez breaks their silence: ​​‘My body remembers’ Jennifer Andrea Porras, now 53, says they were sexually abused by the union leader as a teen

United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez sexually abused Jennifer Porras when she was a teenager.

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Last month, the Trump administration shuttered 57 of the 77 research stations the Forest Service operated nationwide, many of which studied the impacts of climate change, invasive species, and wildfires on woodlands.

April 19-26, 2026 is National Library Week

Trump ‘screamed at aides for hours’ after US pilots went missing in Iran: report The F-15 fighter jet was shot down over Iran on April 3, prompting a high-stakes rescue mission

No surprise here. Nor is it surprising that his aides then had to keep him out of the room so that others could do their work.

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IMDB doens't count, because none of its sources are cited. Spoleto was July 1961....

This is a great film. But surely SOMEONE has a Spoleto Festival of the Two Worlds schedule from 1961 and can tell me EXACTLY the date it screened there.

(I ask such obscure fucking things, I know.........)

Not clear if sunset provisions would work or not. A century ago, dual classes were blunt instruments to keep profits in the hands of a few and control out of the hands of all but the rich (the only ones who could amass enough common).

It's changed a lot. And yet, not! LOL

100 years ago, dual-class stock was incredibly common. When the Great Depression hit, that caused some immense problems.

‘Sometimes Things Have To Get Worse Before They Get Better,’ Says Man Who Accidentally Turned Shower Knob Wrong Way

‘Sometimes Things Have To Get Worse Before They Get Better,’ Says Man Who Accidentally Turned Shower Knob Wrong Way theonion.com/sometimes-things-have-to...

Experts from the Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia, have since recovered more than 200 tons of artifacts from the wreck, including the Monitor's gun turret.

See a 163-Year-Old Civil War Shipwreck in Stunning Detail With These New High-Resolution Sonar Images The USS "Monitor" was the U.S. Navy's first ironclad warship. The vessel, which sank off of North Carolina in 1862, revolutionized naval warfare

WOW!!!!!!!!!!

These are the first high-resolution images of the USS Monitor.

The shipwreck was located in 1973, resting upside down 240 feet beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean.

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If you were really, really brave, you used an opaque projector.

And hope your item didn't catch fire while you were showing it.

This is the third in the "Mad Scientist trilogy", and is preceded by "Hair-Raising Hare" (1946) and followed by "Hyde and Hare" (1955).

It isn't until the cartoon Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century (1980) that the monster is called "Gossamer".

Water, Water Every Hare Bugs Bunny is too sound a sleeper to notice that a sudden rainstorm has flooded his rabbit hole and sent his mattress, with him on it, floating downstream

April 19, 1952 - Water, Water Every Hare premieres.

Chuck Jones introduced the monster in Hair-Raising Hare (1946), but he was called "the monster". Here, the monster is called "Rudolph".

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The Simpsons Shorts- Good Night YouTube video by The Simpson Shorts Official Channel

April 19, 1987 – The Simpsons premieres as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, starting with "Good Night".

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Looney Tunes - Sinkin' In The Bathtub (1930) Dailymotion video by JeanNico

April 19, 1930 – Sinkin' in the Bathtub, the very first Looney Tunes cartoon, premieres.

The cartoon stars Bosko, who makes his debut in this short. It contains a number of offensive and racist elements, which were typical at the time.

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April 19, 1935 – The Bride of Frankenstein premieres.

April 19, 1966 – Poison Ivy debuts in Batman #181 (cover dated June 1966).

She was created by writer Robert Kanigher and artist Carmine Infantino. Originally a misanthropic super-villain, she's been a living god, an environmental activist, and a scientist.

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