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A Brief History On November 15, 2021, jury instructions and final arguments occurred in the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, an 18 year old defendant who was 17 years old when he shot and killed two rioters in Kenosha, Wisconsin and wounded another in a clear case of self-defense.  After the unrest across the United States regarding police shootings of African Americans, numerous cities experienced protests that turned into riots, complete with vandalism, arson, looting, and violence.  In August of 2020, Kenosha, Wisconsin became one of those venues of unrest and the scene of the now infamous confrontation that cost…

A Brief History On November 8, 1837, Mary Lyon founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later became Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts.  Earlier, Lyon had founded Wheaton Female Seminary, also in Massachusetts.  Despite the title word “Seminary” in the colleges founded by Mary Lyon, she was neither a clergy person nor creating a school for future clergy, although she was indeed a devout Christian.  Today we take a look at some religious beliefs that are likely to confuse, confound or perhaps totally discombobulate those persons not of that particular set of beliefs.  (No value judgements are made or…

A Brief History On October 21, 1944, the Soviet Red Army was steamrolling the German army on the Eastern Front, reaching the town of Nemmersdorf, where heartless Soviets massacred at least 74 ethnic Germans, and for good measure slaughtered another 50 French and Belgians being held by the Germans as POW’s. Digging Deeper We have previously discussed why we think the Soviets were not the knights in shining armor trying to deliver a sort of worker’s utopia to the masses, notably our article “10 Atrocious Atrocities Allegedly Arranged by the Soviet Union.”  For that matter, the Russia of today that…

A Brief History On October 18, 2021, we take the time to offer our review of another historical account by Stephen Dando-Collins, an Australian writer who has written extensively on the subject of Ancient Rome (at least 44 books of all types so far).  Obviously, with publishers willing to print such a huge volume of work, there must be some kind of quality and talent at work in Dando-Collins’ writing, and we find this to be true.  Previously we reviewed Conquering Jerusalem (2021) by the same author and found the book to be particularly engaging.  Constantine at the Bridge is…

A Brief History On October 16, 1968, the island country of Jamaica, a majority Black African heritage nation (92%+ African heritage population) experienced riots because a Black Guyanese professor, Dr. Walter Anthony Rodney, was banned from returning to Jamaica to teach at the University of the West Indies.  An African history scholar, Rodney was a leading proponent of the Black Power movement that had taken hold in the United States and other countries.  The Jamaican government that banned Dr. Rodney was led by Prime Minister Hugh Shearer, himself of African descent.  Riots in the capital city of Kingston ensued! Digging…