History for December 26

History for December 26 - On-This-Day.com:
Charles Babbage 1792- Mathematician and inventor, he is regarded as the pioneer of modern computers., Goerge Dewey 1837, Mao Zedong (Tse-tung) 1893- Chinese statesman
  

Richard Widmark 1914 - Actor, Steve Allen 1921 - Comedian, actor, composer. First host of "The Tonight Show." Films: The Benny Goodman Story (1955), The Comic (1969), Casino (1995). Scores: A Man Called Dagger (1968) and the CBS musical Alice in Wonderland (1985)., Alan King 1927 - Actor, comedian, producer: Films: Enemies, A Love Story and Casino


1776 - The British suffered a major defeat in the Battle of Trenton during the American Revolutionary War.


1865 - The coffee percolator was patented by James H. Mason.


1956 - Fidel Castro attempted a secret landing in Cuba to overthrow the Batista regime. All but 11 of his supporters were killed.


1982 - The Man of the Year in "TIME" magazine was a computer. It was the first time a non-human received the honors.


1991 - The Soviet Union's parliament formally voted the country out of existence.


1996 - Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey was found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's home in Boulder, CO.


2002 - The first cloned human baby was born. The announcement was made the December 27 by Clonaid.


2004 - Under the Indian Ocean, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake sent 500-mph waves across the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal. The tsunami killed at least 283,000 people in a dozen countries, including Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Sumatra, Thailand and India.

George Washington University removes U.S. history from required courses — for history majors – TheBlaze

George Washington University removes U.S. history from required courses — for history majors – TheBlaze:


"George Washington University in Washington, D.C., has apparently decided that giving students more “flexibility” means freeing them from taking required courses in U.S. History — even if they’re history majors.

According to The College Fix, the new requirements allow for students to take an optional course in previously required courses, or a high score on a placement test to opt out of the requirement, but the mandate to take U.S. history is no longer in effect. From College Fix:"

More states consider working around the Electoral College

More states consider working around the Electoral College
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Frustrated after seeing another candidate secure the presidency without winning the national popular vote, mostly Democratic lawmakers in several capitols want their states to join a 10-year-old movement to work around the Electoral College.
In states including Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New Mexico, legislators have said they plan to introduce legislation that would require their state's Electoral College voters cast ballots for the presidential candidate who earns the most votes nationwide, regardless of the statewide results.
...Since 2006, 11 states have signed onto the compact, which require their Electoral College voters to cast ballots for the national popular vote winner.
In theory it would take effect once it involves states representing at least 270 electoral votes, the threshold to win the presidency.
...The states that have already passed legislation to join the group represent 165 electoral votes. Typically reliably Democratic states, the list includes California, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington and D.C. — all where Democrat Hillary Clinton defeated Republican Donald Trump..."

10 year old autistic girl Kaylee Rodgers singing 'Hallelujah' will give you goose bumps!

Israel plans to defy United Nations resolution after Obama admin. abandoned its ally – TheBlaze

Israel plans to defy United Nations resolution after Obama admin. abandoned its ally – TheBlaze:

"Similarly, Netanyahu tore into President Barack Obama for his “gang up” on Israel and “collusion” with the United Nations.

The U.N’s actions have caused a large uproar in the U.S., which is traditionally very, very friendly with Israel and considers the country one of it’s few real allies in the unstable Middle East.

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham is so distraught with the U.N’s actions that on Saturday he called for all U.S. funds to be stripped from the international body."

CONFIRMED: Study Says Liberals Are Far Less Tolerant Of Other People’s Opinions

CONFIRMED: Study Says Liberals Are Far Less Tolerant Of Other People’s Opinions – American Lookout:
"A new study confirms what ,any conservatives already know.
That liberals are more likely to be intolerant of the views of others.
Any right leaning person with liberal friends of Facebook has probably had experiences which reinforce this.
A new study has confirmed what we all knew but what leftists are loathe to admit – liberals are far more intolerant of other people’s opinions.
A survey by PRRI found that, “Political liberals are far more likely than conservatives to say they removed someone from their social media circle due to what they shared online.”
Nearly a quarter (24%) of Democrats say they blocked, unfriended or unfollowed someone after the presidential election, compared to just 9% of Republicans and 9% of Independents who were triggered to do the same.
Almost three in ten (30%) of Democratic women removed someone from their social network because of their political opinion.
While liberals preach tolerance and diversity until they’re blue in the face, this study once again proves that leftists are completely intolerant when it comes to diversity of opinion.
Conservatives may think liberals have bad ideas but liberals tend to believe conservatives are evil.
That’s part of what makes liberals so intolerant.
They believe they’re morally superior."

