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"The cherry went on to win prizes and sell for the princely sum of a dollar a pound. But Ah Bing’s contribution couldn’t save him from American racism.... In 1889, he returned to China for a visit. While the Chinese Exclusion Act had already passed, legislators actively plugged loopholes and made it even more restrictive. Ah Bing never returned to the U.S., and Ledding, years later, blamed the Chinese Exclusion Act."

"An apology is an admission that you’ve wronged others and that you are actually sorry for it. This is of course why it’s difficult for people to apologize."

"Stitching wasn’t the only way to make the best of flawed parchment. There are instances of holes being incorporated into illustrations, or used to reveal an illustration on the following page. The stitches themselves could even be embellished."

"Sable Offshore flows crude oil through pipelines responsible for 2015 Refugio spill"
Adding insult to injury, they announced it on the 10-year anniversary of the spill.

"A producer sabotages a rival's play by faking a measles outbreak among the cast, forcing a quarantine. The solution: the Flash plays every part at once!"
Ah, the 1940s, when people still understood what quarantines are for.

"A directory of self-hosted software and applications for easy browsing and discovery"

"This find | xargs mawk | mawk pipeline gets us down to a runtime of about 12 seconds, or about 270MB/sec, which is around 235 times faster than the Hadoop implementation."

"Discworld Reading Order Guides - A suggested reading order for the Discworld books of Terry Pratchett"

Short version: because "forbidden" energy states aren't actually impossible, just highly improbable, electrons could occasionally jump up briefly, then down to the ground state, emitting two low-energy photons instead of one high-energy one, slowly cutting down on the likelihood that the hydrogen atom will just get re-ionized again.