Weimar Constitution

Four score and a dozen years ago today, the Weimar Constitution was signed.

Sèvres – the Treaty

91 years ago today, the Treaty of Sèvres was signed.

Nagasaki

66 years ago today...

An Ancient Republic

Three dozen score years ago today, Confoederatio Helvetica was founded.


The date may be uncertain, but the official date is August 1, and adjusted for changed calendar that makes August 8.

Quote of the Month (July)

Wrote Dr. Gary North, over at LewRockwell.com:

I will say it, loud and clear: the freest society on earth in 1775 was British North America, with the exception of the slave system. Anyone who was not a slave had incomparable freedom.

Jefferson wrote these words in the Declaration of Independence:

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

I can think of no more misleading political assessment uttered by any leader in the history of the United States. No words having such great impact historically in this nation were less true. No political bogeymen invoked by any political sect as “the liar of the century” ever said anything as verifiably false as these words.

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Franz Josef 181 this Month

Later this month the 181^th birthday of HLIRM Emperor-King Franz Josef I will be celebrated. The celebration is annual.

From last year's event (in German):

There is the celebration in Bad Ischl August 11 through 18. L'Associazione Culturale Mitteleuropa has its celebration August 20 through 21.

Hiroshima

66 years ago today...

I paid a visit to Hiroshima last November from my base in Osaka. It was a special experience to see the marks of this atrocity.

The Land of the Rising Sun was more or less nuked into democracy. Considering this, we could even say that the Pacific War was Wilson's war on steroids.

Nuked into accepting the American/Allied terms of total surrender and then occupied. The Tenno was forced to denounce the traditional Japanese view of the Emperor, Americans wrote a constitution totally emasculating him, and “The Empire of Japan” was dropped as an official term.

Over at LewRockwell.com:

• Anthony Gregory: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and the U.S. Terror State
• John V. Denson: The Hiroshima Myth
• Laurence Vance: Nuke ’Em and God Will Bless You

Vienna vs. St. Petersburg

Three years short of a century ago today, the Austro-Hungarian Empire declared war on the Russian Empire.

War Was Loose

97 years ago today, the first battle of the Great War began.

Anglo-German War

Eight dozen and a year ago today, the Persona Non Grata of this weblog proclaimed neutrality in the Great War.

Also on the same day, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland declared war. Sir Edward Grey had given a speech in the House of Commons about the lamps the night before.

"French Republic" vs. Imperial Germany

Three years short of a century ago today, Imperial Germany and the Third French Republic declared war on each other.

Guns in August

Three years short of a century ago today, the Great War broke out in Europe.