In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni (“we go wandering at night and are consumed by fire”) is a Latin palindrome.
Category: Omnibit
William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 10-13-17
Samurai overrated? Yep. Inigo Montoya would have carved one up easier than he did Count Rugen. In 1582, a series of battles between 40 Spanish soldiers and a thousand samurai and assorted allies was a decisive victory for Spain.
Samurai overrated William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 10-13-17
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-12-17
Pensacola, Fla. was the first settlement in what is now the United States, however it was blown away in a hurricane on Sept. 19, 1559.
By the time a real settlement was established and survived, St. Augustine was all ready established as the first city. Apparently Robert James, hurricanes do not hit that area as often as Pensacola.
For what it’s worth, the original name for the place was Santa María de Ochuse.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-11-17
Pensacola
William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 10-11-17
Tom Dula was a mustered-out Confederate soldier who was hanged for the 1866 murder of Laura Foster in North Carolina. He had escaped to Tennessee but a man named Grayson turned him in. In the accent of the region Dula comes out as Dooley. Poor boy.
William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 10-9-17
Tom Dula
William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 10-10-17
Progressive hero W.E.B. Du Bois liked Nazis. He put swastikas on the cover of a magazine he edited.
Du Bois liked Nazis William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 10-10-17
William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 10-9-17
Sorry Columbus, John Cabot discovered North America –for good, we mean — in 1497. He was an Italian working for the English.
So why is it called America? Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian working for Spain, discovered the South American mainland about the same time. The map makers figured it was all one great big place and Amerigo got better press.
John Cabot discovered North America William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 10-12-17
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-7-17
Hobey Baker, America’s first great hockey player, came from Bala Cynwyd, Pa.
Hobart Armory Hare “Hobey” Baker starred for Princeton from 1910 through 1916 turning down a offer of $20,000 to play for the Montreal Canadians. He enlisted in the Army Air Service in 1917 for World War I and shot down three of the enemy. He was killed in a plane crash in France just a little over a month after the war ended.
F. Scott Fitzgerald admired him and based a character in This Side of Paradise on him.
Hat tip VFW magazine
Hobey Baker was America’s first great hockey player
William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 10-6-17
Zabibah and the King was the best selling novel in Iraq in 2000. It was written by Saddam Hussein. It’s probably not a coincidence that it was the best seller.
— William Lawrence Sr. Omnibit 10-6-17
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-5-17
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service allows about 1,000 bald eagles to be killed a year by windfarms. They want to quadruple it.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-5-17
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-4-17
You are probably aware that Abner Doubleday invented baseball. Did you know, however, that he attended West Point, and as captain of artillery at Fort Sumter fired the first Union shot of the Civil War.
–William Lawrence Sr.