#Philadelphia Indian Lawyer

[starseedpatriot]

Former Trump White House Chief Advisor Stephen K. Bannon has issued a blistering statement, sent to The National Pulse, explaining how the Biden-Harris regime is holding him illegally, refusing to accept his First Step Act eligibility, and incarcerating him longer than required in order to swing the election.

“Kamala Harris is the ‘Queen of Mass Incarcerations’,” Bannon told The National Pulse, “detested by black and hispanic men who are refusing to turn out and vote for her. She has done nothing to implement President Trump’s heroic First Step Act, in fact welcoming hundreds of thousands of hardened illegal migrant criminals while allowing US citizens eligible for early release to rot in prison. No mass deportations, but continual mass incarcerations.”

On August 29, 2024, Bannon filed a motion to reimpose bail or impose a period of supervised release. The government’s response to Mr. Bannon’s en banc petition has been pending for over 75 days. His lawyers say, “the Court should grant Mr. Bannon’s motion for bail pending completion of Supreme Court review, and order the Bureau of Prisons to release Mr. Bannon immediately.”

Bannon continued: “Harris will lose this election on her inability to get black and hispanic men to vote for her in Philadelphia, Detroit, Milwaukee, Atlanta, Phoenix, and Las Vegas. The four years she did nothing for family reunification of American citizen prisoners while genuflecting to illegal alien criminals is coming back to bite her. Her Indian heritage surely taught her: Karma is a Bitch.”

He concluded: “The Harris Bureau of Prisons is illegally holding me past my legal release date–trying to eliminate one of President Trump’s strongest advocates–these criminals reek of desperation.”

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[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 1.24

Holidays

BCPB (Black & Can’t Play Basketball) Awareness Day

Big Garden Bird Watch (UK)

Bull Day (French Republic)

Colorist Appreciation Day

Day of the Foreign Intelligence Service (Ukraine)

Economic Liberation Day (Togo)

Fiesta de Ekeko (Bolivia)

Foreign Intelligence Service Day (Ukraine)

Global Belly Laugh Day (at 1:24 pm local time)

Gold Rush Day (California)

Healthcare Continuing EducationProfessionals Day

Heart to Heart Day

International ALGS (Alagille Syndrome) Awareness Day

Internal Combustion Engine Day

International Day of Education

International Day of the Endangered Lawyer

International Mobile Phone Recycling Day

International Women’s Sport Day

Juan Pablo Duarte Day (Dominican Republic)

"Just Do It" Day

Macintosh Computer Day

Microwave Oven Day

Minimoog Day

Moebius Syndrome Awareness Day

National ALGS Awareness Day

National Compliment Day

National Girl Child Day (India)

National Heroes Day (Cayman Islands)

National Readathon Day

Paul Pitcher Day (UK)

Social Sipping and Nibbling Rehearsal Day

Square Dance Day [also 11.29]

Talk Like a Grizzled Prospector Day

Tax Ruled Unconstitutional Day

Tricknology Day

TV Game Show Day

World Day for African and Afro-descendant Culture

Zaevion Dobson Day (Tennessee)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Beer Can Day (a.k.a. Beer Can Appreciation Day)

Eskimo Pie Day

National Hot Cereal Day

National Lobster Thermidor Day

National Peanut Butter Day

Nature Celebrations

Change a Pet's Life Day

Saffron Crocus (The Beauty of Moderation; Korean Birth Flowers)

Independence, Flag & Related Days

Fundamental Orders (A Frame of Gov’t; Connecticut; 1639)

Uttar Pradesh Day (India)

Washington, D.C. (Federal District Proclaimed; 1791)

Ziua Micii Unirii (Unification Day of the Romanian Principalities; Romania; 1859)

4th Friday in January

Comfort Food Friday [Every Friday]

Five For Friday [Every Friday]

Flapjack Friday [4th Friday of Each Month]

Flashback Friday [Every Friday]

Flirtatious Friday [4th Friday of Each Month]

Friday Finds [Every Friday]

National Activity Professionals Day [4th Friday]

Newman Day (a.k.a. Newman's Day, 24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not.) [Bates College] (Friday nearest 1.26) [also 3.30 & 4.24]

Preschool Health and Fitness Day [Last Friday]

Stout & Chowder Festival (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) [Last Friday]

TGIF (Thank God It's Friday) [Every Friday]

Thorrablot (a.k.a. Þorrablót; Midwinter Festival; Pagan Iceland) [Friday after 1.19]

Weekly Holidays beginning January 24 (3rd Full Week of January)

Baltimore Restaurant Week (Baltimore, Maryland) [thru 2.2]

Data Privacy Week (thru 1.28)

Festivals Beginning January 24, 2025

Ann Arbor Folk Festival (Ann Arbor, Michigan) [thru 1.25]

Aukland Folk Festival (Aukland,New Zealand) [thru 1.26]

Fan Expo Portland (Portland, Oregon) [thru 1.26]

Foggy Longbritches Folk Festival (Brooksville, Florida) [thru 1.26]

First Taste Oregon (Salem, Oregon) [thru 1.25]

Göteborg Film Festival (Gothenburg, Sweden) [thru 2.2]

GWA (Georgia Watermelon Ass’n) Annual Meeting & Conference (Braselton, Georgia) [thru 1.26]

HIPPOLOGICA (Berlin, Germany) [thru 1.26]

Lakeland Pigfest (Lakeland, Florida) [thru 1.25]

Naples Seafood & Music Festival (Naples, Florida)

Naples Winter Wine Festival (Naples, Florida)

Pacific Poultry Breeders Association Winter Show (Lodi, California) [thru 1.26]

Feast Days

Alacitas (Aymara Indian Pot-Bellied God of Property; Everyday Wicca)

Babylas of Antioch (Christian; Martyr)

Blessing of the Candle of the Happy Women Pagan Purification Ceremony; Hungary)

Cadoc Day (Wales)

Cat Sacrifice Day (Aix-En Province, France)

Ekeko Festival (God of Abundance; Bolivia) [Lasts 3 Weeks]

Exuperantius of Cingoli (Christian; Saint)

The Fairy-Four Paganalia (Shamanism)

Feast of Our Lady of Peace (Roman Catholic)

Feast of Seed-Time (Feati Sementini; Ancient Rome)

Felician of Foligno (Christian; Martyr)

Francis de Sales (Christian; Saint) [Journalists, Editors, Writers]

Invent a God Day (Pastafarian)

John Belushi (Hedonism; Saint)

Jools Holland (Humanism)

Klaatu Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Macedonius of Syria (Christian; Saint)

Paganalia: Gaea’s Day (Celebration of the Country Farmer; Pagan)

Pendulum Dowsing to Find Lost Things (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

The Pendragon Legend, by Antal Szerb (Novel; 1934)

Pratulin Martyrs (Greek Catholic Church)

Sailing of Bast (Ancient Egypt)

Sementivae begins (Ancient Roman festival honoring Ceres (Goddess of Agriculture) and Tellus (Mother Earth)

Solomon (Positivist; Saint)

Stanley the Mouse (Muppetism)

Suranus of Umbria (Christian; Saint)

Timothy, disciple of St. Paul (Christian; Martyr)

Twrch Trwyth Day (Boar hunted by King Arthur; Celtic Book of Days)

Lunar Calendar Holidays

Chinese: Month 12 (Ding-Chou), Day 25 (Gui-Si)

Day Pillar: Water Snake

12-Day Officers/12 Gods: Stable Day (定 Ding) [Auspicious]

Holidays:

None Today

Secular Saints Days

Vicki Baum (Literature)

John Belushi (Entertainment)

Konstantin Bogaevsky (Art)

Cassandre (Art)

William Congreve (Literature)

Pierre de Beaumarchais (Literature)

Neil Diamond (Music)

Mahmoud Farshchian (Art)

Jools Holland (Music)

Machio Kaku (Music)

C.L. Moore (Literature)

Robert Motherwell (Art)

Aaron Neville (Music)

Mary Lou Retton (Sports)

John Romita Sr. (Art)

