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Overthrow a Government and Install a Puppet Dictator? The CIA will do it for Bananas!
  • It's also kind of a fringe theory.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951_Pont-Saint-Esprit_mass_poisoning

    The attribution of the poisoning to the CIA in Albarelli's book has been roundly criticized. Historian Steven Kaplan, author of an earlier book about the events, said that this would be "clinically incoherent: LSD takes effects in just a few hours, whereas the inhabitants showed symptoms only after 36 hours or more. Furthermore, LSD does not cause the digestive ailments or the vegetative effects described by the townspeople."

    To be clear: I have no reason to believe that the CIA circa 1951 wouldn't or couldn't pull this kind of stunt, just that the evidence that they in fact did is pretty shaky.

  • ‘Are we joking?’: Venice residents protest as city starts charging visitors to enter
  • Shush you, Venice is magnificent. Wouldn't want to live there but it's an extraordinary place absolutely worth experiencing. Ancient, labyrinthine, palaces and churches everywhere, it's like stepping into the Renaissance.

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    Nova 2024:- How to see a huge ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ star explosion this year
  • Quoth Wikipedia, "Even when at peak magnitude of 2.5, this recurrent nova is dimmer than about 120 stars in the night sky."

    The fact that "recurrent nova" is a thing caught me by surprise though, Reminded me of the on/off star from A Deepness in The Sky

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