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November 2016

November 23, 2016

The Pilgrims’ Pride

Here are a few pro-pilgrim and pro-Thanksgiving posts from blogging past. I love the pilgrims...

November 11, 2016

An eerie recording from Armistice Day

In 1918, the British were using recordings and the recorded signals were recorded on film....

October 2016

October 30, 2016

The Martians are coming!

Or so they said on October 30, 1938. Everyone knows the story of Orson Welles...

October 25, 2016

It’s Saint Crispin’s Day

Which means most are remembering that famous moment at the equally famous battle of Agincourt,...

October 20, 2016

The Crusades

Few periods in history have been boiled down to a bumper sticker level of knowledge...

October 19, 2016

An important date in history

Today marked the end of the siege of Yorktown and the surrender of Cornwallis to...

October 15, 2016

The Cleveland “Indians”

Oh no, the poor Indians. After so many years in the slump, Cleveland has a...

October 14, 2016

It was 950 years ago today

One of the most decisive days in human history. The event that changed the course...

September 2016

September 02, 2016

Georgetown University to give preferential treatment based on genealogy

Read it here. I get it. Slavery was bad. It's a blight on our...

August 2016

August 31, 2016

My boys watch Nazi Propaganda

American Style: We watched this with our youngest while back, and my older boys -...

August 25, 2016

A wonderful quote from George Washington

Always worth looking back to those who have been through it before. Keeps things...

August 16, 2016

History here and there

In America we spend an inordinate amount of time beating the crap out of ourselves...

August 13, 2016

A reminder

Donald McClarey posted a fun, quick snippet reminding us that our little American experiment was supposed...

August 09, 2016

In the spirit of the Games

A little piece here reminding us of the rather non-Christian elements of the Olympics then...

July 2016

July 27, 2016

Stand at the back of the line

So the buzz is about a Black Lives Matter organizer caught telling white people to move...

July 21, 2016

I date I will always remember

The anniversary of our first moon landing. I never remembered the day until seven years...