Bare-knuckle boxing is the original form
of boxing closely related to other ancient forms of combat sports.
It involves two individuals fighting without any kind of boxing
gloves or other form of padding on their hands. The only deferent’s
between street fighting and bare-knuckle fighting is rules like
no striking a down opponent, no biting, and you can not grab a
opponent by the birches or hit them below the waist. These rules
were first established in 1838 and were called the London Prize
Ring Rules. They were later revised in 1853 and were agine superseded
by the Marquess of Queensberry rules, which are the origins of
modern boxing rules.
The record for the longest bare-knuckle fight is listed as 6 hours
and 15 minutes in a match between James Kelly, and Jack Smith.
The fight was held at in Melbourne Australia on October 19th 1856.
The fighter Jem Mace is listed as having
the longest professional career of any fighter in history. He
fought for more than 35 years, and recorded his last exhibition
bought in 1909 at the age of 78.
Some time in the late 1800s fighters started to were boxing gloves
in a attempt to make the sport more humane. However many of the
veteran bare-knuckle fighters complained that if you pad the fist
with a glove, fighters would be able to swing harder with out
fear of breaking their hands. Thus delivering a much more harder
and violent blow.
Today the sport of boxing still has many critics. The leading
Catholic magazine 'Civilta Cattolica' has taken a swipe at professional
boxing, describing the sport as 'a legalized form of attempted
homicide,' driven by powerful interests which are often 'cruel
and pitiless' in their pursuit of financial gain.
Iceland known as the island of fire and ice is located
in the North Atlantic Ocean. It has always been a hot spot in
the Atlantic and has several of the few volcanoes located in Europe.
Eruptions, common thought Iceland’s history, are often triggered
by seismic activity when the earth’s plates move and when
magma deep under ground pushes its way to the earths surface.
The Volcanic eruption has shut down airports allover Europe and
stranded hundred of thousands of travelers. It has even effected
the travel plans for the president of the united states who is
suppose to travel to Poland so he can attend the funeral for the
polish president who recently died in a airplane crash.
But this isn’t the first time the little island
of Iceland has affected all of Europe. Iceland's Laki volcano
erupted in 1783, freeing gases that turned into smog. The smog
floated across the Jet Stream, changing weather patterns. Many
died from gas poisoning in the British Isles. Crop production
fell in Western Europe. Famine spread. Some even linked the eruption,
which helped fuel famine, to the French Revolution. Painters in
the 18th century illustrated fiery sunsets in their works.
The winter of 1784 was also one of the longest and coldest on
record in North America. New England reported a record stretch
of below-zero temperatures and New Jersey reported record snow
accumulation. The Mississippi River also reportedly froze in New
Orleans. Most experts agree that wild scenarios like that are
unlikely, but still possible.
Then there are the opponents of the CERN experiments in France
and Switzerland, where scientist have been using the worlds largest
scientific machine ever built in a attempt to smash atoms in the
hopes to discover a elusive antimatter particle. Opponents of
this experiment warn that there is a small but real chance that
the scientist at CERN might accidentally create a black whole
that could swallow the earth. If this were to happen one of the
first signs of a doomsday black whole would be worldwide earthquake,
and volcanic eruptions.
I don’t know about you but I always like to
look in the pot before I set down to do my business. I have never
found anything unexpected and I don’t really know of any
one who has. But occasionally I see reports in the news of rats
in a toilet stool, fish, and yes even a snake.
A woman in Nebraska reported finding a python in the toilet of
her La Vista hotel room. Officials with the Nebraska Human Society
estimate the python found Thursday morning at the Hampton Inn
was about 3 years old. They said pythons aren't typically found
in the wild, so it's likely this python was a pet.
If any of you were traveling through Nebraska in the last several
days and you have lost your pet snake you can call the Nebraska
Human Society and pick it up.
