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Latest Articles: Historical
Lincoln Starts a War [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2016-11-23 15:24:59 by nolu chan
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Lincoln Starts a War by nolu chan October 9, 2009 There can be no doubt that Lincoln waited for the Senate to adjourn and began a war as soon as it was out of session. He did not call them back into session until July 4, 1861 when the war was a fait accompli. He then delivered a message to the special session of congress where he lied his ass off. Within 8 days of taking office, orders of March 12, 1861 issued from the Lincoln administration to reinforce Fort Pickens and thereby violate the armistice that was in effect. These orders to Army Captain Vogdes were delayed until after the Senate adjourned on March 28, 1861 and then delivered by USS Crusader on March 31, 1861. Capt. Vogdes ...
World's oldest marijuana stash: Two pounds of still-green weed found in a 2,700-year-old Gobi Desert grave
Post Date: 2016-09-29 13:05:36 by Hondo68
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David Potter / Oxford University Press Stash for the afterlife: A photograph of a stash of cannabis found in the 2,700-year-old grave of a man in the Gobi Desert. Scientists are unsure if the marijuana was grown for more spiritual or medical purposes, but it's evident that the man was buried with a lot of it. Nearly two pounds of still-green plant material found in a 2,700-year-old grave in the Gobi Desert has just been identified as the world's oldest marijuana stash, according to a paper in the latest issue of the Journal of Experimental Botany. A barrage of tests proves the marijuana possessed potent psychoactive properties and casts doubt on the theory that the ...
'Wyatt Earp' star Hugh O'Brian dies at 91
Post Date: 2016-09-06 07:49:01 by Willie Green
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Actor died peacefully in his Beverly Hills home (CNN) - Actor Hugh O'Brian, best known for his portrayal of the title role in the 1950's TV Western "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp," has died. He was 91.Javi LaFianza, President and CEO the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership (HOBY), confirmed his death. "It's impossible to put a number on the amount of lives Hugh has touched -- but we can certainly say anyone who participated in HOBY, including all 470,000 of our alumni, tens of thousands of volunteers, and many staff are better people because of him," a statement from the group reads.O'Brian remained active in the foundation until as recently as July, ...
War Crimes of Imperial Japan: A Lesson In Moral Equivalence for Mr. Obama
Post Date: 2016-05-28 08:52:09 by cranky
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President Obama made a single, vague reference to “evil” during his prepared remarks in Hiroshima: “We may not be able to eliminate man’s capacity to do evil, so nations and the alliances that we form must possess the means to defend ourselves. But among those nations like my own that hold nuclear stockpiles, we must have the courage to escape the logic of fear and pursue a world without them.” He spoke at length about the horrors experienced by the populace of Hiroshima: We stand here in the middle of this city and force ourselves to imagine the moment the bomb fell. We force ourselves to feel the dread of children confused by what they see. We listen to a silent ...
How Churchill nearly lost WW2: In a version of history many will find hard to stomach, how our greatest hero - fuelled by alcohol and self-doubt - refused to sign up to D-Day... until forced to by the US President [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2016-05-22 09:06:09 by cranky
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Historian Nigel Hamilton pieced together a very different picture from the unreservedly heroic that one that Churchill had portrayedThat is the story of how he covered the traces of his repeated attempts in 1943 to abandon Allied plans for D-Day Instead he argued the Allies ought to invade Italy and then exploit the huge gap in the Adriatic and the Balkans to attack the Third ReichIn the nicest yet firmest way President Roosevelt categorically 'expressed disagreement of Italian invasion beyond the seizure of Sicily and Sardinia' It was to be the turning point of the war: victory, rather than disaster, would now be the order of the day. At Casablanca in 1943, President Franklin D. ...
Libertarianism Makes You Stupid [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2016-05-20 21:27:21 by Gatlin
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Libertarianism Makes You StupidSeth Finkelstein What is Libertarianism? - a critic's view People who venture into electronic discussion areas will invariable encounter an ideology called Libertarianism. In fact, it is said Libertarianism (pro, con, and internal faction fights) is *the* primordial netnews discussion topic. Anytime the debate shifts somewhere else, it must eventually return to this fuel source. So what is this belief-set, and why is it so popular in certain subcultures? The following is an outsiders view of Libertarianism. From proponents, you might be told The Libertarian way is a logically consistent approach to politics based on the moral principle of ...
The Founding Fathers and the Right to Life (Donald Trump is right, Cruz is wrong and is not pro life)
Post Date: 2016-03-31 23:06:16 by A K A Stone
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Permission Granted The Declaration of Independence draws a very clear line between sanity and insanity by proclaiming the existence of certain self-evident truths that all rational men should recognize: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” A self-evident truth is, by definition, evident to anyone who is sane. Persons who do not accept that all human beings are endowed with an inalienable right to life—for example, the 82 percent of Americans who think abortion should be legal—are, by this ...