Kristen Schaal (Entertainment)

Ester Šimerová-Martinčeková (Art)

Vasily Surikov (Art)

Sharon Tate (Entertainment)

Gillis van Coninxloo (Art)

Edith Wharton (Literature)

Warren Zevon (Music)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

Absent Minded Willie (Gaumont Kartoon Komics Cartoon; 1917)

Alice Foils the Pirates (Ub Iwerks Disney Cartoon; 1927)

Amerika, by Franz Kafka (Novel; 1927)

By the Beautiful Sea (Fleischer Screen Songs Cartoon; 1931)

Championship of the Universe Race (Auto/Airplane Race; 1914)

Chicago (Film; 2003)

Clement Lorimer, by Angus Reach (Novel; 1848)

The Courier (Film; 2020)

Danse Macabre, by Camille Saint-Saëns (Tone Poem; 1874)

Evil Ways, by Santana (Song; 19870)

Façade, by Eidth Sitwell (Poem; 1922)

Farewell My Ugly or Knots to You (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 18; 1960)

Felix Flirts with Fate (Felix the Cat Cartoon; 1926)

Fierce Creatures (Film; 1997)

Go Ask Alice, by Beatrice Sparks (Novel; 1971)

Grand Hotel, by Vicki Baum (Novel; 1929)

The Grapes of Wrath (Film; 1940)

Hairless Hector (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1941)

Heir Restorer (Casper Paramount Cartoon; 1958)

A Hollywood Detour (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1942)

Ideas on the Aesthetics of Music, by Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubert (Essays; 1787)

Jirel of Joiry, by C.L. Moore (Novel; 1934)

Jules et Jim (Film; 1978)

Kings of the Wild Frontier, by Adam & The Ants (Album; 1981)

The Köln Concert, recorded by Keith Jarrett (Live Album; 1975)

The Little Brown Jug (Aesop’s Film Fable Cartoon; 1926)

Mickey’s Toontown (Disneyland Attraction; 1993)

Mouse-Placed Kitten (WB MM Cartoon; 1959)

Musica-Lulu (Little Lulu; 1947)

My Chauffeur (Film; 1986)

The 19th Hole Club, featuring Al Falfa (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1936)

Noah’s Outing, featuring Al Falfa (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1932)

No Other One (Fleischer Screen Songs Cartoon; 1936)

The Oompahs (Jolly Frolics UPA Cartoon; 1952)

Pluto’s Playmate (Pluto Disney Cartoon; 1941)

A Real Bug’s Life (Documentary TV Series; 2024)

The Rude Intruder (Chilly Willy Cartoon; 1972)

Setting Free the Bears, by John Irving (Novel; 1968)

Shift: Third Shift — Pact, by Hugh Howey (Novel; 2013)

Skid Row, by Skid Row (Album; 1989)

Snake in the Gracias (Tijuana Toads Cartoon; 1971)

Teddy Bear, recorded by Elvis Presley (Song; 1957)

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Film; 1948)

21, by Adele (Album; 2011)

Two for the Ripsaw or Goodbye Mr. Chips (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 17; 1960)

Waco (TV Mini-Series; 2018)

The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy, by Viktor E. Frankl (Philosophy Book; 1969)

The Yellow Kid (Comic Strip; 1897) [1st Newspaper Comic Strip]

Today’s Name Days

Franz, Thurid, Vera (Austria)

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Milena (Czech Republic)

Timotheus (Denmark)

Naima, Naimi (Estonia)

Senja (Finland)

François (France)

Bernd, Franz, Thurid, Vera (Germany)

Filon, Polyxene, Polyxeni, Xene, Xeni, Zosimas (Greece)

Timót (Hungary)

Francesco (Italy)

Eglons, Krišs, Ksenija (Latvia)

Artūras, Felicija, Gaivilė, Mažvydas, Šarūnas, Vilgaudas (Lithuania)

Jarl, Joar (Norway)

Chwalibóg, Felicja, Mirogniew, Rafaela, Rafał, Tymoteusz (Poland)

Xenia (Romania)

Timotej (Slovakia)

Francisco, Paz, Xenia (Spain)

Erika (Sweden)

Roxanna, Roxoliana (Ukraine)

Oral, Orel, Tim, Timmy, Timon, Timothy, Vera, Verena (USA)

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[theworstfoundingfathers]

Who is the worst founding father? Round 4: George Washington vs James Monroe

George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Continental Congress, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the American Revolutionary War and served as president of the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Washington has been called the “Father of his Country” for his manifold leadership in the nation’s founding.

Washington was a slave owner who owned a cumulative total of over 577 slaves during his lifetime who were forced to work on his farms and wherever he lived, including the President’s House in Philadelphia. As president, he signed laws passed by Congress that both protected and curtailed slavery. His will stated that one of his slaves, William Lee, should be freed upon his death and that the other 123 slaves should be freed on his wife’s death, though she freed them earlier during her lifetime.

Some accounts report that Washington opposed flogging but at times sanctioned its use, generally as a last resort, on both men and women slaves. Washington used both reward and punishment to encourage discipline and productivity in his slaves. He tried appealing to an individual’s sense of pride, gave better blankets and clothing to the “most deserving”, and motivated his slaves with cash rewards. He believed “watchfulness and admonition” to be often better deterrents against transgressions but would punish those who “will not do their duty by fair means”. Punishment ranged in severity from demotion back to fieldwork, through whipping and beatings, to permanent separation from friends and family by sale.

Washington endeavored to assimilate Native Americans into the Anglo-American culture. He also waged military campaigns against Native American nations during the Revolutionary War and the Northwest Indian War.

His closest advisors formed two factions, portending the First Party System. Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton formed the Federalist Party to promote national credit and a financially powerful nation. Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson opposed Hamilton’s agenda and founded the Jeffersonian Republicans. Washington favored Hamilton’s agenda, however, and it ultimately went into effect—resulting in bitter controversy.

In response to antislavery petitions that were presented in 1790, slaveholders objected and threatened to “blow the trumpet of civil war”. Washington and Congress responded with a series of racist measures: naturalized citizenship was denied to black immigrants; blacks were barred from serving in state militias; the Southwest Territory that would soon become the state of Tennessee was permitted to maintain slavery; and two more slave states were admitted. Washington signed into law the Fugitive Slave Act, which overrode state laws and courts, allowing agents to cross state lines to capture and return escaped slaves. Many free blacks in the north decried the law believing it would allow bounty hunting and the kidnappings of blacks.

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James Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was an American statesman, lawyer, and diplomat who served as the fifth president of the United States from 1817 to 1825. He is perhaps best known for issuing the Monroe Doctrine, a policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas while effectively asserting U.S. dominance, empire, and hegemony in the hemisphere. He also served as governor of Virginia, a member of the United States Senate, U.S. ambassador to France and Britain, the seventh Secretary of State, and the eighth Secretary of War.

As president, Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise, which admitted Missouri as a slave state and banned slavery from territories north of the 36°30′ parallel. 

Monroe sold his small Virginia plantation in 1783 to enter law and politics. He owned multiple properties over the course of his lifetime, but his plantations were never profitable. Although he owned much more land and many more slaves, and speculated in property, he was rarely on site to oversee the operations. Overseers treated the slaves harshly to force production, but the plantations barely broke even. Monroe incurred debts by his lavish and expensive lifestyle and often sold property (including slaves) to pay them off. 

Two years into his presidency, Monroe faced an economic crisis known as the Panic of 1819, the first major depression to hit the country since the ratification of the Constitution. The severity of the economic downturn in the U.S. was compounded by excessive speculation in public lands, fueled by the unrestrained issue of paper money from banks and business concerns.

Before the onset of the Panic of 1819, business leaders had called on Congress to increase tariff rates to address the negative balance of trade and help struggling industries. Monroe declined to call a special session of Congress to address the economy. When Congress finally reconvened in December 1819, Monroe requested an increase in the tariff but declined to recommend specific rates. Congress would not raise tariff rates until the passage of the Tariff of 1824. The panic resulted in high unemployment and an increase in bankruptcies and foreclosures, and provoked popular resentment against banking and business enterprises.

