Revival History

 Newman Clanton was born in Davidson County, Tennessee, and married Mariah Sexton Kelso in Callaway County, Missouri on January 5, 1840.  They had five sons and two daughters: John Wesley, Phineas Fay, Joseph Isaac, William Harrison, Mary Elise, Ester Ann, and Alonzo Peter. Alonzo Peter died as an infant. For almost twenty years, the family moved repeatedly, trying to find a place where employment or business could bring the family prosperity. Newman Clanton joined the California Gold Rush to California, but failed to find gold and returned east. By 1853, Newman had moved the family to Dallas, Texas, where they ranched for a time, and where their last two children, Ester and Alonzo were born. Both Newman and his oldest son John enlisted in the Confederate Home Guard at the outbreak of the American Civil War. Newman was eventually released due to his age. Newman moved the family to Arizona Territory in 1865 at the end of the war and settled for a time near Fort Bowie near Willc...

 Pictured above are Monsheeda (Dust Maker), and his wife Mehunga (Standing Buffalo).  They are two Ponca Native Americans posing for a wedding photo which was taken around 1900. The photo is special because the two are smiling, a sight rarely seen in old photos. Since I am away from home I won't be able to make a post today, but I will repost some short info I wrote a couple of months ago regarding why people don't smile in old photos. - People smiling is almost never seen in vintage pictures (especially of the 19th century), since it took a long time to take a photo and people couldn't hold a natural smile for that long. Another factor is that most people and especially Native Americans (due to their way of life) were largely alien to such technology, and were thus afraid of it.

 "There are various punishments for drunkenness such as being tied to the picket line with the horses all day, or having the hand cuffs on, and a rope passed through them tied to the upper part of the stable, drawing the hands so high he can only touch his toes to the ground. Then if he talks too much, has a gag put in his mouth. Sometimes he is put on extra duty several days, or put in the guard house where he carries a log of wood weighting 15 or 20 lbs. around a ring from two hours to one day. Or perhaps he is court martialed and has to pay a fine of from 2 to 5 dollars. Now what would seem more abusive than to see a man with his hands tied together, and drawn up over his head & fastened so high he could only touch the ground with his toes, and then if he finds fault about it is gagged and given a bath by throwing a pail of cold water on him, you would ask at once why this brutal treatment? We tell you he has been drunk. But you say that seems too severe simply for that. Bu...

 Same-s£x Marriage: “Time Has Come For Him To Go” — Nigerian Actor, Kenneth Okonkwo, Asks Catholic Bishops To Demand That Pope Should Step Down He wrote: “It is not enough for some Catholic Bishops to rebel against the unscriptural pronouncement of Pope Francis that the Catholic Church should bless same s3x marriage, time has come for the Bishops to demand that the Pope should step down. This is the only way to prevent the inevitable implosion of the church as it happened in Anglican church. God is very clear that such acts should not be once mentioned in the church (Ephesians 5:3). Now that the Pope has ill-advisedly not only mentioned the act of same s£x marriage but asked Priests to bless them, time has come for him to go.”

 INVESTIGATING HISTORY:  WWII HEROES PROJECT I have been searching for the unknown heroes of WWII, those who fought for our Country to include not only our uncles and grandfathers but also our Indigenous People whose contribution had been forgotten.  Since 1999, I was able to compile such history of the unknown Fighting Filipinos and Tomas King is just one of them.   **TOMAS KING: THE FORGOTTEN USAFFE AYTA HEADHUNTER OF MT. PINATUBO ** During the Japanese raid over Clark Field on December 8, 1941 and the succeeding days, several Japanese planes were shot down by anti-aircraft fire and by intercept battles with the American pursuit squadrons. Some of the Japanese planes hit and pilots landed on the high grounds overlooking Clark Field, the territory of the dreaded Ayta warriors that had been occupying the areas since "time immemorial". To the north and northwest from Fort Stotsenburg-Clark, lies the Bamban Mountains where the Ayta Mag-Antsi tribes occupied the mo...

