Lex Anteinternet: Concentration camps

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Monday, July 13, 2015

Tuesday, July 13, 1915. Internment.

The Castle Mountain Internment Camp for Canadian enemy aliens was established in Banff National Park, Canada.

The Central Powers renewed their Eastern Front offensive and pushed the Russians back to the Bug.

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Sunday, July 11, 1915. Garza enters Mexico City. Revolutionary ambush in Brownsville.

Labels: Battle of Rufiji Delta, Constitutionalist Army, German East Africa, German Kriegsmarine, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Mexico City, Plan of San Diego, police, Royal Navy, Sedicionistas, Texas, Texas (Brownsville)

Thursday, May 24, 2001

Friday, May 24, 1901. British concentration camps.

British social activist Emily Hobhouse returned from a trip to South Africa with photographic proof the British were keeping Boers of all ages and genders in concentration camps where they were suffering horrific depravations.

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Tuesday, May 21, 1901. Speed Limit.

Labels: 1900s, 1901, Automobiles, Connecticut, law, Transportation

Wednesday, January 24, 2001

Thursday, January 24, 1901. King of Ireland.

Edward VII was proclaimed King of Ireland.

I should have known, but did not, that coronations for Ireland were separate. I simply assumed that the coronation was for the entire United Kingdom.

Emily Hobhouse arrived at Bloemfontein concentration camp to report on conditions. A sample of her writing:

They went to sleep without any provision having been made for them and without anything to eat or to drink. I saw crowds of them along railway lines in bitterly cold weather, in pouring rain–hungry, sick, dying and dead. Soap was not dispensed. The water supply was inadequate. No bedstead or mattress was procurable. Fuel was scarce and had to be collected from the green bushes on the opes of the kopjes (small hills) by the people themselves. The rations were extremely meagre and when, as I frequently experienced, the actual quantity dispensed fell short of the amount prescribed, it simply meant famine.

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Wednesday, January 23, 1901. Russia's Day of Shame.

Labels: 1900s, 1901, 2010s, 2020s, 2026, Banking and finance, Canada, Civil Unrest, Economics, Imperial Russian Army, Russia, Russia (St. Petersburg), The Madness of King Donald

Friday, November 17, 2000

Saturday, November 17, 1900. British barbarity in the Transvaal.

Field Marshal Kitchener announced a plan that would result in Boer concentration camps in the Transvaal., following a policy of rural depopulation first explored by the Spanish in Cuba.

The campbs would end up housing 111,619 white and 43,780 black citizens residents of the Transvaal. They'd feature a 34% death rate.

Dr. Ernest Reynolds discovered the cause of an outbreak of alcoholic neuritis in the United Kingdom. It was traced to a manufacturer of contaminated glucose used in the brewing process, and then to impure sulfuric acid used in processing the glucose. Seventy people died as a result, 36 of those people in Manchester.

The U.S. Navy completed tests on 12 inch naval guns.

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Friday, November 16, 1900. The lynching of Preston Porder.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Advertising, Alcohol, Colorado, Colorado (Limon), Crime, Racism

Thomas More, counsellor of law and statesman of integrity, merry martyr and most human of saints: Pray that, for the glory of God and in the pursuit of His justice, I may be trustworthy with confidences, keen in study, accurate in analysis, correct in conclusion, able in argument, loyal to clients, honest with all, courteous to adversaries, ever attentive to conscience. Sit with me at my desk and listen with me to my clients’ tales. Read with me in my library and stand always beside me so that today I shall not, to win a point, lose my soul. Pray that my family may find in me what yours found in you: friendship and courage, cheerfulness and charity, diligence in duties, counsel in adversity, patience in pain—their good servant, and God’s first. Amen

"Be at peace. Do not look forward in fear to the changes of life; rather look to them with full hope as they arise. God, whose very own you are, will deliver you from out of them. He has kept you hitherto, and He will lead you safely through all things; and when you cannot stand it, God will bury you in his arms. Do not fear what may happen tomorrow; the same everlasting Father who cares for you today will take care of you then and every day. He will either shield you from suffering, or give you unfailing strength to bear it. Be at peace, and put aside all anxious thoughts and imagination." St. Francis de Sales

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This blog has been around since 2009. In the very first post, we asked the question: "What the heck is this blog about?"

Our answer to the question was: "The intent of this blog is to try to explore and learn a few things about the practice of law prior to the current era. That is, prior to the internet, prior to easy roads, and the like. How did it work, how regional was it, how did lawyers perceive their roles, and how were they perceived?"

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