The collapse of the Federalists left Monroe with no organized opposition at the end of his first term, and he ran for reelection unopposed. A single elector from New Hampshire, William Plumer, cast a vote for John Quincy Adams, preventing a unanimous vote in the Electoral College. He did so because he thought Monroe was incompetent. 

[brookston]

Holidays 1.24

Holidays

BCPB (Black & Can’t Play Basketball) Awareness Day

Big Garden Bird Watch (UK)

Bull Day (French Republic)

Colorist Appreciation Day

Day of the Foreign Intelligence Service (Ukraine)

Economic Liberation Day (Togo)

Fiesta de Ekeko (Bolivia)

Foreign Intelligence Service Day (Ukraine)

Global Belly Laugh Day (at 1:24 pm local time)

Gold Rush Day (California)

Healthcare Continuing EducationProfessionals Day

Heart to Heart Day

International ALGS (Alagille Syndrome) Awareness Day

Internal Combustion Engine Day

International Day of Education

International Day of the Endangered Lawyer

International Mobile Phone Recycling Day

International Women’s Sport Day

Juan Pablo Duarte Day (Dominican Republic)

"Just Do It" Day

Macintosh Computer Day

Microwave Oven Day

Minimoog Day

Moebius Syndrome Awareness Day

National ALGS Awareness Day

National Compliment Day

National Girl Child Day (India)

National Heroes Day (Cayman Islands)

National Readathon Day

Paul Pitcher Day (UK)

Social Sipping and Nibbling Rehearsal Day

Square Dance Day [also 11.29]

Talk Like a Grizzled Prospector Day

Tax Ruled Unconstitutional Day

Tricknology Day

TV Game Show Day

World Day for African and Afro-descendant Culture

Zaevion Dobson Day (Tennessee)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Beer Can Day (a.k.a. Beer Can Appreciation Day)

Eskimo Pie Day

National Hot Cereal Day

National Lobster Thermidor Day

National Peanut Butter Day

Nature Celebrations

Change a Pet's Life Day

Saffron Crocus (The Beauty of Moderation; Korean Birth Flowers)

Independence, Flag & Related Days

Fundamental Orders (A Frame of Gov’t; Connecticut; 1639)

Uttar Pradesh Day (India)

Washington, D.C. (Federal District Proclaimed; 1791)

Ziua Micii Unirii (Unification Day of the Romanian Principalities; Romania; 1859)

4th Friday in January

Comfort Food Friday [Every Friday]

Five For Friday [Every Friday]

Flapjack Friday [4th Friday of Each Month]

Flashback Friday [Every Friday]

Flirtatious Friday [4th Friday of Each Month]

Friday Finds [Every Friday]

National Activity Professionals Day [4th Friday]

Newman Day (a.k.a. Newman's Day, 24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not.) [Bates College] (Friday nearest 1.26) [also 3.30 & 4.24]

Preschool Health and Fitness Day [Last Friday]

Stout & Chowder Festival (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) [Last Friday]

TGIF (Thank God It's Friday) [Every Friday]

Thorrablot (a.k.a. Þorrablót; Midwinter Festival; Pagan Iceland) [Friday after 1.19]

Weekly Holidays beginning January 24 (3rd Full Week of January)

Baltimore Restaurant Week (Baltimore, Maryland) [thru 2.2]

Data Privacy Week (thru 1.28)

Festivals Beginning January 24, 2025

Ann Arbor Folk Festival (Ann Arbor, Michigan) [thru 1.25]

Aukland Folk Festival (Aukland,New Zealand) [thru 1.26]

Fan Expo Portland (Portland, Oregon) [thru 1.26]

Foggy Longbritches Folk Festival (Brooksville, Florida) [thru 1.26]

First Taste Oregon (Salem, Oregon) [thru 1.25]

Göteborg Film Festival (Gothenburg, Sweden) [thru 2.2]

GWA (Georgia Watermelon Ass’n) Annual Meeting & Conference (Braselton, Georgia) [thru 1.26]

HIPPOLOGICA (Berlin, Germany) [thru 1.26]

Lakeland Pigfest (Lakeland, Florida) [thru 1.25]

Naples Seafood & Music Festival (Naples, Florida)

Naples Winter Wine Festival (Naples, Florida)

Pacific Poultry Breeders Association Winter Show (Lodi, California) [thru 1.26]

Feast Days

Alacitas (Aymara Indian Pot-Bellied God of Property; Everyday Wicca)

Babylas of Antioch (Christian; Martyr)

Blessing of the Candle of the Happy Women Pagan Purification Ceremony; Hungary)

Cadoc Day (Wales)

Cat Sacrifice Day (Aix-En Province, France)

Ekeko Festival (God of Abundance; Bolivia) [Lasts 3 Weeks]

Exuperantius of Cingoli (Christian; Saint)

The Fairy-Four Paganalia (Shamanism)

Feast of Our Lady of Peace (Roman Catholic)

Feast of Seed-Time (Feati Sementini; Ancient Rome)

Felician of Foligno (Christian; Martyr)

Francis de Sales (Christian; Saint) [Journalists, Editors, Writers]

Invent a God Day (Pastafarian)

John Belushi (Hedonism; Saint)

Jools Holland (Humanism)

Klaatu Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Macedonius of Syria (Christian; Saint)

Paganalia: Gaea’s Day (Celebration of the Country Farmer; Pagan)

Pendulum Dowsing to Find Lost Things (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

The Pendragon Legend, by Antal Szerb (Novel; 1934)

Pratulin Martyrs (Greek Catholic Church)

Sailing of Bast (Ancient Egypt)

Sementivae begins (Ancient Roman festival honoring Ceres (Goddess of Agriculture) and Tellus (Mother Earth)

Solomon (Positivist; Saint)

Stanley the Mouse (Muppetism)

Suranus of Umbria (Christian; Saint)

Timothy, disciple of St. Paul (Christian; Martyr)

Twrch Trwyth Day (Boar hunted by King Arthur; Celtic Book of Days)

Lunar Calendar Holidays

Chinese: Month 12 (Ding-Chou), Day 25 (Gui-Si)

Day Pillar: Water Snake

12-Day Officers/12 Gods: Stable Day (定 Ding) [Auspicious]

Holidays:

None Today

Secular Saints Days

Vicki Baum (Literature)

John Belushi (Entertainment)

Konstantin Bogaevsky (Art)

Cassandre (Art)

William Congreve (Literature)

Pierre de Beaumarchais (Literature)

Neil Diamond (Music)

Mahmoud Farshchian (Art)

Jools Holland (Music)

Machio Kaku (Music)

C.L. Moore (Literature)

Robert Motherwell (Art)

Aaron Neville (Music)

Mary Lou Retton (Sports)

John Romita Sr. (Art)

Kristen Schaal (Entertainment)

Ester Šimerová-Martinčeková (Art)

Vasily Surikov (Art)

Sharon Tate (Entertainment)

Gillis van Coninxloo (Art)

Edith Wharton (Literature)

Warren Zevon (Music)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

Absent Minded Willie (Gaumont Kartoon Komics Cartoon; 1917)

Alice Foils the Pirates (Ub Iwerks Disney Cartoon; 1927)

Amerika, by Franz Kafka (Novel; 1927)

By the Beautiful Sea (Fleischer Screen Songs Cartoon; 1931)

Championship of the Universe Race (Auto/Airplane Race; 1914)

Chicago (Film; 2003)

Clement Lorimer, by Angus Reach (Novel; 1848)

The Courier (Film; 2020)

Danse Macabre, by Camille Saint-Saëns (Tone Poem; 1874)

Evil Ways, by Santana (Song; 19870)

Façade, by Eidth Sitwell (Poem; 1922)

Farewell My Ugly or Knots to You (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 18; 1960)

Felix Flirts with Fate (Felix the Cat Cartoon; 1926)

Fierce Creatures (Film; 1997)

Go Ask Alice, by Beatrice Sparks (Novel; 1971)

