The history thread

[Kriss]

My poster ;D


And what do you think about that?

[Doubar]

Well, I can't understand a thing but it looks GOOD! ;D ;D ;D And the drawings are really nice.

[Kriss]

Thanks
I have to change a little that writing.

[Doubar]

I get it green are the advantages and red are the disadvantages, right?

[Kriss]

Right ;D

[alex]

Nice drawings, Kriss.

[Guest]

"Page says that post-1804, Haitians were discriminated against by not only the United States, but all the European powers.

Professor Page: That discrimination meant no availability of resources to educate the Haitian population, no significant trade with any polity outside of Haiti. Also, the break up of the plantations into individual land parcels meant there’s no longer a coherent cash crop activity going on within Haiti.

Page says these conditions persisted into the 20th Century, which meant…

Professor Page: You still have a population that was 80-90% illiterate -- a population that didn’t have any industrial skills, a population that wasn’t allowed to trade its products with the rest of the world in any significant way."

My question is why? The United States abolished slavery in 1865. So why discriminate Haiti until the 20th century? Of course, the United States virtually isolated itself from the rest of the world until World War I. But it still didn't open its doors fully until World War II. That's where the supercilious attitude that the U.S. doesn't need the world comes from. And in some sense, it is true. We are virtually self-sufficient. But in reality, we need other countries to run efficiently.
news.discovery.com/history/why-is-haiti-so-poor.html

And 1226 posts. from Wikipedia
Events

The Carmelite Order is approved by Pope Honorius III.
Frederick II calls the Imperial Diet of Cremona.
November 8 – Louis IX of France starts to rule.

Births

June 21 – King Boleslaus V of Poland (d. 1279)
Abul-Faraj, Syriac scholar (d. 1286)
Bar-Hebraeus, Syriac historian and bishop (d. 1286)
Hethum I of Armenia, ruler of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia

Deaths

March 7 – William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader
September 16 – Pandulph, Roman ecclesiastical politician
October 3 – Francis of Assisi, Italian saint (b. 1181)
November 8 – King Louis VIII of France (b. 1187)
November 14 – Frederick of Isenberg, German politician (executed) (b. 1193)
December 11 – Robert de Ros, English baron (b. 1177)

Places

Street number of the family of Katherine Bernadine Siepman and Beryl Abner Bemis, otherwise known as the home of the Bemises: 1226 Cherry Street.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1226

[Guest]

Wow!
Births June 21, 1226 – King Boleslaus V of Poland (d. 1279)
Deaths November 8, 1226 – King Louis VIII of France (b. 1187) and start of King Louis IX's reign; November 14, 1226 – Frederick of Isenberg, German politician (executed) (b. 1193)

All your countries. ;D

[Guest]

Something you, or Bryn, may find interesting.

January 19, 1809
Edgar Allan Poe is born

On this day in 1809, poet, author and literary critic Edgar Allan Poe is born in Boston, Massachusetts.

We celebrate the 201 anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe's birth.

[Scratch]

Interesting tidbit, Sarah. I love Edgar Allan Poe.

In relation to horror authors, I celebrated H.P. Lovecraft's birthday by going to the Voltaire show. T'was amazing and Lovecraft's spirit was secretly enjoying the show too

[Guest]

Who is H. P. Lovecraft? And do you have a picture of the show?

[Doubar]

@sarah: Lovecraft was an American author: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft And hehe, I just get to notice that we share our birthday (not the year of course ). Have to admit I never read any of his works though.

[19101989]

@sarah : you don't know Lovecraft ? he is remarkably famous. not that i did read any of his works too. but i heard a lot about him and his horror,fantasy remarkable works and creatures

[Guest]

No, sorry but I have been caught up with studies that I have not been into reading novels that much.

[Guest]

Just something interesting I found while doing my homework. The Fischer–Tropsch process is primarily used to create synthetic petroleum substitutes.

"Since the invention of the original process by the German researchers Franz Fischer and Hans Tropsch, working at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in the 1920s, many refinements and adjustments have been made, and the term "Fischer-Tropsch" now applies to a wide variety of similar processes (Fischer-Tropsch synthesis or Fischer-Tropsch chemistry). Fischer and Tropsch filed a number of patents, e.g. US patent no. 1,746,464, applied 1926, published 1930.[4]

The process was invented in petroleum-poor but coal-rich Germany in the 1920s, to produce liquid fuels. It was used by Nazi Germany and Japan during World War II to produce ersatz (German: substitute) fuels. By early 1944 production reached more than 124,000 barrels per day (19,700 m3/d) from 25 plants ~ 6.5 million tons per year.[5] However, the bombing of German oil facilities during World War II paralyzed much of Germany's synthetic fuel production."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_process