ENYA -The Spirit of Christmas Past

Christmas Truce of 1914, World War I - Christmas is for Sharing

Trey Gowdy Kicks Obama Out The Door With Brutal Message About His Presidency, You’ll Love It – Conservative 101

Trey Gowdy Kicks Obama Out The Door With Brutal Message About His Presidency, You’ll Love It – Conservative 101:

"Gowdy recently stood up with a national advocacy group for veterans and brutally criticized lame-duck President Obama for his sickening neglect of the VA healthcare system and for the way Obama’s government retaliated against whistleblowers both within the Internal Revenue Service and the VA.

Said Gowdy, standing shoulder to shoulder with Concerned Veterans for America, “I don’t like bullies. Government against whistleblowers is an unequal fight. Free speech is the ability to speak truth to power without consequences.”"

What One Woman Learned Serving On A Jury With Rex Tillerson

What One Woman Learned Serving On A Jury With Rex Tillerson | The Daily Caller:
"The tall, enigmatic fellow with shocks of white hair and an oil man’s swagger seemed that natural choice for jury foreman, but he told his fellow jurors he wasn’t interested in the spotlight.

He spent lunch breaks thumbing through the newspaper and trading pleasantries with other jurors, while a strapping man with an ear piece looked on. It was several coy answers and many Google searches before anyone learned he was Rex Tillerson, CEO of ExxonMobil, now President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to serve as secretary of State.

Emily Roden, a small business owner in Denton, Texas, served on a jury in Denton County with Tillerson nine years ago, and recounted the experience for The Dallas Morning News.

The case concerned a young girl who accused her mother’s boyfriend of sexual assault. Roden describes the girl as “scared and deeply wounded,” who relied on a local nonprofit for emotional support and legal aid throughout the ordeal. 
Though a comfortable majority of the jurors were convinced of the defendant’s guilt by the time the jury began deliberating, the defense had sown the seeds of reasonable doubt among a few holdouts. A hung jury was well within the realm of possibility. That, Roden writes, is when Tillerson made his appeal. She says:

That’s when Tillerson began to speak. Humbly, delicately and without an ounce of condescension toward those who disagreed, he began walking us all through the details of the case. I even recall being moved by his thorough explanation about the nature of doubt and the standards set forth by our justice system.

With great patience, this man who strikes multibillion-dollar deals with foreign heads of state brought our scrappy jury together — to bring a sexual predator to justice and to deliver justice for a scared and deeply wounded little girl.

After the guilty verdict was delivered, Tillerson, at Roden’s urging, made a “generous donation” to the nonprofit that counseled the victim through her recovery process and the trial..."
Read on!
A good man.

Mannheim Steamroller - Christmas Extraordinair - Full Album

AM Fruitcake

Celtic Woman A Christmas Celebration

Soldier's Silent Night

Politico: Clinton Team Was In Contact With Electors Seeking To Block Trump - Matt Vespa

Politico: Clinton Team Was In Contact With Electors Seeking To Block Trump - Matt Vespa:

"First, the Russians didn’t cost Hillary Clinton the election, and a majority of voters don’t believe that hacking tilted the election towards Trump. That shortfall rests with one woman: Hillary Rodham Clinton. If she weren’t such a moron with her email arrangement, like not setting it up in the first place because the State Department would have never signed off on it, then the FBI and Director James Comey wouldn’t have been such a focal point this cycle."

christmas - Bing images

christmas - Bing images:
Sad.
But telling.
I was searching Bing for a Christmas image for this blog and had to scroll down 1/3 of the page for the first "religious' image.
Only six on the entire page.
Merry Christmas!

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History for December 25

History for December 25 - On-This-Day.com


Sir Isaac Newton 1642 (O.S.) - Physicist, mathematician, Clara Barton 1821, Humphrey Bogart 1899


Anwar Sadat (Egypt) 1918, Rod Serling 1924, Jimmy Buffett 1946 - Singer
  

0800 - Charlemagne was crowned first Holy Roman Emperor in Rome by Pope Leo III.


1776 - Gen. George Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware River for a surprise attack against Hessian forces at Trenton, NJ.



1818 - "Silent Night" was performed for the first time, at the Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorff, Austria.


1914 - During World War I, British and German troops observed an unofficial truce and even playing football together on the Western Front.


1926 - Hirohito became the emperor of Japan after the death of his father Emperor Taisho.


1989 - Ousted Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, were executed following a popular uprising.


1989 - Dissident playwright Vaclav Havel was elected president of Czechoslovakia.


1991 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev went on television to announce his resignation as leader of a Communist superpower that had already gone out of existence.

US abandons Israel as UN votes against Israeli settlements, and Trump responds – TheBlaze

US abandons Israel as UN votes against Israeli settlements, and Trump responds – TheBlaze:

"The blame for this is being put on President Barack Obama and his administration, who has been highly critical of Israel in the past. Various heads of organization heads have weighed in on the decision, not just pointing their fingers at Obama, but adding some incredibly harsh words as well."