2020.06.23 Greenhorns

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"No question. I don't think it's any accident that the educational system in America has been brought to its current state. Because only a totally uneducated mass of people will be baffled by balloons. And yellow ribbons and little flags and buzz words and guys saying "new world order" and shit like that, I mean, only a person who has been dissuaded from any kind of critical thinking and doesn't know geography, doesn't know the English language—I mean if you can't speak English, then this stuff works on you. "One of the things that was taken out of the curriculum was civics. Civics was a class that used to be required before you could graduate from high school. You were taught what was in the U.S. Constitution. And after all the student rebellions in the '60s, civics was banished from the student curriculum and was replaced by something called social studies. Here we live in a country that has a fabulous constitution and all these guarantees, a contract between the citizens and the government—nobody knows what's in it. It's one of the best kept secrets. And so, if you don't know what your rights are, how can you stand up for them? And furthermore, if you don't know what is in that document, how can you care if someone is shredding it?" - Frank Zappa (1991) https://afka.net/Articles/1991-07_Spin.htm

RIP and Infected

WHO https://covid19.who.int/

Worldometers https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

Bobby

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Storey
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze_Prison_escape
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Prison_Maze

Tariqs Azizes

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariq_Aziz_(Pakistani_personality)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariq_Aziz

Alpha 66

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Veciana
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_66

Vera

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Lynn

Sergei

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Khrushchev

Chuvashia

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Ignatyev_(politician)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_of_the_Chuvash_Republic
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuvashia

Not a Russian journalist?

• https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2020-06-22/steve-bing-philanthropist-and-film-producer-dies-after-fall-from-building

Joel Schumacher

• https://variety.com/2020/film/news/joel-schumacher-dead-dies-batman-director-1234644961/

Ian Holm

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Holm

Follow-Up

The Rum Rebellion

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/73rd_(Perthshire)_Regiment_of_Foot
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regiments_of_foot

Pondicherry

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Pondicherry_(1793)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_India
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_East_India_Company
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_Richelieu

Mathematicians say Fuck Da Police in solidarity

• https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01874-9
• https://www.nature.com/news/reform-predictive-policing-1.21338

Things

Moist Cabbage

• https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=moist cabbage

Chuck another Chiko on the barbie - https://thewest.com.au/news/pilbara/chuck-another-chiko-on-the-barbie-ng-ya-122155

Ginger Nuts

• https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-20/arnotts-ginger-nut-biscuits-differ-across-australia/8533136
• https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4546936/Arnott-s-Ginger-Nut-recipe-varies-Australian-state.html

Greenhorns

• https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/thread/368w5xl3

The poetry of Fake Hafez

• https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/fake-hafez-supreme-persian-poet-love-erased-200601073431603.html

A great scholar of Islam, the late Shahab Ahmed, referred to Hafez's Divan as: "the most widely-copied, widely-circulated, widely-read, widely-memorized, widely-recited, widely-invoked, and widely-proverbialized book of poetry in Islamic history."

Games (specifically excluding Chess)

Women's World Cup

Nascar

Jussie Smollett

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jussie_Smollett_alleged_assault

Andrew Jackson

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Removal_Act

Netball

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