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Red Cloud's War
Post Date: 2010-05-14 09:15:36 by A K A Stone
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Red Cloud's War (also referred to as the Bozeman War or the Powder River War) was an armed conflict between the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho and the United States in the Wyoming and the Montana territories from 1866 to 1868. The war was fought over control of the Powder River Country in north central Wyoming. European Americans had built the Bozeman Trail through it, which was a primary route to the Montana gold fields. The trail was used by an increasing number of miners, emigrant settlers and others, who competed with the Cheyenne and Lakota for resources and encroached on their traditional territory. The United States named the war after Red Cloud, a prominent Oglala ...
Nov 11, 2005: GM VEERS OFF ROAD: Automaker is ripe for bankruptcy
Post Date: 2010-04-27 18:44:51 by Brian S
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General Motors Corp. is unraveling -- fast. Its stock price plunged to a 13-year low Thursday after the latest in a string of financial problems dismayed shareholders once again. Wall Street experts say the unthinkable is more likely than ever before: Michigan's largest company could be bought by a corporate raider like Las Vegas billionaire Kirk Kerkorian, forced to file for bankruptcy, or both. Getting GM out of bankruptcy could require the same drastic cost-cutting that is racking Delphi, its largest parts supplier. Lower wages, less generous benefits and fewer jobs would not only be devastating for the automaker's 142,000 U.S. employees. It would hurt everyone who makes ...
The Truth About 19th Century Western Saloon Gambling
Post Date: 2010-04-06 22:13:31 by Coral Snake
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The Truth About 19th Century Western Saloon Gambling By Marshal M.T. Hotherp In looking at your old movies and TV shows about my time I find that your century sees saloon gambling as one continuous poker game played to the background music of a honky tonk piano until the shootin’ starts. The truth about Saloon Gambling in the 19th Century however is quite different from what those movies show however. In our day Saloons were pretty much like the casino gambling palaces of today offering several games of chance revolving around playing cards, dice, and wheels of fortune. In most places even more complex games like roulette had to be played in the wheel of fortune format because most ...
President Ronald Reagan Was Shot 29 Years Ago Today
Post Date: 2010-03-30 20:01:55 by Brian S
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Twenty-nine years ago today, President Ronald Reagan was shot in the chest by a deranged man, John Hinckley Jr. Reagan was walking out of the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., on March 30, 1981, when Hinckley, standing among a group of reporters, began firing at the president and others in his group. One of the six shots collapsed Reagan’s lung. White House Press Secretary James Brady was shot in the head, while Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy and D.C. Police Officer Thomas Delahanty were also shot. Reagan, 70, was able to walk into the hospital under his own power and resumed some of his duties the following day after surgery. Reagan’s popularity skyrocketed ...
The Revolutionary Years Resolution of the Continental Congress Adopting the Continental Army, 14 June 1775.
Post Date: 2010-03-10 23:20:22 by A K A Stone
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The resolutions being read, were adopted as follows: Resolved, That six companies of expert rifflemen, be immediately raised in Pensylvania, two in Maryland, and two in Virginia; that each company consist of a captain, three lieutenants, four serjeants, four corporals, a drummer or trumpeter, and sixty-eight privates. That each company, as soon as compleated, shall march and join the army near Boston, to be there employed as light infantry, under the command of the chief Officer in that army. That the pay of the Officers and privates be as follows, viz. a captain @ 20 dollars per month; a lieutenant 13 1/3 dollars; a serjeant @ 8 dollars; a corporal @a 7 1/3 dollars; drummer or ...
RICHARD DOBBS SPAIGHT
Post Date: 2010-03-10 23:15:31 by A K A Stone
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Pastel, attributed to James Sharples, Sr. (c. 1798-1800); Independence National Historical Park. Throughout his short life Richard Dobbs Spaight, who represented North Carolina in the Constitutional Convention, exhibited a marked devotion to the ideals heralded by the Revolution. The nephew of a Royal governor, possessed of all the advantages that accompanied such rank and political access, Spaight nevertheless fought for the political and economic rights of his fellow citizens, first on the battlefield against the forces of an authoritarian Parliament and later in state and national legislatures against those who he felt sought excessive government control over the lives of the people. ...
President Coolidge, 1st Presidential Film (1924)
Post Date: 2010-02-20 21:21:35 by A K A Stone
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The Way America Used to Look
Post Date: 2010-02-01 09:03:09 by sneakypete
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The Li'l Sammy Alito HIstory Lesson 'o The Day [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-01-30 14:07:30 by war
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The following is provided free of charge for Supreme Court ASSociate Justices who are a tad clueless about US election laws... The Tillman Act (1907) Roosevelt used his Presidential stature to influence public opinion and to persuade Congress. The NPLA and other grassroots organizations also pushed for reform. The result of their efforts was the enactment of the Tillman Act of 1907. The act specifically prohibited direct contributions from corporations and businesses to political parties and election committees. It was the first law on the books to specifically address campaign funding on the federal level.