 For three years beginning in 1897, Watertown’s James Woolson labored in his garage and built a primitive automobile of his own design . To create this early horseless carriage, he installed a gasoline engine into a buggy. Things didn't work out as he had hoped.  Woolson’s real job was running his father’s factory (seen here) which made mouse traps and umbrellas and parasols parts. The Woolson factory was a big sprawling place at the end of Woolson Street near the intersection of Northfield Road and Merriman Lane. Once Woolson’s new-fangled auto was complete and ready to drive, he made arrangements for the factory to shut down for five minutes so he could show off his contraption.  The plan was to drive the buggy to the factory and all the employees would be able to witness its arrival.  The factory had plenty of windows, and at the designated time all the workers headed for those windows in anticipation of the show.  Proud as could be, Woolson drove down the st...

 A truly amazing and remarkable story of a fearless Barney Hines  -  What a Legend! Born in Liverpool, England in 1873, Barney Hines was always a rebel.  Of German descent, he ran away to enlist in the army at the age of 14 but was dragged home by his mother.  Two years later he joined the Royal Navy and saw action during the Boxer Rebellion when he served on a gunboat chasing pirates in the China Sea.  Discharged the following year, he went gold seeking around the world and was in South Africa when the Boer War broke out.  He served throughout it as a scout with various British units. 'Barney' Hines was also a kleptomaniac who became known in the trenches as the "Souvenir King". But he was one of the bravest soldiers at the front and would have been decorated many times had it not been for his lack of military discipline.....he earned his nickname because of his incurable habit of hijacking medals, badges, rifles, helmets and watches from the bodies o...

 On this day in 1780, a group of Patriots crosses the Pee Dee River and camps in the swamps of eastern South Carolina.   They’d just routed a group of Loyalists at the Battle of Black Mingo Creek. It was the Swamp Fox’s third victory since mid-August!  He’d won the battle in a mere 15 minutes. The victories were badly needed. They served as morale boosters in the wake of General Horatio Gate’s disastrous defeat at the Battle of Camden.  The “Swamp Fox” had a real name, of course. Francis Marion had won a battle at Horse Creek in August and at Blue Savannah in early September.  The British had been trying to find the Swamp Fox ever since. Unfortunately, the British did more than just look for Marion. They were also destroying land and harassing local families.  The harassment was intended to discourage Patriots from fighting. Marion and his men soon had enough. The British were messing with their neck of the woods. They had been recuperating in the Great Whi...

 At about this time in 1781, two South Carolina women take a huge risk for the Patriot cause. Yet the details of their escapade were nearly lost to history. Americans were then conducting two sieges in the South: Major General Nathanael Greene was at Ninety-Six, a fortified village near modern-day Cambridge. Meanwhile, General Andrew Pickens and Colonel Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee were outside Augusta. Needless to say, it didn’t always go so well for those living near Augusta and Ninety-Six.  Two women by the names of Grace and Rachel Martin were among those who were being harassed by Loyalists and British officers in the area. Their husbands were serving in the Continental Army, and the two women were living with their mother-in-law. On one occasion, Loyalists arrived and tore open all their feather beds. On another occasion, the women learned that one of the Martin sons, William, had been killed in action. They learned the news because a British soldier came to taunt them...

 On February 20, 1970, Keith Sapsford, a 14-year-old Australian teenager, entered Sydney Airport and concealed himself in the wheel well of a plane bound for Japan.  Known for his curiosity, Keith saw this as an adventurous escapade. Tragically, not long after takeoff, he fell 200 feet to his doom.  Yeah This harrowing moment was inadvertently captured by John Gilpin, an amateur photographer, who was testing his new camera lens at the airport and took this poignant photo just before the calamity occurred.

 On this day in 1774, New Jersey colonists set fire to a shipment of tеa. Their action came about one year after a group of Boston colonists famously threw tеa into their own harbor. The Boston Tеa P arty wasn’t the only protest against the Tеa Act of 1773, you see. As “No tąxatίon without representation” became a rallying cry in the American colonies, Philadelphia forced a ship carrying tеa to turn back. Likewise, Annapolis ensured that a ship carrying tеa would be lit afire. Places like New York and Charleston revolted in their own ways, too. Colonists in Greenwich, New Jersey, soon joined the protest. Their “Tеa P arty” (really a tеa burning) would be the last of these types of protests before the opening shots of the American Revοlutiοn. “The most famous tеa p arty was Boston in December of 1773,” Bob Francois of the Cumberland County Historical Society explains, “and our tеa p arty was the last and least famous. It wasn’t in a major city. It was in a backwater Cοlonial seapor...

