On this day:
55
Roman forces under Julius Caesar invade Great Britain.
1346
Hundred Years’ War: the military supremacy of the English longbow over the French combination of crossbow and armoured knights is established at the Battle of Crécy.
1429
Joan of Arc makes a triumphant entry into Paris.
1768
Captain James Cook sets sail from England on board HMS Endeavour.
1789
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France.
1883
The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa begins its final, paroxysmal stage.
1920
The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote.
1942
Holocaust in Chortkiav, western Ukraine: At 2.30 am the German Schutzpolizei starts driving Jews out of their houses, divides them into groups of 120, packs them in freight cars and deports 2000 to Belzec death camp. 500 of the sick and children are murdered on the spot.
1999
Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade.
Roman forces under Julius Caesar invade Great Britain.
1346
Hundred Years’ War: the military supremacy of the English longbow over the French combination of crossbow and armoured knights is established at the Battle of Crécy.
1429
Joan of Arc makes a triumphant entry into Paris.
1768
Captain James Cook sets sail from England on board HMS Endeavour.
1789
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France.
1883
The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa begins its final, paroxysmal stage.
1920
The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote.
1942
Holocaust in Chortkiav, western Ukraine: At 2.30 am the German Schutzpolizei starts driving Jews out of their houses, divides them into groups of 120, packs them in freight cars and deports 2000 to Belzec death camp. 500 of the sick and children are murdered on the spot.
1999
Russia begins the Second Chechen War in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade.
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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can.
—Jane Austen
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Lenin thought Stalin was "arrogant, brutal, and unkind." This from the man who said you couldn't have a revolution without firing squads.
Over $2.4 million in New York City Council member discretionary funding went to organizations that planned and executed the anti-Israel campouts at New York universities in the spring of 2024.
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The gerrymandering Politician Protection Plan continues brazenly.
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For anyone wanting entry-level Tolstoy, his short story “Three Questions” shows how purpose and practice give meaning to life. A young king is preparing for the responsibilities of governing. He seeks to know the best time to begin things, the most important people to engage, the most important things to do. Court advisers, men of science and ideas, offer unsatisfactory answers. His search ultimately takes him to an encounter with a hermit living in the woods, where the king learns the most important time is now, the most necessary person is the one you’re with, and the most important thing is to do him good. This is why we were made.--letter to editor WSJ
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For anyone wanting entry-level Tolstoy, his short story “Three Questions” shows how purpose and practice give meaning to life. A young king is preparing for the responsibilities of governing. He seeks to know the best time to begin things, the most important people to engage, the most important things to do. Court advisers, men of science and ideas, offer unsatisfactory answers. His search ultimately takes him to an encounter with a hermit living in the woods, where the king learns the most important time is now, the most necessary person is the one you’re with, and the most important thing is to do him good. This is why we were made.--letter to editor WSJ
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Willson Contreras had an epic meltdown when he was tossed from the series opener between the Cardinals and Pirates, having to be held back by coaches and inadvertently hitting one with his bat as he crashed out over a called third strike in the bottom of the seventh.
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The big story on FOX for two days has been Cracker Barrel.
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Kuang's new book is getting bad reviews.
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The Pirates claimed utility man Ryan Kreidler off waivers from the Detroit Tigers. In 89 career MLB games, he has slashed just .138/.208/.176 with a 31.8% strikeout rate. He has played shortstop, second base, third base, left field and center field throughout his sterling career.
No doubt the scouting geniuses have discovered a flaw to tweak.
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Kevin O'Leary and some others paid $12.932 MILLION for the most expensive sports card in the world -- which features patches and autographs from Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant.
