On This Date in History

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
OK look Wolfman, to start with It's January 7th so I think your Tesla/Greely thing is just made up and besides didn't Columbus prove the world was round waaaay back when. Jeeeeez get with it man.

Originally posted by Great Big Stees
OK look Wolfman, to start with It's January 7th so I think your Tesla/Greely thing is just made up and besides didn't Columbus prove the world was round waaaay back when. Jeeeeez get with it man.

Originally posted by wolfgang59
8th Jan 1900

On this day General A.W. Greely, Antarctic explorer and Chief Signal Officer of the U.S. Army, was beaten unconscious at his home in Washington.

On the same day, his good friend, Nikola Tesla had his experimental laboratory in Colorado Springs closed down.

Coincidence?
Tesla was working on proof for his Flat Earth Theory and Greely ...[text shortened]... t the edge of the world.

The US government under guidance from the World Order silenced both.

Originally posted by Startreader
Please could you expand on and define the "World Order" which you say was silencing the US government?

Originally posted by wolfgang59
The Banks, the UN, the British Royal Family et cetera.
Do your own research. Open your eyes.

Originally posted by wolfgang59
The Banks, the UN, the British Royal Family et cetera.
Do your own research. Open your eyes.

Originally posted by wolfgang59
Columbus assumed the world was a sphere.
(As most people do now.)

Originally posted by Shallow Blue
As most people did back then, as well. It'd been known, as mentioned upthread, since the Greeks - in fact, Eratosthenes calculated its size to within a few percent, pretty good for someone who presumably never went north of Greece, south of Egypt, west of Libya (where he was born) and east of... well, at the farthest Mesopotamia.
Nah, Columbus was mock ...[text shortened]... eached Asia. And they'd have been right, too, if there hadn't been another continent in the way.

Originally posted by wolfgang59
Eratosthenes [b]assumed a spherical Earth and assumed a very distant sun.

Then calculated the size of the Earth.

Apart from what we are indoctrinated with - a spherical Earth is just one theory.
A theory which goes against all common-sense.

And a distant sun?!? It would have to orbit us at a colossal speed. Makes more sense
for the sun to be closer (a few thousand miles). How else would we feel its heat?[/b]

"What happened on January 9

January 9, 0475 Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at onstantinople.

January 9, 1349 "The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing bubonic plague, is rounded up and incinerated."

January 9, 1431 "Judges' investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France, the seat of the English occupation government."

January 9, 1570 Tsar Ivan the terrible kills 1000-2000 residents of Novgorod

January 9, 1613 "Samuel de Champlain publishes two volumes of his Voyages, outlining his adventures from 1604 to 1612; with maps of Acadia and the St. Lawrence River"

January 9, 1666 New France Governor Daniel de Remy de Courcelle 1626-1698 leads a 500-man military campaign against the Mohawks

January 9, 1760 Afghans defeat Marathas in Battle of Barari Ghat.

January 9, 1768 Philip Astley stages the first modern circus (London).

January 9, 1788 Connecticut becomes 5th state

January 9, 1792 Russia & Turkey sign Peace of Jassy

January 9, 1793 Dutch Prince Willem V establishes 2 brigades Drive Artillery

January 9, 1793 Jean Pierre Blanchard makes first balloon flight in North America (Philadelphia)

January 9, 1799 British Prime Minister William Pitt introduces income tax to raise funds for the war against Napoleon.

January 9, 1799 Income Tax introduced in UK

January 9, 1799 "UK hist Pitt brings in 10% income tax, as a wartime financial measure"

January 9, 1806 Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred at St Paul's Cathedral.

January 9, 1811 The first Women's Golf Tournament held

January 9, 1812 Swedish Pomerania (Germany) seized by Napoleon

January 9, 1816 Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for Miners at Hebburn Colliery.

January 9, 1822 "The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese king Joo VI, starting the Brazilian independence process."

January 9, 1839 Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science

January 9, 1839 The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.

January 9, 1839 Thomas Henderson measures first stellar parallax (Alpha Centauri)

January 9, 1847 The first San Francisco newspaper published (California Star)

January 9, 1848 People's uprising in Palermo Sicily

January 9, 1848 The first commercial bank in San Francisco established

January 9, 1854 Astor Library opens in New York City NY

January 9, 1855 "The clipper ship Guiding Star disappears in Atlantic, 480 dies"

January 9, 1857 7.9 earthquake shakes Fort Tejon CA

January 9, 1857 "The Fort Tejon earthquake of California occurs, registering an estimated magnitude of 7.9."

January 9, 1858 "Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide."

January 9, 1861 Mississippi becomes 2nd state to secede

January 9, 1861 "The first hostile act of Civil War; Star of the West fired on, Sumter SC.

January 9, 1862 "In Halifax, Nova Scotia the Grenadier Guards land to garrison the Citadel Fort"

January 9, 1863 The first section of the London Underground Railway opens -- between Paddington and Farringdon Street.

January 9, 1866 Fisk University establishes

January 9, 1878 Umberto I becomes King of Italy.