 On 29 December 1170, Thomas Becket was murdered at the altar of Canterbury Cathedral by four knights under Henry II.⁠ ⁠ Becket and the king were in the midst of a bitter feud, and on one occasion an enraged Henry is said to have cried out: “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" ⁠ The knights took him at his word and independently set off from Normandy to Canterbury, slaying Becket within the cathedral's walls. Those responsible for his murder were later excommunicated, and in 1174 Henry walked barefoot to Canterbury Cathedral in penance.

 Cyclops. The legend tells that there were one-eyed giants that scared humans. Yes, they did exist. It was another of the failed experiments of the annunakis, they manipulated the DNA of the homo habilis, tried to give it size, strength and intelligence. They managed to measure almost three meters, they were able to lift a horse in weight, but their intelligence did not develop it. They were just a little more developed than the mermaids, they were organized in small family communities, but they were not beyond, very primitive tools, in the language if they achieved anything, but only by having contact with humans and copying what or lan, they didn't create their own. Populated parts of Africa and Europe, in America in the Mexico area along the border with the United States were found some debris in caves 30000 years old. Its latest recorded data dates back to odyssey, when the few left on Easter Island originated the legend of polyphemism. From their culture the only thing that ha...

 My friend Paul Russinoff shared the following image of Augustus (“Gus”) F. Dumont, the child of a widowed mother, who enlisted when only 15 years old in Philadelphia as a musician in Co. B of the 72nd Pennsylvania (Baxter’s Fire Zouaves). Gus and his mother Margaret were living in relative poverty in 1860---the census listed her occupation as a “huckster.” One assumes his enlistment at such a young age was due in part to the fact that his pay would be sent home for her support. In early 1862 he was transferred to the ranks as a private and served continuously until July 3, 1863 when he was killed in action at Gettysburg. His body was recovered and sent to Philadelphia where he is buried in the Mount Peace Cemetery. Margaret drew a pension until her death in 1885. ¼ plate tintype, unknown photographer.

 Two Leggings captured by photographer Edward S. Curtis in 1906 Two Leggins (c. 1845-1923) River Crow. Take part in many battles with traditional Indian enemies. He had little influence in the tribe and was not much different from other members of the community, but from 1919 to 1923 he told his life story to Montana businessman and amateur anthropologist William Wildschute. , whose recordings were later reworked by Peter Nabokov. The result of his work was the biography "Two Leggins: The Formation of the Crow Warrior", which is one of the sources on the history and culture of the Crow of the second half of the 19th century.

Men👇 Two things you must not beg from any woman.  1. A WOMAN'S ATTENTION. If a woman really loves you and she wants you in her life, she will freely give you her love and her attention, but if you see that she's not giving you attention, it simply means that you are not her priority. There is somebody else that she's giving that attention. So, the earlier you know your place the better for you. 2. HER BODY. As long as she's not a virgin, she must freely give you her body unless she tells you that she's a virgin maybe she has covenant with God that she's going to keep herself till after marriage, please respect that. That is one of the ways to show that you love her l. Respect her opinion. But as long as she's not a virgin, if she refuses to give her body to you, she's giving it to other guys. Otherwise, you must run because she doesn't love you. If a woman really loves you it should come naturally, but once it's not coming naturally that you hav...

 “The veiled Christ” created in 1753 by Giuseppe Sanmartino from a single block of marble.  He made the marble so transparent that it birthed the popular rumor that he placed a real veil over the sculpture and turned it to stone through alchemy. The Veiled Christ is a 1753 marble sculpture by Giuseppe Sanmartino located in Naples. It is renowned in large part because it seems almost impossible. How can a sculptor make marble seem transparent? Yet this is exactly what Sanmartino achieved – Christ laid down, covered in a shroud that seems so real but so thin that we can still see his still features. The sculpture is found in the Sansevero Chapel (Museo Cappella Sansevero in Italian). Sometimes known by the church’s name Santa Maria della Pietà or Pietatella, the chapel was built at the end of the 16th century. However, it didn’t take on its most interesting details and artistry until the 1700s. Between 1740 and 1780, Raimondo di Sangro, prince of Sansevero, completely reconstruc...

