Browsing: September

A Brief History On September 22, 1965, the Indo-Pakistani War over the disputed region of Kashmir came to an end.  The war had raged for about a month, resulting in a few thousand deaths on each side, along with the loss of a few hundred tanks and dozens of aircraft, a fairly substantial list of losses for a relatively short war.  The region of Kashmir, located at the Northernmost part of the Indian sub-continent, is both occupied and disputed between China, Pakistan and India.  The region of rugged terrain is the home to pashmina goats that provide the fine wool…

A Brief History On September 14, 1975, Elizabeth Ann Seton was canonized by Pope Paul VI, thus she became the first person born in what is now the United States to be granted sainthood.  Born in New York, on August 28, 1774, she just missed being born in the United States, but more importantly, was not even born into a Catholic family!  Seton was also the founder of the first religious order for nuns in America, the Sisters of Charity. Digging Deeper Born Elizabeth Ann Bayley to a French Huguenot family, her father had been a prominent doctor in New…

A Brief History On September 13, 2019, we “celebrate” another Friday the 13th, the legendary bad luck spooky day, a day so scary an iconic motion picture franchise is based on its name!  Just a note to make this year’s edition of Friday the 13th a little scarier, tonight we will experience a “Harvest Moon,” an event that has not coincided with a Friday the 13th since the year 2000.  Oh boy, does this mean we have to deal with werewolves and vampires as well as general bad luck?  At least we will be able to see with the light…

A Brief History On September 11, 2001, the fanatical Islamist terror group, al-Qaeda, carried out coordinated attacks against the United States, resulting in the crashing of a fully occupied jetliner into the Pentagon, the hijacking and subsequent crash of another jetliner, and the crashing of yet another two jetliners into the World Trade Center, taking down two of the tallest buildings in the world.  Lost were nearly 3000 innocent lives with another 6000 people injured.  About $10 billion worth of property and infrastructure was also destroyed.  For what? Digging Deeper Apparently misguided Islamists see the United States as an enemy…

A Brief History On September 10, 2019, we have the pleasure of reviewing a children’s book for our readers, one themed toward our favorite holiday, Halloween!  Written by TJ Ski and titled The Spook Skelly Crew, you can preview the story by checking out their YouTube trailer. Digging Deeper Lavishly illustrated by the author (in black and white ink drawings), the book gives you moderately rhymed lines and visual back up for the story.  While not what we would call a little kids’ book, the story includes a certain amount of (mild) violence toward the monsters contained within, so the…