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The Kindness Gap
Bogdan Bezpalko from the Russian Federation’s Council for Interethnic Relations, which astonishingly sounds like a conciliatory and ethnocentric organization, said this:
"What do we want? We want Ukraine, as a state, to cease to exist, for its military potential to be completely destroyed, that the political class that has always turned the Ukrainian state into an anti-Russia, that it, too, disappear. That these people leave, so softly put, somewhere in emigration, or somewhere else, far away. But in any case, so that it would never be possible to create another anti-Russia from Ukraine in the coming decades and centuries. This is our goal. Based on this, we must make our plans, to carry out military construction, to expand, as recently signed, an order of the Russian president, our armed forces. To create art brigades of special power to break through the front. And if there is an opportunity to strike, if there is an opportunity to destroy military potential, destroy it. Let them be a little afraid of us. They relaxed there, playing soccer in Europe. They no longer consider Russia a threat to them in any way, even though they shout about it all the time. In fact, neither in Finland nor in Germany, nor in Italy, does anyone believe that Russia is capable of launching, for example, a nuclear strike. The Americans, in principle, allow it. But Finland, Italy, and Germany are very far away from the United States. A nuclear cloud will not reach New York or Seattle. And if these states are hit with our weapons, as an instrument of pressure on our country, then the Americans will sit down with us and negotiate and divide the world again. Just as they once did, as a result of World War II, as a result of the Tehran-Yalta-Potsdam conferences."
These statistics are from the World Food Program (hunger, acute hunger, food insecurity, and the like are subjective terms trying to quantify the unquantifiable. They're silly descriptions of significant problems, but they're all we have.):
Bogdan Bezpalko from the Russian Federation’s Council for Interethnic Relations, which astonishingly sounds like a conciliatory and ethnocentric organization, said this:
"What do we want? We want Ukraine, as a state, to cease to exist, for its military potential to be completely destroyed, that the political class that has always turned the Ukrainian state into an anti-Russia, that it, too, disappear. That these people leave, so softly put, somewhere in emigration, or somewhere else, far away. But in any case, so that it would never be possible to create another anti-Russia from Ukraine in the coming decades and centuries. This is our goal. Based on this, we must make our plans, to carry out military construction, to expand, as recently signed, an order of the Russian president, our armed forces. To create art brigades of special power to break through the front. And if there is an opportunity to strike, if there is an opportunity to destroy military potential, destroy it. Let them be a little afraid of us. They relaxed there, playing soccer in Europe. They no longer consider Russia a threat to them in any way, even though they shout about it all the time. In fact, neither in Finland nor in Germany, nor in Italy, does anyone believe that Russia is capable of launching, for example, a nuclear strike. The Americans, in principle, allow it. But Finland, Italy, and Germany are very far away from the United States. A nuclear cloud will not reach New York or Seattle. And if these states are hit with our weapons, as an instrument of pressure on our country, then the Americans will sit down with us and negotiate and divide the world again. Just as they once did, as a result of World War II, as a result of the Tehran-Yalta-Potsdam conferences."
So obliterate a neighbor, nuke a couple of others, and divide up the world. This is a Russian public political figure. Trump probably did great in Alaska.
But there is a lot of horror in the world perpetrated by a lot of horrible people. In Ukraine, Russian bombs, shells, and shrapnel have damaged or destroyed more than 3,790 educational facilities. Russians bombed the maternity hospital in Mariupol March 9, 2022, the Ohmatdyt Children’s Hospital on July 8, 2024, and the maternity hospital in Kharkiv on July 11 of this year.
From the beginning of the war to July 10, the U.N. Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine has documented the deaths of at least 13,580 civilians, including 716 children; and 34,115 civilians have been injured, including 2,173 children.
From the beginning of the war to July 10, the U.N. Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine has documented the deaths of at least 13,580 civilians, including 716 children; and 34,115 civilians have been injured, including 2,173 children.
In Sudan, 2 million people are facing famine or are at risk of famine, and 24.6 million people are facing acute hunger.
In Haiti, 5.7 million people face acute hunger.
In Syria, 9.1 million people are classified as “food insecure,” and “nearly 3 million people are projected to be severely food insecure.”
In Afghanistan, 9.5 million people are severely food insecure.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, 28 million people are facing acute food insecurity, and 4.75 million children under age five are facing or expected to face acute malnutrition. (From National Review)
We haven't responded much, but perhaps we are preoccupied with our efforts to step over the bodies of our fellow citizens lying on the sidewalks. Or, perhaps we have a horror threshold, some emotional 'statutes of limitations,' where at a certain point the horrors of the world just no longer stick and slough off. Tiny Gaza is enough. And we can put away those Free Tibet bumper stickers.
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