Showing posts with label Puerto Rico. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Puerto Rico. Show all posts

Saturday, September 17, 2022

Sunday, September 17, 1922. Separations.

The Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania declared its autocephalous nature at the conclusion of a conference.   That status would be recognized by the Patriarch of Constantinople in 1937.

Metropolitan Visarion Xhuvani, the head of the Albanian Orthodox Church during its unrecognized autocephalous stage.

Today there are seventeen autocephalous, i.e., self-governing, Orthodox Churches, with the most recent one to be granted that status being the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.  The topic can be a bit controversial in a larger Apostolic Christian sense, as the Catholic Church, which is also comprised of self-governing churches, and which by far makes up the largest body of Christians on Earth, does not recognize the theological claim of the Orthodox Churches that occupant of the Chair of St. Peter is the head of all the Apostolic Christian churches.  For its part, Orthodoxy recognizes the legitimacy of the Chair of St. Peter, but holds its occupant to be the "First among Equals".  The Catholic Church recognizes the legitimacy of the Orthodox Churches, but disputes its position on that point.

Orthodox Churches that obtain autocephalous status must do so through the Patriarch of Constantinople, who is the head of the "Mother Church".

The Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico formed through the union of a number of similarly minded parties.  Its goal was and remains independence for Puerto Rico.

Flag of the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico.

The viability of Puerto Rico as a potential independent state is increasingly questionable.  It would always have been a small country, but the territory has become increasingly economically distressed.  Finding a legitimate reason for it not to obtain statehood, however, is also increasingly difficult to do.

The Kansas City Speedway held its first race.

The USGS guys were out again.







This photograph below is interesting.  It's the first one I can recall of a man wearing a t-shirt as outerwear.



Thursday, August 22, 2019

It was a bad day for the Motor Transport Convoy. . .

August 22, 1919.
Nothing was going right.

And the water had to be hauled in by horse.

Elsewhere, the U.S. Army was travelling by horse:



In other localities, things were more tranquil.

San Juan, Puerto Rico, August 22, 1919.

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Thursday, January 30, 1919. Like a bad penny. . .

he keeps turning up.



Pancho Villa, that is.  Back in the headlines again.

And while distiller were reported to take on the topic of the vote for the 18th Amendment in several states, coffee consumption was reported to be up, due to Prohibition, in Puerto Rico.

Monday, November 5, 2018

November 5, 1968. Election returns.

1.  From our companion blog, Today In Wyoming's History for November 5:

November 5



1968  Richard M. Nixon elected President of the United States.


Wyoming voted for Nixon, as it has for every Republican Presidential candidate after Lyndon Johnson.

1968  Republican John Wold elected as Congressman from Wyoming.  The Casper based oilman served one term as he gave up this seat to run unsuccessfully against incumbent Senator Gale McGee.

2. Shirley Chisholm of Brooklyn became the first African American woman elected to Congress, running on a Democratic ticket and defeating the heavily favored Liberal Party (but backed by the Republicans) candidate James L. Farmer, Jr.  In 1972 she ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic Party's Presidential nomination.

3.  Luis A. Ferre was elected Governor of Puerto Rico on a plat from seeking statehood.

Thursday, March 2, 2017

Puerto Ricans granted U.S. Citizenship, March 2, 1917.

The Jones-Shafroth Act was signed into law in this day in 1917, changing the relationship between Puerto Rico and the United States.

 Flamingo Bay, Puerto Rico, 1914

For one thing, Puerto Ricans born after April 25, 1898 were granted U.S. citizenship, although they had the option of rejecting it.  Of 1.2 million residents on the island only 288 rejected citizenship.

The act also established a governmental system that closely mirrored those of the states, with a legislative, executive and judicial branch.

By bizarre coincidence, passage of the act made male Puerto Ricans liable for U.S. military service upon conscription just as the US was about to enter World War One.