What's your favorite moment in history

It’s called Jury Nullification :cheers2:


Hotwater

 

mine would be lunch time.in the old days,100 years ago or so most saloons had free lunches as long as you bought something to drink with it.at lunch time you could get over to the saloon and have some food and beer before heading back to work.if you were broke you could find,beg,borrow or steal enough to get yourself something to eat.i imagine the food was pretty salty to make you thirsty for more beer.

 

Hehe, if this thread was about favourite places in history I'd add the saloons for sure as well! :biggrin:

 

i wonder where that saloon was.perhaps a hotel of sorts upstairs.

 

It could be a fictional one. It looks slightly romanticized.

 

There are so many... currently I'm particularly interested in the consistently corrupt and self-serving attitudes of powerful nations when it comes to economics and international relations from 1815 onwards. And, for some reason, the social and religious make-up of the Byzantine Empire up to the fall of Constantinople in 1453.

I'm a total nerd.

 

I'm that chick in the middle, sneaking a peek at the cards.

 

Nerds can be sexy, too.

 

a few days back i thought about but didn't write about 1812. with napoleon invadeing russia and the british army and navy in the united states.it would appear there was a world war of sorts but my understanding is that the two events had little to do with each other but i wonder if these events would cause the economic and international relations you spoke of.1815 was the year the war of 1812 ended with the battle of new orleans.it's kind of strange this battle was fought 2 weeks after the treaty to end the war had been signed but it took weeks for news to reach from europe to north america.

 

I guess the satellite delay to CNN was really bad back then.

 

here's a thought of a moment in time from raintree county by ross lockridge jr....."hard roads and wide will run through raintree county,you will hunt it on the map and it won't be there. for raintree county is not the country of the perishable fact. it is in the country of the enduring fiction. the clock in the courthouse tower on page 5 of the raintree county atlas is always fixed at nine o'clock,and it is summer and the days are long."

 

well you know cnn was just starting up as was satelite communications...they were still working the kinks out of the system.

 

i went and looked at fossils from the ordivician period.hundreds of million years old.braciopods,little cheerio shaped bones,little tree like animals.and trilobites.crab like animals.cepholpods i think are in the same group as squids.

 

What would have been better still would have been a unified workers movement in the Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires. Were such a movement succesful, WWI would possibly not have happened (although a local war may have been probable).

I know this doesn;t help anything, but ... um... sorry.

I'm gonna make a new vodka and "other liquid" thingy.

 

it seems the spanish-american war in 1898 was the beginning of the foreign affairs the u.s. still has.the events leading up to it.the invasion from tampa,fl. to cuba .the aftermaths and it's beginning of it's foreign interests.some great old moving pictures of troops in cuba and popular re-enactments by the edison company and other newpapers films survive.i have viewed them on the library of congress web site.it sounds like there was quite a national furor in this country but there were also notable writers such as mark twain and edgar lee masters urgeing restraint.about 25 years ago i had the oppurtunity to talk to one of the last survivors of that war.he was over 100 at the time.

 

One of the "forgotten" wars.

 

in 1898 outside the small town of kensington,mn. a runestone was discovered by farmer olof ohman in the roots of a tree he was digging out.the runes would suggest the vikings had been in the interior of north america 1n 1362.the authenticity of the stone has been debated for 110 years.i've read one book on the subject by historian theodore blegen and he concluded the stone to be a fake.i took a trip to see the discovery site in west central minnesota and the stone itself in a museum in the nearby town of alexandria,mn.it is nice country out in minnesota.although the runes may be a fake i found the story surrounding it worth a trip.and their football team's name is dependant on it being real.that the vikings were already on the eastern part of canada at this time it seems possible using waterways they could have reached the interior of the continent.

 

the popularity of art deco and streamline in designs from the 1930's.

 

the pancho villa ordered raid on columbus,nm. and the attempt by the u.s. army's so called punitive expedition.the 10,000 man force led by general john pershing into mexico to find and capture villa in 1916-17 was unsucessful.

 

http://www.desertusa.com/mag99/july/papr/kumeyaay.html

"When Father Junipero Serra entered the San Diego area in 1769 to build the first California mission, he encountered a thriving population of peaceful and hospitable Native Americans living in the area. "They are fine in stature and carriage, affable and gay. They brought fish and mollusks to us, going out in their canoes just to fish for our benefit. They have danced their native dances for our entertainment," he wrote in his journal...

After conscripting these local Indians to build Mission San Diego de Alcalá, the Spanish, consistent with their habit of naming Indian groups after the mission whose jurisdiction they were under, called these 25,000 to 30,000 natives the Diegueño.
The term Kumeyaay was coined by native people and F. Shipek in the 1970s and is all inclusive of Diegueño and Kamia, the Yuman-speaking Indians of Imperial County over the mountains east of San Diego County.

...In spite of the efforts of Spanish missionaries to convert the San Diego-area Kumeyaay to Christianity and the use of presidio soldiers to subdue them, many bands resented the European intrusion and the Kumeyaay remained the most resistant of all California Indians to subjugation, revolting on several occasions.

This tenuous relationship between the Kumeyaay and the Spanish continued until Mexican independence in 1821. Nonetheless, by the time of mission secularization, the Kumeyaay population had dwindled to about 3,000 due to disease, loss of ancestral lands and various other causes. Freed of mission control, most Kumeyaay fled to the mountains where they could not be forced to work for the Mexican settlers or the army, and the population started to rebuild."



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