Grand Hotel, by Vicki Baum (Novel; 1929)

The Grapes of Wrath (Film; 1940)

Hairless Hector (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1941)

Heir Restorer (Casper Paramount Cartoon; 1958)

A Hollywood Detour (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1942)

Ideas on the Aesthetics of Music, by Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubert (Essays; 1787)

Jirel of Joiry, by C.L. Moore (Novel; 1934)

Jules et Jim (Film; 1978)

Kings of the Wild Frontier, by Adam & The Ants (Album; 1981)

The Köln Concert, recorded by Keith Jarrett (Live Album; 1975)

The Little Brown Jug (Aesop’s Film Fable Cartoon; 1926)

Mickey’s Toontown (Disneyland Attraction; 1993)

Mouse-Placed Kitten (WB MM Cartoon; 1959)

Musica-Lulu (Little Lulu; 1947)

My Chauffeur (Film; 1986)

The 19th Hole Club, featuring Al Falfa (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1936)

Noah’s Outing, featuring Al Falfa (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1932)

No Other One (Fleischer Screen Songs Cartoon; 1936)

The Oompahs (Jolly Frolics UPA Cartoon; 1952)

Pluto’s Playmate (Pluto Disney Cartoon; 1941)

A Real Bug’s Life (Documentary TV Series; 2024)

The Rude Intruder (Chilly Willy Cartoon; 1972)

Setting Free the Bears, by John Irving (Novel; 1968)

Shift: Third Shift — Pact, by Hugh Howey (Novel; 2013)

Skid Row, by Skid Row (Album; 1989)

Snake in the Gracias (Tijuana Toads Cartoon; 1971)

Teddy Bear, recorded by Elvis Presley (Song; 1957)

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Film; 1948)

21, by Adele (Album; 2011)

Two for the Ripsaw or Goodbye Mr. Chips (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 17; 1960)

Waco (TV Mini-Series; 2018)

The Will to Meaning: Foundations and Applications of Logotherapy, by Viktor E. Frankl (Philosophy Book; 1969)

The Yellow Kid (Comic Strip; 1897) [1st Newspaper Comic Strip]

Today’s Name Days

Franz, Thurid, Vera (Austria)

Bogoslav, Felicijan, Franjo (Croatia)

Milena (Czech Republic)

Timotheus (Denmark)

Naima, Naimi (Estonia)

Senja (Finland)

François (France)

Bernd, Franz, Thurid, Vera (Germany)

Filon, Polyxene, Polyxeni, Xene, Xeni, Zosimas (Greece)

Timót (Hungary)

Francesco (Italy)

Eglons, Krišs, Ksenija (Latvia)

Artūras, Felicija, Gaivilė, Mažvydas, Šarūnas, Vilgaudas (Lithuania)

Jarl, Joar (Norway)

Chwalibóg, Felicja, Mirogniew, Rafaela, Rafał, Tymoteusz (Poland)

Xenia (Romania)

Timotej (Slovakia)

Francisco, Paz, Xenia (Spain)

Erika (Sweden)

Roxanna, Roxoliana (Ukraine)

Oral, Orel, Tim, Timmy, Timon, Timothy, Vera, Verena (USA)

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[the-paintrist]

George Catlin (July 26, 1796 – December 23, 1872) was an American lawyer, painter, author, and traveler, who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the American frontier. Traveling to the American West five times during the 1830s, Catlin wrote about and painted portraits that depicted the life of the Plains Indians. His early work included engravings, drawn from nature, of sites along the route of the Erie Canal in New York State. Several of his renderings were published in one of the first printed books to use lithography, Cadwallader D. Colden’s Memoir, Prepared at the Request of a Committee of the Common Council of the City of New York, and Presented to the Mayor of the City, at the Celebration of the Completion of the New York Canals, published in 1825, with early images of the City of Buffalo.

Catlin was born in 1796 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. While growing up, George encountered "trappers, hunters, explorers and settlers who stayed with his family on their travels west." Catlin was also intrigued by stories told to him by his mother, Polly Sutton, who had been captured by Indians during the 1778 Battle of Wyoming in Pennsylvania. Like his father, Catlin trained at Litchfield Law School when he was 17, although he disliked the field of law. He was admitted to the Bar in 1819 and practiced law for two years before giving it up to travel and study art.

In 1823, he studied art in Philadelphia and became known for his work as a portraitist. After a meeting with "tribal delegation of Indians from the western frontier, Catlin became eager to preserve a record of Native American customs and individuals."

Catlin began his journey in 1830 when he accompanied Governor William Clark on a diplomatic mission up the Mississippi River into Native American territory. St. Louis became Catlin's base of operations for five trips he took between 1830 and 1836, eventually visiting fifty tribes. Two years later he ascended the Missouri River more than 3000 km (1900 miles) to Fort Union Trading Post, near what is now the North Dakota-Montana border, where he spent several weeks among indigenous people who were still relatively untouched by European culture. He visited eighteen tribes, including the Pawnee, Omaha, and Ponca in the south and the Mandan, Hidatsa, Cheyenne, Crow, Assiniboine, and Blackfeet to the north. There he produced the most vivid and penetrating portraits of his career. During later trips along the Arkansas, Red, and Mississippi rivers, as well as visits to Florida and the Great Lakes, he produced more than 500 paintings and gathered a substantial collection of artifacts.

A Buffalo Stable Invaded by Grizzly Bears. George Catlin. 1852.

[musicalangel12]

My Books of 2024: "Between the Earth and Sky" by Amanda Skenandore

From Goodreads:

In Amanda Skenandore's provocative and profoundly moving debut, set in the tragic intersection between white and Native American culture, a young girl learns about friendship, betrayal, and the sacrifices made in the name of belonging. On a quiet Philadelphia morning in 1906, a newspaper headline catapults Alma Mitchell back to her past. A federal agent is dead, and the murder suspect is Alma's childhood friend, Harry Muskrat. Harry--or Asku, as Alma knew him--was the most promising student at the "savage-taming" boarding school run by her father, where Alma was the only white pupil. Created in the wake of the Indian Wars, the Stover School was intended to assimilate the children of neighboring reservations. Instead, it robbed them of everything they'd known--language, customs, even their names--and left a heartbreaking legacy in its wake. The bright, courageous boy Alma knew could never have murdered anyone. But she barely recognizes the man Asku has become, cold and embittered at being an outcast in the white world and a ghost in his own. Her lawyer husband, Stewart, reluctantly agrees to help defend Asku for Alma's sake. To do so, Alma must revisit the painful secrets she has kept hidden from everyone--especially Stewart. Told in compelling narratives that alternate between Alma's childhood and her present life, Between Earth and Sky is a haunting and complex story of love and loss, as a quest for justice becomes a journey toward understanding and, ultimately, atonement.

[kotlaw]

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[kemetic-dreams]

Hannah Elias was one of the richest African women who ever lived, but because she was a sex worker who ultimately became the largest Black landlord in New York, she is largely unknown to Us...

Hannah Elias was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, sometimes during 1865 at 1820 Addison Street, one of nine children. Her father Charles Elias was a "negro with Indian blood in him" who ran a large, well-regarded catering operation, her mother Mary Elias was "almost white", and they sent her to public school. In 1884, to attend her sister Hattie's wedding in style, Hannah borrowed a ball gown without permission from her employer, leading to a sentence at Moyamensing Prison and her banishment from home.

On her own

Supporting herself as a sex worker at a "resort" owned by Emelyn Truitt in Manhattan's Tenderloin neighborhood, she met wealthy glass-factory owner John R. Platt, forty-five years her senior. She left the brothel when her twin brother David and suitor Frank P. Satterfield asked her to live with the latter in a boardinghouse in east Philadelphia. She became pregnant and gave birth at the Blockley Almshouse in December 1885, giving the child up for adoption.

Affair with John R. Platt

After Elias reunited with Platt, he gave her large sums of money, "volunteerd [sic] to start her in the boarding-house business", at 128 W 53rd Street, where as proprietress she rented a room to Cornelius Williams. She then moved into a mansion at 236 Central Park West, passing as Sicilian or Cuban. Williams later fatally shot city planner Andrew H. Green in front of Green's Park Avenue home, confusing him with Platt.

