True West Magazine
The highest ranking American Indian in the U.S. Cavalry was General Ely Parker, an Iroquois from Indian Falls, New York. His hopes for a career were stymied because he was an Indian until he made the acquaintance of Lewis Henry Morgan who helped him gain admission to study engineering at Rensselaer Polytech Institute at Troy, New York. He graduated with a degree in civil engineering.
As an engineer he contributed to several upgrades on the Erie Canal. While working as a supervisor of government projects at Galena, Illinois he made friends with Ulysses S. Grant, something that would change his life.
Besieged Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega A lie told once remains a lie, but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth. - Joseph Goebbels, Hitler s Propaganda Minister, 1933-1945
President Ortega is a dictator! President Ortega is a dictator! President Ortega is a dictator! Etc., Etc., Etc!! Say it over and over, and it becomes accepted truth with absolutely no evidence whatsoever. Welcome to the post-truth world - A Goebbels world.
In 1979, the
The Sandinista National Liberation Front (Spanish: Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, FSLN) triumphed over the more than four decades of US-supported Somoza dictatorship. Thus ended the stable playground for the wealthy, right-wing Nicaraguan families and their affluent US investor friends, preserved at the expense of the vast majority of the Nicaraguan people. To this day the US has never forgiven the social-minded Sandinistas ( Sandinismo ) for having forced the end of the Somoza era. Many of the wealthy opposition n
Tri-County Independent
MILFORD – Milford, Pike County, Pa., has a 200-year legacy of harnessing the power of water for industry. This heritage with the waterwheel is reflected in its name.
We are indebted to the late Pike County historian William F. Henn, who compiled much information for his small book, The Mills of Milford in 1968, drawing from many sources. Henn served as curator of the Pike County Historical Society, where the Research Library is named in his memory. Henn authored five books on local history. He died in 1984 at the age of 83.
There were numerous mills operating in Milford. Some drew power from the Vandermark Creek, others were powered from the Sawkill Creek, as their waters rushed to join the Delaware River on the village s eastern border.
Happy Statehood Day, Ohio! 17 things to know about the 17th state in the Union Lisa Powell
Ohio commemorates March 1 as
Statehood Day. On this day in 1803, the Ohio General Assembly met for the first time in Chillicothe, then the state capital.
Here are 17 things to know about the 17th state in the Union, according to the Ohio History Connection.
1. Ohio is an Iroquois word that means “great river.” The Iroquois Indians began settling in the region in 1650.
2. Ohio became the 17th state of the Union when President Thomas Jefferson endorsed the United States Congress’s decision to grant statehood on Feb. 19, 1803. Due to an oversight, Ohio wasn’t “officially” admitted to the United States until Aug. 7, 1953. Congress never took a formal vote back in 1803.
By J. Dennis Robinson
It’s a New Year’s tradition for journalists like me to look back on the key events of the previous year, but have a heart. Who wants to rehash that hot mess? And as to predicting what might be coming in 2021, well, we all know how unreliable fortune tellers are. So let’s wind the clock back a safe distance, once again, and review what was about to happen one, two, three and four centuries in the past.
400 years ago
With the 400th anniversary of the founding of New Hampshire now only two years away, I bet 95% of Portsmouth residents don’t have an inkling of how it all began. No judgment here. I’m halfway into writing a book on the topic and, trust me, it starts out confusing and goes downhill. We know precious little about Amias, David and John Thompson (Thomson) who settled at Little Harbor in 1623, and much of what we’ve been telling ourselves for centuries is probably wrong.