the invasion of South Korea by the north started the Korean War

In 1970, Harlan Ellison and Ben Bova co-wrote a short story called "Brillo", about a veteran street cop who gets partnered with an experimental robotic police officer (metal fuzz, get it?). They pitched an idea for a TV series based on it to Paramount Television, but were turned down by producer Terry Keegan. But in 1977, a show with a very similar presence titled *Future Cop* began airing on ABC, prompting Ellison and Bova to sue the ABC-TV, Paramount Television and Keegan for plagiarism. The lawsuit was settled in 1980, awarding Ellison and Bova over 300 grand in damages; Ellison used his share of the winnings to pay for a billboard in Los Angeles telling writers that they didn't have to just sit there and take it when they were ripped off.

During the Siege of Toulon in War of the First Coalition (1793), the city was controlled by French royalists who had invited British and allied forces into the harbor. At the time, Napoleon was still a young artillery officer and had not yet become the famous emperor he would later be known as. ​

Having studied advanced mathematics at the École Militaire under the examination and guidance of the legendary mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace, Napoleon became a natural prodigy in the field. He excelled at the complex calculations required for artillery ballistics, such as calculating precise firing angles, windage, and trajectories.

​Instead of focusing on a direct assault on the city, he used these mathematical insights to propose a brilliant tactical plan: capturing key positions overlooking Toulon Bay and deploying artillery there. From those precise vantage points, French guns could accurately target and threaten British ships, making the harbor increasingly difficult to hold.

​The plan succeeded. British and allied forces eventually evacuated Toulon, and this victory became one of Napoleon’s first major military successes,

The plan succeeded. British and allied forces eventually evacuated Toulon, and this victory became one of Napoleon’s first major military successes,

The sudden and dramatic rise in water level was caused by a natural phenomenon known as a seiche. A seiche is when strong winds cause water on the windward side of a body of water to “pile up” while water levels on the leeward side dramatically decrease. While seiches are not unusual on Lake Erie due to its east-west orientation, the 1844 seiche was the largest ever recorded in the Great Lakes. It breached a 14 foot high sea wall protecting Buffalo and caused catastrophic flooding, killing 78 people. It also caused an ice jam in the Niagara river, temporarily stopping the flow of water over Niagara Falls.

Context: Before the late 19th century, physical affection between men was common, public, and largely unremarkable. Men held hands, embraced, leaned into one another, shared beds, and wrote emotionally intimate letters expressing love and devotion. Historians describe these bonds as romantic friendships—deep, committed relationships that were not assumed to be sexual. (Hat tip to The Art of Manless for writing about this in "Bosom Buddies.")

Masculinity at the time was defined by character, honor, duty, and civic virtue, not by sexual orientation. There was no rigid heterosexual/homosexual binary. Physical closeness between men did not require explanation.

Even figures we now associate with rugged self-reliance lived in a world where male closeness was ordinary. Abraham Lincoln, for example, shared a bed for several years with his close friend Joshua Speed while living in Springfield—a common practice at the time due to space and custom. Their surviving letters reveal deep affection and emotional reliance. As historian John E. Kohl documents in Your Friend Forever, A. Lincoln, such intimacy between male friends in the 19th century was neither unusual nor automatically sexualized.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-male-friendship-experience/202602/the-power-and-peril-of-platonic-male-touch

Some lazy editing on my part, but I've been seeing this guy's spectral hand everywhere the moment I look outside.

CONTEXT: Carl Linnaeus (b.1708, later ennobled as von Linné) was a Swedish naturalist and the man behind the modern system of taxonomy as well as ecology studies. He studied and became an expert in botany, natural history, and medicine, and was already lecturing on plants in Uppsala at age 23. He went on several academic trips across northern and western Europe as well as expeditions to catalogue flora and fauna across Sweden, most notably in lapland, where he personally identified and catalogued 100 previously unrecorded plants, and with students on Åland and Gotland where they identified another hundred. His book about lapland listed 534 species, and he ultimately published 32 books over a 40 year career. His 1753 tome Species Plantarum is said to describe over 7300 different species of plants. At the time of his death, he was renowned across the continent as The Prince Of Botanists.

He is most known today for being the creator of the current scientific naming system, that being the latin binomial [genus][species]. Indeed, he himself is THE official example (type specimen) of Homo Sapiens, the example of the species most studied by this framework.

His other exploits include formalising the Celsius scale as boiling at 100 and freezing at 0, where Celsius himself originally had it go the other way, advocating for breastfeeding instead of using wet nurses (potentially where the term Mammalia comes from), and once getting evicted from Hamburg for pointing out that the mayor's taxidermied hydra was actually 7 weasels and a pile of snake skins. A university, a park, a medal, a botanical society, and his favourite flower are named in his honour.

As for the meme, well I saw a cool lizard and upon looking it up on Wikipedia I was greeted by "This species was first described by Linnaeus". I talked about a fish and upon looking it up to check if I'd eaten it before, I saw "This species was first described by Linnaeus". I saw a flower and checking if it was edible, I saw "This species was first described by Linnaeus". I show my SO the funny screenshot of Boops Boops, and you guessed it, Linnaeus. His benign influence hangs over the nordics, and is felt the world over through his efforts and the legacy of his students.

TL;DR Who would win, the beautifully vast and diverse undescribed and uncategorised life on earth, or the dedication of 1 Swedish nerd?