Blackmail case

When Platt, prodded by his family, accused her of blackmailing him out of $685,385, the affair merited The World's lead story on 1 June 1904, describing her as his "ebony enslaver". Asked about allegations that she had been blackmailed as well, she responded "I have read in the newspapers that I have been, and I am frank to say that there must be some truth in a story which is given so much in detail." The novelty of a Black woman with the equivalent of tens of millions of dollars, living in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in New York, caused the Seeing New York electric bus tours to make Elias's house a stop. Platt initially refused to swear a criminal complaint, but relented, allowing police serving a criminal warrant to break down her door, where they were escorted to Elias by her Japanese butler, Kato. At the time she said: "I have no fear. I have done no wrong, and every one of the poor people I have helped is praying for me in the time of my affliction." She was arraigned in Tombs Court on June 10, 1904.

Held on $30,000 bail, meetings at the house of R. C. Cooper at 318 W. 58th St. and 149 W. 43rd St. raised money for her release. When Platt was "asked directly about Hannah Elias he aimed blows at the reporter with his umbrella and shouted: 'Don't talk to me about Hannah Elias.'" The story spread, leading to detailed court coverage in the Baltimore Sun as she took the stand and described how her money was kept in "15 savings banks" as well as "houses and lands worth $150,000, furniture and plate, worth $100,000, and jewels valued at as much more." After losing his initial court case, the court of appeals eventually ruled against Platt, allowing her to keep his gifts.

Later life

In 1906, newspapers reported that Elias evicted white tenants from several apartment buildings on West 135th Street with a note reading, "in the future none but respectable colored families were to occupy the flats". She was rumored to have continued in this vein, named in a 1912 article titled "Negroes Crowding Whites" as the purchaser of a $250,000 apartment building at 546–552 Lenox Avenue; however, she refuted these claims through her lawyer, Andrew F. Murray, in 1906. By 1915 she was living in a penthouse in one of her "numerous properties" at 501 W. 113th St. She joined forces with noted Harlem developer John Nail but later left for Europe with her butler, Kato, never to return.

Her death date is unknown.

[the-paintrist]

George Catlin (July 26, 1796 – December 23, 1872) was an American lawyer, painter, author, and traveler, who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the American frontier. Traveling to the American West five times during the 1830s, Catlin wrote about and painted portraits that depicted the life of the Plains Indians. His early work included engravings, drawn from nature, of sites along the route of the Erie Canal in New York State. Several of his renderings were published in one of the first printed books to use lithography, Cadwallader D. Colden’s Memoir, Prepared at the Request of a Committee of the Common Council of the City of New York, and Presented to the Mayor of the City, at the Celebration of the Completion of the New York Canals, published in 1825, with early images of the City of Buffalo.

When Catlin returned east in 1838, he assembled the paintings and numerous artifacts into his Indian Gallery, and began delivering public lectures that drew on his personal recollections of life among the American Indians. Catlin traveled with his Indian Gallery to major cities such as Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New York City. He hung his paintings salon style, side by side and one above another. Visitors identified each painting by the number on the frame, as listed in Catlin's catalogue. Soon after, he began a lifelong effort to sell his collection to the U.S. government. The touring Indian Gallery did not attract the paying public Catlin needed to stay financially sound, and the United States Congress rejected his initial petition to purchase the works.

In 1839, Catlin took his collection across the Atlantic for a tour of European capitals. As a showman and entrepreneur, he initially attracted crowds to his Indian Gallery in London, Brussels, and Paris. The French critic Charles Baudelaire remarked on Catlin's paintings, "He has brought back alive the proud and free characters of these chiefs, both their nobility and manliness."

Catlin wanted to sell his Indian Gallery to the U.S. government to have his life's work preserved intact. His continued attempts to persuade various officials in Washington, D.C. to buy the collection failed. In 1852, he was forced to sell the original Indian Gallery, now 607 paintings, due to personal debts. The industrialist Joseph Harrison acquired the paintings and artifacts, which he stored in a factory in Philadelphia, as security.

Catlin spent the last 20 years of his life trying to re-create his collection, and recreated more than 400 paintings. This second collection of paintings is known as the "Cartoon Collection", since the works are based on the outlines he drew of the works from the 1830s.

In 1841, Catlin published Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians, in two volumes, with approximately 300 engravings. Three years later he published 25 plates, entitled Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio, and, in 1848, Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe.

From 1852 to 1857, he traveled through South and Central America and later returned for further exploration in the American West Coast. The record of these later years is contained in Last Rambles amongst the Indians of the Rocky Mountains and the Andes (1868) and My Life among the Indians (ed. by N. G. Humphreys, 1909). Paintings of his Spanish American Indians are published.

In 1872, Catlin traveled to Washington, D.C. at the invitation of Joseph Henry, the first secretary of the Smithsonian. Until his death later that year in Jersey City, New Jersey, Catlin worked in a studio at the Smithsonian Institution's "Castle". In 1879, Harrison's widow donated his original Indian Gallery, more than 500 works, along with related artifacts, to the Smithsonian.

The nearly complete surviving set of Catlin's first Indian Gallery, painted in the 1830s, is now part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection. The associated Catlin artifacts are in the collections of the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian. Some 700 sketches are held by the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Some artifacts from Catlin are in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology collections. The Huntington Library in San Marino, California also holds 239 of Catlin's illustrations of both North and South American Indians, and other illustrative and manuscript material by Catlin.

The accuracy of some of Catlin's observations has been questioned. He claimed to be the first white man to see the Minnesota pipestone quarries, and pipestone was named catlinite. Catlin exaggerated various features of the site, and his boastful account of his visit aroused his critics, who disputed his claim of being the first white man to investigate the quarry. Previous recorded white visitors include the Groselliers and Radisson, Father Louis Hennepin, Baron de Lahontan, and others. Lewis and Clark noted the pipestone quarry in their journals in 1805. The fur trader Philander Prescott had written another account of the area in 1831.

George Catlin - Seminole Chief Osceola (1838)

[howieabel]

Another view of the Constitution was put forward early in the twentieth century by the historian Charles Beard (arousing anger and indignation, including a denunciatory editorial in the New York Times). He wrote in his book An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution: Inasmuch as the primary object of a government, beyond the mere repression of physical violence, is the making of the rules which determine the property relations of members of society, the dominant classes whose rights are thus to be determined must perforce obtain from the government such rules as are consonant with the larger interests necessary to the continuance of their economic processes, or they must themselves control the organs of government. In short, Beard said, the rich must, in their own interest, either control the government directly or control the laws by which government operates. Beard applied this general idea to the Constitution, by studying the economic backgrounds and political ideas of the fifty-five men who gathered in Philadelphia in 1787 to draw up the Constitution. He found that a majority of them were lawyers by profession, that most of them were men of wealth, in land, slaves, manufacturing, or shipping, that half of them had money loaned out at interest, and that forty of the fifty-five held government bonds, according to the records of the Treasury Department. Thus, Beard found that most of the makers of the Constitution had some direct economic interest in establishing a strong federal government: the manufacturers needed protective tariffs; the moneylenders wanted to stop the use of paper money to pay off debts; the land speculators wanted protection as they invaded Indian lands; slaveowners needed federal security against slave revolts and runaways; bondholders wanted a government able to raise money by nationwide taxation, to pay off those bonds. Four groups, Beard noted, were not represented in the Constitutional Convention: slaves, indentured servants, women, men without property. And so the Constitution did not reflect the interests of those groups. He wanted to make it clear that he did not think the Constitution was written merely to benefit the Founding Fathers personally, although one could not ignore the $150,000 fortune of Benjamin Franklin, the connections of Alexander Hamilton to wealthy interests through his father-in-law and brother-in-law, the great slave plantations of James Madison, the enormous landholdings of George Washington. Rather, it was to benefit the groups the Founders represented, the “economic interests they understood and felt in concrete, definite form through their own personal experience.

Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present

[dr-archeville]

On This Day: 2021 February 5

On This Day

1805: William Holland Thomas, a state senator, Confederate colonel, and lawyer who was appointed the “white chief” of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, was born in Haywood County.

1870: The first motion picture was shown to a theater audience in Philadelphia.

1917: Congress overrode President Wilson’s veto of a bill to limit Asian immigration.

1922: The first issue of Reader’s Digest was published.

1937: FDR proposed his ill-fated court-packing plan.

1997: OJ Simpson was found civilly liable in the deaths of Ron Goldman and Nicole Simpson.

2020: The Senate voted to acquit Donald Trump in his (first) impeachment trial.

One Year Ago

The New York Times, A1: “Assured of Acquittal, Trump Makes Case for a Second Term”

101 Years Ago

The New York Times, A1, Feb. 5, 1920: “Accord in Senate on Lodge Motion to Recall Treaty”

The backstory: Henry Cabot Lodge was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, but President Wilson shut him out of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 that negotiated the Treaty of Versailles. The treaty included the creation of the League of Nations.

It needed to be ratified by the Senate. In November 1919, Lodge sent the treaty to the Senate with 14 “reservations,” but no amendments. Wilson, who had suffered a stroke the month before, refused to negotiate. The Senate, for the first time, rejected the peace treaty.

On March 20, 1920, the treaty came up for a second vote without the so-called Lodge reservations. It fell seven votes shy of achieving a two-thirds majority.

Note: I, unable to escape 2020, originally labeled this section “100 Years Ago,” which is what I get for having a brilliant new idea at 1 a.m.

[zerogate]

It wasn’t until the nineteenth century that the Western population ever considered the glories of nasal breathing. It happened thanks to an adventurous artist and researcher named George Catlin.

By 1830, Catlin had left what he called a “dry and tedious” job as a lawyer to become a portrait painter for Philadelphia’s high society. He became well-known for his depictions of governors and aristocrats, but all the pomp and pretention of polite society did not impress him. Although his health was failing, Catlin yearned to be far away in nature, to capture rawer and more real depictions of humanity. He packed a gun, several canvases, a few paintbrushes, and headed west. Catlin would spend the next six years traveling thousands of miles throughout the Great Plains, covering more distance than Lewis and Clark to document the lives of 50 Native American tribes.

He went up the Missouri to live with the Lakota Sioux. He met with the Pawnee, Omaha, Cheyenne, and Blackfeet. Along the banks of the Upper Missouri, he happened upon the civilization of the Mandan, a mysterious tribe whose members stood six feet tall and lived in bubble-shaped houses. Many had luminous blue eyes and snow-white hair.

Catlin realized that nobody really knew about the Mandan, or other Plains tribes, because no one of European descent had bothered to spend time talking to them, researching them, living with them, and learning about their beliefs and traditions.

“I am traveling this country, as I have before said, not to advance or to prove theories, but to see all I am able to see and to tell it in the simplest and most intelligible manner I can to the world, for their own conclusions,” Catlin wrote. He would paint some 600 portraits and take hundreds of pages of notes, forming what famed author Peter Matthiessen would call “the first, last, and only complete record ever made of the Plains Indians at the height of their splendid culture.”

The tribes varied region by region, with different customs, traditions, and diets. Some, like the Mandan, ate only buffalo flesh and maize, while others lived on venison and water, and still others harvested plants and flowers. The tribes looked different, too, with varying hair colors, facial features, and skin tones.

And yet Catlin marveled at the fact that all 50 tribes seemed to share the same superhuman physical characteristics. In some groups, such as the Crow and the Osage, Catlin wrote there were few men, “at their full growth, who are less than six feet in stature, and very many of them six and a half, and others seven feet.” They all seemed to share a Herculean make of broad shoulders and barrel chests. The women were nearly as tall and just as striking.

Having never seen a dentist or doctor, the tribal people had teeth that were perfectly straight—“as regular as the keys of a piano,” Catlin noted. Nobody seemed to get sick, and deformities and other chronic health problems appeared rare or nonexistent. The tribes attributed their vigorous health to a medicine, what Catlin called the “great secret of life.” The secret was breathing.

The Native Americans explained to Catlin that breath inhaled through the mouth sapped the body of strength, deformed the face, and caused stress and disease. On the other hand, breath inhaled through the nose kept the body strong, made the face beautiful, and prevented disease. “The air which enters the lungs is as different from that which enters the nostrils as distilled water is different from the water in an ordinary cistern or a frog-pond,” he wrote.

Healthy nasal breathing started at birth. Mothers in all these tribes followed the same practices, carefully closing the baby’s lips with their fingers after each feeding. At night, they’d stand over sleeping infants and gently pinch mouths shut if they opened. Some Plains tribes strapped infants to a straight board and placed a pillow beneath their heads, creating a posture that made it much harder to breathe through the mouth. During winter, infants would be wrapped in light clothing and then held at arm’s length on warmer days so they’d be less prone to get too hot and begin panting.

All these methods trained children to breathe through their noses, all day, every day. It was a habit they would carry with them the rest of their lives. Catlin described how adult tribal members would even resist smiling with an open mouth, fearing some noxious air might get in. This practice was as “old and unchangeable as their hills,” he wrote, and it was shared universally throughout the tribes for millennia.

Twenty years after Catlin explored the West, he set off again, at age 56, to live with indigenous cultures in the Andes, Argentina, and Brazil. He wanted to know if “medicinal” breathing practices extended beyond the Plains. They did. Every tribe Catlin visited over the next several years—dozens of them—shared the same breathing habits. It was no coincidence, he reported, that they also shared the same vigorous health, perfect teeth, and forward-growing facial structure. He wrote about his experiences in The Breath of Life, published in 1862. The book was devoted solely to documenting the wonders of nasal breathing and the hazards of mouthbreathing...

I flipped to the last page in Catlin’s Breath of Life, the final paragraph he’d ever publish in his long life of research. “And if I were to endeavor to bequeath to posterity the most important Motto which human language can convey, it should be in three words—SHUT-YOUR-MOUTH. . . . Where I would paint and engrave it, in every Nursery, and on every Bed-post in the Universe, its meaning could not be mistaken. “And if obeyed,” he continued, “its importance would soon be realized.”

-- James Nestor, Breath

[ltwilliammowett]

Commodore Thomas Truxtun by Bass Otis 1817

He was born 1755 near Hempstead, New York, on Long Island, the only son of an English country lawyer. After his father died in 1765, the young Truxtun came under the protection of John Troup.  Thomas Truxtun’s nautical career began at the age of twelve. At this early age he sailed with Captain Joseph Holmes and James Chambers. At the age of 16 he was forced to serve in the Royal Navy and came aboard the HMS Prudent. After he was offered a job he refused and went back to his homeland. And at the age of 20 he sailed under the command of Andrew Cladwell and got his baptism of fire in Philadelphia in 1775 with his own ship.

Over time, Truxtun returned to Philadelphia. The colony sought a solution from the motherland England. He hired as a lieutenant at the Congress to fight for independence from England. In 1776 he was involved in the raising of many prizes off the coast of Cuba. 1777 he sailed on the Independence and sailed with her to the Azores. There he brought up three pinches. After his return Truxtun sailed with Mars into the English Channel. After that he commanded the Independence once more and then the Commerce and the St. James.

The ships of Truxtun transported military goods to the Thirteen Colonies. On one voyage, the St. James transported gunpowder and military goods to Philadelphia. This trip was crowned with a dinner at George Washington. On another trip Truxtun brought the American consul to France with the St. James.

When the United States Navy was founded, Truxtun was one of the first six captains. He took command of a new frigate, the USS Constellation. With this ship he intervened in the quasi war with France.

The frigate, accompanied by numerous smaller ships, operated in the West Indian waters between St. Christopher and Puerto Rico. On February 9, 1799, Truxtun achieved one of his two most famous victories. After an hour-long firefight, the USS Constellation brought up the Insurgents. The losses on the French side were high, 29 men of the crew dead and 44 wounded. Truxtun brought the insurgents to St. Christopher. There it was repaired and integrated into the United States Navy.

