Technorama Ep 436 : Bifrosted Flakes

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A follow up to the controversial robot statue
Thomas Edison made some creepy stuff
A Shakespeare reading you may recognize

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On This Day In History for May 20, 2015

This is the 140th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 225 days remaining in 2015.

It was on this date in 1497 that John Cabot sets sail from Bristol, England, on his ship Matthew looking for a route to the west.
517 years ago today, Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama discovers the sea route to India when he arrives at Kozhikode, India.
Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas on this date in 1570.
May 20, 1873, Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
132 years ago today, Krakatoa begins to erupt; the volcano explodes three months later, killing more than 36,000 people.
124 years ago today, the first public display of Thomas Edison’s prototype kinetoscope.
The first traffic ticket in the US: New York City taxi driver Jacob German was arrested for speeding while driving 12 miles per hour on Lexington Street 116 years ago today.
It was 99 years ago today that The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting (Boy with Baby Carriage).
May 20, 1920, Montreal, Quebec radio station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America.
At 07:52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world’s first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. He touched down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day 88 years ago today.
Also today in 1932, Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world’s first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.
It was 59 years ago today that In Operation Redwing, the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
Discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation by Robert Woodrow Wilson and Arno Penzias on this date in 1964.
May 20, 1983, First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier.
Also today in 1985, Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

American businessman who co-founded Wells Fargo and American Express, William Fargo born on this date in 1818.
Also born on this date in 1851, the inventor of the Gramophone record, Emile Berliner.
Actor Jimmy Stewart would have been 97 today.
Another co-founder… William Redington Hewlett, the H-part of HP was born today in 1913.
and finally Astronaut Col. Thomas Akers is 66.

And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for (date)

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