1661
Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king’s musketeers.
1666
Great Fire of London ends: 10,000 buildings including St. Paul’s Cathedral are destroyed, but only 6 people are known to have died.
1698
In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry.
1774
First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1793
French Revolution the French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.
1877
Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
1914
World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
Fall of Nicolas Fouquet: Louis XIV Superintendent of Finances is arrested in Nantes by D'Artagnan, captain of the king’s musketeers.
1666
Great Fire of London ends: 10,000 buildings including St. Paul’s Cathedral are destroyed, but only 6 people are known to have died.
1698
In an effort to Westernize his nobility, Tsar Peter I of Russia imposes a tax on beards for all men except the clergy and peasantry.
1774
First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1793
French Revolution the French National Convention initiates the Reign of Terror.
1877
Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.
1914
World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
1942
World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, first Japanese defeat in the Pacific War.
1945
Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.
1945
Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
1969
My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lt. William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
1972
Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called “Black September” attack and take hostage 11 Israel athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. 2 die in the attack and 9 die the following day.
1975
Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
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World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, first Japanese defeat in the Pacific War.
1945
Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War.
1945
Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese-American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist Tokyo Rose, is arrested in Yokohama.
1969
My Lai Massacre: U.S. Army Lt. William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai.
1972
Munich Massacre: A Palestinian terrorist group called “Black September” attack and take hostage 11 Israel athletes at the Munich Olympic Games. 2 die in the attack and 9 die the following day.
1975
Sacramento, California: Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford.
1977
Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
1984
STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
1984
STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
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Happy Reign of Terror Day!
"Democracy runs on equality; freedom and excellence run on inequality."--UATX president Carlos Carvalho
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A book by Isikoff and Corn suggests that the infamous relationship between former British spy Christopher Steele, Fusion GPS, and the FBI was forged not by Clinton but by Obama officials at the State Department in an opposition research program that included the compiling of an enemies list of Romney donors.
Zakaria did an hour on the Imperial Presidency without discussion of Lincoln, Wilson, Roosevelt, Truman, Johnson, or the Biden Regency. The problem was, generally, in the Reagan and Trump presidencies.
Certainly, power centralizing in the Presidency is a great worry, as it was to the Founders, but no one could take such a selective discussion seriously.
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"Democracy runs on equality; freedom and excellence run on inequality."--UATX president Carlos Carvalho
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A book by Isikoff and Corn suggests that the infamous relationship between former British spy Christopher Steele, Fusion GPS, and the FBI was forged not by Clinton but by Obama officials at the State Department in an opposition research program that included the compiling of an enemies list of Romney donors.
One can only surmise what that information was for.
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Zakaria did an hour on the Imperial Presidency without discussion of Lincoln, Wilson, Roosevelt, Truman, Johnson, or the Biden Regency. The problem was, generally, in the Reagan and Trump presidencies.
Certainly, power centralizing in the Presidency is a great worry, as it was to the Founders, but no one could take such a selective discussion seriously.
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SatStats
Low-income households spend 32% more on betting than high-income households.
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Revenue in the private security market rose 17% over the past decade to just over $50 billion in 2025, according to Robert H. Perry & Associates.
Nearly 1.3 million Americans worked as security guards in May 2025, an increase of around 16% from 2016, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
Nearly 1.3 million Americans worked as security guards in May 2025, an increase of around 16% from 2016, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
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Ty Cobb stole home 54 times.
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If we were to assume zero migration in the US, its population would peak soon and would shrink by 60 million by 2100. Compared to the scenario with migration, the US population would be 130 million smaller at the end of the century.
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A significant portion of the U.S. employees at the major labs are Chinese. In one survey of published AI researchers, 38 percent received their undergraduate education in China, and 72 percent of those are working in the U.S.
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Inflation at 2 percent means that the dollar loses half its value in 35 years, whereas inflation at 3 percent cuts that time frame to 24 years.
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85 percent of DSA members are white, and 80 percent of them have college degrees.
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From an article on single payer heath systems:
But over time the British and Canadian systems look worse and worse. The queues and rationing have increased, as giving healthcare away for free makes it hard to satisfy demands in a timely manner. In Canada, for instance, the median wait time has risen from 9.3 weeks in the early 1990s to 28.6 weeks today. In the British National Health Service, only 65.3 percent of patients start treatment within 18 weeks.
Worse yet, both of those systems are undercapitalized. In Britain, healthcare is badly understaffed and underfunded. Yet the country already has high taxes, high debt, and slow economic growth, so it is not clear where the new money will come from to recapitalize the system.
And then this sentence:
This entire dynamic will be intensified as the pace of medical innovation picks up.
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Half of Denmark's growth has been due to essentially one company
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