One year later, on 1 February 1800, he sighted the French 50-cannon frigate La Vengeance. He followed her all day and caught up with her in the evening. This was followed by a firefight lasting several hours. In the course of this battle the French frigate managed to escape. The rigging of Truxtun’s ship was too badly damaged and so he could no longer follow her. After a repair in Jamaica, Truxtun returned to Norfolk with the USS Constellation in March.

Furthermore Truxtun commanded the frigate USS President in the West Indian waters from mid 1800 to May 1801.

Commodore Truxtun retired in Philadelphia and worked in local politics until the end of his life. In 1810 he was denied a seat in Congress. From 1816 to 1819 Truxtun took over the office of Sheriff of Philadelphia.

Truxtun died in Philadelphia on 5 May 1822.

[bountyofbeads]

https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/wayne-barrett-donald-trump-rudy-giuliani-peas-pod-article-1.2776357?outputType=amp&__twitter_impression=true

REMINDER: Trump has relied on Rudy Giuliani as a "fixer" ever since Trump bribed Rudy to kill a mob-related money laundering investigation into him 30 years ago.

The late Wayne Barrett wrote about their corrupt 30-year relationship in 2016:

Peas in a pod: The long and twisted relationship between Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani

By WAYNE Barrett | Published SEP 04, 2016 5:00 AM ET | NEW YORK DAILY News | Posted September 25, 2019 |

Let's start with the fact that Donald Trump's top surrogate, Rudy Giuliani, is on the payroll. In January, he joined a law firm, Greenberg Traurig, that represents Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner.

Last year, the firm handled Trump's suit against the Florida city of Doral so his golf course could override noise regulations that barred him from bulldozing before sunrise. More recently, it handled Kushner's $340-million acquisition of the Watchtower properties in downtown Brooklyn.

When Trump paid a $250,000 fine in 2000 for secretly funding a million-dollar lobbying campaign against an Indian casino in upstate New York, he was represented by Greenberg.

Giuliani brought Marc Mukasey, the stepson of ex-U.S. Attorney General and lifelong Giuliani friend Michael Mukasey, with him to Greenberg; Mukasey is now representing legendary leg man Roger Ailes. Mukasey launched into a tirade recently against New York Magazine reporter Gabriel Sherman, calling the Ailes biographer "a virus" willing to "use any woman" to Weinerize the Trump debate adviser. His dad, who once branded Trump a "peril" to national security, delivered a Republican Convention speech the night after Rudy's screed.

This intertwine may or may not have something to do with why the Greenberg firm lets Rudy, one of its newest partners, hired early this year ostensibly to run a cybersecurity unit, travel the country with Trump, introducing him at rallies and fundraisers, challenging Hillary Clinton's health based on stuff he finds in corners of the internet, declaring her Clinton Foundation troubles worse than Watergate, wearing a "Make Mexico Great Again Also" cap, and helping draft policy speeches diagnosing African Americans for white audiences.

I even watched Rudy on TV, before one joint trip to Ohio, loading suitcases into the back of a Trump SUV in front of Trump Tower, the only baggage that slows him down.

Rudy has actually been more visible in his buddy's campaign than he was at times in his own $50 million presidential attempt in 2008, when he managed to convert the months-long top ranking in the polls into a single delegate. The imperial 2016 candidate who hates losers, especially ones who wind up in Vietnamese prisons, has instead embraced an epic dud, his solitary act of empathy in a campaign of callousness. He could've trashed Rudy like he did John McCain: "I like people who weren't caught with their command center down."

But the onetime comb-over twins just had too much in common. Though bombs-away hawks today, they got multiple draft deferments during the Vietnam War, with athlete Donald citing bad feet as his excuse and Rudy using an ear defect to sidestep his ROTC obligations.

Trump is now warning of a rigged election, invoking the image of Philadelphia blacks cheating at the ballot box and calling for voter suppression squads to "monitor" suspect precincts. Rudy said the 1989 mayoral election he lost was stolen and spent millions on suppression squads, dispatching off-duty white cops and firefighters to minority districts, when he won in 1993.

The two amigos also spark similar antipathy in Mexico, their latest joint destination — Donald for a mantra of insults, and Rudy for a multi-million-dollar anti-crime contract his consulting company won in Mexico City that flopped so badly the police chief declared he was "no fan" of Giuliani's. Rudy even tried to lend credence to the Trumpian fantasy that "thousands" of Muslims in Jersey City celebrated 9/11, quibbling only with the number.

Then there's the wife trifecta. No one in American public life, other than perhaps their kindred spirit Newt Gingrich, has ever mastered the art of a bad divorce like Rudy and Donald, carrying on as if spousal humiliation was the point.

Ask the kids. When Trump married mistress Marla Maples nearly four years after he walked out on Ivana, the three convention stars, Don Jr., Ivanka and Eric, didn't show up. Andrew and Caroline Giuliani made strained appearances at Rudy's 2003 wedding to Judi Nathan, but in 2007, both distanced themselves from their father's presidential pursuit, with Caroline Facebooking her preference for Obama, as close to the ex-mayor's heart as she could plunge the dagger.

Rudy's wife Donna found out he wanted a divorce when he announced it on TV, just as Marla had a couple of years before. Rudy then chose Mother's Day to alert the press that he would be having dinner with his new love and led the cameras on a 10-block walk with her after dinner, kissing her goodbye while his wife and kids simmered. His divorce lawyer declared "we're going to have to pry her off the chandeliers to get her out of" Gracie Mansion. Even Donald Trump was offended, writing an open letter to New York Magazine and urging Donna and Rudy "to sit down with each other in a room, without your lawyer, and see if you can settle this."

But Rudy was only following in the divorce-as-spectacle footsteps of Donald, who'd used the New York Post as his personal hammer a decade before, relishing in Marla's "best sex I ever had" headlines even as they horrified young Ivanka and Don. Trump told Newsweek the scandal was "great for business," and pushed Marla to seize on the opportunities it presented, including half a million to pose in "No Excuses" jeans.

He'd brought his mistress to the same Atlantic City boxing matches he brought his wife to, aboard the same helicopter, just as he'd set up Marla in a sparkling suite on the Aspen slopes while he was vacationing with his family. Young Don told his father then "you just love your money," a line he did not revive in his convention script. Ivanka, shocked by headlines on newsstands during her walk to school, just wept.

Rudy and Donald first got together in the late 1980s shortly before Donald became a co-chair of Giuliani's first fundraiser for his 1989 mayoral campaign, sitting on the Waldorf dais and steering $41,000 to the campaign. A year earlier, Tony Lombardi, the federal agent closest to then-U.S. Attorney Giuliani, opened a probe of Trump's role in the suspect sale of two Trump Tower apartments to Robert Hopkins, the mob-connected head of the city's largest gambling ring.

Trump attended the closing himself and Hopkins arrived with a briefcase loaded with up to $200,000 in cash, a deposit the soon-to-felon counted at the table. Despite Hopkins' wholesale lack of verifiable income or assets, he got a loan from a Jersey bank that did business with Trump's casino. A Trump limo delivered the cash to the bank.

The government subsequently nailed Hopkins' mortgage broker, Frank LaMagra, on an unrelated charge and he offered to give up Donald, claiming Trump "participated" in the money-laundering — and volunteering to wear a wire on him.

Instead, Lombardi, who discussed the case with Giuliani personally (and with me for a 1993 Village Voice piece called "The Case of the Missing Case"), went straight to Donald for two hour-long interviews with him. Within weeks of the interviews, Donald announced he'd raise $2 million in a half hour if Rudy ran for mayor. Lamagra got no deal and was convicted, as was his mob associate, Louis (Louie HaHa) Attanasio, who was later also nailed for seven underworld murders. Hopkins was convicted of running his gambling operation partly out of the Trump Tower apartment, where he was arrested.

