Saturday, October 27, 2018
Friday, October 26, 2018
The man who presaged Trumpism,
Pat Buchanan: The U.S. is now two countries and two peoples, and our political system will not hold us together
On this day in 1966,
U.S.S. Oriskany Fire in Gulf of Tonkin Kills 43
Our immigrant neighbor’s only child, adopted, died in the fire
Oriskany now an artificial reef off Pensacola
58,000 American boys killed in Vietnam
Thursday, October 25, 2018
On this day in 1854,
The Charge of the Light Brigade
A mistake in communications leads to slaughter
Some one had blunder'd:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do & die,
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
On this day in 1648,
Thirty Year War Ends
Pope's Secular Power Broken
Origin of modern nation-states
Monday, October 22, 2018
On this day in 1962,
President Kennedy Goes On National TV and Announces Russian Missiles In Cuba and Blockade of Cuba
“Without question, it was the most perilous moment of the Cold War, and, one could argue further, the most dangerous moment in the history of mankind.” - Larry Sabato.
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