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Preparedness Notes for Monday — October 13, 2025 October 13, 2025
On October 13, 1775, the Whirlpool Galaxy was discovered by French astronomer Charles Messier. — Margaret Thatcher was born on October 13, 1925. She was the UK’s first female Prime Minister. She died in 2013. — On October 13, 1972, A flight chartered by a Uruguayan rugby team crashed in the Andes Mountains of Argentina, […]
James Wesley Rawles
LifeStraw Go 22 Ounce Water Bottle, by Thomas Christianson October 13, 2025
By combining water purification and storage, the LifeStraw 22 Ounce Water Bottle provides a simple, convenient and practical solution for providing potable water in the field. With the LifeStraw Go, safe, pleasant-tasting drinking water is close at hand. The specific model that I tested is no longer available at LifeStraw.com. A slightly different but similar […]
Thomas Christianson
Recipe of the Week: October 13, 2025
Reader K.N. sent us her recipes for Black Bean Brownies and White Bean Blond Brownies. She writes: “I use: 1 box dark chocolate brownie mix, 1 can low-sodium black beans, rinsed, drained, pureed/creamed til smooth. Add 1 small egg, 1/3 cup of any oil, 1/3 cup water, dash of vanilla. Pour mix into greased baking […]
James Wesley Rawles
SurvivalBlog Graphic of the Week October 13, 2025
Today’s graphic: The Most and Least Expensive Land in America. (Graphic courtesy of Reddit.) The thumbnail below is click-expandable. — Please send your graphics or graphics links to JWR. (Either via e-mail or via our Contact form.) Any graphics that you send must either be your own creation or uncopyrighted. The post […]
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The Editors’ Quote of the Day: October 13, 2025
“You can take all the guns in America and put them in a pile on the Mall in Washington DC, and those guns will stay there and will eventually rust and decay. Not one gun will crawl out of that pile and shoot or harm anyone. It takes a human being, and a human heart […]
James Wesley Rawles