🕰️🌞 What happened today? 🤷‍♀️🤓

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Did you know it was SOOO old?? But it is also one of the nicest of the old Disney movies I think! 🙂

Dumbo 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

Did you know it was SOOO old?? But it is also one of the nicest of the old Disney movies I think! 🙂

Nooooo so old i didt known

Today is 24 October and this happened today in the past:

1️⃣ The charter for the United Nations - established at the end of World War II to maintain world peace and friendly relations among nations - entered into force this day in 1945.

2️⃣ On 24 October 2005, African American civil rights activist Rosa Parks - whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus to a white man in 1955 helped ignite the American civil rights movement - died at age 92.

3️⃣ The 40-hour workweek went into effect under the U.S. Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. This happened on 24 October 1940.

4️⃣ On this day in 1922 Benito Mussolini helped plan the March on Rome, which began on October 28 and resulted in him becoming dictator of Italy.

5️⃣ In 1648, the Peace of Westphalia ended the Eighty Years' War between Spain and the Dutch and the German phase of the Thirty Years' War.

6️⃣ These people were born on this day: Italian composer Luciano Berio (1925), Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632), Mughal emperor Bahādur Shāh II (1775), British football player Wayne Rooney (1985) and Canadian rapper Drake (1986).

Sorry this time i have no time to make the news from the past nicer with emojis!! 😛 But I will do that again tomorrow so you have at least the news which i found online for today. 😃 😛

Interesting facts !!! 😃
Oh, let me add one too !!

7️⃣ On this day in 1790, The tricolor flag of France was adopted after centuries of absolute monarchy in France

3️⃣ The 40-hour workweek went into effect under the U.S. Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. This happened on 24 October 1940.

Ok, When was the 35h in France, and when will we go back to reduce hours instead of increasing them back ? 🤨

Ok, When was the 35h in France, and when will we go back to reduce hours instead of increasing them back ? 🤨

When were hours increased? Besides, sure we can work less, but in a world without magic that means we're getting poorer

Interesting facts !!! 😃
Oh, let me add one too !!

7️⃣ On this day in 1790, The tricolor flag of France was adopted after centuries of absolute monarchy in France

That is the flag now right? 💙🤍❤️

Ok, When was the 35h in France, and when will we go back to reduce hours instead of increasing them back ? 🤨

I have a four hour work week @Lianshen and @Etienne!! 😛 😛 But sometimes if they have for example a dinner I also help them in the evening with babysitting. But that is not very often. 🙂

Today is 25 October and this happened today in the past:

1️⃣ Naturalist Charles Darwin returned to England on this day in 1836 after a five-year journey on the HMS Beagle. 🚢 During his trip he observed species of animals and created the theory of evolution by natural selection. 🦉🐗🐺🐛🐭🐼🦊🐥🐸🦁🐨

2️⃣ The British-American war classic The Bridge on the River Kwai 📽️🎞️ had its world premiere on 25 October 1957 and it later won the Academy Award for best picture. 🏆🥇

3️⃣ On 25 October 1985, American actor Rock Hudson died, becoming one of the first Hollywood celebrities known to succumb to AIDS-related complications; the extensive publicity surrounding his death drew attention to the disease. ✨🌹

4️⃣ On this day in 1935, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie 👑 ordered mobilization after learning that Italian forces had crossed the frontier to begin the Italo-Ethiopian War. ⚔️⚔️

5️⃣ These people were born on this day: German president Paul von Hindenburg, (1847), Indian leader Gandhi (1869), American photographer Annie Leibovitz (1949) and British musician Sting (1951). 🥳🥳🍰🎂🎉🎁🎈

When were hours increased? Besides, sure we can work less, but in a world without magic that means we're getting poorer

Well, it didn't get officially increased, but the trend it to "work more". As for your second remark, it might not seem very obvious, but working more does not mean an increase of productivity. On the opposite, it seems to rather lower productivity, essentially because too much time working increase stress level, decrease motivation etc.

1️⃣ Naturalist Charles Darwin returned to England on this day in 1836 after a five-year journey on the HMS Beagle. 🚢 During his trip he observed species of animals and created the theory of evolution by natural selection. 🦉🐗🐺🐛🐭🐼🦊🐥🐸🦁🐨

I think he started to write about natural selection a few years later. His trip was essentially to make naturalist observations and experiments. Certainly it helped to come with the idea/to formulate his theory, but if you read the origin of Species, you will see that many of his arguments also use domesticated species (pigeons, farm animals, plants...). It took him more than 20 years after this trip to publish first with Wallace, who more or less got the same idea with Darwin, then to publish the Origin of species.

Oww thanks @Lianshen I did not know that!! 😛 Did you read the book? We only got text about him in our biology class but that is a normal Dutch book and not only about Darwin. And I read it online the news where I always take the daily facts from the past for this forum!! 🙂

Oww thanks @Lianshen I did not know that!! 😛 Did you read the book? We only got text about him in our biology class but that is a normal Dutch book and not only about Darwin. And I read it online the news where I always take the daily facts from the past for this forum!! 🙂

Yes. The writing style of Darwin is also very pleasant to me. It's nicely written and pedagogical, but one still has to be quite focused because he wrote long sentences. I also would like to read more of his books, but didn't have the opportunity yet.

