Category: History
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Thursday Revolution: Yanks vs Frogs Open Thread
The French Revolution began twelve years after the American Revolution. America wanted to be independent and left alone to enjoy their liberty and managed to run the British back to their homeland. The French went berserk and within 18 months they started murdering their own citizens. It was the onset of a seemingly never ending…
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Thursday’s History Isn’t Repeating, It’s Rhyming Open Comments
How appropriate, how exactly true these past weeks. “White Logic” and “Jew Physics” Campus radicals have refreshed an ugly 1930s trope. When we think of “Newspeak,” the fictional language invented by George Orwell for his dystopian novel 1984, we typically think of powerful authoritarian governments manipulating language for the advancement of power and ideology. In…
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Monday Marine Open Comments
Untold Stories: One Marine Stood Against 1000s of Japanese at Guadalcanal “Alone, against the deadly hail of Japanese shells, [Paige] manned his gun, and when it was destroyed, took over another, moving from gun to gun, never ceasing his withering fire against the advancing hordes [of Japanese] until reinforcements finally arrived.” One man who made…