The British enact the Titles Deprivation Act of 1917, November 8, 1917.

 King George V.

The ludicrous nature of  titles of nobility in the modern era proved impossible for the British to ignore any longer, resulting in the Titles Deprivation Act of 1917.

Titles Deprivation Act 1917
1917 CHAPTER 47

An Act to deprive Enemy Peers and Princes of British Dignities and Titles.

[8th November 1917]

Be it enactedby the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :
1Forfeiture o£ title of peer or prince held by enemy.

(1)His Majesty may appoint a committee of His Privy Council, of which two members at least shall be members of the Judicial Committee, to enquire into and report the names of any persons enjoying any dignity or title as a peer or British prince who have, during the present war, borne arms against His Majesty or His Allies, or who have adhered to His Majesty's enemies.

(2)The Committee shall have power to take evidence on oath and to administer an oath for the purpose, and may, if they think fit, act upon any evidence given either orally or by affidavit based on information and belief, the grounds of which are stated.

(3)Such report shall be laid upon the table of both Houses of Parliament for the space of forty days, and, if by that time there has not been passed in either House a motion disapproving of the report, it shall be taken as final and presented to His Majesty.

(4)Where the name of any peer or prince is included in the report, then from and after the date of the presentation of the report to His Majesty—

(a)The name of such person, if he be a peer, shall be struck out of the Peerage Roll, and all rights of such peer to receive a writ of summons and to sit in the House of Lords or to take part in the election of representative peers shall cease and determine :

(b)All privileges and all rights to any dignity or title, whether in respect of a peerage or under any Royal Warrant or Letters Patent, shall cease and determine.
Power of successor to petition for restoration of peerage.

2It shall be lawful for the successor of any peer whose name has been so removed, to present a petition to His Majesty praying to have the peerage restored and his name placed on the Peerage Roll; and His Majesty may refer such petition to a committee of the Privy Council constituted as aforesaid; and should the committee be satisfied that such person has incurred no disability under this Act, and is well affected to His Majesty's Person and Government, His Majesty may thereupon direct that the peerage be restored and the name of the petitioner be placed on the Peerage Roll; whereupon all rights and privileges of the holder of the peerage shall revive and be in force as if the name of the peer had never been removed from the Roll.
3Savings

(1)Nothing in this Act shall affect the title or succession of any person to any estates or other property.

(2)The powers conferred upon His Majesty by this Act shall be in addition to, and not in derogation of, any other powers of His Majesty.
4Short title and definition

(1)This Act may be cited as the Titles Deprivation Act, 1917.

(2)In this Act the expression " enemy " shall be construed as referring to the enemies of His Majesty in the present war, an4, for the purposes of this Act, a person shall be deemed to have adhered to His Majesty's enemies if since the commencement of the present war he has voluntarily resided in an enemy country or if he has served in the enemy forces or in any way rendered assistance to the enemy.

Nothing, of course, would solve the embarrassing fact that the crowned heads of the warring states included quite a few cousins.

King George V depicted in Punch sweeping away his German titles.

I thought so . . .

when I read of this guys criminal history:

The Texas Church Shooter Should Have Been Legally Barred From Owning Guns

The Air Force says a mistake allowed Devin Patrick Kelley to buy guns. On Sunday Kelley opened fire on a small church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.

The former airman had an assault-style rifle and two handguns — all purchased by him, according to federal officials — when he shot and killed 26 people.

* * *

"Initial information indicates that Kelley's domestic violence offense was not entered into the National Criminal Information Center database by the Holloman Air Force Base Office of Special Investigations," said Air Force spokesperson Ann Stefanek in an email.

Top Air Force brass have ordered a complete review of the case.

A little late that.

Criminal law is a funny thing in this country.  We make illegal an incredible  number of things and then. . . we don't enforce them.  Later, we're surprised when things go wrong.  In the meantime, we let an incredible number of people who are seriously disturbed wonder about in the belief that this is being kind to miserable people who would be miserable under any set of circumstances.

When our advancements delete us.

The Bank of Ireland is planning to cut more than 1,000 jobs as the banking group (it's more than one bank) comes to the end of a project to overhaul its technology systems, according to the Irish Times.

It'd be hard to view technology as your friend if you are one of the 1,000.

The Good Shepherd

 The real James Angleton.

Disappointing.

