history
Past politicians, legislation and political movements have changed the course of history in ways both big and small. Welcome to our blast to the past.
The fallen hero who put his life on the line to make change
The fallen hero who put his life on the line to make a change Dedan Kimathi. The unforgotten Kenyan hero. And slowly he is becoming a shadow in the past. With the changes in the generations, Dedan Kimathi is slowly fading into oblivion. Yet Kenya’s independence owes so much to this hero among others in his local brigade. The celebration of Kenya’s independence will not be complete without the mention of the likes of Dedan Kimathi Waciuri, born in October 1920.
By Natural Track Safaris6 years ago in The Swamp
The Melungeons a tri-racial people of early Virginia
American school children are taught that Europeans discoverd America and that Africans were brought over on slave ships. In recent years evidence continues to surface that suggests that there were some black people living in the United States prior to slavery. When it comes to race, in early America the mother was the deciding factor regarding which ethnicity her children associated with. According to the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, which was incorporated into Virginia law in 1662, children born in the colonies were assigned the race and social status of their mother. The father's ethnicity or citizenship did not matter.
By Cheryl E Preston6 years ago in The Swamp
Dachau
The Nazis Concentration Camps were one of the worst things to have happened in human history. In my opinion, they came second only to the nuclear weapon that was used on the Japanese City of Hiroshima. These are ‘incidents’ that will never be forgotten (or allowed to be forgotten) within the “History Book” of humankind.
By Ruth Elizabeth Stiff6 years ago in The Swamp
ALL OF AUSTRALIAN
The first human inhabitants of the Australian continent and their descendants have been referred to by the English as Aboriginal people since 1789. The name Aborigines and formerly Australians are also used in Dutch. The word aborigines comes from the Latin ab origine, which means by origin, so the original inhabitants.
By BJV LEAVITT6 years ago in The Swamp
COLD WAR: IMPACTS ON THE WORLD AND SOUTH ASIA
" There is nothing permanent but change " (Heraclitus) but it goes with saying that change might be stagnant for sometimes, but war is permanent there is no way to overcome it and peace is just the preparation for another war. It is believed that Cold War has been started in after WWII but that was its actual emergence but nonetheless it is stated that during 1917 Soviet Union’s Revolution under Vladimir Lenin Cold war was initiated.
By Engr. Muhammad Waseem Khan6 years ago in The Swamp
Lincoln the Unifier
The war was raging yet Lincoln kept his light on the good of the union and the good of his countrymen and countrywomen. With every twist and every turn, he did not waver in his ability to negotiate. He remembered from his mother's last words, to never change and never compromise character to stay the same honest. He felt that his position gave him the greatest opportunity to use eloquence and diplomacy to get the right earning from the intense labor like a farmer, he was ever patient even with little time. This is how he educated himself, a little at a time until the heart desired more. Lincoln worked for everything he had in life and was too poor for privilege until he found himself. As president, he knew that the due season harvested will come on time. Lincoln secretly wanted to save his three living predecessors who were tortured and trapped by the Confederates. Even though he did not agree with his predecessors' stance, he believed that serving the highest office is a privilege that requires careful and dignified actions. With all-partisan set-aside, he knew that he had to act and to act quickly. Who knows what they might say about the union and who knows what they've been put through? Good, Old Lincoln answered the call because he believed that they can help him negotiate the future of America. He always thought about building America again and better including every issue that has been left out to restore the justice needed to last forever. This climax his decision to make sure that he makes the South yield to a truce because he saw how brutal their ambition was and how they dreaded the union. Lincoln had no other choice but to advance the war and keep the peace of the North, he saw that the South wanted to utterly destroy the Union and he was not going to let that happen. He remembered the belief of Van Buren who entrusted the presidency to him before he died winning his vote and support. Lincoln reminded Van Buren of the son who went to the Navy and served his country proudly. Van Buren had a son named Abraham and Lincoln had relatives in New York and it is believed that he came to New York, his relative Andrew Lincoln had a clothing company in East Rochester, New York like Washington came to Pittsford in the 16th Century. Lincoln's resolve was " That we remained one country and united but with no divisions." He knew this task would seem impossible but he did not waver in doing so making it known to his closest allies. And he knew his death would be on the line for taking the side of the liberation and using peaceful devices but also he was prepared and he prepared the union with leaders who were like him to win the nation over. He did not want to die a death in vain but a death that will bring the Union back together remembering that we need each other and that we need to be united for the good of all. That we have a mission to this land and this world to not tarry in ourselves but to avail ourselves as equal and no maltreatment or division has enough strength to divided us when too much blood united us. Lincoln kept the Radical Republicans at bay and always seeing the light manage to edge victory. For he felt each day that he is living and standing for something, it is not in vain. Lincoln believed this despite losing children and not having much of his birth family behind him but through faith and friendship enlightened the world. He was never afraid to defend friends and allies, something he learned all the time with Susan B. Anthony introducing him to supporters to win the presidency, Sojourner Truth as his personal minister who taught him about the struggles of everyday Americans. Frederick Douglass as his loyal friend who visited his house not too long after being freed, and Ulysses Grant, the general he renamed, his most faithful successor. Abraham Lincoln found friends and allies in all walks of life.
By Distinguished Honorary Alumni Dr. Matthew Primous6 years ago in The Swamp
Tit for tat.
This is the story of Wagons-Lits Co. carriage 2419D, which went from serving sauteed veal and boeuf bourguignon to passengers in the seaside town of Deauville to serving as a crucible for world peace while stopped in the middle of a forest in Compiegne.
By Diptangshu Karmakar6 years ago in The Swamp
We will Never Forget
It’s been 19 years since the fateful day of September 11, 2001. No one ever thought that America could Ever be Attacked but it happened and shook us to our core and at the same time brought us together. In a brief moment, everything was normal and then everything changed as that first plane hit the World Trade Center. Of course we thought it was an accident until tower two was hit and then we knew America had been attacked. Every Americans day and life changed in a split second. You’re going to work, school, starting your day then at 8:46am see a plane crash into the north tower. Probably think nothing much of it until the south tower is hit at 9:03 am. Then you realize something is really wrong. Try to make sense of it and you can’t as it’s all over the news and then you hear the president speak realizing we’ve been attacked.
By Abby Morton6 years ago in The Swamp
9/11 A Day Forever Remembered
It started off as a typical Tuesday morning for me. I was fifteen years old and a freshman in high school. I was sitting in my first period civics class preparing for a test the next morning. Suddenly the principal came over the loudspeaker announcing a plane crash that had just taken place. President Bush had asked for the nation to stop and say a prayer for the lives that were lost. I was confused at first, plane crashes, although very tragic, was not an uncommon thing. We didn’t realize it at that moment, but this was not just a typical plane crash. As we were able to gather more information, it became clear that nothing would be the same for our country, for mankind. The day, September 11, 2001, would forever go down in our history books as the day that we were attacked by terrorists. Nearly 3,000 innocent lives were lost when those planes hit the trade center.
By Judith Jascha6 years ago in The Swamp
