A Prime Minister Eaten by His Own People on This Day in History

 

This day in history: Dutch statesman Johan de Witt was born on this day in 1625. However, de Witt is better known for his manner of death.

During 1672, which the Dutch refer to as the Rampjaar (disaster year), France and England declared war on the Dutch Republic in the Franco-Dutch War. De Witt was severely wounded by a knife-wielding assassin on 21 June. He resigned as Grand Pensionary on 4 August, but this was not enough for his enemies. His brother Cornelis was arrested on trumped-up charges of treason. He was tortured (as was usual under Roman-Dutch law, which required a confession before a conviction was possible) but refused to confess. Nevertheless, he was sentenced to exile. When his brother went over to the jail (which was only a few steps from his house) to help him get started on his journey, both were attacked by members of The Hague's civic militia. The brothers were shot and then left to the mob. Their naked, mutilated bodies were strung up on the nearby public gibbet, while the Orangist mob ate their roasted livers in a cannibalistic frenzy. 

In Western Christianity, regicide was far more common prior to 1200/1300. Historian Sverre Bagge* counts 20 cases of regicide between 1200 and 1800, which means that 6% of monarchs were killed by their subjects. He counts 94 cases of regicide between 600 and 1200, which means that 21.8% of monarchs were killed by their subjects.

[*The Decline of Regicide and the Rise of European Monarchy from the Carolingians to the Early Modern Period]

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Werewolves of London on This Day in History

 

This day in history: Warren Zevon died on this day in 2003. Zevon is best known for his hit "Werewolves of London" It was released in 1978 and made it to #21 on the US Billboard Top 40. 

It was the only single of Zevon's career. 

BBC Radio 2 listeners rated it as having the best opening line in a song: "I saw a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand".

Zevon later said of the song, "I don't know why that became such a hit. We didn't think it was suitable to be played on the radio. It didn't become an albatross. It's better that I bring something to mind than nothing. There are times when I prefer that it was "Bridge Over Troubled Water", but I don't think bad about the song. I still think it's funny." He also described "Werewolves of London" as a novelty song, "[but] not a novelty the way, say, Steve Martin's "King Tut" is a novelty."

The song had a resurgence in popularity in 1986 due to its use in a scene in The Color of Money, where Tom Cruise dances and lip-syncs to the song in a scene in which Cruise "displayed the depths of his talents at the billiards game of 9-ball."

After Zevon's death in 2003, Jackson Browne stated that he interpreted the song as describing an upper-class English womanizer: "It's about a really well-dressed, ladies' man, a werewolf preying on little old ladies. In a way it's the Victorian nightmare, the gigolo thing."

There are other songs about Werewolves, notably, Hungry Like the Wolf by Duran Duran, Little Red Riding Hood by Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs, I Was a Teenage Werewolf by the Cramps, and my favorite: Werewolf by the Five Man Electrical Band.

Warren Zevon died of mesothelioma on September 7, 2003, aged 56, at his home in Los Angeles. His body was cremated, and his ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean near Los Angeles. 

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A Crocodile on an Airplane on This Day in History

 

We've all heard of Snakes on a Plane, but what about a crocodile.

This day in history: On this day in 2010, 20 passengers and crew of a Let L-410 Turbolet were killed in a crash resulting from an escaped crocodile in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 

According to the sole survivor of the crash, the animal was smuggled aboard by a passenger but escaped mid-flight. 

"An unnamed passenger had hidden the crocodile in a large duffel bag with the intent of selling the reptile, according to the Telegraph. The animal escaped as the plane approached its destination." Source

Panicked passengers surged forward, unbalancing the plane and causing a loss of control. The crocodile survived the crash, but was promptly killed by a blow from a machete.

"Congo’s domestic air service consists mainly of badly maintained Soviet-era aircraft with a dismal safety history, according to media reports. Air crashes are common in the Central African country." Source

In 2022 only 43 accidents occurred out of 27.7 million flights, resulting in the deaths of 158 people. Most air accidents take place in Africa, South America and the Middle East. Source

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The Mall of America on This Day in History

 

This day in history: The Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota opened on this day in 1992. At the time it was the largest shopping mall in the United States.

At the time, the West Edmonton Mall was considered the largest mall in the world.

According to Geeks for Geeks, the largest shopping malls in the world now are:

1. New South China Mall in Dongguan, China

2. Golden Resources Mall in Beijing, China

3. Central World in Bangkok, Thailand

4. SM Mall of Asia in Manila, Philippines

5. Dubai Mall in Dubai, UAE

6. West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Canada

7. SM Megamall in Manila, Philippines

8. Istanbul Cevahir in Istanbul, Turkey

9. Berjaya Times Square in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

10. Siam Paragon in Bangkok, Thailand

I have looked at several lists and the Mall of America is not included in the top 10 on any of them. However, it has come to my attention that the Mall of America has expanded to 5.6 million square feet, and that the West Edmonton Mall (WEM) is actually 5.3 million square feet which would put them in 3rd and 4th place.

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The League of Nations New World Order on This Day in History

 

This day in history: Denmark left the League of Nations on this day in 1940.

The League of Nations was the first worldwide intergovernmental organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.