I recently saw this film on television after repeatedly trying to catch it, having caught the very first part of it sometime prior.

This movie deals with remarkably similar content to the HBO miniseries The Company, which is really good   That is, it follows an individual in the CIA throughout his career in critical parts of the 1950s and 1960s.  Indeed, the character played by Matt Damon is a highly fictionalized version of James Angleton (and other early CIA figures) and he is a character, played by Michael Keaton, in The Company.  Unfortunately, unlike Keaton's excellent performance, Damon's falls flat here.

Indeed, as Damon is a good actor, we're really left wondering what exactly went wrong. The film starts out in an interesting enough way early in World War Two, grossly departing from the real story of Angleton, to say the least, but after the early university scenes it just becomes an odd combination of violent, odd, and boring.  The central character joins the OSS, but unlike the real OSS and various British agencies, this enterprises is deadly even against its own members.  This carries on to the post war CIA. Throughout it all, Matt Damon sort of slogs through scene after scene like an automaton, unlike Keaton's portrayal of Angleton which is mesmerizing.

This film was directed by Robert DiNiro, who has a bit role in it.  Based on this, I'd have to say that while DiNiro is a great actor, his talents don't translate to directing.

I'd skip this one entirely.

Blog Mirror: Victims of Communism Centennial Commemoration

A fitting recollection:

Victims of Communism Centennial Commemoration

Truth • Justice • Memory

November 7 - 9, 2017

Washington, DC

On a cold night in Petrograd, one hundred years ago, a small group of Red Guards seized the Winter Palace and installed the world's first communist government. The Bolshevik Revolution marked the beginning of a century in which adherents to communist ideology committed some of the worst and most widespread atrocities known to history. This November, we will gather to honor the memory of the more than 100 million victims of communism, to celebrate liberty where it has triumphed, and to further our pursuit of a world free from communism.

Today is truly the anniversary of one of the blackest days in the 20th Century. . . the beginning of a revolution that would bring mass murder to vast regions of the globe in the name of what is basically an absurd social theory. And yet, even now, that absurdist view of the world retains its adherents.

Red is an appropriate color for it indeed.

Officers of the 86th Division and part of 92nd Division, Camp Grant, Illinois. November 7, 1917.

First Naval District, The Cadet School, Nov. 7, 1917 (Harvard University)

Setting the clock back

If I am to discuss what is wrong, one of the first things that are wrong is this: the deep and silent modern assumption that past things have become impossible. There is one metaphor of which the moderns are very fond; they are always saying, "You can't put the clock back." The simple and obvious answer is "You can." A clock, being a piece of human construction, can be restored by the human finger to any figure or hour. In the same way society, being a piece of human construction, can be reconstructed upon any plan that has ever existed.

G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong With The World

The Lighthorsemen

Recently I noted the centennial of the Battle of Beersheba.  Shortly after that, I started re-reading the history of that battle in Anglesey's multi volume A History Of The British Cavalry and was struck by how accurate this film was.  It's then when I noted that I'd never reviewed it.

It's great.

This 1987 Australian move presents the story of a collection of actual Australian (and one English) figures in the context of the War In The Desert and, more particularly, the events leading up to the 4th and 12th Lighthorse's mounted charge at Beersheba.  While a film, and therefore a drama by its very nature, the film is remarkably accurate in all of its significant details making it a true rarity in films of this type.

The film culminates, of course, in the charge itself. That could hardly fail to be highly dramatic and the movie at least matches our expectations in these regards, if not grossly exceeding them. 

That addresses, of course, the historical details, but we'd note that in material details this movie is equally as good.  Uniforms, equipment, etc., are all correct.

Indeed this movie is so good that it may legitimately contend for the being the best movie set in World War One.  It's far better than most, and perhaps only Lawrence of Arabia, which of course is set in World War One but which is oddly not considered by many to be a film about the Great War, is better.

The October Revolution Commences, October 25, 1917 (Old Style Russian Calendar)

 The cruiser Aurora, which fired a signal shot during the October Revolution Petrograd action, to the extent there was any.

Yesterday I ran this item:

Lex Anteinternet: October 24, 1917. Lenin declares the Communists t...: Lenin and Trotsky sacrifice Russia to an alter of Marx while revolutionary soldiers and sailors look on in this Russian anti Bolshevik ca...

