It’s the anniversary of the Night of the Long Knives & dispatching of Ernst Röhm.
Send a copy of the Wikipedia article to Peter Thiel & Rick Grennell if you know them.
Discussion on Congo by Vijay Prashad…
Apparently, it’s the anniversary of Patrice Lumumba’s birth…
Here is the article:
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The work in can be found in Trove, as printed in 1855, at
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Crossposted from thoughtful stories thread…
An interesting fact about this late tropical monarch is that he traveled through the Middle East in the 19th century and impressed the inhabitants of Lebanon so much that many decided to live in Brazil. Today the number of Lebanese descendants in the country is greater than the number of inhabitants in the country of the Levant. In some Lebanese cities it is possible to see signs with words in Portuguese and even find typical foods from the tropical country.
I’m sorry, but how can this story not have a single picture of Sir Richard Burton as Henry VIII (from Anne of the Thousand Days)?!? I mean…
Contemporary, not ancient history. And possibly being repeated right now:
