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This is a Great True Story

By: buzz-of-the-orient • History & Sociology • 13 Comments • 4 years ago

BUZZ NOTE: This should be baseball season time, so here is a story about a baseball player who would never have qualified as a player for the Cooperstown Hall of Fame, but something of his adorns...

History Proves It: The Christianity of America’s Founders Was Deliberate, Pervasive, Crucial

Via: donald-j-trump-fan-1 • History & Sociology • 117 Comments • 4 years ago

America unlike France was founded upon Christian principles. Most of the founders were Christian. They declared that our freedom to to pursue happiness and that our right to life and liberty...

Amazons were long considered a myth. These discoveries show warrior women were real.

Via: 1stwarrior • History & Sociology • 16 Comments • 4 years ago

These were the fierce warrior women of Ancient Greek lore who supposedly sparred with Hercules, lived in lesbian matriarchies and hacked off their breasts so they could fire their arrows better....

Commemoration to be held in US Bay Area to honor WWII Flying Tigers

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • History & Sociology • 5 Comments • 5 years ago

Fact: The Horrific Iran-Iraq War Cost $350 Billion (And 1 Million Dead)

Via: krishna • History & Sociology • 5 Comments • 5 years ago

The Iraqi war against Iran was one of two wars started by Saddam Hussein:

Rumble: the story of the Native Americans who shaped rock music - Native American Heritage Month

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 12 Comments • 5 years ago

In an eye-opening new documentary, hidden Native American figures are finally given credit for influencing a vast amount of popular music Katie Bain @bainofyrexstnce Mon 21...

Congressional Medal of Honor hero Ernest 'Ernie' CHILDERS [1918 - 2005].

Via: 1stwarrior • History & Sociology • 1 Comments • 5 years ago

Ernest Childers (1918-2005) (Creek) joined the National Guard of Oklahoma in 1937 on graduation from Chilocco Indian School, and was called up for active duty in the U.S. Army by President...

MARIA TALLCHIEF ''Americans first Prima Ballerina'' Native American Heritage Month

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 12 Comments • 5 years ago

This is a very long article about Maria Tallchief and the ''Five Moons''...American's first Prima Ballerina and the five native women that conquered the world ballet field. BETH MARIA...

Cmdr Ernest Edwin Evans, MoH Recipient, And The Battle Off Samar - Native American Heritage Month

By: kavika • History & Sociology • 18 Comments • 5 years ago

This article was written by a friend of mine, Honmana (Bear Girl in the Hopi language). This is considered the Navy finest hour. The quote says it all... Lieutenant Commander Robert W....

Native American Heritage Month - Will Rogers: Actor, Comedian, Political Pundit, Truth Teller - And Proud Cherokee

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 19 Comments • 5 years ago

Will Rogers: Actor, Comedian, Political Pundit, Truth Teller—And Proud Cherokee. In our time, we can remember where we were when a few transformative events occurred—the assassination of...

Native American Heritage Month to Honor a true American Hero - M/Sgt Roy Benavidez MoH recipent

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 27 Comments • 5 years ago

Roy Benavidez Raul (Roy) Perez Benavidez Born August 5, 1935 Died November 29, 1998 (aged 63) Place of birth Cuero, Texas Place of death Brooke Army Medical...

Chinese National Day Parade - Part 1, The Start and Military Section

By: buzz-of-the-orient • History & Sociology • 16 Comments • 5 years ago

Chinese National Day Parade - Part 1, The Start and Military Section October 1st was National Day in China, marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of the present regime, The People's...

China's National Day Parade - First Half of Civilian Participation and Ending

By: buzz-of-the-orient • History & Sociology • 16 Comments • 5 years ago

China's National Day Parade - First Half of Civilian Participation and Ending This is a continuation of the beginning and military part of China's National Day Parade on October 1st,...

Final Part of China's National Day Parade and Ending

By: buzz-of-the-orient • History & Sociology • 6 Comments • 5 years ago

Final Part of China's National Day Parade and Ending This is a continuation of the beginning and military part of China's National Day Parade on October 1st, and of the first part of the...

The Forgotten History of the Native Americans Who Helped the Underground Railroad

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 16 Comments • 5 years ago

Railroad An Underground Railroad historic marker on May 16, 2014 in Columbus, Ohio Raymond Boyd—Getty Images BY ROY E. FINKENBINE / HISTORY NEWS NETWORK...

36 years ago today, one man saved us from world-ending nuclear war

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 29 Comments • 5 years ago

On September 26, 1983, the planet came terrifyingly close to a nuclear holocaust . The Soviet Union’s missile attack early warning system displayed, in large red letters, the word “LAUNCH”; a...

Shocking Video Shows What Happens To A Woman That Pretends To Be Buzzed

Via: loretta-mashkawidee-kemsley • History & Sociology • 11 Comments • 5 years ago

A video that was posted online by rehab clinic Centro Europeo Neurosalus showed what would happen to a woman that is intoxicated in public. The video was filmed in Madrid at 5:30 pm, and the...

China's Mid-Autumn Festival

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • History & Sociology • 1 Comments • 5 years ago

Mid-Autumn Festival The Moon Festival, also called the Mid-Autumn Festival or Mid-Autumn Day, is second in importance only to the Spring Festival. It falls on the 15th day of...

Lessons of first WTC bombing (1993)

Via: krishna • History & Sociology • 6 Comments • 5 years ago

[I was motivated to seed this article from the past when I saw this recent this seed of this current (8/31/2019) news story: " Robert F. Kennedy Assassin Sirhan Sirhan Stabbed In Prison"]....

The Strike That Shook America

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 21 Comments • 5 years ago

This coming Monday the U.S. will be celebrating Labor Day. The origins of Labor Day are not a picnic and BBQ, but brutal fighting for the rights of workers. This is one of the strikes that...

Aboriginal Talking Sticks - Native Custom

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • History & Sociology • 11 Comments • 5 years ago

Aboriginal Talking Sticks - Native Custom Traditional Talking Stick The Talking Stick is a tool used in many Native American Traditions when a council is called. It allows all council...

Returning the Military After WW2

Via: buzz-of-the-orient • History & Sociology • 5 Comments • 5 years ago

Returning the Military After WW2 These are the most incredible pictures of the returning military from World War 2. This is proof of history you'll probably never see in children's school...

Early Native American Guitarist that Rocked, Rock

By: kavika • History & Sociology • 35 Comments • 5 years ago

In 1958 a young guitarist named Link Wray, A Shawnee Indian from rural North Carolina rocked the world with his song ''Rumble''. Rumble was banned because it was said it would create gang...

Politicians Don’t Actually Care What Voters Want

Via: bob-nelson • History & Sociology • 14 Comments • 5 years ago

We like to think that politicians care about what their constituents want. If voters in a legislative district have certain views about, say, the legality of abortion, we assume that their...

Remembering Oka: Canadian forces vs. Mohawks over a golf course and a burial ground

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 25 Comments • 5 years ago

The Oka crisis was a militarized dispute between the Mohawk people of Kahnawake and the Canadian government over a planned golf course that was to be built over a Mohawk burial ground...

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