On this day, 8 February 1517, Hernandez de Cordova set sail with three ships from Cuba heading west to explore the shores of southern Mexico in search of Indigenous people to enslave to work in mines. He was defeated by the Mayas and forced to retreat, dying from his wounds shortly after returning to Cuba.
We have lots of other important anniversaries today like police killings of Black students in the US, anti-colonial protesters in France, the Arab Spring and more. All of them follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/wrkclasshistory
Pictured: a painting of Maya warriors https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1345196635665483/?type=3
Sorry to interrupt, but we and our colleagues at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute thought you should know that you share a planet with the marvelous mollusk known as the panda bear sea angel:
The panda bear sea angel Notobranchaea macdonaldi is an open-ocean snail-relative known as a pteropod, or “wing-foot”. Many pteropods have some form of shell (those are often known as “sea butterflies”)—sea angels do not.
Sea angel pteropods are carnivorous hunters, tracking down sea butterflies and ensnaring them using hidden tentacles tucked away inside their head. As with so many adorable sea creatures, for sea angels, the devil is in the details.
There is evil in the world. There are dark, awful things. Occasionally, we get a glimpse of them. But there are dark corners; horrors almost impossible to imagine… even in our worst nightmares.
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