The Acadians were a French people who had settled in Acadia in the 17th and 18th centuries. Acadia consisted of Canada's Maritime provinces ,Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, parts of Quebec, and Maine and the West coast of Newfoundland. The Region was a distinct colony of New France and the people had their own history and culture.
The British conquered Acadia in 1710 but were unable to force the Acadians into signing an unconditional oath of allegiance to Britain. Accordingly, they adopted an early form of ethnic cleansing, deportation. The British and their New England colonial authorities forcefully deported roughly 11,500 Acadians between 1755 and 1764. Approximately one-third perished from disease and drowning - for example on this day in 1758 the deportation ship Duke William sank killing over 360. Most were shipped off to British colonies wehre many were used as forced labor. Some were sent to England or the Caribbean and some were sent to France.
Of those expelled to France, many were later recruited by the Spanish government to migrate to and help settle Louisiana. Their descendents then became those known today as the Cajuns. “Laissez les bon temps rouler”
Hey! It's GREEN Monday!. So, what Green events, activities and endeavors are planned, proposed and suggested? C'mon dummy, this is the US, it's SHOPPING. The twist is that you're supposed to buy shit online today.
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On this day in history:
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11577 – Sir Francis Drake set sail from England, on his round-the-world voyage.
1636 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony organized three militia regiments to defend the colony which is recognized today as the founding of the US National Guard
1642 – Abel Tasman was the first recorded European to sight New Zealand.
1758 – The English deportation ship Duke William sank killing over 360 people.
1769 – Dartmouth College was founded with a royal charter from King George III.
1937 – The city of Nanjing, fell to the Japanese, followed by the Nanking Massacre,
1943 – The Massacre of Kalavryta by German occupying forces in Greece.
1949 – The Knesset voted to move the capital of Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
1960 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia was deposed
1962 – NASA launched Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite
1968 – Brazilian President Artur da Costa e Silva issued AI-5 (Institutional Act No. 5), enabling government by decree and suspending habeas corpus.
1972 – Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt began the third and final Moonwalk
1974 – The North Vietnamese launched their 1975 Spring Offensive
1981 – General Wojciech Jaruzelski declared martial law in Poland
1988 – PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat gives a speech at a UN General Assembly meeting in Geneva, Switzerland
2003 – Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was captured
2007 – The Treaty of Lisbon was signed by the EU member states to amend both the Treaty of Rome and the Maastricht Treaty which together form the constitutional basis of the EU. The Treaty of Lisbon is effective from 1 December 2009.
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Born this day in:
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“Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people”
~~ Heinrich Heine
1662 – Francesco Bianchini, astronomer and philosopher
1724 – Franz Aepinus, astronomer and philosopher
1780 – Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, chemist, invented the Döbereiner's lamp
1797 – Heinrich Heine, journalist, poet, and critic
1830 – Mathilde Fibiger, feminist, novelist and telegraphist
1836 – Franz von Lenbach, painter and academic
1867 – Kristian Birkeland, physicist and author
1871 – Emily Carr, painter and author
1882 – Jane Edna Hunter, social worker
1883 – Belle da Costa Greene, librarian and bibliographer
1885 – Annie Dale Biddle Andrews, mathematician
1887 – George Pólya, mathematician and academic
1897 – Drew Pearson, journalist and author
1902 – Talcott Parsons, sociologist and academic
1903 – Ella Baker, activist
1903 – Carlos Montoya, guitarist and composer
1908 – Elizabeth Alexander, geologist, academic, and physicist
1911 – Kenneth Patchen, poet and painter
1912 – Luiz Gonzaga, singer, songwriter and accordion player
1914 – Alan Bullock, historian and author
1948 – Jeff Baxter, guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1989 – Taylor Swift, singer, songwriter, record producer and actr
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Died this day in:
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You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.
~~ Maimonides
1204 – Maimonides, rabbi and philosopher
1466 – Donatello, painter and sculptor
1557 – Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia, mathematician and engineer
1565 – Conrad Gessner, botanist and physician
1721 – Alexander Selkirk, sailor
1758 – Noël Doiron, Acadia leader
1783 – Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, astronomer and demographer
1784 – Samuel Johnson, poet and lexicographer
1849 – Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg, botanist and entomologist
1868 – Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, botanist and explorer
1924 – Samuel Gompers, labor leader, founded the American Federation of Labor
1930 – Fritz Pregl, chemist and physician,
1931 – Gustave Le Bon, psychologist, sociologist, and anthropologist
1935 – Victor Grignard, chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1944 – Wassily Kandinsky, painter and theorist
1947 – Henry James, lawyer and author
1960 – Dora Marsden, author and activist
1961 – Grandma Moses, painter
1962 – Harry Barris, singer, songwriter ,and pianist
1998 – Wade Watts, civil rights activist
2002 – Zal Yanovsky, singer, songwriter, and guitarist who founded The Lovin' Spoonful
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Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
Acadian Remembrance Day (Acadians)
Nanking Massacre Memorial Day (China)
Green Monday
Ice Cream Day
National Cocoa Day
Natioanl Viiolin Day
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Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies ;-)
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Acadia
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Carlos Montoya
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Luiz Gonzaga
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Jeff Baxter
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Harry Barris
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Zal Yanovsky
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Cross posted from http://caucus99percent.com
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