Also yes, most of the time, students only read about Darwin and his work in some textbooks (hopefully updated with more receent contents, and showing neo-darwinism rather than just darwinism). Most of the time, people come across natural selection in middle school, so there are a lot of shortcuts/innacurate points in the teachings and I find it a little bit sad, but it's a way to just introduce a very general conception of the theory. I guess most of the teachers couldn't or wouldn't like to really dig that topic anyway... 🙂

Well, it didn't get officially increased, but the trend it to "work more". As for your second remark, it might not seem very obvious, but working more does not mean an increase of productivity. On the opposite, it seems to rather lower productivity, essentially because too much time working increase stress level, decrease motivation etc.

There is a common misconception about this claim: when economists say we need to work more, they typically don't mean we need to work longer hours (people who do work tend to work long enough, at least in the private sector). However (and the following mostly applies to France):
- young adults, on average, enter the workforce too late
- older adults, on average, leave the workforce too early
- on average, too many sick days are taken
- on average, too many people are on benefits (unemployment, welfare in general)

The working age population in France is ~50% of the entire population. Only 73% hold a job, and 21% work for the government (therefore arguably creating no value per se). I'll let you do the math to figure out how small the fraction of the population that realistically supports the whole system is 😃.

To make things even worse, we should note that the retired population is set to almost outnumber workers in the coming years. 😶️

As for longer hours not correlating with productivity, this is technically true but for amounts of work significantly higher than what is typical in Western countries. Having said that, I agree with you that the answer shouldn't be to increase the work week 😛

Today is 26 October and this happened today in the past:

1️⃣ On this day in 1881, a feud between the Earp brothers (Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan) and an outlaw gang led by Ike Clanton escalated into a celebrated gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory. 🤠🤠

2️⃣ After some eight years of construction 🧑‍🔧👩‍🔧, the Erie Canal, which connects the Great Lakes with New York City via the Hudson River at Albany, officially opened on 26 October 1825; its success propelled New York City into a major commercial centre and encouraged canal construction throughout the United States. 🚢🛳️

3️⃣ Today in 1813 British and U.S. troops clashed in the Battle of Châteauguay during the War of 1812.

4️⃣ The National Convention, the assembly that governed France during a pivotal period of the Revolution, was dispersed on this day in 1795. 💙🤍❤️ @Etienne, @Lianshen or @Sabri_KC do you perhaps know more about this?

5️⃣ The action thriller The Terminator was released on this day in 1984 in the United States; hugely successful, it made actor Arnold Schwarzenegger a star and established director James Cameron as a bankable filmmaker. 🤖📽️🎞️

6️⃣ president of France François Mitterrand (1916), the old shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi (1919), American first lady and politician Hillary Clinton (1947) and American actor and film maker Seth MacFarlane (1973). 🥳🥳🎉🎈🎁🎂 @Parsaa do you know the shah mentioned above? 🙂

Haha yes. Most iranians know him. Tho i don’t really know about him much. People just talk about him in a way that i think they all dont know what are they actually talking about haha. Such a busy day.

Thanks for letting us know about that @Parsaa!! 🙂

Today is 27 October and this happened today in the past:

1️⃣ On this day in 1978, Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Menachem Begin of Israel were awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace for negotiations that resulted first in the Camp David Accords, then in a peace treaty between their countries.

2️⃣ Catalonia's parliament voted to declare the region independent from Spain on 27 October 2017, resulting in the central government's dismissing that legislative body and calling for new elections, in which the majority of seats were claimed by the pro-independence movement.

3️⃣ Taylor Swift released on this day in 2014 the album 1989, which she described as her first “official pop album.” It was a blockbuster hit and won the Grammy Award for album of the year. On the same date in 2023 she released 1989 (Taylor's Version), a rerecording of the original.

4️⃣ This news is for @Sabri_KC 😛 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, an island country lying within the Lesser Antilles in the eastern Caribbean Sea, achieved its independence on this day in 1979.

5️⃣ On this day in 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed to Cuba and claimed the island for Spain.

6️⃣ Athelstan the first king to rule over all of England, died on 27 October 939.

7️⃣ These people were born on this day: old president of United States Theodore Roosevelt (1858), American author Sylvia Plath (1932), British actor John Cleese (1939) and American maffia boss John Gotti (1940).

Sorry that I am so late with the news of the past today but we were in Amsterdam and got back very late. And i was busy making a flag for the flag forum. 🙂 It is now super late but it is vacation so i dont mind but i made the news without emojis!! Sorry for that but i will do that next time! 🙂 😃

4️⃣ This news is for @Sabri_KC 😛 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, an island country lying within the Lesser Antilles in the eastern Caribbean Sea, achieved its independence on this day in 1979.

Absolutely, and Turkmenistan as well had independence on October 27th 1991 🙂 🇹🇲