2/5/2007: History books chronicling the names of the Governors of Dakota Territory list ten governors from 1861, when Dakota Territory was created, up to 1889, when North and South Dakota went their separate ways as states, but on this date in 1887, none of those ten individuals on the list were sitting in the Governor's chair. Did Dakota Territory have an eleventh governor?
There is much confusion over why the United States of America and Canada commemorate Labor Day on the first Monday in September and not as many other nations do…
Pulling A Bait And Switch With The Word “Revolution”
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The word Revolution, like the word Republic, has evolved and been redefined. What once meant returning to a point of origin, a rebirth, or renewal, came to signify the utter destruction of the old order in favor of a fresh start, much as Prometheus, who stole fire from Zeus, became the Romantic model for the heroic overthrow of the old gods, the old order, the old verities. It is a classic “bait and switch” stratagem.
Following the War Between the States, Zachariah Montgomery, an assistant attorney general in the Cleveland Administration, wrote that the “Webster” school dictionaries then in use had changed the lexicographer’s definition of words like Constitution, Union, and Federal in order to promote a political language favorable to nationalism and what he called “a centralized despotism.”