A Brief History On March 14, 1794, American inventor Eli Whitney patented his greatest invention. Digging Deeper Digging deeper, we find the young United States evolving away from a slave economy, with some slave owners giving their slaves away! Suddenly, with Whitney’s invention of the “cotton gin,” a machine made to separate cotton seeds from cotton balls much more quickly and efficiently than could be done by hand, cotton became a much more profitable crop. Of course, with cotton becoming the quick way to wealth for farmers, much farmland was turned over to growing cotton, and consequently many workers were…
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A Brief History Today, despite all the police television shows and movies, there are many misconceptions about what police can and cannot do, and how they are supposed to do it. Hopefully this list will help enlighten people or stimulate them to discuss what should be as opposed to what is. Digging Deeper 10. All Police Love Donuts. This belief is ridiculous! No more than about 99% would fall into this category by my personal observations!. 9. Police Have Monthly Ticket Quotas. Since this possibility is actually illegal, technically they do not have quotas. That being said, many police administrators…
A Brief History On March 13, 1963, a career criminal was taken into the custody of history! Digging Deeper Digging deeper, we find Ernesto Miranda, born March 9, 1941 in Mesa, Arizona beginning a (short) life of crime by the 8th grade. Arrested for numerous crimes such as burglary, robbery, auto theft, and sex offenses, Miranda was in and out of juvenile and then adult confinement. At age 22 he had kidnapped and raped a 17 year old girl when police spotted him driving a car matching the suspect car’s description. Upon his arrest, police interrogated Miranda and received a written…
A Brief History On March 12, 1940, an epic battle of a David against a Goliath ended in a draw! Or did it? Read on for the our exciting sequel to “The Start of the Winter War: Finland Humbles the Russian Bear”! Digging Deeper Digging deeper, we find the “Winter War” between the gigantic Soviet Union (one of the largest countries the world has ever known) and Finland, much smaller and with far fewer people. The Soviets had taken advantage of their “non-aggression” pact with Hitler’s Germany to make land grabs of their own in Poland, the Baltics, and in…
A Brief History On March 11, 2012, a single US Army sergeant did more to hurt the US war effort in Afghanistan than all the politicians and generals combined! Robert Bales killed 16 or 17 Afghan civilians in the incident known as the Kandahar Massacre. NOTE: The number of victims killed has been reported as either 16 or 17. Many articles from 2012 have the death toll as 17 whereas later articles reduced the number to 16. Digging Deeper Digging deeper, we find a deeply disturbed Staff Sergeant Robert Bales based in Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington. It is worth…