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Jul 17 113 tweets 35 min read
Molly Maguires - Wikipedia

Thomas Campbell Foster in The Times on 25 August 1845 traced the commencement of "Molly Maguireism" to Lord Lorton ejecting tenants in Ballinamuck, County Longford, in 1835. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Mag… Members of the Mollies were accused of murder, arson, kidnapping, and other crimes, in part based on allegations by Franklin B. Gowen and the testimony of a Pinkerton detective, James McParland (also known as James McKenna), a native of County Armagh, Ireland. Image
Jul 11 120 tweets 31 min read
Harriman State Park (Idaho) - Wikipedia

The park's acreage was owned by Union Pacific Railroad investors from 1902 to 1977, serving as a cattle ranch and private retreat for the Harriman and Guggenheim families.

It was deeded to Idaho for free in 1977 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriman_… by Bunny and W. Averell Harriman, whose insistence that the state have a professional park managing service helped prompt the creation of the Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation in 1965.

Bunny was a member of Skull and Bones with his classmate and friend Prescott Bush.
Jul 9 22 tweets 4 min read
Gretchen Whitmer - Wikipedia

Richard Whitmer was head of the Michigan department of commerce under Governor William Milliken.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen_… Helen Milliken first entered the political arena when her husband was elected a State Senator in 1960. William Milliken was elected as Lieutenant Governor of Michigan, serving under Governor George Romney. Milliken succeeded to the position of Governor of Michigan in 1969 when
Jul 9 35 tweets 8 min read
Josh Shapiro - Wikipedia

Josh Shapiro met his wife, Lori, in ninth grade as they both attended Akiba Hebrew Academy, now Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy, then in Merion Station. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Shap… Lori Shapiro previously worked in the White House during the Clinton administration as an analyst in the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the liaison to the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee.

Founded in Center City, Philadelphia in 1946 as
Jul 7 75 tweets 24 min read
Patriot Front - Wikipedia

Patriot Front is led by Thomas Ryan Rousseau, who was a teenager when he founded the group.

In 2017, Rousseau took control of Vanguard America's web and Discord server several weeks before the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_F… Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which he participated as the leader of Vanguard America's contingent.

On the morning of August 12, 2017 Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe declared a state of emergency, stating that public safety could not be safeguarded Image
Jul 6 37 tweets 15 min read
Edward Fitzgerald (barrister) - Wikipedia

In February 2020, Edward Fitzgerald represented Julian Assange at the Westminster Magistrates' Court in London during hearings about Assange's extradition to the United States in which Fitzgerald asserted that en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Fi… Dana Rohrabacher as an emissary of President Donald Trump had offered Assange a pardon from Trump if Assange could show that Russians had not obtained and leaked United States Democratic party emails in 2016 but, instead, Seth Rich had been the source of the leaks.
Jun 30 40 tweets 12 min read
James F. Bell (judge) - Wikipedia

James Finley Bell, Jr. (1915–2005) was a Democratic lawyer from Ohio. He was a local judge, and was elected twice to the Ohio Supreme Court. He wrote the majority opinion of the court affirming the conviction of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_F._… Sam Sheppard in the murder of his wife, which was later overturned by the United States Supreme Court.

In 1959, Sheppard voluntarily took part in cancer studies by the Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, allowing live cancer cells to be injected into his body.
Jun 27 87 tweets 23 min read
Remarks on my father Eric M. Warburg - Atlantik-Brücke e.V.

The Versailles Treaty negotiations, in which my grandfather [Max Warburg] and his close friend and partner Carl Melchior participated as members of the first German delegation and the atlantik-bruecke.org/remarks-on-my-… Finance Committee respectively were to have a pervasive influence on my father’s [Eric Warburg] understanding of history and the consequences which developed as a result of the extremely harsh reparation demands upon which the Allied Forces insisted.

Eric Warburg spent his
Jun 26 16 tweets 5 min read
Life of L. Ron Hubbard from 1911 to 1950 - Wikipedia

In 1923, the Hubbards traveled by ship from Seattle to Washington, D.C. via the Panama Canal. Also on the voyage was Commander Joseph "Snake" Thompson, a U.S. Navy medical doctor and psychoanalyst. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_L… In a dispatch dated August 20, 1900, USMC Major William P. Biddle lists 'Asst. Surg. J. C. Thompson, U.S.N.', as part of the First Regiment United States Marines China Relief Expedition, which was sent to Peking to rescue foreigners and Chinese Christians who were under attack
Jun 25 22 tweets 6 min read
Stella Assange - Wikipedia

Sara Gonzalez Devant was born in 1983 in Johannesburg, South Africa, to a Spanish mother and a Swedish father of Cuban heritage. Her mother is a theatre director and her father is an architect, town planner, and artist. Both of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_As… Sara Gonzalez Devant's parents were known for participating in the Medu Art Ensemble, an anti-apartheid artist collective in Botswana.

Medu disbanded in 1985, following the South African Defence Force's murderous Raid on Gaborone.

To lead the attack, the SADF employed former
Jun 25 17 tweets 6 min read
Hillary Rodham Clinton Announces New Book Coming This Fall

On Tuesday, June 25, the former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic Party candidate for president announced that her book people.com/hilary-rodham-… Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty is coming this fall.

