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Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Monday, November 27, 1944. Accidents.
The Battle of Peleliu finally ended in an American victory.
Detonation of explosives at the RAF Fauld underground munitions depot killed around 70 people in one the largest non nuclear explosions of all time.
The captured Norwegian ship Rigel was sunk by aircraft of the Royal Navy, resulting in the deaths of 2,571 people, mos tof whom were prisoners of war.
A mine sank the U-479 in the Gulf of Finland.
A V2 killed 157 people in Antwerp.
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Sunday, November 26, 1944. Covering up a crime against humanity.
Thanksgiving. Thursday, November 27, 1924.
It was Thanksgiving.
The Coolidge's went to church
The first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was held. It was billed the Macy's Christmas Parade.
Football games occured, reflecting a custom dating back to pre Reformation England.
Snake dance at C.U. vs. Geo. Wash. game, 11/27/24.
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Wednesday, November 26, 1924. Servitude in Mongolia.
Our Fearless Soon To Be President.
President Bone Spur has no vets in his family tree
King Henry V: What’s he that wishes so?My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin:If we are mark’d to die, we are enowTo do our country loss; and if to live,The fewer men, the greater share of honour.God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man more.By Jove, I am not covetous for gold,Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;It yearns me not if men my garments wear;Such outward things dwell not in my desires:But if it be a sin to covet honour,I am the most offending soul alive.No, faith, my coz, wish not a man from England:God’s peace! I would not lose so great an honourAs one man more, methinks, would share from meFor the best hope I have. O, do not wish one more!Rather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through my host,That he which hath no stomach to this fight,Let him depart; his passport shall be madeAnd crowns for convoy put into his purse:We would not die in that man’s companyThat fears his fellowship to die with us.This day is called the feast of Crispian:He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named,And rouse him at the name of Crispian.He that shall live this day, and see old age,Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,And say ‘To-morrow is Saint Crispian:’Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars.And say ‘These wounds I had on Crispin’s day.’Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,But he’ll remember with advantagesWhat feats he did that day: then shall our names.Familiar in his mouth as household wordsHarry the king, Bedford and Exeter,Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester,Be in their flowing cups freshly remember’d.This story shall the good man teach his son;And Crispin Crispian shall ne’er go by,From this day to the ending of the world,But we in it shall be remember’d;We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;For he to-day that sheds his blood with meShall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,This day shall gentle his condition:And gentlemen in England now a-bedShall think themselves accursed they were not here,And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaksThat fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.
Blog Mirror: Revitalizing the American Republic
A really shallow interview, in my opinion, but Dineen is one of the big figures in National Conservatism, so it's worth at least glancing at what he had to say:
Revitalizing the American Republic
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Seriously, blaming Canada?
What the crap?
How the DEA views it:
Doesn't seem like Canada is the problem. . . .
But then who pays attention to the facts anymore?
Call me skeptical, but. . .
if you come out after an author's death, as his "muse" with salacious details involving the prurient interests, and turn out to have lived many of the events attributed to characters in the novelist's stories, well, some measure of doubt seems warranted.
Sunday, November 26, 1944. Covering up a crime against humanity.
Himmler ordered the crematorium at Auschwitz destroyed to cover up the concentration camp's crime against humanity.
"American infantryman kneels in the rubble to draw a bead on a sniper in the burning building. Germany, 26 November, 1944."
2nd Battalion, 414th Infantry Regiment, 104th Infantry Division,
The U.S. Seventh Army captured Steige and Villé. T he 1st Army captured Weisweiler to the west of Cologne.
"This is all that is left of an American half track after a direct hit from a German shell. 26 November, 1944. 53rd Armored Infantry Battalion, 4th Armored Division."
The Red Army captured capture Michaloyce, Slovakia.
General Alexander was promoted to Field Marshal and appointed the Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean.
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Saturday, November 25, 1944. Heavy resistance on Leyte, V2 attack in London.
Labels: 1920, 1920s, 1940s, 1944, Armor, Army, baseball, Battle of Leyte, Dutch Army, Imperial Japanese Army, Italy, Rocketry, Russo Ukrainian War, Weapons, World War Two
Wednesday, November 26, 1924. Servitude in Mongolia.
