The first “third party” in the United States was the Anti-Masonic Party. It won the governorships of Pennsylvania and Vermont, and took Vermont in the 1832 presidential election. It fizzled four years later. Its leaders backed William Henry Harrison and he just wouldn’t deny being a Freemason.
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William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 3-2-17
Johann Pachelbel’s Canon and Gigue for 3 violins and basso continuo mostly fell off the orchestral playlist after his death in 1706. Almost 300 years later, though, French conductor Jean-François Paillard put it on vinyl and and had a hit.
And now it is a standard.
A canon, by the way, is compositional technique that repeats a variation of a melody. A gigue is a dance. It’s from whence the word “jig” comes.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 3-2-17 French conductor Jean-François Paillard
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Time to celebrate. The first week of March is National Ghostwriters Week.
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William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-28-17
Public toilets in ancient Rome were dangerous. Flames would occasionally burst from the hole due the methane gas trapped. Not fun to be sitting there when such a thing happened.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-28-17
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-27-17
OK Anthony, what do ’60s iconic hits “Snoopy and the Red Baron”, and “Abraham, Martin and John” have in common? They were both written by Dick Holler.
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“Man of Steel” can be translated as “stalin” in Russian. Ponder that next time you watch a Superman movie.
For what it’s worth the Soviet dictator took that name for himself. His original surname was dze Jughashvili.
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The leopard seal will attack humans. Really.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-24-17
Nazi Paikidze Barnes Strong And Independent
No Miranda, a swastika is not automatically bad and neither are all Nazis. Nazi Paikidze-Barnes is the U.S. Women’s Chess Champion and is a great role model. She is not weak and meek even though her name means “gentle” in her native Georgian. Nazi is refusing to participate in the Women’s World Chess Championship in Tehran, Iran because of a requirement to wear a hijab.
That’s a good thing.
With regard to swastikas, the word means “lucky object” in Sanskrit. There is one on the St. Thomas World War I Memorial in England.
The British used it on war savings coupons during World War I. And it appeared on U.S. planes in at the time.
Of course, they appeared on U.S. planes during World War II but that was for a different reason.
Nazi Paikidze Barnes Strong And Independent
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-23-17
No Anthony, Buchanan, LIberia is not named for James Buchanan who is the only president born in Pennsylvania and generally considered to be the worst in US history. It’s named for his cousin Thomas who was that West African nation’s first governor.
William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 2-23-17 Buchanan, LIberia
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Who was Andrea Palladio? He was a famous Venetian architect in the 1500s. He based his designs on the symmetry, perspective and values of formal classical temple architecture of the Ancient Greeks. It became popular in Britain and then in the New World. Especially among Virginia planters. Mount Vernon is loosely based on the style.