Today the revolution that Lenin argued should commence, did.  The Petrograd Soviet had of course planned the matter and action commenced early on this day in Petrograd when Red Guard took key positions in the city.  The city's garrison mostly joined the insurrection soon thereafter.  Holdout units in the Winter Palace eventually gave up or returned to their barracks. The entire matter, taking a little over a day, was largely bloodless.  Even the cruiser Aurora, whose sailors joined the uprising, only fired a single blank shot. 

The achievement was momentous indeed, but not the dramatic street fight depicted in later Soviet propaganda.

Not that the impact wasn't very real.  Kerensky proved unable to rally forces to his cause, the republican government collapsed, Russia went into civil war as it went out of World War One.

FATS DOMINO Blue Monday

Circulating. Will's observation on academic and popular historians.

George F. Will has reviewed, and strongly recommends, Chernow's new book on U. S. Grant.  I'll pick a copy of it up.

But that's now why I'm linking this in here.  No, rather, it's for this observation:

Chernow's large readership (and the successes of such non-academic historians as Rick Atkinson, Richard Brookhiser, David McCullough, Nathaniel Philbrick, Jon Meacham, Erik Larson and others) raises a question: Why are so many academic historians comparatively little read? Here is a hint from the menu of presentations at the 2017 meeting of the Organization of American Historians: The titles of 30 included some permutation of the word "circulation" (e.g., "Circulating/Constructing Heterosexuality," "Circulating Suicide as Social Criticism," "Circulating Tourism Imaginaries from Below"). Obscurantism enveloped in opacity is the academics' way of assigning themselves status as members of a closed clerisy indulging in linguistic fads. Princeton historian Sean Wilentz, who is impatient with academics who are vain about being unintelligible, confesses himself mystified by the "circulating" jargon. This speaks well of him.

Worth noting indeed.

Sigh. . . .

Taken a couple of months ago, I'll note, before the cold weather set in.

October 24, 1917 (Old Style Russian Calendar). Lenin declares the Communists to be in revolt against the Russian Provisional Government

Lenin and Trotsky sacrifice Russia to an alter of Marx while revolutionary soldiers and sailors look on in this Russian anti Bolshevik cartoon.

And the one of the worst events in history commenced, followed by the unleashing of forces hat can only be described as evil, whose repercussions are with us today.

First, Lenin's words, acting upon the Bolshevik Central Committee's decision the prior day that "an armed uprising is inevitable, and that the time for it is fully ripe."

I am writing these lines on the evening of the 24th.  The situation is critical in the extreme.  In fact it is now absolutely clear that to delay the uprising would be fatal.

With all my might I urge comrades to realize that everything now hangs by a thread; that we are confronted by problems which are not to be solved by conferences or congresses (even congresses of Soviets), but exclusively by peoples, by the masses, by the struggle of the armed people.

The bourgeois onslaught of the Kornilovites show that we must not wait.  We must at all costs, this very evening, this very night, arrest the government, having first disarmed the officer cadets, and so on.

We must not wait!  We may lose everything!

Who must take power?

That is not important at present.  Let the Revolutionary Military Committee do it, or "some other institution" which will declare that it will relinquish power only to the true representatives of the interests of the people, the interests of the army, the interests of the peasants, the interests of the starving.

All districts, all regiments, all forces must be mobilized at once and must immediately send their delegations to the Revolutionary Military Committee and to the Central Committee of the Bolsheviks with the insistent demand that under no circumstances should power be left in the hands of Kerensky and Co.... not under any circumstances; the matter must be decided without fail this very evening, or this very night.

History will not forgive revolutionaries for procrastinating when they could be victorious today (and they certainly will be victorious today), while they risk losing much tomorrow, in fact, the risk losing everything.

If we seize power today, we seize it not in opposition to the Soviets but on their behalf.
The seizure of power is the business of the uprising; its political purpose will become clear after the seizure....

...It would be an infinite crime on the part of the revolutionaries were they to let the chance slip, knowing that the salvation of the revolution, the offer of peace, the salvation of Petrograd, salvation from famine, the transfer of the land to the peasants depend upon them.

The government is tottering.  It must be given the death-blow at all costs.

The government at that point was the Russian Provisional Government, which had replaced the Imperial government and which was ruling, as a tottering democratic body, until a more perfect democratic one could be organized.  Democracy was new to Russia and the body was beset by extreme forces of all types.  Its' head, Karensky, was himself a Socialist and relatively radical and so the sometimes held concept the Communist minority (the Bolsheviks were a minority within a minority) were rebelling against the Czar or the Whites is erroneous.

