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Month: April 2020

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Vietnam War Fast Facts

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(CNN)Here’s a look at the Vietnam War. 1949 – France establishes the State of Vietnam in the southern half of the country. 1951 – Ho Chi Minh becomes leader of Dang Lao Dong Vietnam, the Vietnam Worker’s Party, in the north. North Vietnam was communist. South Vietnam was not. North Vietnamese Communists and South Vietnamese Communist rebels, known as the Viet Cong, wanted to overthrow the South Vietnamese government and re-unite the country.

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You Could Win A $500 Starbucks Gift Card By Playing The Chain’s New Game

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Courtesy of Starbucks Here’s How To Play Starbucks’ Starland Game For A Chance To Win A $500 Gift Card By Cianna Garrison March 13, 2020 Starbucks is giving its fans a chance to win some seriously awesome prizes. Starbucks released a new game on the Starbucks Rewards app, and it’s so easy to get your hands on some freebies. Here’s how to play Starbucks’ Starland game for a chance to win a $500 gift card. If you missed out on the prizes from the Starbucks For Life game, you can…

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A plan to save coronavirus patients from dying at home

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(CNN)While coronavirus cases and deaths have overwhelmed US hospitals, there have been reports, too, of coronavirus patients around the country dying in their homes. In Cleveland, Ohio, a team of researchers at University Hospitals is running a small pilot program designed to help save the lives of coronavirus patients who run into trouble while battling the virus at home. Patients who come into the emergency department but aren’t sick enough to be admitted to the hospital are sent home with a sensor to wear on their finger. The sensor measures…

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1,400 Years After A Strange Red Light Appeared In The Sky Over Japan, We May Finally Know What It Was

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Partly mythical, partly factual, the Nihon shoki is the oldest official history of Japan, chronicling the country’s origin and subsequent development up to the end of the seventh century CE. In it can be found a description of a highly unusual astronomical event that scientists have been unable to explain, although a team of researchers now say they finally know what caused this fantastic phenomenon. The odd spectacle is said to have manifested on December 30, 620 CE, when “a red sign appeared in heaven. The length was more than…

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Kristin Cavallari Was On Vacation While We Were All Staying Home To Flatten The Curve | Betches

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Many of us are approaching the one-month mark of working from home and social distancing, and if you’re not going a little crazy right now, I either don’t believe you, or I need to know what pills you’re taking. Thankfully, for me, “a little crazy” mostly just means watching too much TV and eating frosting straight out of the container. But as we’ve seen, some celebrities and Twitter thread about Arielle Charnas and, to quote Twitter thread about a lifestyle personality and their puzzling actions in response to COVID-19 to unpack,…

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Disney Invited Us To Their Lot! A Look Behind The Curtain! Plus, “Mira Royal Detective” Extravaganza! | Perez Hilton – Perez Hilton

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Where the magic happens! We were so honored to be asked by Disney to attend a big party at their studios in Burbank for Mira Royal Detective, a new show debuting on Disney Jr later this month. There was a red carpet, a screening, a big after-party and we give you a tour of the historic landmark! We were geeking out at every corner! So cool! Watch! Enjoy! SHARE! And CLICK HERE to check out more of Perez’s family videos! Related Posts The Reason Katy Perry Has Been Struggling! CLICK…

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Veterans Affairs denies reports of face mask shortages at hospitals

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(CNN)The Department of Veterans Affairs is telling hospitals to decide which staff will receive face masks amid a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), according to internal memos seen by The Wall Street Journal, the news publication reported on Saturday. “The Wall Street Journal story you reference is extremely misleading,” Noel said in a statement. “All VA employees who need PPE have it.” “All VA facilities are equipped with essential items and supplies to handle coronavirus cases, and all VA employees have the appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), as per…

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The Villains of the Virus Are Cashing In and Spreading Death

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Devin Nunes, who over the course of his career has blamed collusion with the Kremlin on the FBI, went dark on us for a little while but has returned with a vengeance, blaming the soon-to-be-wrecked economy on California education bureaucrats. OK, not directly. But in a The ugly world view that has brought us to this wretched point was on full display, along with the evidence that this impassioned advocate of a return to pedagogical normalcy must have skipped English class as a lad (kids coulda went back to school…

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The App That Wants You to Treat Self Care Like a Garden

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Amber Discko’s descent into a state of emotional turmoil started as a slow trickle. It began around the time Donald Trump won the presidential election in November 2016 and when Discko’s social media and voter registration work for the Hillary Clinton campaign ended. But then, when Trump was inaugurated in January 2017, the emotional levee broke. The extremes of the campaign—working late into the night just to start again at 4 am, day after day—had drained Discko of all their usual enthusiasm and radiance. Discko, who uses they/them pronouns, hustled…

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