During the 20th century, political figures such as Woodrow Wilson and Winston Churchill used the term "new world order" to refer to a new period of history characterized by a dramatic change in world political thought and in the global balance of power after World War I and World War II. The years between the two world wars saw opportunities to implement idealistic proposals for global governance by collective efforts to address worldwide problems that go beyond the capacity of individual nation-states to resolve, while nevertheless respecting the right of nations to self-determination. 

"Such collective initiatives manifested in the formation of intergovernmental organizations such as the League of Nations in 1920, the United Nations (UN) in 1945, and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1949, along with international regimes such as the Bretton Woods system and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), implemented to maintain a cooperative balance of power and facilitate reconciliation between nations to prevent the prospect of another global conflict. These cosmopolitan efforts to instill liberal internationalism were regularly criticized and opposed by American paleoconservative business nationalists from the 1930s on." Wikipedia

All of these globalist efforts have failed.

Globalist experiments such as the World Health Organization and the United Nations have wasted billions, perhaps trillions of dollars and have utterly failed to improve the world in the least. 

The UN has failed to maintain peace and has been marred by corruption and controversy.

In the book Snakes in Suits, a study of psychopaths in the workplace, Babiak and Hare write that corruption appears to be endemic at the UN:

There are few organizations in the Western world that could survive with the allegations of mismanagement, scandal, and corruption that permeate the United Nations. For many delegates, officials, and employees, particularly those from developing nations, the UN is little more than an enormous watering hole.

Concerned about its shabby image, the UN recently developed a multiple-choice "ethics quiz" for its employees. The "correct" answers were obvious to everyone [Is it all right to steal from your employer? (A) Yes, (B) No, (C) Only if you don't get caught].

The quiz was not designed to determine the ethical sense of UN employees or to weed out the ethically inept but to raise their level of integrity. How taking a transparent test could improve integrity is unclear. There has been no mention of how management and other officials did on the test.

It's past time for all of these globalist organizations to join the League of Nations in the trash bin of history.

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Two Poems Celebrating America's Independence Day (1876 and 1909)

 

Poem for Independence Day by Marcia Jane Eaton 1876

HOW shall we celebrate the day

To which our freedom owes its birth; 

When firm, yet seeking no display, 

The patriots stood in proud array,

Before the mighty ones of earth?

Trusting in God, they stood alone, 

With dauntless front and unquelled eye, 

No servile fear, no sorrowing moan, 

As thus they braved high England's throne, 

And Liberty or Death," their cry. 

Heaven smiled propitious on the hour,

And nerved with hope the little band

They bade farewell to beauty's bower, 

And armed with justice, clothed in power, 

Fought boldly for their native land.

They fought against the tyrant king, 

Led on by freedom's chosen son- 

With clash of arms the valleys ring, 

Till loud their triumph-song they sing, 

Of victory and Washington. 

Not all in vain their blood so free

Was spilled like rain-drops o'er the earth, 

But gathering in one mighty sea

Waters the tree of liberty,

Which in each freeman's heart finds birth.

How shall we celebrate the hour,

Which set our own loved country free? 

With joyous shout in peaceful bower, 

With cannon's roar, and music's power, 

We'll hail the Nation's jubilee. 

Our banner, with its stripe and star, 

We'll keep unstained from sire to son- 

Each breeze shall waft its folds afar, 

Unsullied, as when first in war 

It waved o'er fields of vict'ry won.

We'll teach our children freedom's song, 

To lisp in artless joyous glee, 

And ever, as the strains prolong,

We'll shout the echo loud and long,

Our own America is free!

********************

INDEPENDENCE DAY

WE celebrate "a day of days,"

Which saw a nation rise

Through din of battle, clash of arms,

And severed kindred ties.

This day we draw aside the veil,

And backward take a look

On stirring scenes, brought to our view, 

 As in an open book. 

We see the lights in "old North Church" 

Those beacons burning bright 

And gallop on with Paul Revere, 

Throughout that fateful night. 

We fight with men at Bunker Hill, 

Whose aim was good and true 

Nerved to the task by loyal hearts, 

'Neath coats of buff and blue. 

With praying Washington we wait 

At Valley Forge, in snow and sleet, 

And see the blood-prints on the ground 

From shoeless soldiers' feet. 

With thin-clad, shiv'ring, dauntless men 

We cross the Delaware 

To meet the foe and capture them, 

And untold perils dare. 

We rise with those patriots brave, 

When they their names affix 

To the "Declaration" broad and grand, 

Of Seventeen Seventy-six. 

As liberty loud it proclaims,

We hear the tones of the bell, 

While echoing valley, hill and glen 

The message to nations tell.

And so each year we celebrate

This day, so dear to all,

When a Nation to new life awoke,

At Freedom's earnest call.

-Mary M. North. 1909

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The Greatness of the American Republic by Archbishop Ireland 1897

What is a main and most important difference between a Republic and a Democracy?

In a republic, a constitution or charter of rights protects certain inalienable rights that cannot be taken away by the government, even if it has been elected by a majority of voters. In a "pure democracy," the majority is not restrained in this way and can impose its will on the minority.