  𝗖𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗺 𝗧. 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 William T. Shorey (1859-1919) was a famous captain in the last days of whaling. He was born in Barbados, the son of a Scottish sugar planter and an Indian creole woman. Shorey began seafaring as a teenager and in 1876 he made his first whaling voyage. Whaling brought him to California and he married the daughter from a leading African American family in San Francisco. In 1886 he became the only black West Coast ship captain. Known for his skill and leadership, Shorey experienced many adventures and dangers at sea with multiracial crews before his retirement in 1908. Over time, larger, steam-powered vessels took the place of obsolete sailing ships and black seamen were forced to accept inferior employment on ships as cooks and stewards. The era of significant participation by blacks in whaling ended in 1923 when the Wanderer went aground off Nantucket, MA.

 During the last decade prior to the establishment of reservations, the dance had achieved prominence as a successful celebration for petitioning supernatural protection in warfare activities. The dance was the property of the Omaha society, a man's organization. Accordingly, participation was restricted to society members and their families. Certain sacred badges of distinction were reserved for outstanding members. Prominent features of the celebration included dancing, oratory, give-aways, ritual drama, and feasting. The song, oratory, and dance pantomine aroused a patriotic fervor while warfare achievements and victories were reenacted. Giveaways, public distributions of gifts by hosts and other prominent persons, served to reinforce social relationships and demonstrate generosity. All ceremonies climaxed with a ritual drama or kettle dance, which included a flamboyant display of dancing with warriors dramatically vanquishing the enemy, symbolized by a pail of cooked dog meat. ...

 7 most revered masquerades in Igbo land Masquerades are a major part of Igbo culture. In the past, masquerades were not just used for entertainment; they served political roles too. They stood as custodians of village and clan laws. Anybody who broke the law risk being visited by a masquerade. That time, too, the story of Igbo masquerades being spirits was still much believed. Folks believed masquerades were not human and weren’t born by women – it is believed that they appeared from ant holes at midnight. The masquerade community was a revered cult at that time and every information surrounding their existence, place of rest and even as little as costumes were not common knowledge. It took weeks of exacting initiation rituals to get accepted into the Igbo masquerade cult. The initiation rituals were mostly violent and only some men could go through it – reason women were rarely part of the cult. This initiation process and the way the entire masquerade fellowship is viewed by peo...

 REPUBLIC OF KOREA NAVY TRAINING GROUP 2023 HONORS TWO PEFTOK VETERANS aboard the Helicopter Training Ship ROKS HANSANDO. At around 1900H, Pier 15 Manila, two veterans of the Philippine Expeditionary Force to Korea (PEFTOK) were honored by the Republic of Korea Navy on board one of the two ships of the Task Group. The two Veterans namely VET RUBEN AQUINO of the 19th BCT and VET RODRIGO ERENO of the 14th BCT were given a Thank you Plaque and accolades by the Head of the Task Group RDML Choong-Ho, Cho. Other highlights of the activity were the speech of the Flag Officer in Command of the Philippine Navy VADM TORIBIO D ADACI JR PN represented by COMMO SOCRATES DAZA PN, Commander SEALIFT AMPHIBIOUS FORCE, PN who is also the son of a PEFTOKER from the 14th BCT, the late SGT MAJ RODOLFO DAZA. A sumptuous dinner was served and guests were entertained by several performances from the crew itself such as Taekwando, Drum Musical, Magic Performance and both K-POP and Classic Songs such as Ari...