Lombardi — who expected a top appointment in a Giuliani mayoralty, conducted several other probes directly tied to Giuliani political opponents, and testified later that "every day I came to work I went to Mr. Giuliani to seek out what duties I needed to perform" — closed the Trump investigation without even giving it a case number. That meant that New Jersey gaming authorities would never know it existed.

It's hard to watch Giuliani invoke his 14-year history as a federal prosecutor when he calls for Clinton's prosecution and square it with the seedy launch of his own relationship with Trump.

When Rudy was mayor, Trump hired the lobbying firm that included name partner Ray Harding, the head of the state's Liberal Party, whose ballot line had provided the margin of difference in Giuliani's 1993 election. Harding's firm quickly went from three lobbying clients to 92, and it steered the controversial, 90-story Trump World Tower, the tallest residential tower in city history, through three levels of Giuliani administration approvals despite loud opposition from community groups led by Walter Cronkite.

Both Harding and his son, a top Giuliani official, wound up felons. His other son, Robert Harding, a Giuliani deputy mayor, has long been a lobbyist at Rudy's current employer, Greenberg.

The Giuliani administration also wrote a 1995 letter of support to HUD for $365 million in mortgage insurance for Trump's Riverside South project, affirming that the Westside Yards site was in a blighted neighborhood, a contention so ludicrous that Donald had to eventually withdraw the application. A board of Giuliani appointees, pushed by Harding's firm, also approved renovations at Trump's 100 Central Park South, where Eric Trump now lives.

Rudy wound up a friend, speaking at Fred Trump's 1999 funeral, doing a grope scene with Donald in a 2000 Inner Circle skit, inviting Donald and Melania to his Gracie Mansion wedding and attending Trump's 2005 Mar-A-Lago wedding.

As aligned as Trump and Rudy appear, there are enough stark differences to make the embrace uncomfortable, at least if the blank-slate broadcast interviewers would do a search or two. When Mitt Romney ran against Giuliani, he said Rudy made New York a "sanctuary city," based on Giuliani's urging undocumented people to settle in the city. PoliFact found the assertion "true."

As mayor, Giuliani was the top Republican champion of the assault-weapons ban, sued the gun industry and called for "uniform licensing" of all guns, contending that the free flow of firearms into the city from unregulated states was killing New Yorkers.

Rudy was also one of the only elected pro-choice Republicans who even supported partial birth abortion. He's recently begun to perform same-sex marriages. He is, in all of these respects, an anti-Trump surrogate.

Yet Trump has said he might name Rudy to chair an immigration commission or to head homeland security. Trump apparently forgets that Rudy already gave us one homeland security secretary, his business partner and former correction and police commissioner Bernie Kerik, who blew up like a land mine before he could take office and wound up sentenced to four years in federal prison, partly for lying to the White House.

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 Halloween is a great time, because why not, to learn more about awesome women. Previous entries are here.

Alba Alonso de Quesada (1924 -- ): Honduran, lawyer and academic, long-term advocate of women, children, the working poor, and organized labor, campaigner against corruption, feminist and reformer, still fighting the global good fight at the age of 94.

Amina of Zazzau (? -- 1610): Nigerian, African warrior queen and conqueror, heroine of many legends and folk tales, who bested male rivals and collected tribute across several regions.

Ángela Acuña Braun (1888-1983): Costa Rican, another Central American woman and lawyer. Specialist in international human rights law, founder of many feminist and legal advocacy organizations, diplomat and ambassador.

Ashani Weeraratna (1971 -- ): Sri Lankan/South African, pioneering cancer researcher and director of the PhD cancer biology program at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.

Barbara Sanguszko (1718-1791): Polish, prominent figure of the Polish Enlightenment, poet, society hostess, translator, sponsor of artists, politicians, and intellectuals, philanthropist and religious patron.

Bibi Khatoon Astarabadi (1858-1921): Iranian, one of the first women’s rights activists in the modern history of Iran; educator, author, mother of seven children who also went on to distinguished careers in the public sector.

Brita Tott (c. 1498): Danish/Swedish, had an almost ludicrously colorful career as a major landowner, spy, forger, counterfeiter, administrator, and suspected traitor, who escaped the charges against her and lived into retirement.

Cheryl Dunye (1966 -- ): Liberian-American, highly decorated filmmaker, activist, and college professor, who studies the African-American lesbian and queer experience through film, art, and other mediums.

Diane de Poitiers (1499-1566): French, mistress of King Henry II of France and de facto queen of France for much of his reign (in which she competed with fellow Badass Lady Catherine de Medici). Well-educated, beautiful, and widely influential.

Ekaterina Karavelova (1860-1947): Bulgarian, suffragist, educator, author, and diplomat, instrumental in the development of women’s access to university education in Bulgaria and Eastern Europe.

Elena Cornaro Piscopia (1646-1684): Italian, the first woman known in history to receive a PhD degree, which she did in 1678, in philosophy, from the University of Padua. She dazzled academics from all the distinguished Italian universities (Rome, Perugia, Bologna, and Naples) in a public hearing. 

Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012): African-American, the grandchild of slaves, artist and sculptor who represented the twentieth-century black experience in her work and received many awards and recognitions.

Elizabeth Montagu (1718-1800): British, socialite and social reformer who donated large amounts of her fortune to the poor; founder of the Blue Stockings Society for educated women, and probably a lesbian, as she was reported to have had “no interest in men or marriage” and kept a female companion.

Fawziyya Abu Khalid (1955 -- ): Saudi Arabian, poet, social critic, feminist, one of the most prominent Saudi female poets and outspoken political advocate for the rights of women in the Kingdom.

Frances Kirwan (1959 -- ): British, mathematician, current Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford (a position once held by Edmond Halley, among others) and first female holder of the title. Distinguished researcher and teacher of mathematics and fellow of several Oxbridge positions.

Freddie and Truus Oversteegen (1925-2018 and 1923-2016): Dutch, Resistance activists during WWII, who seduced Nazis by luring them out to remote locations for their compatriots (or the sisters themselves) to kill them. Their family hid Jews too, and both sisters lived long lives and died of old age.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943 -- ): Northern Irish, astrophysicist who helped discover radio pulsars (described as “one of the most significant scientific achievements of the 20th century”). Was then excluded from the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics given to her colleagues in the discovery. Finally received a £2.3 million award for distinguished physics research in 2018, and gave ALL OF IT to help women, minorities, and refugees pursue careers in STEM.

Justina Szilágyi (c. 1455-c.1497): Hungarian, cousin of Matthias Corvinus (the Raven King) and second wife of the notorious Vlad the Impaler (yes, that Vlad). Outlived him and successfully pursued her claim to lands in Transylvania.

Katharine McCormick (1875-1967): American, philanthropist, suffragist, heiress, who went to MIT in the 19th century, and who funded the research necessary for the modern birth control pill. A pioneering advocate of reproductive freedom, who also donated a great deal of money to ensure women’s continued scholarship at MIT.

Khurshidbanu Natavan (1832-1897): Azerbaijani, poet and musical lyricist, social and cultural patron of the Karabakh region who funded civic improvement projects, founder and sponsor of literary societies.

Kittur Chennamma (1778-1829): Indian, Rani (ruler) of the state of Kittur, who led an armed rebellion against the British East India Company and who, while eventually defeated, has become a folk heroine and symbol of resistance against the Raj.

Lama Abu-Odeh (1962 --): Palestinian-American, lawyer, feminist, and professor who currently teaches at Georgetown University, scholar and advocate for Muslims in a post-9/11 world. 

Laura Bassi (1711-1778): Italian, physicist and academic; earned a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Bologna (1732) and subsequently became professor of physics there. First woman to hold a university chair in the sciences, instrumental in the study and spread of Newtonian physics.

Leona Vicario (1789-1842): Mexican, heroine of the Mexican War of Independence, feminist, one of the first female Mexican journalists, honored as “Distinguished and Beloved Mother of the Homeland.” 

María Abella de Ramírez (1863-1926): Uruguayan, another South American feminist and social reformer, advocate for sex workers’ rights and new divorce laws, founder of South American suffragist organizations, who fought the all-consuming power of the Catholic Church.