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There's a new episode of the podcast up, a conversation with Matthew Restall, author of "The Nine Lives of Christopher Columbus." If you know something of Columbus (from the podcast, for example) there's a lot of fun stuff here. Links in the comments.
For those of you who follow college football, I wrote up a note on the history of Floyd of Rosedale, the bronze pig that goes to the winner of the Iowa-Minnesota game each year.
It's actually a really nice story from 91 years ago.
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There's a new episode up, "Bacon’s Rebellion 2: The Susquehannocks Strike Back." Folks, I'm not gonna lie. It gets ugly. And we learn a lot about Sir William Berkeley, even today Virginia's longest-serving governor!
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The best part is the "new brain-surgery" headline in the right two columns.
There is a new episode up for weekend listening pleasure, "Augustine Herrman's Map," the story of the Czech entrepreneur who would become one of the wealthiest men in 17th century America. Like and repost and stuff!
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There's a new episode up, "King Philip’s War 8: The Defeat of the Algonquians." We see the "ghost of Hadley," and the killing of Metacom. Along the way, we meet the first American ranger, the father of our special forces. Or maybe not...
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#OTD in 1493, the Nuremberg Chronicle was published. It contained the “events most worthy of notice from the beginning of the world to the calamity of our time.” Reflecting the desperation of Europe, the type had been set before news of Niña's return.
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#OTD in 1675, 350 years ago today, first blood is drawn in King Philip's War, when an English “lad” killed an Indian who was sacking a house near Swansea, MA. Metacom had provoked the attack, believing that the side that killed first would lose the war.
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#OTD in 1673, the combined Dutch fleet of Cornelis Evertsen - "Kees the Devil" - and Jacob Benckes leaves Puerto Rico after stopping for water and food, destination: The Chesapeake Bay and its tobacco fleet.
The Raid on America was on!
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Sepia portrait of a man in waistcoat & tie, hand in his pocket, a watch chain under his coat, gazing past the viewer. Made c. 1882.
Dr. Nathan Mossell, whose great-grandfather survived the Middle Passage, was a highly accomplished surgeon who founded a hospital in Philadelphia in 1895. archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/pen...
#OTD in 1632, the Charter of Maryland is granted to the George Calvert’s eldest son, Cecil, the Second Lord Baltimore, which is why the University of Maryland has such goofy football helmets.
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There's a new episode up, "King Philip’s War 6: The Awful Winter of 1676." We have the "hungry march," the "Nine Men's Misery," the burning of Providence, and the last real appearance of Roger Williams in our history.
Please share with others!
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Four hundred years ago *today,* Sarah Rapelje was born at Ft. Orange, today's Albany, NY, the first European baby in New Netherland. She lived 60 years, had 15 children by two marriages, and at least a million people living today are descended from her.
There's a new episode up, "King Philip’s War 5: Enter the Narragansetts."
Schizz has just gotten very, very, real. Among other things, there are "trees of death"!
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#OTD in 1602, Bartholomew Gosnold set sail from Falmouth with 20 aspiring colonists and 12 sailors on a small bark named Concord, destination "northern Virginia." Gosnold would name "Martha's Vineyard," among other places, but fail as a colonist.
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For this date in 1642, the proceedings of the Maryland General Assembly show that among the freemen in attendance, and thereby permitted to vote, was Mathias de Sousa, a free Black man and trader.
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I'm enjoying "House of David" notwithstanding all the presentism and such, but did they really need to put stirrups on the horses ~800 years before they were invented?
I understand poetic license, but I don't see the poetic purpose in gratuitous stirrups. It hurt my feelings.
#OTD in 1670, the reconstituted fleet for the Carolinas, after storms and other mishaps now consisting of the "Carolina," the "Three Brothers," and an unnamed Bermudan sloop, leave Bermuda for Port Royal, South Carolina.
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The great moments as a parent exceed everything. Your post made me smile! Not your intent, but wanted to say so anyway.
There's a new episode up, "Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette Explore the 'Mesippi'”!
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#OTD in 1648, Margaret Brent, appears at the Maryland Assembly and demands two votes, one for her as a landholder and a second in her capacity as Lord Baltimore’s legal representative. Her request was respectfully denied.
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As promised, for those of you who do not want to listen to political takes all day long, there's a new episode up, Raid on America 3: “All Theyr Cry was for New Yorke!”
It's about a decidedly unpeaceful transfer of power.
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It's a little irritating that MS Word flags "mightinesses," as in "High Mightinesses," the translation of the honorific used by the Dutch in the 17th century to describe stadtholders, as somehow misspelled.
No, "Mightinesses" is a word, Word.
#OTD in 1644, Giles Brent, acting gov. while Leonard Calvert is in England, orders the arrest of Richard Ingle, a Protestant trader and master of the ship "Reformation," on a pretext. Ingle takes it poorly, and so begins Maryland's "Plundering Time."
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There's a new episode up, "Raid on America 2: Kees the Devil Sails." Enjoy it, like it, and please repost it!
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#OTD in 1586, Sir Francis Drake attacks and captures Santiago, Hispaniola, the administrative capital of Spain’s empire in the West Indies. The Drake fleet controls the city for a month, and burns down about a third of it before the Spanish pay a ransom.
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There's a new episode up, "Raid on America 1: Overview of the Anglo-Dutch Wars"! There's a lot of action, including the raid on the Medway. IYKYK.
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