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When Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536),
the youngest child of the newly dominant Spanish rulers Ferdinand and Isabella.,
was 3, her parents contracted her to marry Arthur, Prince of Wales, the heir to the Tudor king Henry VII in order to strengthen Spain's alliances,
since Henry's kingdom was a longstanding trade partner and an enemy of Spain's greatest enemy, France.
For the next decade Catherine had the best humanist education available,
preparing h…

Catherine of Aragon | Biography & Facts | Britannica
Catherine of Aragon (1485–1536) was the first wife of King Henry VIII of England. The refusal of Pope Clement VII to annul Henry’s marriage to Catherine triggered the break between Henry and Rome and led to the English Reformation. Learn more about Catherine’s life and marriage to Henry VIII with this article.

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That's how disfunctional the Trump administration is
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After nuclear weapons testing began in 1945, atmospheric radiation contaminated new steel production worldwide.
For decades, scientists needing radiation-free metal for sensitive instruments had to salvage steel from pre-war shipwrecks.
Scientists called this steel
"low-background steel."
Graham-Cumming sees a parallel with today's web, where AI-generated content increasingly mingles with human-created material and contaminates it.
With the advent o…

Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel; now we’re hoarding pre-AI content
Newly announced catalog collects pre-2022 sources untouched by ChatGPT and AI contamination.

Joseph Stiglitz, one of Columbia University’s most renowned professors, denounced the institution where he has taught for more than two decades over its recent capitulations to the Trump administration.
After Donald Trump withdrew some $400 million in federal funding from the university and issued a list of demands, Columbia entered negotiations that concluded with the school caving to pressure from the White House.
Among other concessions, the school made concessions about facult…

Tell Your Senators: No War With Iran
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Tell Your Senators: No War With Iran
The American people do not want to enter Netanyahu’s war with Iran. American involvement would not only put our troops into harm's way, but risk escalating an already volatile situation into all-out regional conflict. Unfortunately, Trump is engaging in wildly dangerous provocations in the press and on social media. We know we cannot trust this would-be authoritarian to diplomatically de-escalate this conflict and save lives. Fortunately, there’s something we can do about it. Our Constituti…

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