The Unknown Martin Luther King, Jr.
Post Date: 2010-01-16 17:03:54 by 3-Dee
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The Unknown Martin Luther King, Jr. King was hardly the greatest American. by Benjamin J. Ryan Forty years after his death, the popularity of Martin Luther King remains extraordinary. He is perhaps the single most praised person in American history, and millions adore him as a hero and almost a saint. The federal government has made space available on the Mall in Washington for a national monument for King, not far from Lincoln’s. Only four men in American history have national monuments: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt; and now King will make five. King is the only American who enjoys the nation’s highest honor of having a national holiday on his birthday. ...
Banned Just About Everywhere
Post Date: 2010-01-04 23:13:26 by A K A Stone
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From time to time, me and the Head Nigga in Charge sit around and look for nigger-related material on the Internet. We just eat this stuff up because: (a) It’s there, and (b) it is a part of American culture regardless of whether people want to ignore it and pretend like it isn’t there. Anyway, you’re smart people and you get the point. We know there will be those who think we are doing this out of spite or scorn or whatever. It’s just not true. We just want to hold up in front of America what this place REALLY is about and not what all this revisionism is trying to convince people what America is. The bottom line is that racism is a falsehood, because there really ...
Likely Tomb of Ancient Chinese General Found
Post Date: 2009-12-28 19:40:45 by sneakypete
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Chinese archaeologists have found what could be the tomb of Cao Cao, a skillful general and ruler in the 3rd century who was later depicted in popular folklore as the archetypal cunning politician. Archaeological officials say Cao's 8,000-square-foot tomb complex, with a 130-foot passage leading to an underground chamber, was found in Xigaoxue, a village near the ancient capital of Anyang in central Henan province, according to the official China Daily newspaper. Historians say Cao Cao's outstanding military and political talents enabled him to build the strongest and most prosperous state in northern China during the Three Kingdoms period in 208 to 280 A.D., when China had three ...
Firewood Christmas
Post Date: 2009-12-18 12:41:37 by Joe Snuffy
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Subject: Christmas Firewood At times in our life, we may play all of these different roles... Christmas Firewood Pa never had much compassion for the lazy or those who squandered their means and then never had enough for the necessities. But for those who were genuinely in need, his heart was as big as all outdoors. It was from him that I learned the greatest joy in life comes from giving, not from receiving. It was Christmas Eve 1881. I was fifteen years old and feeling like the world had caved in on me because there just hadn't been enough money to buy me the rifle that I'd wanted for Christmas. We did the chores early that night for some reason. I just figured Pa wanted a ...
You people are sick! Conservatives my ass...I, for one, am tired of taking orders from cokeheads...!
Post Date: 2009-12-10 16:43:28 by Liberator
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“Well, by God, if you people insist on electing another cokehead as President, you damned well better throw open all the prison cell doors and free every man, woman, and child you’re holding on drug charges. And if you’re gonna elect another drug felon as President, you’d better rescind each and every one of your unconstitutional drug laws now on the books, including all of your unconstitutional search and seizure laws, and your asset forfeiture laws, and your laws that enable your unconstitutional snooping into our bank accounts and cash transactions. Well, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. You people are sick! Conservatives my ass. You people are nothing but ...
Historical Deceptions: Operation Keelhaul
Post Date: 2009-09-05 09:28:02 by A K A Stone
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OPERATION KEELHAUL The prime source for this US-led travesty is Julius Epstein’s Operation Keelhaul The Story of Forced Repatriation (Devin-Adair, 1973). Julius Epstein was one of the prime researchers for the belated Congressional investigation of the State Department’s cover-up of Russian involvement in the Katyn Forest murders. While searching through military archives during his investigation, he discovered evidence of a top secret program of forced repatriation, called Operation Keelhaul, which is still classified to this day. Obviously the US has some very dirty secrets they still want hidden. Although the US signed international agreements opposing forced repatriation, and ...
Abraham Lincoln Speech on the Dred Scott Decision
Post Date: 2008-07-08 09:32:25 by A K A Stone
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FELLOW CITIZENS:—I am here to-night, partly by the invitation of some of you, and partly by my own inclination. Two weeks ago Judge Douglas spoke here on the several subjects of Kansas, the Dred Scott decision, and Utah. I listened to the speech at the time, and have read the report of it since. It was intended to controvert opinions which I think just, and to assail (politically, not personally,) those men who, in common with me, entertain those opinions. For this reason I wished then, and still wish, to make some answer to it, which I now take the opportunity of doing.
I begin with Utah. If it prove to be true, as is probable, that the people of Utah are in open rebellion to the United ...