 Red Guards at Vulkan factory in 1917.  Some of these men, as with many Red Guards early on, had only recently been in the Russian Imperial Army and perhaps the army of the Provisional government, which was basically disintegrating.  The Red Guards would form the first units to fight for the Communist in the Civil War, but Red reverses lead to the establishment of the Red Army in 1918 which was organized and lead by Leon Trotsky.

The Bolshevik coup that resulted set in motion un-imagined forces of destruction and murder and, like Communist revolutions ever after, that violence would not only be visited upon their opponents but also their allies.  In spite of Lenin's words that what replaced the existing Provisional Government didn't matter, to the Bolsheviks it very much did and in the end not only would non Communist become the victims of a Red Terror, but also other radical Socialists and Leftists of all stripes.  Violence in the name of a revolutionary cause was to be unparalleled until the Communists took control in China, where Mao managed to claim the title of bloodiest modern dictator.

 Lenin and Trotsky with soldiers of the Red Army.

In Russia, of course, the coup was far from unopposed and the country would descend into a bloody civil war which would drag on into a protracted doomed guerrilla war almost until the eve of the 1930s.  Poland, the Baltic States and Finland would leave Russia's grasp. The Ukraine attempted to but its geographic position and nature prevented that from occurring and it would be subjected to a horrific man made famine in the 1930s.  Poland would be invaded in the 1920s but threw the Soviets back, until the invasion was accomplished in league with Nazi Germany in 1939 and then completed in 1945. The Baltic States would see their independence go down due to World War Two as well although Baltic guerrillas would keep up a Quixotic effort until the late 1940s, as would some Ukrainians who attempted to use the vacuum of World War Two for the same purpose.  Only Finland would really remain free of the Communist grasp, of the former Russian Empire regions.

 Volunteer troops of one of the numerous anti Soviet Russian armies, not all of whose troops were volunteers by any means.  Poor coordination was a major factor in the defeat of the Whites who suffered greatly in that area in comparison to the Reds.  In spite of their lack of coordination, they very nearly won the Russian Civil War early on, even though they lacked any clear political goal other than defeat of the Reds.

Communism, of course, would ultimately fall.  The East Germans would attempt it first, oddly given the German role in the absolute horror of World War Two, staging a rebellion in the form of a civil insurrection in 1953, which met with Soviet armed reaction.

A Soviet T-34/85 tank in East Berlin, 17 June 1953. Bundesarchiv, B 145 Bild-F005191-0040 / CC-BY-SA 3.0

Hungary would follow in 1956, and Czechoslovakia in 1968.   But none of these efforts would prove to be successful.

Destroyed Soviet armor in Budapest, József körút a Corvin (Kisfaludy) köznél. Harcképtelenné tett ISU-152-es szovjet rohamlövegek, a háttérben egy T-34/85 harckocs CC BY-SA 3.0.  File:József körút a Corvin (Kisfaludy) köznél. Harcképtelenné tett ISU-152-es szovjet rohamlövegek, a háttérben egy T-34-85 harckocsi. Fortepan 24854.jpg

The first cracks in the Communist edifice occurred as early as Lenin's administration when he was forced to allow capitalism in the country on a limited basis, due to the abject failure of Communist socialism.  Stalin simply brutalized the country into economic progress, focusing on huge projects that at least were possible to organize and industrialization of what had been largely agricultural nation.  Following Stalin various Soviet leaders would attempt reforms, all of which were unknowingly and slowly headed towards liberalization.  It was Poland, however, which would set the end in motion by the legalization of Solidarity, a trade union that functioned as a political party.  Solidarity, representing Polish working men and basing its views on Catholic Social Teaching (Solidarity is a principal of Catholic Social Teaching) would force semi free elections in Poland in 1989 and the Soviets did not react.  The Czechs quickly followed with the Velvet Revolution.  The Russians themselves followed in 1991, which saw a last ditch hard core effort by the holdout Communist to once again stage a coup. That one failed.

Today only North Korea, and perhaps Laos, are left as true Communist states. A couple of other countries claim to be, but they've evolved so far beyond it that, whatever they are, they really aren't Communist. China and Vietnam provide examples of that.  Communism, while still a darling concept of Western left wing hipsters who don't know what it every stood for, is really dead.  But the evil it unleashed in the world continues on in numerous ways, both political and social.  That destructive force will be with us for years to come.

