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The Bookworm Thinker for 11 Nov. 2021
Welcome, all, on this date of 11 Nov. , and a Happy Veteran’s Day to all. On this day: 1620 – The Mayflower Compact, the first governing document executed by colonists to the New World, was assigned aboard ship this day in Provincetown Harbor. 1778 – Cherry Valley massacre: A force of
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The Bookworm Thinker for 8 Nov. 2021
Welcome, all, on this date of 8 Nov. On this day: 1674 – John Milton, the great English poet, author, and civil servant, died on this day. He is well-remembered for his full-throated defense of freedom of speech and freedom of the press. In 1644, during the English Civil War, Milton authored
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The Bookworm Thinker for 5 Nov. 2021
Welcome, all, on this date of 5 Nov. On this day: 1605 — The King’s ministers thwarted a plot by several Jesuits to blow up Parliament with 36 kegs of gunpowder when the ministers arrested Guy Fawkes as he tried to commit his crime. The whole event is described in
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The Bookworm Thinker for 4 Nov. 2021
Welcome, all, on this date of 4 Nov. On this day: 1791 — St. Clair’s defeat during the Northwest Indian War (1785 — 1795). General Arthur Sinclair, in command of a 1,000-man force largely of militia and poorly trained levees, had gone into camp for the night at what is
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Welcome, all, on this date of 3 Nov. On this day: 1783 — The Continental Army was, but for a few elements, peacefully disbanded on this day following their victory in the American Revolution. This was a rare event in history that required the personal intervention of George Washington to
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The Bookworm Thinker for 2 Nov. 2021
Welcome, all, on this date of 2 Nov. On this day: 1675 — The governor of Plymouth Colony, Josiah Winslow, marched out on this day at the head of a colonial militia to attack the Narragansett Indians during King Philip’s War. This was the costliest of the Indian Wars, one fought
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The Bookworm Thinker for 30 Oct. 2021
Welcome, all, on this date of 30 Oct. On this day: 1768 — a new sect of Christianity is born out of the First Great Awakening and the teachings of John Wesley as the first Methodist church in North American colonies is opened as the Wesley Chapel in NYC. Notably,
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The Bookworm Thinker for 29 Oct. 2021
Welcome, all, on this date of 29 Oct. On this day: 539 B.C. — Cyrus the Great of Persia invaded Babylon, and on this date, freed the captive and enslaved Israelites to return to their homeland, the story of which is recounted in the Holy Bible, Book of Ezra. 1682
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The Bookworm Thinker for Oct. 28 2021
Welcome, all, on this date of 28 Oct. On this day: 1704 — On this date, the most influential of the Enlightenment political philosophers, Dr. John Locke, passed away. He was an author of several influential works, the most important being his magnum opus, The Second Treatise of Government, that
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The Bookworm Thinker of 27 Oct. 2021
Welcome, all, on this date of 27 Oct. On this day: 312 A.D. — Emporer Constantine the Great looked to the sky on this date and had a vision of a Holy Cross. Constantine interpreted this as a sign of impending victory in battle if he would but fight under
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The Bookworm Thinker for 26 Oct 2021
Welcome, all, on this date of 26 Oct. On this day: 1774 — The First Continental Congress adjourned on this date, subject to the agreement that the participants would reconvene if Britain did not reconsider its militant policies towards the North American colonies, and in particular its imposition of the
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The Bookworm Thinker for 25 Oct. 2021
Welcome, all, on this date of 25 Oct. On this day: 1415 — On this, St. Crispen’s Day, an English army of longbowman protected by lightly-armored infantry under Henry V, achieved a legendary victory over a significantly larger army composed of heavily-armored French knights, at the Battle of Agincourt. The
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The Bookworm Thinker for 22 Oct. 2021
Welcome, all, on this date of 22 Oct. On this day: 741 A.D. — One of the pivotal figures in Western history, Charles “the hammer” Martel died on this day. Martel had built an army to consolidate Frankish rule in Gaul (modern France). His most famous engagement came at the
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The Bookworm Thinker for 21 Oct. 2021
Welcome, all, on this date of 21 Oct. On this day: 1600 — Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats the leaders of rival Japanese clans in the Battle of Sekigahara and becomes shōgun of Japan. This is also is the ultimate event in arguably the finest and most popular work of historic fiction ever written,
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