AngryHateMusic | In 1838 the U.S. Army forced approximately fifteen thousand Cherokees to relinquish their native land in Georgia and march more than 800 miles west to Indian Territory, where they were to be resettled. It is estimated that more than four thousand people, or 25 percent, perished on the journey. Another thousand are said to have died soon after resettlement. The path the Cherokees' were led down is known as the Trail of Tears.
TheFreemanOnline.org | It’s important to understand the origins of these concepts. As law professor Eric E. Johnson notes, “The monopolies now understood as copyrights and patents were originally created by royal decree, bestowed as a form of favoritism and control. As the power of the monarchy dwindled, these chartered monopolies were reformed, and essentially by default, they wound up in the hands of authors and inventors.”
WeAllBeTV | The execution of fourteen year old George Stinney Jr. was carried out at the South Carolina State Penitentiary in Columbia, South Carolina, on June 16, 1944 at 7:30 p.m. George was convicted of murdering two younger white girls with a heavy railroad spike. Standing at 5'1" and weighing approximately 90 pounds he did not fit into the machinery that was intended for larger adult victims. From the time of the murders until Stinney's execution, eighty one days had passed. He was the youngest individual executed by the United States justice system in the 20th century.
InstituteForJustice | In the 1990s, while working with government agencies to take away a widow's home through eminent domain for his private gain, Donald Trump explains when a group of individuals like himself participate in government, they can bully and steal other peoples property.
Dresden was widely considered a city of little war-related industrial or strategic importance, though, after the fact, in his memoirs Winston Churchill described it as a "centre of communications of Germany's Eastern Front." Dresden itself was most noted as a cultural centre, with noted architecture in the Zwinger Palace, the Dresden State Opera House and its historic cathedral (the Frauenkirche) and other churches. It was also called "Elbflorenz", i.e. Florence of the Elbe, due to its stunning beauty. It has been claimed that the bombing was at the request of the Soviet Union, to attack a German armoured division in transit through the city. However, RAF briefing notes indicate that one of the motives was to show "the Russians when they arrive, what Bomber Command can do" (that is, to intimidate the Soviets).
