March 26th: Today in 1997 the bodies of thirty-nine people who commited mass suicide as part of the Heaven’s Gate cult are found. Cults are a difficult thing for me to understand, I spend my life challenging assumptions and trying as much as possible to think for myself, yet some people are very willing to [...]
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March 25th: Today in 1655 a small force backing the traditional government of Maryland fought and lost the battle Battle of Great Severn to force favoring Puritan rule of the state. The Puritans ran the state for only two years before recognizing the States Proprietor, Lord Baltimore, and restoring a government of religious tolerance. The [...]
March 24th: Today in 1944 seventy-six prisoners of war escaped from Stalag Luft III using a secret tunnel. Only three made it to freedom and fifty were massacred after being recaptured. Several years ago Nova ran a special on the escape in which Archeologists Peter Doyle and Larry Babits returned to the camps located and [...]
If I had to pick a favorite T.V. show of all time it would be the Andy Griffiths show. I will pause while you mock me.
K. You done? Nope?……
OK, anyway I have always felt the show just did the characters right, very funny without simply mocking them like the Dukes of Hazzard did. Anyway the [...]
March 23rd: Today in 1775 Patrick Henry gave his most famous speech containing the line ‘Give me liberty, or give me death!‘ The speech is a good one and well worth a read but sadly there seems to be a fair chance the version we are familiar with is not accurate. Now we are blessed [...]
Pepco has a fun and frustrating game to play for those whose power is off yet still have internet connectivity. You can go to this site and watch their power outage map and the location of their service crews. Power is out at my house and has been for hours. According to the map it [...]
Bash.org is a site that posts up funny cuts from IRC conversations (early instant messaging for those non-internet heads). I found one via Monitor Duty that is simply genius:
‘ I heard about this guy who broke into a lion’s den at the zoo
and got mauled
and people were talking about how there should have [...]
March 22nd: Today in 1765 the English Parliment unanimously passes the Stamp Act placing a direct tax on printed materials in the American Colonies. The tax faced great resistance and was repealed less than a year later.
See also last years post on the Jamestown Massacre.
Yes, what could be more exciting than another tell all celebrity blog!? Now that star of the ‘literary’ world Geoffrey Chaucer has his own blog. A fayre reade it is. I suspect many just go for the Katharyne Swinford nudes.