Hillary Clinton spokesman Glen Caplin said in an email that, “Earlier today the U.S. government removed any reasonable doubt that the Kremlin has weaponized WikiLeaks to meddle in our Image
Jun 24 32 tweets 7 min read
Roscoe Pound - Wikipedia

Pound was the founder of the movement for "sociological jurisprudence," an influential critic of the U.S. Supreme Court's "liberty of contract" (freedom of contract) line of cases, symbolized by Lochner v. New York (1905), en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe_Po… and one of the early leaders of the movement for American Legal Realism, which argued for a more pragmatic and public-interested interpretation of law and a focus on how the legal process actually occurred, as opposed to (in his view) the arid legal formalism which prevailed
Jun 23 60 tweets 22 min read
Joseph E. Maddy - Wikipedia

In 1924, Maddy was invited to Ann Arbor to be the supervisor of music in public schools and the Music Department head for the University of Michigan, where he developed one of the few conducting courses in the country. and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_E.… also conducted the Michigan All State High School Orchestra.

Pioneer High School is a public high schoolin Ann Arbor, Michigan. Founded in 1856, the school was previously called the Union School and Ann Arbor High School.

In 1904, Ann Arbor High School burned down, and the
Jun 21 58 tweets 21 min read
Ketchum, Idaho - Wikipedia

After the development of Sun Valley by the Union Pacific Railroad in 1936, Ketchum became popular with celebrities, including Gary Cooper and Ernest Hemingway. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketchum,_… After their wedding, Mary Welsh lived with Ernest Hemingway in Cuba for many years and, after 1959, in Ketchum, Idaho.

The first destination winter resort in the U.S. was developed by W. Averell Harriman, the chairman of the Union Pacific Railroad, primarily to increase Image
Jun 19 54 tweets 18 min read
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The Ann Arbor Sun was a biweekly underground newspaper founded by John Sinclair in April 1967.

On July 28, 1969, the Ann Arbor Sun printed a revised copy of the White Panther's ten-point program. The newspaper was considered to be the mouthpiece for the White Panther Party for
Jun 19 105 tweets 34 min read
General Motors & the Third Reich

In 1937, when Alfred Sloan telephoned Secretary of Labor Francis Perkins to renege on a promise made to meet with labor strikers, Perkins lashed out bitterly at the GM chief.

Shocked at the reversal, Perkins shouted jewishvirtuallibrary.org/general-motors… into the phone, “You are a scoundrel and a skunk, Mr. Sloan. You don’t deserve to be counted among decent men…You’ll go to hell when you die… Are you a grown man, Mr. Sloan? Or are you a neurotic adolescent? Which are you? If you’re a grown man, stand up, and be a man for Image
Jun 18 115 tweets 39 min read
1979 Cleveland mayoral election - Wikipedia

Most expected a heated campaign between the two politicians of South Slavic descent (Dennis Kucinich being a Croat and George Voinovich a Serb). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Clev… However, everything came to a virtual halt when Voinovich's nine-year-old daughter, Molly, was struck by a van and killed.

Kucinich could no longer continue his aggressive campaigning against Voinovich.

Kucinich’ father, who was of Croat ancestry, worked as a truck driver and
Jun 17 53 tweets 9 min read
Sol M. Stroock - Wikipedia

Sol M. Stroock worked with Cyrus Adler and Felix M. Warburg in guiding a number of Jewish institutions following the death of Louis Marshall, and when Warburg died and Adler's health began to fail much of the burden fell on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_M._St… Stroock.

Sol M. Stroock became chairman of the executive committee of the American Jewish Committee in 1934, and in 1941 he became president of the organization.

In 1950 American Jewish Committee President Jacob Blaustein reached an agreement with Israeli Prime Minister
Jun 17 47 tweets 12 min read
Louis Mortimer Bloomfield

Bloomfield joined the British military and served in Palestine as an Intelligence Officer under General Charles Orde Wingate. Bloomfield was involved in training the Jewish army, Haganah (1936-1939). spartacus-educational.com/JFKbloomfield.… Orde Wingate met Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt in August 1943 and explained his theory of Long Range Penetration.

Churchill was impressed and agreed to expand the size of the Chindits and Wingate was promoted to major general
Jun 15 26 tweets 9 min read
Hotel Nacional de Cuba - Wikipedia

In 1939, it was renamed Hotel Nacional de Cuba. Chicago developer Arnold Kirkeby acquired the property in July 1943 and operated it for over a decade as part of his Kirkeby Hotels chain. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Nac… Arnold Kirkby is best known for owning Chartwell Mansion in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Bel Air which was the exterior set for the CBS television show The Beverly Hillbillies.

Kirkby was married to Carlotta Cuesta (1906–1985), the daughter of Angel LaMadrid Cuesta, founder
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Jun 14 19 tweets 5 min read
Operation LUSTY - Wikipedia

In 1945 the enemy aircraft shipped to the United States were divided between the Navy and the Army Air Forces. General Hap Arnold ordered the preservation of one of every type of aircraft used by the enemy forces. The air en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation… force sent their aircraft to Wright Field. When the field could not handle additional aircraft, many were sent to Freeman Field, Seymour, Indiana.

In 1946, when Freeman Field was scheduled to close, Air Technical Service Command had to move the aircraft. The larger aircraft were