752 BC
Romulus, legendary first king of Rome, celebrates the first Roman triumph after his victory over the Caeninenses, following The Rape of the Sabine Women.
1562
23 Huguenots are massacred by Catholics in Wassy, France, marking the start of the French Wars of Religion.
1692
Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials.
1781
The Continental Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation.
1815
Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba
1872
Yellowstone National Park is established as the world’s first national park.
1893
Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
1896
Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
1917
The U.S. government releases the unencrypted text of the Zimmermann Telegram to the public.
1932
The son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, is kidnapped.
1950
Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data.
1953
Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses. He dies four days later.
1954
Nuclear testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
1954
Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
1966
Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet’s surface.
1971
A bomb explodes in a men’s room in the United States Capitol: the Weather Underground claims responsibility.
1974
Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
1981
Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.
Romulus, legendary first king of Rome, celebrates the first Roman triumph after his victory over the Caeninenses, following The Rape of the Sabine Women.
1562
23 Huguenots are massacred by Catholics in Wassy, France, marking the start of the French Wars of Religion.
1692
Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials.
1781
The Continental Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation.
1815
Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba
1872
Yellowstone National Park is established as the world’s first national park.
1893
Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
1896
Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
1917
The U.S. government releases the unencrypted text of the Zimmermann Telegram to the public.
1932
The son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, is kidnapped.
1950
Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data.
1953
Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses. He dies four days later.
1954
Nuclear testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
1954
Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
1966
Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet’s surface.
1971
A bomb explodes in a men’s room in the United States Capitol: the Weather Underground claims responsibility.
1974
Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
1981
Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.
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“In 2013, I published RICH DAD'S PROPHECY, predicting the biggest crash in history was coming. Unfortunately, that crash has arrived. It’s not just the US. Europe and Asia are crashing. AI will wipe out jobs,, and when jobs crash, office and residential real estate will crash.”--Kiyosaki, on an economic disruption he has predicted for 12 years, although the AI component is new.
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Chatellier's French Bakery in Millvale closed its doors for the final time Feb. 28th.
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China buys more than 80% of Iran's shipped oil, data for 2025 from analytics firm Kpler showed. Iranian oil has limited buyers due to U.S. sanctions aimed at cutting off funding to Tehran's nuclear programme.
China purchased on average 1.38 million barrels per day of Iranian oil last year, according to Kpler. That represented about 13.4% of the total 10.27 million bpd of oil it imported by sea.
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Dan Simmons, 77, award-winning author of 31 novels and short story collections, passed away on February 21, 2026 in Longmont, Colorado. Many of his books won honors ranging from the Hugo Award, science fiction’s most prestigious award, to two World Fantasy Awards, three Bram Stoker Awards for horror, a dozen Locus Awards, and the Shirley Jackson Award. His titles have been translated into at least 20 languages and published in 28 foreign countries.
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Speaking about Dorsey and AI comments concerning layoffs, Joseph Brusuelas, chief economist at RSM, said:“This is a function of lax judgment during a period of rapid expansion and the retrenchment that follows. It should be understood within the unique context of that firm, and it does not signal risk to the broader U.S. labor market.”
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Epstein was in the White House 17 times. What other private citizen was?
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Dan Simmons, 77, award-winning author of 31 novels and short story collections, passed away on February 21, 2026 in Longmont, Colorado. Many of his books won honors ranging from the Hugo Award, science fiction’s most prestigious award, to two World Fantasy Awards, three Bram Stoker Awards for horror, a dozen Locus Awards, and the Shirley Jackson Award. His titles have been translated into at least 20 languages and published in 28 foreign countries.
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Speaking about Dorsey and AI comments concerning layoffs, Joseph Brusuelas, chief economist at RSM, said:“This is a function of lax judgment during a period of rapid expansion and the retrenchment that follows. It should be understood within the unique context of that firm, and it does not signal risk to the broader U.S. labor market.”
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Epstein was in the White House 17 times. What other private citizen was?
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Sunday/Transfiguration
Today is the Feast of the Transfiguration. Despite its drama, it was never formalized in the Church until after the Tenth Century. In it, Christ is transfigured on a mountaintop with Moses and Elijah while Peter, James, and John watch in amazement.
It is often seen as the point in the Gospel where Christ and the apostles are energized by this glimpse of heaven.
But it is a remarkable, almost posed, artistic, and philosophical moment. A distillation of the New and Old Testament conflicts and resolutions, it is a potent mixture of spirituality and humanity, Christ, the great prophets, and the apostles all swirling in opposition and conformity.
And light.
We have always had great respect for light. In Genesis, right after the creation of the formless heaven and earth, light displaces the dark. Even Lucifer (appearing only once in the Old Testament) means "the morning star" or "light-bringer."
The architect Wren, on deciding to avoid stained glass windows in his churches, said ""Nothing can add beauty to light."
Edison's first commercial electric light system was installed on Pearl Street in the financial district of Lower Manhattan in 1882.
Before that, the world was lit only by fire.
The World
by Henry Vaughan
I saw Eternity the other night,
Like a great ring of pure and endless light,
All calm, as it was bright;
And round beneath it, Time in hours, days, years,
Driv’n by the spheres
Like a vast shadow mov’d; in which the world
And all her train were hurl’d.
The doting lover in his quaintest strain
Did there complain;
Near him, his lute, his fancy, and his flights,
Wit’s sour delights,
With gloves, and knots, the silly snares of pleasure,
Yet his dear treasure
All scatter’d lay, while he his eyes did pour
Upon a flow’r.
The darksome statesman hung with weights and woe,
Like a thick midnight-fog mov’d there so slow,
He did not stay, nor go;
Condemning thoughts (like sad eclipses) scowl
Upon his soul,
And clouds of crying witnesses without
Pursued him with one shout.
Yet digg’d the mole, and lest his ways be found,
Work’d under ground,
Where he did clutch his prey; but one did see
That policy;
Churches and altars fed him; perjuries
Were gnats and flies;
It rain’d about him blood and tears, but he
Drank them as free.
The fearful miser on a heap of rust
Sate pining all his life there, did scarce trust
His own hands with the dust,
Yet would not place one piece above, but lives
In fear of thieves;
Thousands there were as frantic as himself,
And hugg’d each one his pelf;
The downright epicure plac’d heav’n in sense,
And scorn’d pretence,
While others, slipp’d into a wide excess,
Said little less;
The weaker sort slight, trivial wares enslave,
Who think them brave;
And poor despised Truth sate counting by
Their victory.
Yet some, who all this while did weep and sing,
And sing, and weep, soar’d up into the ring;
But most would use no wing.
O fools (said I) thus to prefer dark night
Before true light,
To live in grots and caves, and hate the day
Because it shews the way,
The way, which from this dead and dark abode
Leads up to God,
A way where you might tread the sun, and be
More bright than he.
But as I did their madness so discuss
One whisper’d thus,
“This ring the Bridegroom did for none provide,
But for his bride.”