January 9, 1879 Cheyenne prisoners led by Dull Knife revolt at Fort Robinson

January 9, 1879 Kirland Warbler discovered on Andros Island in Bahamas

January 9, 1880 6' (1.8 meters) of snow falls in Seattle in 5 days."

http://www.datesinhistory.com/jan09.php

On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at approximately 11:30 am my dear wife Evelyn departed this life to be with her Savior Jesus Christ in heaven:

"Let's take the two questions in sequence with " Have you ever been asked to compose the eulogy for a family member or close friend?" first. Yes, I wrote the eulogy for my wife Evelyn while still in California; it was delivered by my sister Janet on January 25, 2003, at a church in Massachusetts.

Here's its beginning paragraph:"

"An Open Letter to Our Respective Families and Close Friends". In Remembrance: There is "A time to weep... a time to mourn." (Ecclesiastes 3:4) God has given us this time to cradle our grief over the loss of someone we love who has departed this world. While Evelyn's departure leaves large craters on the twin islands of our respective families' lives, it is for us to take advantage of this time to mourn by remembering her in a meaningful way. This Memorial Service is a sacred ceremony of affection, infused with dignity and significance. It transcends mere words of praise. We have also come together to honor Evelyn by celebrating the gentle dimensions of her life..." (to be continued as participation in this thread occurs)" (1 of 3) Thread 163972

"On Thursday, January 9, 2003..."

"We have also come together to honor Evelyn by celebrating the gentle dimensions of her life. It was the unselfish life of an elegant lady who understood sacrifice. It was the generous life of a true friend, who was quick to forgive and who poured out her forgiveness like a wine. It was also the incredibly focused life of a pilgrim soul with a personal sense of destiny, which achieved spiritual victory over fear and dying and death. Evelyn made advance preparation for eternity.

It is my hope that your heartache and loneliness and sorrow may begin to fade as you more fully realize that Evelyn's soul, in an interim body as described in John 14:1-3 and Revelation 21:4, is now safe and secure and enjoying a happiness surpassing anything she knew in this lifetime. It is also my hope that this letter may prove to be a source of comfort; and that it may complement your own appreciation of the exquisite and lasting fragrance of her memory..." (2 of 3)

"The room at Guinea Station where Lt. General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson died. Sunday, May 10, 1863.
Click here to see a brief video of this room (large file).

"On Sunday May 10, 1863, in the bed pictured above, Confederate Lieutenant General Thomas Jonathan Jackson passed from this earth. A devoutly religious man, when notified that he had not long to live, Jackson replied, "It is the Lord's Day. My wish is fulfilled. I have always desired to die on Sunday." His personal physician, Dr. Hunter McGuire, noted his final words. "A few moments before he died he cried out in his delirium, 'Order A.P. Hill to prepare for action! Pass the infantry to the front rapidly! Tell Major Hawks' -- then stopped, leaving the sentence unfinished. Presently a smile of ineffable sweetness spread itself over his pale face, and he said quietly, and with an expression, as if of relief, 'Let us cross over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees." Captain James Power Smith who "all night long" kept his General "warmly wrapped and undisturbed in his sleep" would also later write: "And here, against our hopes, notwithstanding the skill and care of wise and watchful surgeons, attended day and night by wife and friends, amid the prayers and tears of all the Southern land, thinking not of himself, but of the cause he loved, and for the troops who had followed him so well and given him so great a name, our chief sank, day by day, with symptoms of pneumonia and some pains of pleurisy, until, 3:15 P.M. on the quiet of the Sabbath afternoon, May 10th, 1863, he raised himself from his bed, saying, " No, no, let us pass over the river, and rest under the shade of the trees"; and, falling again to his pillow, he passed away, over the river, where, in a land where warfare is not known or feared, he rests forever 'under the trees.'"

Chancellorsville Jackson Monument Inscription: "He rests forever under the trees." http://brotherswar.com/Chancellorsville-7.htm

Notes: Included on the final page of my wife's eulogy. What had Jackson to fear? Nothing. He was going home to be with someone he loved." (3 of 3)

On This Date in History: "January 13, 1776, British raid Prudence Island in Narragansett Bay

In the early morning hours of January 13, 1776, British forces raid Prudence Island, Rhode Island, in an effort to steal a large quantity of sheep. But, upon landing on the island’s southern beaches, the British were ambushed by fifteen Minutemen from Rhode Island’s Second Company led by Captain Joseph Knight, who had been tipped off to the Brits’ plans and rowed across Narragansett Bay from Warwick Neck the previous morning.

A brief but deadly battle ensued before the British were forced to retreat. Three British marines were killed and seven injured during the ambush. Two Minutemen were wounded; one died and the other was taken prisoner. Afraid of further violence, residents abandoned the island between 1776 and 1777, and the island’s homes and windmill were burned.

Rhode Island’s Second Company continued to guard the area between Providence, Warwick Neck and Chopmist on Rhode Island for the next three years. Captain Knight rose to the rank of major in 1777, taking command of the Third Providence County Regiment. The Rhode Island General Assembly chose to end the Minutemen system in 1777 and the Second Company was reorganized as the Fifth Company of Scituate Militia. Major Knight and his regiment served the Patriot cause throughout the Rhode Island campaign of 1778. Knight received a further promotion to the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1778 and remained in the militia until his retirement in 1800, by which time he had served 34 years in the service of Rhode Island. During his tenure, Rhode Island had progressed from colony to independent state to member state of the federal union."

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/british-raid-prudence-island-in-narragansett-bay

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