“For centuries, historians have puzzled over the disappearance of a legion of 5,000 battle-hardened Roman soldiers in northern Britain around 108 AD.”
A “group of experts say the elite infantry force was indeed defeated by a band of ‘barbarians’ in a military catastrophe that shamed the empire, prompting a conspiracy of silence.”
AJH
Relatives of Albert Einstein are offering a $6,850 (€5,000) reward for information about Nazi soldiers who murdered three members of his family in 1944. It happened in Italy, near Florence.
Authorities have been investigating the murder since 2007 when new evidence surfaced, and have largely managed to reconstruct the events of the day of the murder[s].
The investigation revealed that a group of German soldiers stormed the house in early August 1944. Robert Einstein [Albert’s cousin] was not to be found, but his wife and daughters . . . were accused of spying and then murdered.
According to investigators, one young soldier from the group distanced himself from his comrades and went to a separate part of the house. Police are searching for him in the hopes he is still alive and can reveal the identity of the officers . . .
AJH
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I came across a site of newspaper archives and found the following on a man named Fromke at the beginning of World War II. He was captain of the German cargo ship Iderwald. It’s from The Atlanta Constitution and dated November 17, 1940.
ITALIANS RETREAT FROM KORITZA BASE: GREEKS REPORTED ENTERING VITAL CITY
Former U. S. Craft in Chase, Captain Says Three Other German Vessels Make Dash Back to Port.“Captain H. Fromke, of the German cargo ship Iderwald, said tonight that one of four warships which blocked his attempted escape to sea last night and caused the scuttling of another German ship, the Phrygia, ‘very likely’ was…”
AJH
In 1732, George Washington was born in Westmoreland County within the Colony of Virginia. He was the second son from the second marriage of a colonial plantation owner, Augustine. His mother was Mary. (For more information on Washington, see my blog post about his funeral.)
AJH
“The freedom to travel should never come at the price of basic human dignity and pride.”
Alaska state representative Sharon Cissna was on her way back to Juneau from Seattle when she refused a pat-down at Sea-Tac. She had already gone through a body scan by machine. The scan displayed the results of a mastectomy after suffering from breast cancer.
This caught the attention of the Transportation Safety Administration, Cissna said, but she refused to submit to the “invasive, probing hands of a stranger” this time.
Her spokesman released a formal statement, full of challenges to the stupid system instituted by a bunch of bureaucrats and politicians.
“A female agent placed herself blocking my passage. Scan results would again display that my breast cancer and the resulting scars pointed a TSA finger of irregularity at my chest. I would require invasive, probing hands of a stranger over my body.”
It’s nice to see people, including elected officials, taking on the system.
“Facing the agent I began to remember what my husband and I’d decided after the previous intensive physical search. That I never had to submit to that horror again! It would be difficult, we agreed, but I had the choice to say no, this twisted policy did not have to be the price of flying to Juneau!”
It’s time to remove the TSA from federal authority.
AJH
February 21, 1972 — President Nixon and his wife Pat visit the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
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“Space storms sparked by massive eruptions on the sun pose a large threat to technology on Earth,” according to an expert in a video by BBC News. The Space Weather Prediction Center has more information.
ajh
I’ve always been fascinated by Malcolm X. He was shot and killed on February 21, 1965 in New York City. He was born with the name Malcolm Little in Omaha. His autobiography, written with the help of Alex Haley of Roots fame, is a good read.
AJH
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The Hill Farmstead Brewery is near Greensboro Bend, Vermont. The company logo is based on a sign hanging from an ancestor’s tavern, named Aaron Hill, in the early 1800s.
“The brewery is the revival and continuation of 220 years of Hill heritage and hand craft history in North Greensboro. Its logo is retrieved from a sign that once hung in Aaron Hill’s (great(x3) grandfather) Tavern, just up the hill, in the early 1800s.”
Shaun Hill is the proprietor.
“Upon the hand hewn land of our forebears, we honor eight generations of Greensboro ancestry by thoughtfully engaging with our heritage. . .”
ajh
AARON HILL’S NOTEBOOK 