Go Donna! In a week of revelations, Donna Brazile exposes the Clinton Campaign.

 Donna Brazile, Chairman of the Democratic National Committe for the final portions of the 2016 race.  Photo by Ron Aira. Copyright holder Brazile & Associates LLC. - The uploader on Wikimedia Commons received this from the author/copyright holder.

One of the very real disappointments for me of this past election cycle was when Donna Brazile, whom I've always liked, replaced Debbie Wasserman Schultz, whom I've never liked, as head of the DNC.  That effectively made her a mouthpiece for the Clinton campaign and I just couldn't understand it.  Brazile always seemed to me to represent the old rational Democratic party that took a moderate/liberal view towards things, not a wackadoodle approach, and which had actual working people's interest at heart.  The Clinton campaign, in contrast, always seemed to be about power for the aging 1970s Boomer section of the Democratic Party that's holding on to power within it with cold dead skeletal hands.  So to hear Brazile act as an apologist for Clinton, well, it was just too much.  I lost respect for her.

Well, not much of that respect is back.

Lost in the mix of last weeks turbulent news cycle ist hat Brazile is out with her election postmortems, in the form of a book and an article, and its really a bombshell.  Far from defending Clinton, she goes after her in spades.  Political has an article in advance of her upcoming book entitled:

Inside Hillary Clinton’s Secret Takeover of the DNC

When I was asked to run the Democratic Party after the Russians hacked our emails, I stumbled onto a shocking truth about the Clinton campaign.

Wow, even the title is a shocker.

The article starts off:

Before I called Bernie Sanders, I lit a candle in my living room and put on some gospel music. I wanted to center myself for what I knew would be an emotional phone call.

What caused that level of emotion?

 Chair of the Democratic National Committee for part of the 2016 campaign, Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

Well here's a hint, slammer her predecessor Schultz:

Debbie was not a good manager. She hadn’t been very interested in controlling the party—she let Clinton’s headquarters in Brooklyn do as it desired so she didn’t have to inform the party officers how bad the situation was. How much control Brooklyn had and for how long was still something I had been trying to uncover for the last few weeks.

Everybody gets slammed from there. Wasserman Schultz is shown to have been disinterested and ineffective.  President Obama left the party financially broke. The Clinton campaign stepped in and bailed out the debts, but took over everything.  Brazille relates:

Right around the time of the convention, the leaked emails revealed Hillary’s campaign was grabbing money from the state parties for its own purposes, leaving the states with very little to support down-ballot races. A Politico story published on May 2, 2016, described the big fund-raising vehicle she had launched through the states the summer before, quoting a vow she had made to rebuild “the party from the ground up … when our state parties are strong, we win. That’s what will happen.”

But it goes further than there:

The agreement—signed by Amy Dacey, the former CEO of the DNC, and Robby Mook with a copy to Marc Elias—specified that in exchange for raising money and investing in the DNC, Hillary would control the party’s finances, strategy, and all the money raised. Her campaign had the right of refusal of who would be the party communications director, and it would make final decisions on all the other staff. The DNC also was required to consult with the campaign about all other staffing, budgeting, data, analytics, and mailings.

I had been wondering why it was that I couldn’t write a press release without passing it by Brooklyn. Well, here was the answer.

 Basically Brazille has accused the Clinton campaign of operating to purchase the DNC during the 2016 campaign.  This isn't illegal, but Brazile feels it was unethical. And it confirms suspicions that existed during the campaign and which emails pirated by the Russians suggested.

Clinton had taken over the party before she was the nominee.  People who accused the Party of all but being a Clinton organization before the rank and file had made up its mind about who was to be its candidate were right.

So then, why is anyone still listening to Hillary Clinton now?

 Vermont's Senator Bernie Sanders. While pundits never gave Sanders a chance, just as they didn't give Trump a chance, he did much better than expected, just as Trump clearly did.  While its still widely believed that Sanders was doomed to go down in defeat against Clinton, Brazile's revelations raise some doubt about that in an election year of wild surprises.