The Mongolian People's Republic was proclaimed as a Communist state
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It was basically a Soviet puppet, and fell with the Soviet Union in 1992.
The World Child Welfare Charter was approved by the League of Nations.
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Tuesday, November 25, 1924. Radio station test, USS Los Angeles commissioned, Chaplin marries a second teenager.
Labels: 1920s, 1924, 1990s, 1995, actors and actresses, Lighter than air aircraft, Radio, Teenagers, U.S. Navy
Will reviews a book about Wilson.
In “Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn,” Cox, former congressman and former chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission, demonstrates that the 28th president was the nation’s nastiest. Without belaboring the point, Cox presents an Everest of evidence that Wilson’s progressivism smoothly melded with his authoritarianism and oceanic capacity for contempt
George F. Will, At last, Wilson’s reputation gets dismantling it deserves.
Monday, November 25, 2024
Thursday, November 25, 1909. B. B. Brooks declares Thanksgiving.
Today In Wyoming's History: November 25: 1909 Governor B. B. Brooks declared the day to be one of Thanksgiving and Praise.
The day was not yet an official U.S. holiday, although it was nearly universally observed.
The Post Insurrection. Part IX. The waiting upon justice edition.
March 15, 2024
March 19, 2024
Trump, who represents that his assets are vast, is not able to post a bond covering the full amount of a $454 million civil fraud judgment against him during appeal and has related the same in a filing in court. He's seeking not to have to post bond.
If the Court does not grant him relief, execution on the judgment could start immediately.
Cont:
Donald Trump is suing ABC News and George Stephanopoulos over comments made in the last This Week episode in the Nancy Mace interview.
April 25, 2024
As Trump sits in a New York courtroom on charges of election interference for paying porn figures not to reveal his dalliances with them, while a married man, a host of figures were indicted in Arizona for an attempt to seat false electors.
May 1, 2024
Trump was fined for violating a court "gag" order in a contempt of court ruling in his hush money trial. He was further warned that he may be jailed in a future contempt ruling, should this conduct repeat.
The same court is allowing him to appear at his son Barron's high school graduation, which apparently would be the first time that he would attend one of his children's high school graduations.
Elise Stefanik filed an ethics complaint against Trump prosecutor Jack Smith, in a move that itself lacks moral ethics. Stefanik should be ashamed, but the concept of shame is sadly lacking currently.
May 30, 2024
Trump was convicted on all 34 Counts in the New York election interference case.
The claims that it was a political prosecution and featured a rigged jury will start any second now.
June 6, 2024
The Georgia election interference case, which is one of the more significant ones, has been stayed while an appeal goes forward on whether prosecutor Willis may remain on the case, and so human foibles will end up causing this case not to be heard prior to the election, probably.
Willis should step aside to let t his matter go forward.
July 15, 2024
To the general amazement of the legal community, the classified documents case has been dismissed on the basis of the Special Prosecutor having been appointed in violation of the appointments act. The Special Prosecutor is going to appeal, but there's no way an appeal will be heard prior to the election.
This is frankly bizarre.
August 3, 2024
The criminal case against Donald Trump for trying to overturn the 2020 election shall resume. It's been stayed for 8 months pending the outcome of the Supreme Court opinion on immunity, which the Judge will now have to figure out how to apply.
August 28, 2024
A new amended indictment has been filed.
September 7, 2024
Not related to the insurrection, but to Trump's legal problems, his sentencing in the hush money case has been delayed until after the election.
Frankly, this makes no sense.
November 25, 2024
Special Counsel Jack Smith has requested that all charges against President-elect Trump be dropped in the Federal case.
The progress of official justice in this mater was horrifically slow, which in part is why we now have somebody as President Elect who should have stood trial well over a year ago.
And hence, as Justice shall not come, and the guilty shall go free, we conclude this trailing thread.
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The Post Insurrection. Part VIII. The tangled web edition.
Saturday, November 25, 1944. Heavy resistance on Leyte, V2 attack in London.
Two V-2 rockets hit London, resulting in 174 deaths in a rocketry terror attack.
Much like what the Russians are doing to Ukraine now.
