On this day:
597 BC
Babylonians captured Jerusalem, replaced Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king.
37
Caligula became Roman Emperor after the death of his great uncle, Tiberius.
1244
Over 200 Cathars are burned after the Fall of Montségur
1521
Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines.
1621
Samoset, a Mohegan, visited the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, “Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset.”
1861
Edward Clark became Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who has been evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy.
1865
American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
1912
Lawrence Oates, an ill member of Robert Falcon Scott’s South Pole expedition, left the tent to die, saying: “I am just going outside and may be some time.”
1935
Adolf Hitler ordered Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Versailles Treaty. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
1945
Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers. 5,000 are killed.
1945
World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ended, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persisted.
1968
Vietnam War: In the My Lai massacre, between 350 and 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) are killed by American troops.
1988
Halabja poison gas attack: The Kurdish town of Halabjah in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5000 people and injuring about 10000 people.
1995
Mississippi formally ratified the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment is officially ratified in 1865.
"The point to remember is that what the government gives, it must first take away."--John S. Coleman, address to the Detroit Chamber of Commerce
Is capitalism failing most Americans? Median hourly wages (for men and women), annual earnings (for men and women), and family and household incomes are at all-time highs.
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Edward Clark became Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who has been evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy.
1865
American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
1912
Lawrence Oates, an ill member of Robert Falcon Scott’s South Pole expedition, left the tent to die, saying: “I am just going outside and may be some time.”
1935
Adolf Hitler ordered Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Versailles Treaty. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
1945
Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers. 5,000 are killed.
1945
World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ended, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persisted.
1968
Vietnam War: In the My Lai massacre, between 350 and 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) are killed by American troops.
1988
Halabja poison gas attack: The Kurdish town of Halabjah in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5000 people and injuring about 10000 people.
1995
Mississippi formally ratified the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment is officially ratified in 1865.
"The point to remember is that what the government gives, it must first take away."--John S. Coleman, address to the Detroit Chamber of Commerce
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After Columbus, the English came late to settle America with their successful colony at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607. But traders and explorers sailed the coast. In 1524, the Florentine seaman and explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano mapped the entire eastern seaboard of North America and provided the first map of the region later known as New England.
The Mayflower landed off the coast of modern-day Massachusetts in November 1620. They were supposed to have landed in Virginia and were unprepared for the harsh New England winter, and with so many of them sick, building the settlement progressed slowly.
Samoset was the Abenaki Native American who first approached the English settlers of Plymouth Colony in friendship, introducing them to natives Squanto and Massasoit, who would help save and sustain the colony.
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After Columbus, the English came late to settle America with their successful colony at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607. But traders and explorers sailed the coast. In 1524, the Florentine seaman and explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano mapped the entire eastern seaboard of North America and provided the first map of the region later known as New England.
The Mayflower landed off the coast of modern-day Massachusetts in November 1620. They were supposed to have landed in Virginia and were unprepared for the harsh New England winter, and with so many of them sick, building the settlement progressed slowly.
Samoset was the Abenaki Native American who first approached the English settlers of Plymouth Colony in friendship, introducing them to natives Squanto and Massasoit, who would help save and sustain the colony.
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Is capitalism failing most Americans? Median hourly wages (for men and women), annual earnings (for men and women), and family and household incomes are at all-time highs.
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Cuba looks to be waking up. The Americans never forgave them for the Missile Crisis. Israel is devastating Lebanon with cluster bombs. Russia is getting resistance in the southeast.
Of 16,000 strikes in Iran, 9,000 have been Israeli.
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The Other 51%
From the swamps to the savannah to the modern world, competition has driven advances, with its failures. The creation of a sense of place and its defense, first as individuals, then gangs, then clans, then larger. The common thread has been war, on some scale.
Reading about this Darwinism applied genetically, one usually thinks of males either in combat or in combat's more subtle forms of integrity, place, and achievement.
The evolution of males from hunter/defender to farmer, then corporate--trying to establish himself and his future with periodic forays into combat--might be understandable as a sliding analog development, as physical Darwinism becomes more social. These thoughts and images always seem to be one-sided, male-dominated generalizations. But what about women? It always seems as if the contributor of 50% of the genetic future is just along for the combative ride.
From the swamps to the savannah to the modern world, competition has driven advances, with its failures. The creation of a sense of place and its defense, first as individuals, then gangs, then clans, then larger. The common thread has been war, on some scale.
Reading about this Darwinism applied genetically, one usually thinks of males either in combat or in combat's more subtle forms of integrity, place, and achievement.
The evolution of males from hunter/defender to farmer, then corporate--trying to establish himself and his future with periodic forays into combat--might be understandable as a sliding analog development, as physical Darwinism becomes more social. These thoughts and images always seem to be one-sided, male-dominated generalizations. But what about women? It always seems as if the contributor of 50% of the genetic future is just along for the combative ride.
Does the female bring the same edgy competition to the selective process and the future? What is her competitive advantage on the savannah, and how is it recognized, encouraged, and advanced?
And when she arrives in the modern world of glass and towers, will the same male rewards of success, power, and influence that he brought from the savannah reward her? Does her law degree tickle some atavistic site in her analog slide into modernity?
Or has she always taken independent, unsupported steps into each new future? Has she always been a wide-eyed captive in every new world?
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