One Man and History

We often hear about how I’m only one person, what can I do?  As it turns out, a lot if history has anything to say about it. A young man, wanting freedom for his country went about to gain that freedom.  However, his actions would shape an entire century for better or worse. He was […]
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A Musing About the Past

Well, watching videos on speakers of all types and a thought came to my mind while watching a college leftist ask a question to Dinesh D’Souza. The student asked, why should we care what the democratic party had done in the past?  Referring to the fact it was the democratic party which upheld slavery, opposed […]
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Vetting Immigrants

Vetting it not as big a deal as the left would have you believe.  In fact, one can trace such things back as a logical step when allowing immigrants into a country. Back in the late 1800s we used the word quarantine instead of vetting because the threat was different.  But a threat did exist […]
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Chernobyl

Its been 30 years that the Chernobyl incident happened. In the early morning of April 26, 1986 the Chernobyl technicians were undertaking a drill when everything went wrong and the number four reactor exploded. The Soviet Union would remain quiet until pressured after Swedish nuclear workers had problems getting into work. Today the area is still contaminated […]
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This Day in History

December 17 is actually an important day in history.  Know what it is? The first real, successful flight of a powered heavier than air aircraft.  The Wright brothers day where they tested their flying machine which would become known as planes, aircraft, airplanes, ufos, etc. Its truly amazing how far the science of flying has […]
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World History

On this day, one hundred years ago, the first shot of World War 1 was fired by the Austro-Hungarian military as it prepared to invade against Serbia over the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie.  This simple action led to a disastrous chain of catastrophic events plunging the world into total war. With militarism, […]
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Happy 4 of July

A day marking the United States of America independence when the Second Continental Congress approved the wording of the revision o f the Declaration of Independence.   The first vote too place two days earlier and John Adams wrote this: The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of […]
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