Quote of the Day Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. Psalm 130:5 KJV: I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. Article of the Day: The Spanish Civil War. From 1936 to 1939, the Spanish Civil War raged as General Francisco Francos Nationalists overthrew the republican government. Francos forces were aided by Germany and Italy, who used Spain as a test site for blitzkrieg warfare on the eve of World War II. Fierce and bloody skirmishes characterized the war of attrition, which claimed 500,000 lives. The wars end brought a period of dictatorship that lasted until the mid-1970s. Deemed the first media war, it was covered by which famous authors? This Day in History : The Taman Shud Case: Mystery Man Found Dead on Somerton Beach (1948) On the night of November 30, 1948, passersby on Australias Somerton Beach saw a man they believed to be drunk or sleeping. The next day, the mystery man was determined to be dead, which opened the still unsolved Taman Shud Case. The dead man has never been identified. Though investigators promptly searched the body and found normal things like chewing gum in the mystery mans pocket, something strange was later found, taking the case in a new—but equally elusive—direction. What was it? In the News: Northern Darwins Frog Not the Fittest During his 19th-century around-the-world voyage aboard the HMS Beagle, famed British naturalist Charles Darwin made numerous discoveries that helped him formulate his theories of evolution. One of the creatures he discovered during this voyage, the Darwins frog, escapes predators by camouflaging itself as a dead leaf. However, this evolutionary advantage was not enough to save it. Researchers suspect that a fungal disease called chytridiomycosis wiped out the northern Darwins frog species completely and is also killing off large numbers of the southern species. This could be one of only a few known examples of extinction by infection.
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