September 26
1414 - The export of gunpowder from England was prohibited.
Every era has seen the hope of banning weapons technology and keeping them in the hands of those who have them...And every era has seen these efforts fail.
War is a constant in the human condition, and the human desire to procure the means of making war are stronger than those to stop war.
The Clausewitz-Pero Corollary
Clausewitz: “War is the continuation of Politics by other means."
Pero: “Politics is the continuation of War by other means.”
Clausewitz was correct, but he had the ordering wrong. War came first, and is a natural human instinct...Politics is the civilized method of warfare. Even when it is barely civil.
1371 - The Battle of Maritsa.
Another in the long process of the Turks overwhelming the Balkans, defeating the Serbians.
Had it not been for the Crusaders and the Habsburg Empire, the Ottomans might have overwhelmed all of Europe.
1580 - Sir Francis Drake returned to England with a shipload of loot from the Spanish after the first successful circumnavigation of the globe by an Englishman.
Drake was a great naval commander...And an even greater pirate.
1789 - Thomas Jefferson was appointed America's first Secretary of State; John Jay the first Chief Justice of the United States; Samuel Osgood the first Postmaster-General; and Edmund Jennings Randolph the first Attorney General.
The young nation was evolving, and luckily had many brilliant, fertile minds to choose from.
Thank God the modern-day idiots weren't around back then, or the ‘American Experiment’ would have blown up in the lab.
1913 - The first boat was raised in the locks of the Panama Canal.
The world shrunk with this event...No longer would commerce have to travel to the tip of South America (a terribly dangerous trip, due to weather patterns) to get to and from Europe and Africa to the U.S. West Coast or the Orient.
This event also greatly reduced the importance of the South American countries bypassed due to the Canal crossing (Brazil, Chile, etc.)
1941 - Nazis slaughtered about 34,000 Jews in Kiev: WWII.
34,000 in 24 hours = 1,400+/hour = 23+/minute.
An impressive day for the 'Master Race Killing Machine'...Especially considering this was before the 'Final Solution' perfected the gassing/oven technique.
1960 - The first televised debate between presidential candidates Richard Nixon and John Kennedy took place.
Kennedy looked and sounded great...Nixon looked like a sweaty corpse, and sounded like Hell.
Needless to say, this event went a long way in JFK getting elected...That and the Mob, of course.
Every era has seen the hope of banning weapons technology and keeping them in the hands of those who have them...And every era has seen these efforts fail.
War is a constant in the human condition, and the human desire to procure the means of making war are stronger than those to stop war.
The Clausewitz-Pero Corollary
Clausewitz: “War is the continuation of Politics by other means."
Pero: “Politics is the continuation of War by other means.”
Clausewitz was correct, but he had the ordering wrong. War came first, and is a natural human instinct...Politics is the civilized method of warfare. Even when it is barely civil.
1371 - The Battle of Maritsa.
Another in the long process of the Turks overwhelming the Balkans, defeating the Serbians.
Had it not been for the Crusaders and the Habsburg Empire, the Ottomans might have overwhelmed all of Europe.
1580 - Sir Francis Drake returned to England with a shipload of loot from the Spanish after the first successful circumnavigation of the globe by an Englishman.
Drake was a great naval commander...And an even greater pirate.
1789 - Thomas Jefferson was appointed America's first Secretary of State; John Jay the first Chief Justice of the United States; Samuel Osgood the first Postmaster-General; and Edmund Jennings Randolph the first Attorney General.
The young nation was evolving, and luckily had many brilliant, fertile minds to choose from.
Thank God the modern-day idiots weren't around back then, or the ‘American Experiment’ would have blown up in the lab.
1913 - The first boat was raised in the locks of the Panama Canal.
The world shrunk with this event...No longer would commerce have to travel to the tip of South America (a terribly dangerous trip, due to weather patterns) to get to and from Europe and Africa to the U.S. West Coast or the Orient.
This event also greatly reduced the importance of the South American countries bypassed due to the Canal crossing (Brazil, Chile, etc.)
1941 - Nazis slaughtered about 34,000 Jews in Kiev: WWII.
34,000 in 24 hours = 1,400+/hour = 23+/minute.
An impressive day for the 'Master Race Killing Machine'...Especially considering this was before the 'Final Solution' perfected the gassing/oven technique.
1960 - The first televised debate between presidential candidates Richard Nixon and John Kennedy took place.
Kennedy looked and sounded great...Nixon looked like a sweaty corpse, and sounded like Hell.
Needless to say, this event went a long way in JFK getting elected...That and the Mob, of course.
Labels: Discovery, Europe, Holocaust, HRE, Nazis, Ottomans, Science, Serbia, South America, UK, US, WWII
posted by Poison Pero @ Tuesday, September 25, 2018
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