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Friday, August 1, 2025
Friday, August 1, 1975. The Helsinki Accords.
The Helsinki Accords were signed by the leaders of 35 nations in Finland, including the 15 member states of NATO and the 7 Warsaw Pact nations.
The text: The Helsinki Accords.
The Satellite Instructional Television Experiment commenced in India. It brought television for the first time to 2,500 villages in six Indian states and territories.
"KNM ER 3733", a woman of the species Homo ergaster, assuming that's a distinct from homo erectus, which it probably is not, was discovered by Bernard Ngeneo. She'd passed away 1,750,000 prior.
The Republic of Cabinda declared independence, ineffectively.
Friday, April 4, 2025
What Americans Can Learn As Europe Prepares For War Civil preparation pamphlets are being distributed in case of war with Russia. They offer an interesting glimpse into post-Cold War prepping.
While the Mango Mussolini shows his business ineptitude, Europe is preparing for war. . . and the shooting kind. . .
What Americans Can Learn As Europe Prepares For War
Civil preparation pamphlets are being distributed in case of war with Russia. They offer an interesting glimpse into post-Cold War prepping.
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Monday, April 2, 1725. Birth of Giacomo Girolamo Casanova
Better known simply by his last name, Casanova remains famous for his sexual exploits and libertine lifestyle.
He was born in the Republic of Venice and died in 1798 in Bohemia, then part of the Holy Roman Empire. Late in life he wrote his memoirs, which is why he is remembered today. A lawyer by training, he was mostly a seducer in society and a gambler, and was working as a librarian at the time of his death. Given his behavior, he is thought to have fathered several children, including a child by one of his own illegitimate daughters.
Interestingly, his final words were "I have lived as a philosopher and I die as a Christian", perhaps showing a late in life conversion back to Catholicism.
I wasn't going to post this anniversary at all, but decided to do so as Casanova was illustrative of the lack of morals in European high society of his day. He serves as an illustration of how gross and disgusting behavior in the age of Musk, Trump, Weinstein, Hefner, Cosby and Epstein isn't something wholly new to our own age.
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