Will Monster Insects Rule the World? (Dec, 1930)
Post Date: 2007-11-13 21:23:18 by A K A Stone
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Archaeologist uncovers Scriptures' famed wall
Post Date: 2007-11-11 08:57:36 by A K A Stone
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Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may want to see Israel wiped off the map and its Jews sent to Europe or Alaska, but an archaeological discovery announced this week marks an event recorded in the Bible when his country – Persia, at the time – literally helped put the Jewish people back on the map in their capital city of Jerusalem. Dr. Eilat Mazar, one of Israel's top archaeologists, ended her presentation Wednesday to the 13th Annual Conference of the Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies on "New Studies on Jerusalem," with a surprise announcement. She had discovered remnants of the fifth century B.C. wall built by Nehemiah, the account recorded in ...
Archeologists find ancient tunnel used by Jews to escape Roman conquest of Jerusalem
Post Date: 2007-09-09 18:46:13 by A K A Stone
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JERUSALEM: Israeli archeologists on Sunday said they've stumbled upon the site of one of the great dramatic scenes of the Roman sacking of Jerusalem 2,000 years ago: the subterranean drainage channel Jews used to escape from the city's Roman conquerors. The ancient tunnel was dug beneath what would become the main road of Jerusalem in the days of the second biblical Temple, which the Romans destroyed in the year 70, the dig's directors, archaeology Professor Ronny Reich of the University of Haifa and Eli Shukron of the Israel Antiquities Authority, told a news conference. The channel was buried beneath the rubble of the sacking, and the parts that have been exposed since it ...
Thomas Newcomen (1663 - 1729)
Post Date: 2007-03-22 14:07:29 by A K A Stone
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Newcomen was an ironmonger by profession, but made a significant contribution to the Industrial Revolution with his invention of the atmospheric steam engine. Thomas Newcomen was born in Dartmouth, Devon in 1663 and established himself as an ironmonger in his home town. Some of his biggest customers were Cornish tin mine owners, who faced considerable difficulties with flooding as mines became progressively deeper. The standard methods to remove the water - manual pumping or teams of horses hauling buckets on a rope - were slow and expensive, and they sought an alternative. Contemporary engines worked by using condensed steam to make a vacuum, but whereas Thomas Savery's pump of 1698 ...
Leonidas the Spartan
Post Date: 2007-03-10 13:22:20 by A K A Stone
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There are heroes, and there are super-heroes, just as there are warriors, and super-warriors. These elite of the elite hold a place in history in the Hall of the Immortals, bridging the gap between mortal man and superman, between mortal man and the Gods. Some seem to change the course of history almost single-handedly; while for others it may be a display of courage, poised between myth and destiny, of which legends are made. One such legend, which remains a model of heroism for White people everywhere, was the great battle at Thermopylae, which took place in the year 480 BC. The man of the hour was Leonidas of Sparta, a selfless warrior-hero, a strategist king and fearless commander. ...
A Nation Without a History
Post Date: 2007-01-03 00:12:47 by A K A Stone
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It is a common refrain that India lacks any history. Although the antiquity of the civilization is well-known, there are no pyramids nor ancient stone temples to speak of nor any stone walls with inscribed hieroglyphics. Who then were these people? Were they a nameless, faceless mass of population or were they living, breathing, caring individuals with distinct personalities and aspirations? Did they have names and did they name the cities they lived in? Is there any way to know if they left us nothing? The attempts to decipher the true history of India have been too few and too often undertaken under unfavorable conditions. The ancient Indians themselves often freely conflated their ideas ...
THE LAND AND PEOPLE OF BALUCHISTAN
Post Date: 2007-01-03 00:08:12 by A K A Stone
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In spite of the intrinsic hostility of its landscape and climate, archaeological discoveries have confirmed that Baluchistan was already inhabited in the Stone Age, and the important neolithic site at Mehrgarh is the earliest (7000-3000 B.C.) on the subcontinent. Until its overthrow by Alexander the Great, Baluchistan was part of the Persian Empire, whose records refer to it as "Maka". In 325 B.C. Alexander led part of his army back from his Indus campaign to Babylon across the Makran Desert at the cost of terrible suffering and high casualties. Thereafter Baluchistan lay for centuries on the shadowy borderlands of the Zoroastrian rulers of Iran and the local Buddhist and Hindu ...
Remembering American Wars: 'Politically Correct' Myths of Military Service
Post Date: 2006-12-27 09:00:01 by continental op
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M uch of what Americans believe about the causes of war, national conflicts, and wartime casualties, is shaped by popular myths. The entertainment industry, mass media and mass-market publishers feed Americans a continual psychosomatic diet of fictionalized propaganda by directors such as Steven Spielberg and Oliver Stone that regularly passes as fact. Americans have been a profoundly a historical and anti-intellectual people with a deep distrust of those who remember anything more than what was on television, on the movie screen or a sports score. Yet, we continue to have an abiding conviction that we are the chosen people of the modern age and everybody wants to be just like us. The ...
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