 Bigfoot's Lakota name was Si Tanka,"Spotted Elk". He was the son of Lone Horn. Spotted Elk became chief of the Minneconjou after the death of his father in 1874.  Native accounts of Spotted Elk describe him as a great hunter. He was also a skilled horseman who possessed a string of fine ponies, most often obtained from the Crow or other enemies. He was best known, however, for his political and diplomatic successes. An able negotiator, Spotted Elk was skilled at settling quarrels between rival parties and was often in great demand among other Teton bands. After the Sioux War for the Black Hills in 1876-77, the Minneconjou were placed on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota. Being a person accustomed to finding ways of reconciling disparate views, Spotted Elk sought means to adapt to white ways. According to Native accounts, Spotted Elk was among the first American Indians to raise corn in accordance with government standards. Moreover, he traveled to Washington...

 Photo: The Ghost dance by the Ogallala [sic] Sioux at Pine Ridge Agency, Frederic Remington, Pine Ridge, S. Dakota, 1890. Library of Congress The Ghost Dance (Caddo: Nanissáanah, also called the Ghost Dance of 1890) was a ceremony incorporated into numerous Native American belief systems. According to the teachings of the Northern Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka (renamed Jack Wilson), proper practice of the dance would reunite the living with spirits of the dead, bring the spirits to fight on their behalf, end American westward expansion, and bring peace, prosperity, and unity to Native American peoples throughout the region. The basis for the Ghost Dance is the circle dance, a traditional Native American dance.[citation needed] The Ghost Dance was first practiced by the Nevada Northern Paiute in 1889. The practice swept throughout much of the Western United States, quickly reaching areas of California and Oklahoma. As the Ghost Dance spread from its original source, different trib...

 May 330 BC. As the ruins of Xerxes' palace smouldered, Alexander decided to renew his pursuit of Darius. The former Great King had taken refuge in Ecbatana. On hearing that his nemesis was coming, he took to the eastern road.  Darius still harboured dreams of reclaiming his throne, but as he rode, allies started to drift away from him. Far from Babylon, they saw the writing on the wall. The deserters turned themselves over to Alexander perhaps saving their lives by providing vital intelligence regarding Darius' movements. In Ecbatana, a faithful servant left Alexander’s side: Parmenion. His orders were to secure the city's treasure then hand it over to Harpalos before catching up with the king.  Alexander rode hard in pursuit of Darius. Horses and men dropped by the wayside, but still he rode on. And then, more deserters arrived with new intelligence: Darius had been arrested. This news gave a new urgency to the pursuit. Alexander rode through the day, and then through t...

 The Texas quote of the day was written in 1888 about events that transpired 22 years before, in 1866. As usual, any mistakes in the transcription are mine.  "On December 1st [1866] I had a refreshing bath in the San Antonio river, and the next day came in sight of the city, lying in a shallow basin, surrounded by a low range of hills, far up on the side of which a ruin was pointed out as the remains of one of the old Jesuit missions, established by those pioneers of Christianity fifty years before the Pilgrims set foot on Plymouth Rock. Entering the city of San Antonio, we felt at once that we were in a strange country, or at least among a strange people. The town is one of the oldest in the Union, contemporary with San Augustine and Santa Fe, and its old cathedral church of San Philip de Bexar dates away back, having been built by the generation immediately succeeding the men who were fellow adventurers with Cortez. The streets seemed narrow but clean, and the more modern po...

Luke Foxe (or Fox) (20 October 1586 – c. 15 July 1635) was an English explorer, born in Kingston-upon-Hull, Yorkshire, who searched for the Northwest Passage across North America. In 1631, he sailed much of the western Hudson Bay before concluding no such passage was possible. Foxe Basin, Foxe Channel and Foxe Peninsula were named after him. He left the Thames in May 1631 in the Charles, and took 20 days to work through Hudson Strait, reaching the Bay on 11 July. Blocked by ice to the northward, he went south of Southampton Island to Roes Welcome Sound and south along the west shore to Port Nelson, Manitoba where he found Thomas Button's winter camp of 18 years before, turned north-east, met Thomas James on 29 August, went north into Foxe Channel and the lower part of Foxe Basin, turned back at 66°47'N, passed Hudson Strait in 10 days and reached England in October without any deaths among his crew. 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 The son of Richard Fox, seaman and assistant of the Trinity...