On January 11, 1571, the freedom of religion was granted to Austrian nobility.
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A Freedom for the Nobles
Author: Redactor
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Townhall: Stupid or . . . Worse?
It’s the corruption, stupid — not the stupidity. This weekend at Townhall, what is our biggest problem? Click on over, then come back here:
- Gallup: Government Named Top U.S. Problem for Second Straight Year
- Washington Post: Solyndra Scandal
- Common Sense: Stop Phony Crony Pay Grab
- CS Meme: Arkansas Pay Raise
- Ballotpedia: Alabama Legislative Compensation Amendment (2012)
- The Blaze: ‘Clinton Is in a League of Her Own’: Watchdog Group Names Most Ethically Challenged Politicians of 2015
- Common Sense: Democrats’ Own Private Government
- NBC News: Defense Secretary Ash Carter Used Personal Email for Pentagon Work
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Tom Paine’s Pamphlet
On January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense.
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Albert Camus
“A pestilence isn’t a thing made to man’s measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn’t always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away, and the humanists first of all, because they haven’t taken their precautions.”
Albert Camus, The Plague (1947).
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Video: Speaking to Us Across Time
Ancient Greek sculpture, when it got realistic and quite individual:
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Fifth to Ratify
On January 9, 1788, Connecticut became the fifth state to be admitted to the United States under the new Constitution. Connecticut was one of the first nine states of the original union, under the Articles of Confederation, to accept the Constitution, and thus officially ratify it. All 13 original states had ratified that new compact, officially, by May 29, 1790. The first state to be added to the original 13 was Vermont, in 1791.
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State of the Union
On January 8, 1790, George Washington delivered the first State of the Union address in New York, New York.
In 1835, on this date, the United States federal government achieved a zero debt for the first and only time.
In 1867, African-American men were first allowed to vote in Washington, D.C.
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Henry Ford
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
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Winter War
On January 7, 1940, the Finnish 9th Division completely destroyed the much-larger Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi Road, in a crucial battle during Finland’s Winter War.
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Maria Montessori
“One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.”