A Secret Detroit Warehouse is Home to the Rarest American Cars Ever Made
Post Date: 2016-03-20 12:12:41 by Justified
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Getting to the Detroit Historical Society’s reserve collection almost sounds like the beginning of a sci-fi conspiracy novel. I am given directions to a remote storage facility that I’m asked to keep secret. Their nondescript front office hides a door to a vast warehouse where footsteps echo past visible light. It’s filled with rows of machines sealed away in their own plastic pods, each with a layer of dust that makes it feel like a forgotten secrets. Scared? Nope. I’m too excited about being let into the world of these treasures. Occasionally stories about this place come out because it’s home to a few priceless prototypes, but it turns out there are a lot more ...
The Lone Ranger's Creed
Post Date: 2016-03-12 21:15:54 by U don't know me
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The Lone Ranger's Creed "I believe that to have a friend, a man must be one. That all men are created equal and that everyone has within himself the power to make this a better world. That God put the firewood there but that every man must gather and light it himself. In being prepared physically, mentally, and morally to fight when necessary for that which is right. That a man should make the most of what equipment he has. That 'This government, of the people, by the people and for the people' shall live always. That men should live by the rule of what is best for the greatest number. That sooner or later... somewhere...somehow... we must settle with the world and ...
{History May Shed Light On The Current Run For POTUS}
Post Date: 2016-02-27 19:42:46 by SOSO
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Adolf Hitler's Views and Opinions of Democracy Adolf HitlerAdolf Hitler was born in Austria in 1889 and, as a teen, lived a poor life in Vienna. He served as a lance corporal for the Bavarian military during the first World War, and received two Iron Crosses for bravery. After the war Hitler breathed life into the German Worker's Party, renamed it the National Socialist German Worker's Party, and in 1920 released the 25-Point program, a list of Party demands. In 1923 Hitler and the Nazi Party attempted to take over the Bavarian government by force. Hitler was arrested and imprisoned; he served only nine months of a five-year sentence and spent his free time writing Mein ...
Why The Left Doesn’t Want You To Know About The Tripolitan Pirate Wars
Post Date: 2016-02-26 13:06:55 by nativist nationalist
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The great historian George Santayana is often quoted as saying, Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. One of the greatest weapons in the arsenal of the social justice warriors is the revision of history. This is nothing new: every totalitarian or tyrannical regime has used the revision of history as a means to control its population. Like the confiscation of arms, tyranny is always preceded by a rewriting of history. ...
History of Japan
Post Date: 2016-02-08 08:44:21 by Willie Green
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Son of Hercules vs. Hydra: Altar Showing Mythical Battle Discovered
Post Date: 2015-12-28 22:02:26 by cranky
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This marble altar, dating to the second century A.D., was discovered near the Akçay River in Turkey. It shows a nude warrior battling a serpent monster. An inscription written in Greek is at top.An ancient marble altar showing a nude warrior battling a serpent monster has been discovered by villagers near the Akçay River in Turkey. Archaeologists said the altar likely dates to the second century A.D., a time when the Roman Empire controlled the area. The carved scene on the altar is difficult to interpret, archaeologists said. They think it may show a son of Hercules, named Bargasos, fighting a monster in a battle that would bring forth a beneficial river god named ...
Mel Gibson, braveheart, and today.
Post Date: 2015-12-08 22:53:13 by rlk
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I recently watched Mel Gibson in Braveheart for the upteenth time. Gibson has reformed his career into producing, directing, and acting in historical decumentaries. Braveheart won five academy awards. For those who are unfamilier with the film, it concerns the period when Longshanks was king of England and was oppressing the Scots. Gibson plays the part of William Wallace who led a successful rebellian against Longshanks and the British but eventually paid with his life. I've purchased two loaners of the movie to distribute among receptive friends. I believe what this country desperatewly needs at the present time is a william Wallace to confront the elitists and the politicians.
Chain email about the Barbary pirates and Islam
Post Date: 2015-12-06 07:44:51 by Stoner
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Chain email about the Barbary pirates and Islam This is the full text of the chain email received by PolitiFact about the Barbary pirates and Islam. *** Most Americans are unaware of the fact that over two hundred years ago, the United States had declared war on Islam, and Thomas Jefferson led the charge! At the height of the eighteenth century, Muslim pirates were the terror of the Mediterranean and a large area of the North Atlantic. They attacked every ship in sight, and held the crews for exorbitant ransoms. Those taken hostage were subjected to barbaric treatment and wrote heart breaking letters home, begging their government and family members to pay whatever their Mohammedan ...
Annotated 'Mein Kampf' goes on sale in Germany next month
Post Date: 2015-12-01 11:36:21 by Willie Green
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For the first time since World War II, Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" will be printed in Germany in January as an annotated edition, the institute publishing it said Tuesday.The autobiographical text will return to the public domain at the start of the year and hit bookshops between January 8 and 11, said Andreas Wirsching, director of the Institute of Contemporary History (IFZ) in Munich.The book, which adds context to the Nazi dictator's hateful rant with some 3,500 annotations, will be published in two volumes totalling 1,948 pages and sold at 59 euros ($62), said Wirsching, who has been working on the project since 2009.The first run of "Hitler, Mein Kampf. A ...
