Posts tagged united states
The monster is in my closet...
Fail.
Old school Floridians.
From the book Victorian Florida: America’s Last Frontier, by Floyd and Marion Rinhart.
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
Happy birthday, USA
Here is an interesting photo of an old San Francisco synagogue, c. 1870.
40 Plays
United States Marine Band
King Cotton
Osama bin Laden? Dead? This calls for some Sousa.
You may pronounce the sentence upon me, honorable judge, but let the world know that in A.D. 1886, in the State of Illinois, eight men were sentenced to death, because they believed in a better future; because they had not lost their faith in the ultimate victory of liberty and justice! “You have taught the destruction of society and civilization,” says the tool and agent of the [Employers’] Association, Grinnell. That man has yet to learn what civilization is. It is the old, old argument against human progress… “No change! No Change! You would destroy society and civilization!” has [always] been the cry of the ruling classes. They are so comfortably situated under the prevailing system that they naturally abhor and fear even the slightest change. Their privileges are as dear to them as life itself, and every change threatened these privileges. But civilization is a ladder whose steps are monuments of such changes! Without these social changes—all brought about against the will and the force of the ruling classes—there would be no civilization.
