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• Spanish-American War of 1898 Edison suggested to the Navy Department the adoption of a compound of calcium carbide and calcium phosphite, which when placed in a shell and fired from a gun would explode as soon as it struck water and ignite, producing a blaze that would continue several minutes and make the ships of the enemy visible for four or five miles at sea. Edison, His Life and Inventions
• But as I was mulling this a little later, I was suddenly struck by one of those things that was probably already obvious to everyone else: There are a handful of strange inflection points where rock nerd culture and mass culture are in eerie synchrony for a few moments before skittering off in their respective ways for a bit — and one of them was my early teens. The (Rock) Stars Are Aligned
• Arriving at Town Lake for the first time, I was struck by the natural beauty of this dammed section of the Colorado river.
• The Chorus also recalls how Bacchus' mother, a mortal woman, was killed after she was tragically struck by Zeus' thunderbolt.
• She was struck dumb at the news.
• He died after his van crashed into a rubbish truck.
• Those who had struck it rich wore black woollen trousers and Napoleon boots, and sported silk sashes and gaily coloured kerchiefs.
• Two fire trucks and more than 50 firefighters were last night battling to extinguish the blaze. Times, Sunday Times
• In her dying depositions she accused Osio of having pushed her in; and there seems little doubt that he did so; for while she was struggling in the water, he disengaged his harquebuss from his mantle and struck her several blows upon the head and hands. Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction
• Two separate guys (guy in trucker hat who I think is the liquid metal Terminator/Davey Scantino) and the other is Bathroom-Using Man who wore no cap. Matthew Yglesias » Anticlimax