Pundits keep talking about a "civil war" inside the GOP, but maybe a recent cover of Time, showing a huge GOP elephant holding a tiny Democratic donkey got it right.  If the GOP seems to be two parties, an old establishment party holding out against an insurgent Trump populist party, the Democrats seem to be Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, and a five white upper middle class kids in their 20s who have time to protest everything and to back anything that's edgy. That's not a party, that's two odd stamtische, one in Greenwich village serving Free Trade Green Tea and another in Washington D. C. serving Domaine de la Romanee-Conti 1990.  Those people need to go.

Will they?

That's another question entirely.

As is one lingering question. Would Brazile have made these revelations had Clinton won?

Camp Grant, Illinois, officers. November 5, 1917.

Camp Funston, Junction City Kansas, November 5, 1917.

Camp Lewis, Washington. Copyright Deposit November 5, 1917.

Camp Pike (National Army Cantonment), Little Rock, Arkansas, Nov. 5th, 1917

Churches of the West: Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church, Casper Wyoming

Churches of the West: Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church, Casper Wyoming.

This Church was put in place in the early 1950s due to the expansion of the City of Casper, and has an unusual history.

The church itself was built during World War Two, and served as the Casper Air Base chapel, at what is now the Natrona County International Airport. When the population of Casper expanded in the 1940s, making a second Catholic church necessary, the real property where this church was located was purchased from Harry Yesness, with 10 acres of ground being acquired. The church itself was moved from the airport to this location in 1953.

Upon being moved the church was substantially reconstructed and remodeled. Additionally remodeling occurred in the past decade, given the church it's current appearance. The substantial grounds upon which the church is located originally included a small rectory, an office building, and a very small school. However the school was never used as such. More recently (last year) St. Anthony's Tri Parish School was built on these grounds, and the city's only Catholic school is, therefore, located on the Our Lady of Fatima grounds.

Epilogue:

I recently ran across this photograph of what is now Our Lady of Fatima at the Wyoming Veterans Museum at the Natrona County International Airport.   This photograph depicts the church as it appeared at the time it was an Army Air Corps Base Chapel.

This is an item, also as the Wyoming Veterans Museum, for base services. 

Lex Anteinternet: "Fall Back". Daylight Savings Time ended at 2:00 a...

Lex Anteinternet: "Fall Back". Daylight Savings Time ended at 2:00 a...: Lex Anteinternet: No, just go away : This was our entry on this last year or the year before: No, just go away   World War One era...

Lex Anteinternet: Bah, Daylight Savings Time

Lex Anteinternet: Bah, Daylight Savings Time: Well the war's over.  Can we stop this now? And by the war, I mean World War One. Yes, the hideous affliction of Daylight Savings...

Lex Anteinternet: Daylight Savings Time. M'eh

Lex Anteinternet: Daylight Savings Time. M'eh:  World War One era poster promoting Daylight Savings Time.  The thought here is that people leaving work would now have more time to work...

Best Post of the Week of October 29, 2017.

 Best posts of the week of October 29, 2018.

Creeps

Delia Kane, age 14.  The Exchange Luncheon, Boston.  January 31, 1917.  Recent stories have been focused on recent creeps, but you have to wonder how bad the treatment somebody like this girl, employed at age 14 in 1917, was in her era.  I hope not bad, but I'm not optimistic.

U.S. Troops landing in France, November 3, 1917.

"4098. A.E.F., France. Debarkation of Rainbow Division, St. Nazaire. Col. William Kelly, Lieut. Col. Harold Hetrick, Chaplain Bell, Captain Elihu C. Church, regimental adjutant. One Hundred and Seventeenth Engineers, November 3, 1917."

Freshman Caps? The Wyoming Student, November 2, 1917.

A Mid Week At Work Query: How Do You Decompress?

The Battle of Beersheba (Be'er Sheva, בְּאֵר שֶׁבַע, بئر السبع,) October 31, 1917

Today in the centennial of one of the most dramatic events of the Great War, the Battle of Beersheba (or as it is sometimes called Be'er Sheva), culminating the Charge of the Australian Light Horse that took the town.

CC BY-SA 3.0 au.  File:Palestine Gallery at the Australian War Memorial (MG 9693).jpg.  Creative Commons on Wikipedia

Remount Station, "Camp Lewis", Tacoma, Washington. October 31, 1917

The Depressing Issue of the state bar journal and institutional blindness. Patch 'em up and send 'em back into battle.

 

Today In Wyoming's History: October 29

Today In Wyoming's History: October 29:

Today is National Cat Day.