November 30
30 BC - Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, committed suicide.
After Caesar's death, Cleopatra had to pick a Roman ally to keep her crown, but the queen hitched herself to the wrong star, choosing to take Marc Antony as her lover instead of Octavian. Not that he wanted her...She is lucky she killed herself, however, because it would have been worse had the future Emperor gotten hold of her.
Off topic, but on subject: I hope you know Cleopatra was a Greek/Macedonian, not an Egyptian - from the Ptolemaic Dynasty, which was founded by Ptolemy I Soter - one of Alexander the Great's generals.
1016 - Edmund II, Ironsides, King of the Saxons, died.
Edmund's death meant the end of Anglo-Saxon rule in England, since Canute, King of Denmark, succeeded him adding England to his kingdom.
Canute ruled for almost 20-years, and England floundered around for another 30 until Norman prince William the Conqueror came in and ended successful invasions of the British Isles forever.
1216 - Pope Innocent III ordered Jews to wear a special badge.
Sounds like Der Fuhrer 700+ years later.
1485 - Henry VII was crowned King of England.
Henry was the victor of the English Civil War (War of the Roses), founder of the Tudor Dynasty, and father of the monarchic mess that was 16th Century England...He was also a financial genius, who put England on track towards empire.
1554 - Roman Catholicism was briefly restored to England as the official state religion, under the reign of Mary Tudor - daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon.
Better known as 'Bloody Mary,' the Queen was an absolute Catholic, and a proponent of close English ties with the Continent - particularly Spain. Neither endeared her to the English people...As a result, Mary burned at least 300 Protestant leaders at the stake, and generally made life miserable for her English subjects.
1804 - The impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase, accused of political bias, began.
Unfortunately, Chase was acquitted, because his guilt is undeniable.
The importance of this event is to remember Congress has the power to 'check' the Judiciary, and must do so if a justice is acting outside the scope of their position.
It's too bad the current group in Congress doesn't have the testicular fortitude to hold our current judges to the same standard...Hint: 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
1948 - The division of Berlin was complete and the Soviets installed a Communist government in the Soviet sector.
40+ years of suffering followed for the East Germans.
Had the U.S. entered WWII in 1939-40 we would have beaten the Ruskies to Germany...Instead FDR chose politics over statesmanship, and kept the U.S. out of the war until we were drawn in by the Japanese in 1941.
Much suffering (including our own) was the result.
1950 - President Truman declared the United States would use the atom bomb to get peace in Korea: Korean War.
Big talk, but no boom! A big mistake...I'm not going to say he should have used an atomic bomb on the Chinese (not going to say he shouldn't have either), but he shouldn't have said he'd do it if he couldn't pull the trigger.
1995 - It was reported global warming over the last 100-years was measured to be one degree Fahrenheit.
One stinking degree. What a bunch of pseudo-scientific psychos...Either that or anarchists with a political ax to grind.
After Caesar's death, Cleopatra had to pick a Roman ally to keep her crown, but the queen hitched herself to the wrong star, choosing to take Marc Antony as her lover instead of Octavian. Not that he wanted her...She is lucky she killed herself, however, because it would have been worse had the future Emperor gotten hold of her.
Off topic, but on subject: I hope you know Cleopatra was a Greek/Macedonian, not an Egyptian - from the Ptolemaic Dynasty, which was founded by Ptolemy I Soter - one of Alexander the Great's generals.
1016 - Edmund II, Ironsides, King of the Saxons, died.
Edmund's death meant the end of Anglo-Saxon rule in England, since Canute, King of Denmark, succeeded him adding England to his kingdom.
Canute ruled for almost 20-years, and England floundered around for another 30 until Norman prince William the Conqueror came in and ended successful invasions of the British Isles forever.
1216 - Pope Innocent III ordered Jews to wear a special badge.
Sounds like Der Fuhrer 700+ years later.
1485 - Henry VII was crowned King of England.
Henry was the victor of the English Civil War (War of the Roses), founder of the Tudor Dynasty, and father of the monarchic mess that was 16th Century England...He was also a financial genius, who put England on track towards empire.
1554 - Roman Catholicism was briefly restored to England as the official state religion, under the reign of Mary Tudor - daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon.
Better known as 'Bloody Mary,' the Queen was an absolute Catholic, and a proponent of close English ties with the Continent - particularly Spain. Neither endeared her to the English people...As a result, Mary burned at least 300 Protestant leaders at the stake, and generally made life miserable for her English subjects.
1804 - The impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase, accused of political bias, began.
Unfortunately, Chase was acquitted, because his guilt is undeniable.
The importance of this event is to remember Congress has the power to 'check' the Judiciary, and must do so if a justice is acting outside the scope of their position.
It's too bad the current group in Congress doesn't have the testicular fortitude to hold our current judges to the same standard...Hint: 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
1948 - The division of Berlin was complete and the Soviets installed a Communist government in the Soviet sector.
40+ years of suffering followed for the East Germans.
Had the U.S. entered WWII in 1939-40 we would have beaten the Ruskies to Germany...Instead FDR chose politics over statesmanship, and kept the U.S. out of the war until we were drawn in by the Japanese in 1941.
Much suffering (including our own) was the result.
1950 - President Truman declared the United States would use the atom bomb to get peace in Korea: Korean War.
Big talk, but no boom! A big mistake...I'm not going to say he should have used an atomic bomb on the Chinese (not going to say he shouldn't have either), but he shouldn't have said he'd do it if he couldn't pull the trigger.
1995 - It was reported global warming over the last 100-years was measured to be one degree Fahrenheit.
One stinking degree. What a bunch of pseudo-scientific psychos...Either that or anarchists with a political ax to grind.
Labels: Caesar, Christianity, Constitution, Egypt, Germany, Korea, Korean War, Rome, Russia, Science, UK, US
posted by Poison Pero @ Thursday, November 29, 2018
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