Let’s say you were one of the rulers of the time: if you choose the Roman Church, you were bound to shared sovereignty and customary law; if you choose Lutheranism, you were free from all of that – a true sovereign.
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Saturday, December 30, 2017
Quote of Month (November)
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Thursday, December 28, 2017
An Anniversary Speech
Christmas 60 years ago was the first televised Christmas speech of Her Britannic Majesty.
This year's speech and that of 60 years ago:
Truce at Christmas
Christmas a century and three years ago, the first Christmas Truce of the Great War took place.
Wednesday, December 27, 2017
Railroad Nationalization at 100
A century and a day ago today, the Persona Non Grata of this weblog announced nationalization of U.S. railroads.
Sunday, December 24, 2017
Friday, December 22, 2017
The Germans and the Bolsheviks
A century ago today, the Germans and the Bolsheviks started peace talks.
Sunday, December 17, 2017
French Recognition of American Rebels
Two dozen decades ago today, the Kingdom of France recognized those United States.
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
Arrival in Crushed World
A year short of a century ago today, the bête noire of this weblog arrived for the post-WWI Versailles conference.
Tuesday, December 12, 2017
Thursday, December 7, 2017
Indeed a Day of Infamy!
A century ago today, the bête noire of this weblog signed the declaration of war against Austria-Hungary, after having spoken three days earlier.
The motion to declare war passed unopposed in the United States Senate. It was opposed by one honorable United States Representative. This war had become for the Allied Powers almost exclusively – if not entirely – a war to make the world safe for unfettered mass democracy, although the British Empire had to wait a while to have that unleashed upon it.
Previously: A Day of Betrayal; An Entanglement with Imperial Germany; U.S. Senate for Going to War; An Infamous Speech on the Hill...
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
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