Tag: history
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The New Greatest Generation of Americans
As I usually do I browse through the you-tube news clips first thing in the morning, mainly Fox. Today I watched Laura Ingraham with one guest and in my feed three more of his cohorts were on another show. So I watched both of them. I am not afraid to admit I was in tears…
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A Decision To Make
This morning I finished my leisure reading. It has taken me since sometime in January to finish this book. Eve took less than two weeks because I couldn’t stay away… it was a new book for me. However, this book I just finished felt like a new book since it had been a long time…
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The Cruise Ship… Sinking
I find it fascinating that the year I was born some intriguing historical events happened. Including when I was about 5 months old Robert Ballard had used some amazing technology and found actual wreckage of the Titanic. Talk about big news and it was something I was yet to know until I began learning about…
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The RMS Titanic
There are so many facets to my education of the Titanic in different fashions during my thirty some years. One of the early manifestations of learning about this ship wreck was a movie we watched up at the Alsman house. I specifically remember watching my Uncle Tony make one of my brilliant birthday cakes while…
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The Last of an Era
Our recruitment numbers are eviscerating and show that the American idea of exceptionalism seems to have disappeared. The military brass have been attempting to gaslight Americans using minority groups that don’t love this country to say they do and make it look like they are showing a slight effort to encourage recruitment. Well it’s not…
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Proclamations
The Emancipation Proclamation, is the most well known, I believe, of proclamations. This was important for Lincoln to do so although many believed it did nothing to actually save the slaves of America. It was simply a parchment paper with words. Yet look at the staggering numbers that say otherwise. I have been to the…
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Stories Fueling Fears
History is made up of people making intriguing decisions during good and bad moments in time. Sometimes you have limited time to think before making a decision. It’s also like that old game of telephone you start out with one person being told a message and by the time it gets through to just a…
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The Ides of March
Julius Caesar, The Emperor of Rome Sometimes I don’t know what photos on this platform are accurate versions for Julius Caesar. All I know is this looks like it’s from the same time period. Maybe it could be Mark Antony if not Caesar or perhaps Gaius or Brutus although they would not have the crown…
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Creatively Blocked?
Do you ever feel creatively blocked, musically, artistically in whatever medium you work in? Sometimes it’s ironic how I can feel the piano keys better than I can writing during the same day. Or I can write up a storm, but I just don’t have the want to hold a needle that day. I find…
Jewells of Thought 