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July 12, 2021: National Union of Freedom Fighters

The National Union of Freedom Fighters (NUFF) was an armed Marxist revolutionary group in Trinidad and Tobago. Active in the aftermath of the 1970 Black Power Revolution, the group fought a guerrilla campaign to overthrow the government of Prime Minister Eric Williams following the failed Black Power uprising and an unsuccessful mutiny in the Trinidad and Tobago Regiment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Union_of_Freedom_Fighters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoic...

Jul 12, 2021•25 min

July 11th, 2021: Plants vs. Zombies (video game)

Plants vs. Zombies is a 2009 tower defense video game developed and published by PopCap Games. First released for Windows and Mac OS X, the game has since been ported to consoles, handhelds, and mobile devices. In Plants vs. Zombies, the player takes the role of a homeowner in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. As a horde of zombies approaches along several parallel lanes, the player must defend the home by putting down plants, which fire projectiles at the zombies or otherwise detrimentally affe...

Jul 11, 2021•40 min

July 10th, 2021: MAX Orange Line

The MAX Orange Line is a light rail service in Portland, Oregon, United States, operated by TriMet as part of the MAX Light Rail system. It connects Portland City Center to Portland State University (PSU), Southeast Portland, Milwaukie, and Oak Grove. The Orange Line starts near Portland Union Station heading southbound within downtown Portland along the Portland Transit Mall on 5th Avenue. From the transit mall, it continues along a 7.3-mile (11.7 km) segment, which runs through the South Water...

Jul 10, 2021•28 min

July 9th, 2021: Red-bellied black snake

The red-bellied black snake (Pseudechis porphyriacus) is a species of venomous snake in the family Elapidae. The species is indigenous to Australia. Originally described by George Shaw in 1794 as a species new to science, it is one of eastern Australia's most commonly encountered snakes. Averaging around 1.25 m (4 ft 1 in) in length, it has glossy black upperparts, bright red or orange flanks, and a pink or dull red belly. It is not an aggressive species and generally retreats from encounters wi...

Jul 09, 2021•20 min

July 8th, 2021: George W. Romney

George Wilcken Romney (July 8, 1907 – July 26, 1995) was a businessman and Republican Party politician in the United States. He was chairman and president of American Motors Corporation from 1954 to 1962, the 43rd Governor of Michigan from 1963 to 1969, and 3rd Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 1969 to 1973. He was the father of Mitt Romney, the 70th Governor of Massachusetts, 2012 Republican presidential nominee, and current United States Senator from Utah; the husband of 1970 U.S...

Jul 08, 2021•1 hr 19 min

July 7th, 2021: First Punic War

The First Punic War (264–241 BC) was the first of three wars fought between Rome and Carthage, the two main powers of the western Mediterranean in the early 3rd century BC. For 23 years, in the longest continuous conflict and greatest naval war of antiquity, the two powers struggled for supremacy. The war was fought primarily on the Mediterranean island of Sicily and its surrounding waters, and also in North Africa. After immense material and human losses on both sides, the Carthaginians were de...

Jul 07, 2021•43 min

July 6th, 2021: Lion-class battlecruiser

The Lion class were a pair of battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy before World War I. Nicknamed the "Splendid Cats",[1] the ships were a significant improvement over their predecessors of the Indefatigable class in terms of speed, armament and armour. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-class_battlecruiser Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 06, 2021•34 min

July 5th, 2021: Imaginative Tales

Imaginative Tales was an American fantasy and science fiction magazine launched in September 1954 by William Hamling's Greenleaf Publishing Company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginative_Tales Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jul 05, 2021•20 min

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