All Things History

Amazing, old ways can be as good or even better than new. 

I've heard of self-healing cement for years being 'new' and 'the future,' but they are using slightly different ingredients that they discovered worked similarly (I think it is with bacteria or something of that sort), but it's crazy how long ago they already were doing this, and we couldn't figure it out lol

Evening .
Concrete , Yet and depends on where the cement comes from and the sand and size of the grit and any additive and water ,
the cure time for ours in NZ any way is 21 days ,

Now volume is importaint very, in fact too wet is a sloppy mix and is weakened depends on where is used and some mix,s are only good for a path not for a beam or piller as it can break down now steel is an other matter if has scale or rust on it your in a lot of strife because water cement dont bind so you allready set it up to blow and i have seen it the cover between the steel to out side of concrete needs to be 2 " in,

I did 100,s of yard,s of concrete on big building sites so i got to see and work with it by hand mixing and being brought in by the truck load,s

Get a crack in the concrete and water gets in and is blown out oh dear try and fix it, done that as well.

If ya wont to get all what we say tech about it yes ya can do some reading and can be interesting if ya into mud ......lol,s sssss

...noeleena...

11 April 1954—a date which will live in... boredom?

According to the search engine True Knowledge, within the past 110 years, on this date in history is the date on which nothing newsworthy occurred. The most "boring" day in human history.

📰 Headlines

Despite being the most "boring" day in human history. There were still newsworthy events occurring. Here are some of the highlights on what occurred on April 11^th, 1954.

• Belgium general election resulted in the Christian Social Party winning 95 seats out of 212 in the Chamber of Representatives and 49 seats out of 106 in Senate. The government, lead by Jean Van Houtte, lost majority in parliament. The Socialist and Liberal parties formed a rare "purple" government with Achille Van Acker serving as prime minister.
• Raymond Impanis wins the 52nd edition of the Paris–Roubaix cycling race.
• The 1954 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship opens with the first round of the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship.
• The 1954 New Orleans Women's Open golf tournament, part of the LPGA Tour, concludes. Marlene Bauer wins the tournament, with Betty Jameson coming in second.

👶 Births

Abdullah Atalar, Turkish scientist and academic.

💀 Deaths

Paul Specht, American dance band leader. (3/24/1895 - 4/11/1954)


To see a list of births and deaths please see this article.


Learn more about this date with the following educational videos below.

📼🔗 Why April 11, 1954 Is The Statistically Most Boring Day Ever
📼🔗 The Most Boring Day Ever: There Is No News
 

I remain fascinated by Hitler's rise to power. The actual war, not so much.

People should learn from history. That's the way to make progress.

I like that Western culture chose to celebrate "birthdays" and not "death days".

I think that it goes very much like inventions. As I have said before, very few new things are invented. They are just revamped. In the same way I don't think people really learn. They so often create the same mistakes in trying to do something they think is better. In effect, just revamping yet again.

I said it before and I am saying it again: I hope that one day, America will have a Native American president.

I want to see a female president in the next 8 years.

Ad long as she is qualified I would love to see that. We are ready and overdo. 

I hope you were kidding but I know you are not

This honestly should be the case with any politician, but identity politics tend to blind people.

There is likely going to be a woman president, but she’s going to be of a party that most of the American public is going to hate leading her to get more shit than Bush/Obama because of her gender.

I never had much interest in WWI but a single spark between Serbia and Austria seemed to ignite it.

I wonder if something small could start WWIII and that small something might involve Iran.

We can all argue whether the Trump sanctions on Iran would destroy Iran’s economy enough to prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons. But Biden eliminated them.

Now it is being reported Iran may be only days away from a nuclear weapon.

Two things to remember. Israel is a small country, one nuclear bomb could destroy it. Remember too, Iran is Islamic and loss of life in Jihad isn’t discouraged especially if Israel were to be destroyed.

So, if Israel feels threatened with an imminent nuclear attack, Israel may not hesitate to use nuclear bunker buster bombs to destroy Iran’s well protected weapon building infrastructure. In the end, life or death decisions become simple.

Russia is now tight with Iran, With nuclear bombs going off in the Middle East, Putin may not hesitate their use in Ukraine. WWIII?