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    When Governor Bent's home was attacked, Kit Carson's wife was there. She was Governor Bent's wife's sister and was visiting when the attack began. She was almost killed, but she and her sister actually managed to tunnel through one of the walls of the house and escape.
    “Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.” - Barry Goldwater

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    1777
    Articles of Confederation adopted


    Many argue that the US should have kept the Articles of Confederation. I understand why- we see how the Constitution was raped and put out wet in order to create an over-powerful federal government. But the Articles had too many fatal weaknesses IMO.
    Sorry, don't follow ... what?



    I see an article V convention of the States as potentially following the Bolded. (Not that it would necessarily be a bad thing.)
    Wonder why they didn't thoroughly analyze the reasons for inadequacies in self-governance by the sovereign states; or maybe they did. Anyway, perhaps solution to that issue would have been found by adjusting the boundaries of the sovereign states to better function as independent entities.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lummy View Post
    Sorry, don't follow ... what?
    Wonder why they didn't thoroughly analyze the reasons for inadequacies in self-governance by the sovereign states; or maybe they did. Anyway, perhaps solution to that issue would have been found by adjusting the boundaries of the sovereign states to better function as independent entities.
    The confederation had no way to pay the Revolutionary war debts. The states refused to pay. States also taxed others heavily for using their canals and ports.
    Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.


    I pledge allegiance to the Constitution as written and understood by this nation's founders, and to the Republic it created, an indivisible union of sovereign States, with liberty and justice for all.

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    NJ abolished slavery today in 1804 but the statute only applied to those born after the legislation was passed. In fact, there were still a handful of slaves living in NJ at the beginning of the Civil War.
    Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.


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    Feb 16, 1923:

    Archaeologist opens tomb of King Tut
    On this day in 1923, in Thebes, Egypt, English archaeologist Howard Carter enters the sealed burial chamber of the ancient Egyptian ruler King Tutankhamen.Because the ancient Egyptians saw their pharaohs as gods, they carefully preserved their bodies after death, burying them in elaborate tombs containing rich treasures to accompany the rulers into the afterlife. In the 19th century, archeologists from all over the world flocked to Egypt, where they uncovered a number of these tombs. Many had long ago been broken into by robbers and stripped of their riches.
    When Carter arrived in Egypt in 1891, he became convinced there was at least one undiscovered tomb–that of the little known Tutankhamen, or King Tut, who lived around 1400 B.C. and died when he was still a teenager. Backed by a rich Brit, Lord Carnarvon, Carter searched for five years without success. In early 1922, Lord Carnarvon wanted to call off the search, but Carter convinced him to hold on one more year.
    In November 1922, the wait paid off, when Carter’s team found steps hidden in the debris near the entrance of another tomb. The steps led to an ancient sealed doorway bearing the name Tutankhamen. When Carter and Lord Carnarvon entered the tomb’s interior chambers on November 26, they were thrilled to find it virtually intact, with its treasures untouched after more than 3,000 years. The men began exploring the four rooms of the tomb, and on February 16, 1923, under the watchful eyes of a number of important officials, Carter opened the door to the last chamber.
    Inside lay a sarcophagus with three coffins nested inside one another. The last coffin, made of solid gold, contained the mummified body of King Tut. Among the riches found in the tomb–golden shrines, jewelry, statues, a chariot, weapons, clothing–the perfectly preserved mummy was the most valuable, as it was the first one ever to be discovered. Despite rumors that a curse would befall anyone who disturbed the tomb, its treasures were carefully catalogued, removed and included in a famous traveling exhibition called the “Treasures of Tutankhamen.” The exhibition’s permanent home is the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

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    Do you believe in Miracles? Miracle on Ice!!

    I remember it like it was yesterday. Everybody was still alive then: Mom, Dad, Uncle David, Grandma, Grandpa. What a day.

    On February 22, 1980 - In one of the most dramatic upsets in Olympic history, the underdog U.S. hockey team, made up of college players, defeats the four-time defending gold-medal winning Soviet team at the XIII Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid, New York. The Soviet squad, previously regarded as the finest in the world, fell to the youthful American team 4-3 before a frenzied crowd of 10,000 spectators. Two days later, the Americans defeated Finland 4-2 to clinch the hockey gold.

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    February 25, 1865 - Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, CSA, assumes the command of the Army of Tennessee and all troops in the Confederate Dept. of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Johnston notifies Gen. Robert E. Lee, CSA, that he believes a combination of his troops with Gen. Braxton Bragg, CSA, in North Carolina is necessary to mount any kind of obstruction to the forces under Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, USA.

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    Post 100 Young Women Went to Work One Day, and Never Came Home - Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

    More than a Hundred Young Women Went to Work One Day, and Never Came Home. Their Story Changed the Country Forever. A foundational moment for union organizing and worker safety was the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in New York City more than a century ago, on March 25, 1911. The fire caused the gruesome deaths of 146 people, many of them teenage girls. It was a disaster of such magnitude it spurred union organizing like nothing before it, and led to radical changes to workplace safety regulations and practices.

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    March 28, 1979 - Three Mile Island 40 Years Ago

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    April 9, 1865- The traitor Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to U.S. Grant at Appomattox Court House ending the insurrection popularly known as the War of Southern Aggression.

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