On this day:
1862
The Battle of Yorktown begins as Union gen. George B. McClellan closes in on Richmond, Va.
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On this day:
1862
The Battle of Yorktown begins as Union gen. George B. McClellan closes in on Richmond, Va.
On this day:
1917
The U.S. Senate votes 90-6 to enter World War I on Allied side.
Idk. It's a conspiracy theory book, but it's immaculately sourced. It shaped how I look at things, but I still don't know what to make of it all. Your post made me think about it because the Lusitania was the catalyst, and there's some interesting circumstantial in the Jekyll Island book that I can't ignore. JP Morgan influence I think it was to publish an advertisement warning about not going aboard as well as funding for the munitions shipment aboard the Lusitania. It gets the cogs turning, but make of it what you will.
Wasn't sure where to put this, but here seems about right.
I visited the dachau concentration camp yesterday. It is just outside Munich and was the first Nazi concentration camp.... Everything else that followed was modeled in some way on dachau
It was pretty interesting how it started as a place for political prisoners and gradually began to accommodate undesirables of varying descriptions before becoming the horror that it ended up.
Is that "Work Makes you Free" on the door as they worked the prisoners to death.
This is a cool story, a real life situation that paralleled the fictional career of the WW2 tank "Fury." In this case it was a WW1 British tank named "Fray Bentos" (essentially a British brand of canned beef, like Spam in a way) in 1917
These were some tough SOB's on both sides in that War. Good Lord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcbY9YMqg3k
Happy Trafalgar Day, everyone! I always have a top-notch British beer every October 21st, and this year is no exception!
Wild celebrations in the UK tonight
....... actually dread appears to be celebrating more than the entire UK