1992-12-09 US Marines and allied nations launch an amphibious and airborne operation in Mogadishu, Somalia, to restore order to the war-torn nation. Authorized by UN Security Council Resolution 794, passed on December 3. A civil war in Somalia had raged since the late 1980s when dictator Siad Barre began to face significant resistance to…
Category: History Roundup
On This Day in History: 1963 – JFK Assassinated in Dallas, Texas
60 Facts About the JFK Assassination 1. On Nov. 11, 1963, President Kennedy laid a Veterans Day wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. 2. He would be buried at the cemetery exactly two weeks later. 3. Jacqueline Kennedy rarely traveled with her husband on political trips but decided to fly with…
On This Day in History 1945: Nuremberg War Trials Begin
At the end of World War II in Europe, the victorious Allied powers created the first international court to try war criminals from Nazi Germany. Headquartered in the German city of Nuremberg, the first and most famous trials of the major war criminals were held between November 20, 1945 and October 1, 1946, with…
The Noticing
H/T Outlaw Josey Wales
The Scofield Bible: The Root of Christian Zionism in America
A few years after the publication of the Scofield Bible in 1909, the Federal Reserve Act was slipped into law in 1913. The Rothschild Central Banking Cabal family behind that draconian legislation also funded the creation of the Scofield Reference Bible, the most common Bible found in American Churches today. This Bible had passages rewritten…
The Guns of Faction: Part One
The Guns of Faction: Part One My 2019 novel, Faction, was recognized by many readers as having weapons which seemed at first glance exotic, but were, in fact, rather straightforward, off-the-shelf weapons with slight modifications to make them more useful in urban operations. Let’s examine them in this series, one by one. The criteria for…
When the Law Failed, Citizens Turned to Colts for Frontier Justice
When the Law Failed, Citizens Turned to Colts for Frontier Justice Minnesota lay many saddle hours away, so Frank and Jesse James, with the Younger boys and three others, traveled from Missouri by rail. They bought horses for the final leg – fine animals, new to Northfield on September 7, 1876. The men’s dusters…
On This Day in History 1938: Orson Welles Reads ‘War of the Worlds’ over Radio causing Mass Panic
Panic Over War of the Worlds The War of the Worlds, the science fiction novel by English author H.G. Wells telling of a space ship from Mars landing on Earth and causing panic, death and destruction, was published in 1897. On this day in 1938 actor Orson Welles allegedly caused real-life panic across America when he presented…
Awaken Holger Danske!
Holger Danske – a national icon In Denmark it is said that Holger Danske sleeps in his tomb, but with one eye open to watch for danger to his land and his people. Holger Danske has for centuries been one of the mysterious icons in Denmark. Now the heavy bronze figure stands in the…
On This Day in History 1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis Of the many heart-stopping incidents in the Cold War, perhaps none was more frightening than the Cuban Missile Crisis. On the morning of October 16, 1962, the above photo was one of a set shown to US President John F. Kennedy, confirming that the Soviet Union had placed nuclear missiles in communist Cuba,…