The Statue of Liberty Was Originally a Muslim Woman
Post Date: 2015-11-27 10:16:11 by Willie Green
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"The New Colossus" was actually born in Egypt The United States has debated immigration since the country's founding, and the Statue of Liberty—a potent symbol for immigrants—is often invoked as an argument for why we should usher in those who seek safety and opportunity with open arms. A little-known fact about Lady Liberty adds an intriguing twist to today's debate about refugees from the Muslim world: As pointed out by The Daily Beast’s Michael Daly in a recent op-ed, the statue itself was originally intended to represent a female Egyptian peasant as a Colossus of Rhodes for the Industrial Age. ...
Princeton May Drop 'Racist' US President's Name
Post Date: 2015-11-20 16:01:37 by Willie Green
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Students are also demanding the college institute a diversity training programme and "cultural affinity" space on campus. Woodrow Wilson led the US during World War I Renowned Ivy League university Princeton is considering expunging the name of former US President Woodrow Wilson after student demonstrators called him a racist. The New Jersey college says it signed an agreement late on Thursday with two other college officials and 17 students. The deal follows a two-day sit-in outside the office of Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber.It is the latest in a number of protests over treatment of minority students to sweep US college campuses. Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School ...
Japanese-American Internment {Is history about to repeat itself?}
Post Date: 2015-11-19 15:59:20 by SOSO
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Japanese-American Internment Many Americans worried that citizens of Japanese ancestry would act as spies or saboteurs for the Japanese government. Fear — not evidence — drove the U.S. to place over 127,000 Japanese-Americans in concentration camps for the duration of WWII.Over 127,000 United States citizens were imprisoned during World War II. Their crime? Being of Japanese ancestry. Despite the lack of any concrete evidence, Japanese Americans were suspected of remaining loyal to their ancestral land. Anti-Japanese paranoia increased because of a large Japanese presence on the West Coast. In the event of a Japanese invasion of the American mainland, Japanese Americans were ...
Russia’s Pacific Paradise (The period Czarist Russia ruled Hawaii)
Post Date: 2015-10-15 12:03:32 by Pericles
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Russia’s Pacific Paradise In 1815, a German, on behalf of the Russian-American Company, tried to conquer Hawaii in the name of the Tsar. By Casey Michel October 15, 2015 In mid-October 1815, two hundred years ago this month, a German doctor set sail from one of Russia’s fledgling American outposts. Georg Anton Schäffer, an employee of the Russian-American Company (RAC) boarded the Isabella with the ostensible purpose of earning the favor of the Hawaii’s King Kamehameha. But when he landed on Hawaii, Schäffer set the wheels in motion for a chapter of failed Pacific conquest since smothered in archives, forgotten by all but a handful of scholars. The tale of ...
On the Question of Free Trade by Frederick Engels
Post Date: 2015-08-16 23:03:13 by A K A Stone
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On the Question of Free Trade Preface by Frederick Engels for the 1888 English edition pamphlet
TOWARDS the end of 1847, a Free Trade Congress was held at Brussels. It as a strategic move in the Free Trade campaign then carried on by the English manufacturers. Victorious at home, by the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846, they now invaded the continent in order to demand, in return for the free admission of continental corn into England, the free admission of English manufactured goods to the continental markets.
At this Congress, Marx inscribed himself on the list of speakers; but, as might have been expected, things were not so managed that before his turn came on, the Congress was ...
An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people
Post Date: 2015-07-30 00:04:46 by SOSO
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An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people (Quotation) Quotation: "An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people." Variations: None known. Sources consulted: 1.Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Digital Edition 2.Retirement Papers 3.Thomas Jefferson: Papers and Biographies Collections, Hathi Trust Digital Library Earliest known appearance in print: No known appearances in print. Other attributions: None known. Status: This quotation has not been found in any of the writings of Thomas Jefferson. Comments: This quotation seems to have originated in an article of the same title on PicktheBusiness.com.1 It is an ...
1970s Coca Cola Commercial - "It's the Real Thing!" (sang by 'The Fortunes')
Post Date: 2015-07-27 13:10:38 by Liberator
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If you were of age, you've got to remember this: Poster Comment:Time for a 30-second commercial break and nostalgia. I'd searched a long time to find this jingle from Coke, sung by 'The Fortunes (who also sang, 'Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again', 'You've Got Your Troubles, I've Got Mine'.) Always thought their 'It's The Real Thing' was a great, cheery up-tempo catchy jingle. It seemed as though many of the 1960s and early 1970s jingles were indeed cherry and up-tempo, mini-hit singles unto themselves with memorable hooks. Those commercial jingles of old can be just as memory-evoking and sentimental as hit songs. The Fortunes' ...
Morton Downey Jr - Atheists
Post Date: 2015-07-27 00:21:51 by A K A Stone
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Are you a religion? No. Then you have no freedom.
The Confederate Flag Needs To Be Raised, Not Lowered [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2015-07-10 23:10:37 by Hondo68
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In 1864, Confederate General Patrick Cleburne warned his fellow southerners of the historical consequences should the South lose their war for independence. He was truly a prophet. He said if the South lost, “It means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy. That our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the war; will be impressed by all of the influences of History and Education to regard our gallant dead as traitors and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision.” No truer words were ever spoken.History revisionists flooded America’s public schools with Northern ...
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