On August 13, 1642, Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovered that Mars had a southern polar cap.
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This is the birthday of screenwriter, director, and producer, Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980). His many films spanned five decades.
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Today is also the birthday of sharpshooter, entertainer, and folk heroine Annie Oakley (1860–1926.)
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Please pray for everyone at risk of the floods in Wisconsin.
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As part of the 20th Anniversary celebration for SurvivalBlog, we are running our biggest sale ever on all of our percussion gun inventory at Elk Creek Company. (Elk Creek Company is a spin-off venture that helps pay the bills for SurvivalBlog.) Take note that most of our percussion revolver inventory is hand-selected for the availability of cartridge conversion cylinders. This is particularly important for folks who live in any of the 23 states that have de facto registration on the sales of private party modern (post-1898) cartridge guns. The sale pricing on our percussion guns will end on Friday, August 15, 2025. Oh, and by the way, if you’d like to pay in pre-1965 “junk” U.S. 90% coins, you can divide your order total by 29.7. That is a very generous rate.
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Today’s feature article is a short but important piece, written by a SurvivalBlog advertiser. We need more entries for Round 120 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. More than $960,000 worth of prizes have been awarded since we started running this contest. Round 120 ends on September 30th, so get busy writing and e-mail us your entry. Remember that there is a 1,500-word minimum, and that articles on practical “how-to” skills for survival have an advantage in the judging. In 2023, we polled blog readers, asking for suggested article topics. Please refer to that poll if you haven’t yet chosen an article topic.
Read the full article here