Sunday, January 25, 1925. Careless storage.

Tutankhamun's tomb was reopened only to discovery that the pall covering the sarcophagus had been ruined due careless storage.

The Wyoming Freedom Caucus, um oops, the Norwegian Fedrelandslaget, a right-wing political organization, was founded in Norway.  It was in decline in the 1930s, after Norwegian left wing parties abandoned their far left positions.  Quisling banned the organization after the invasion of Norway by the Germans as radical organizations hate other radical organizations.

There are lessons in all of this . . .

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Sunday, January 24, 1925. Solar Eclipse

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Friday, February 16, 1923. Bessie Smith sings the blues.

Blues great Bessie Smith was in the studio.

Smith was a musical giant in her day, but was buried in an unmarked grave when she died due to injuries from an automobile accident in 1937.  In 1970s ,that was addressed and a new tombstone was erected.

The inner chamber of the Tomb of Tutankhamun was opened by Howard Carter's archeological party.

The Conference of Ambassadors of the Allied Powers, which did not include the US, as the US had gone into international hiding on the basis that ignoring the world makes you safe from it, approved the transfer of Memel to Lithuania.  We dealt with this previously and the nature of this oddly disputed small Baltic territory.

Italy ratified the Washington Naval Treaty and the Treaty of Santa Margherita, the latter of which settled a territorial dispute with Yugoslavia,