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Today in history

19 December 1848 - Death of Emily Brontë.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Brontë
 
1777 - during the Revolutionary War, General George Washington led his army of about 11,000 men to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania to camp for the winter
1946 - war broke out in Indochina as troops under Ho Chi Minh launched widespread attacks against the French
1950 - General Dwight D. Eisenhower was named commander of the military forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
1972 - Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific, winding up the Apollo program of manned lunar landings
 
This is humorous:


1576: Edmund Grindal, Archbishop of Canterbury, sends a letter to Queen Elizabeth protesting her order that he tell preachers throughout England to stop speaking so often. She felt three or four sermons per year were sufficient. Grindal's refusal to enforce her wishes earned him house arrest.
 
as some wise ass once remarked. . .A sermon should be like a woman's skirt. Long enough to cover the subject; but, short enough to retain the listeners interest.
 
1620: English separatists known as the Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts

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smokeshadow said:
as some wise ass once remarked. . .A sermon should be like a woman's skirt. Long enough to cover the subject; but, short enough to retain the listeners interest.
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I've known two preachers who could do a forty-minute sermon and keep everyone's attention; most can't manage it for half that.
 
1216: Pope Honorius III officially approves the Dominican Order, which is dedicated "to preaching and the good of souls." Founded earlier that year by Dominic, the order has since been associated with study and scholarship.
 
^^ I think King James kept sending his daughter Mary threatening letters telling her that if she and William took the throne, God would punish them. The glorious revolution was a good thing, as King James wanted to turn the English monarchy into an absolute monarchy like his cousin in France had.
 
eddielee said:
^^ I think King James kept sending his daughter Mary threatening letters telling her that if she and William took the throne, God would punish them. The glorious revolution was a good thing, as King James wanted to turn the English monarchy into an absolute monarchy like his cousin in France had.
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That plus the Roman Catholic v Protestant issue.
 
496: King Chlodovocar, better known as Clovis, who united Gaul and founded France, is baptized in the Cathedral of Rheims, followed by 3,000 of his soldiers. "Worship what you once burned, and burn what you worshipped," the priest instructed him. However, Clovis and his troops showed little change after their "conversion" and apparently believed Christ was a war god who would grant them victory if they prayed for it. His realm absorbed much of what was left of the Roman empire in the west.

800: Pope Leo III crowns Frankish king Charlemagne (an indirect descendant of Clovis) in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, establishing the Holy Roman Empire with Charlemagne its first ruler.

1066: William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, was crowned king of England at Westminster Abbey, officially recognizing his rule and the success of the Norman Conquest of England.
 
1612 - Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei observed the planet Neptune, but mistook it for a star. Neptune wasn't officially discovered until 1846 by Johann Gottfried Galle
1895 - the Lumiere brothers, Auguste and Louis, held the first public showing of their motion pictures in Paris
1908 - a major earthquake followed by a tsunami devastated the Italian city of Messina, killing at least 70,000 people
1945 - Congress officially recognized the Pledge of Allegiance, without the words "Under God" which weren't added until 1954
1973 - the Endangered Species Act was signed into law by President Nixon
 
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