Interesting article on Native American Wannabes I found this morning while looking for Mary Campbell info. I can’t claim this is definitive by any means, there is no single voice for Native Americans any more than there is a single voice for European or African or Latino Americans, but I did think it was well [...]
March 21rst: Today in 1758 ten year old Mary Campbell was kidnapped by Lenape Indians. She spent the next six years in Ohio until repatriated by General Boquet at a camp at Muskingum in 1764 when she was 16. Famous at the time as a model of bravery she is now mostly forgotten by history [...]
March 20th: Today in 1815 Napoleon returns from exile on the island of Elbe and occupies Paris, starting his final brief reign as emperor. For the most part his army abandoned the recently restored King and flocked back to his banner, but there were troubling signs in some of the prominent generals who did not [...]
March 19th: Today in 1687 the great French explorer Robert de LaSalle was murdered by his men in Texas. LaSalle was resposible for claiming the Mississippi for France and spent his life on the far frontiers of the French empire. He drove him men hard and survived serveral attempts at mutiny before the one that [...]
March 18th: Today in 1766 the Stamp Act was repealed by Parliment taking effect on May 1rst. This was a victory for the colonists but Parliment tempered it with the passage of the Declaratory Act, which said that Parliment held final authority for all laws in the colonies, and the victory was forgotten by [...]
If it is Friday it must be web quiz day! Today’s quiz is which Van Goh painting most suits you. I am a Wheat Field With Crows… Learn something everyday don’t you.
Via A Trout In The Milk
Online games are evolving. Originally they were flight simulators and card games, they moved into dragon slaying and science fiction, now they are teaching communism. In the exciting game Learn from Lei Feng you get to sew socks and strive to make your clothes more average. If you are lucky you get to meet [...]
March 17th: Today in 45BC Julius Caeser won his last major victory in the Battle of Munda, effectively ending the Roman Civil War that had raged for many years. The victory was massive for Caeser, it set him up as dictator for life, but sadly that life was not as long as he hoped as [...]
March 16th: Today in 1926 Robert Goddard launched the first liquid fueled rocket. The launch was unspectacular, going up only 41 feet, but it was the basis for much of modern rocketry. Goddard was a visionary and spent most of his life mocked by those idiots that seem to always emerge to mock visionaries. The [...]
David Gorsline at pedantic nuthatch points to the new DC Baseball Stadium designs. He thinks they didn’t think about the baseball as much as they should have, I don’t know, I am pretty neutral on the design, doesn’t excite me one way or another. I am looking forward to trying to get to some Nationals [...]