Destroyed German Panthers in France, November 25, 1944. Contrary to the common myth, armor attrition in World War Two was horrific, just like it is today.
Japanese defenses arrested US progress on Leyte. Japanese resistance had been consistently very stiff.
The British crossed the Cosina River in Italy.
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Soldiers of a reconstituted Dutch Army training, November 25, 1944. They're armed with US M1917 Enfield rifles, and wearing US M1 helmets. Their uniforms suggest obsolescent patterns of the US Army.
Kenesaw Mountain Landis died at age 78. He was the first Commissioner of Baseball, having been appointed to that position in 1920, and still occupied it at the time of his death.
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Today in World War II History—November 24, 1939 & 1944 (Friday November 24, 1944). Terrace Mutiny,
Tuesday, November 25, 1924. Radio station test, USS Los Angeles commissioned, Chaplin marries a second teenager.
US radio stations stood silent between 10:00 and 11:00, EST, for international broadcasting tests. Radio broadcasts from the UK, France and Spain were heard as far west as the American Midwest.
The USS Los Angeles was commissioned.
Lita Grey (Lillita Louise MacMurray), actress, age 16, married Charlie Chaplin, age 35. She was pregnant. Grey was his second wife, and it was the second time he's married a teenager, Mildred Harris of Cheyenne Wyoming being 17 when they wed following a pregnancy scare.
Had the couple not married, Chaplin faced the possibility of being arrested for statutory rape.
They would have two children during their troubled marriage.
She'd go on to have three more marriages before dying in 1995 at the age of 87.
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Monday, November 24, 1924. Australopithecus africanus
Wednesday, November 25, 1874. Joe Gans
He died of tuberculosis at age 35 on August 10, 1910. His tombstone reads:
I was born in the city of Baltimore in the year 1874, and it might be well to state at this time that my right name is Joseph Gant, not Gans. However, when I became an object of newspaper publicity, some reporter made a mistake and my name appeared as Joe Gans, and as Joe Gans it remained ever since.
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Tuesday, November 24, 1874. Barbed Wire Patented.
Sunday, November 24, 2024
Today in World War II History—November 24, 1939 & 1944 (Friday November 24, 1944). Terrace Mutiny,
Usually I post this separately, but there are so many significant items in Sarah Sundin's blog this Sunday, I'm incorporating it into my post.
Today in World War II History—November 24, 1939 & 1944: 80 Years Ago—Nov. 24, 1944: US B-29 Superfortress bombers bomb Tokyo for the first time. Japanese capture Nanning, completing a land corridor between occupied China and Indochina. In controversial decision, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower orders the 6th Army Group not to cross the Rhine but to drive north and assist Patton’s Third Army. In Terrace, BC, Canadian conscripts (many are French-Canadian) mutiny when they hear they might be sent overseas, the largest mutiny in Canadian history; put down by 11/29; news of the mutiny is censored. France establishes Commission de Récupération Artistique (CRA) to return looted artwork, with curator Rose Valland as secretary.
Wow.
The Terrace Mutiny, which is what the mutiny was called, reflected the internal discord in Canada over conscription, something that has largely been glossed over after the war. English Canadians were disproportionately represented amongst those who volunteered for service and volunteered to go overseas. French Canadians were disproportionally amongst those who did not. Those who volunteered termed those who did not "Zombies" and often harassed them. Ultimately, the needs of war could not sustain the system.
The 3d Army crossed the Saar.
Soviets completing their occupation of Saaremo in the Baltic.
The HMCS Sawinigan was sunk by the U-1228 in the Cabot Strait.
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Thursday, November 23, 1944. Thanksgiving Day.
Monday, November 24, 1924. Australopithecus africanus
The first remains of an Australopithecus africanus were found in a quarry in South Africa. The skull was that of a child, perhaps five or six years of age, who was killed by a bird of prey.
The anti Japanese Korean independence organization, and military government the Righteous Government (정의부) organized in West Jiandao, Korea.
Duan Qirui (Tuan Ch'i-jui) was installed by General Feng Yuxiang as the acting President of the Republic of China.
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Friday, November 21, 1924. Florence Harding passes.
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