More items will be added in coming weeks.
This calendar is still being updated, but some items are only listed in the March 31st post.
Carrboro Town Council resolution recognizing Native Plant Month in April: www.carrboronc.gov/civicalerts.aspx?AID=2386
Addressing the balloon UFOs, Nord Stream pipeline attacks, and "Western" information warfare: newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/hide-a-little-lie
On Iraq:
www.counterpunch.org/2023/03/24/roaming-charges-85/
www.counterpunch.org/2023/03/24/the-endless-wars-2003-2023/
The Yemen War: www.counterpunch.org/2023/03/24/congress-do-your-job-end-us-support-for-the-war-in-yemen/
To consider: www.counterpunch.org/2023/03/24/can-another-armenian-genocide-be-stopped/
www.counterpunch.org/2023/03/28/aukus-the-australian-labor-party-and-growing-dissent/
On "Cop City:" www.counterpunch.org/2023/03/27/beaten-bombed-and-buried-the-decade-long-persecution-of-forest-defenders/
There will be a further step towards building basically a paved road along the three miles of Bolin Creek in the 425-acre Bolin Forest at the Carrboro Town Council's March 28th meeting: bolincreek.org/blog/key-points-about-avoiding-a-creekside-route/
I think President Biden will be in Chatham County or Durham this week [Apparently it will be today, March 28th, in Durham, [this afternoon] potentially impacting air and road traffic: www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article273630810.html ].
Contribute to the (for now?) US Firefly Atlas: www.fireflyatlas.org
The NC Wildlife Resources Commission is seeking sightings of hellbenders, mudpuppies, and alligators, and comments on bog turtle and Southern hognose snake draft conservation plans and migratory bird seasons: www.ncwildlife.org/Connect-With-Us/public-asked-to-report-hellbender-and-mudpuppy-sightings , www.ncwildlife.org/Learning/Species/Reptiles/Alligator#81131876-related-links , ncwildlife.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0dN0BjEGH3xUp0y , ncwildlife.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8oYMtmbKiUGD4do , www.ncwildlife.org/Connect-With-Us/public-comment-requested-for-2023-2024-migratory-game-bird-seasons-and-two-species-conservation-plans
Late March anti-war demonstrations
www.answercoalition.org/protest_march_18_19_peace_in_ukraine_say_no_to_endless_u_s_wars
I don't know of any charter buses going to DC this weekend, but the NC Green Party is organizing carpools. There will be associated protests, but none have been announced in NC. There might be a separate anti-war protest in central North Carolina later this month, TBA, and maybe there are still some anti-war vigils. The one in Chapel Hill would be something like 5–6pm every Friday at Village Plaza, at the corner of East Franklin and Elliot, and it only takes one person to make a vigil. For shorter periods there were vigils on Monday evenings at the post office on Franklin Street across from UNC, on the side of 15-501 between Chapel Hill and Durham, Saturdays ~12–1pm at Brightleaf Square in Durham, and around the same time on Saturdays or Sundays in front of Crabtree [Valley] Mall in Raleigh. There were also banner drops and occupations of Congressman David Price's offices. [According to STN there is a monthly peace vigil at the Federal building in Raleigh - see the March 31st post.]
[UNAC: Protest in Washington, DC calls for an end to NATO and the US proxy war in Ukraine
More than 2,500 people participated in the rally, march and teach-in on March 18 on the 20th anniversary of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq. The Washington, DC demonstration called for an end to the US/NATO proxy war in Ukraine, which is the center of world politics today, and is ushering in a new era where the United States, the main imperialist power in the world, is seeing its economic, political and military hegemony being eroded as other alliances are taking shape to challenge the US. This, however, is creating a dangerous situation where major nuclear powers are facing off against each other as the US and its NATO allies continually pump more weapons, money and mercenaries into Ukraine.
The protest also called for and end to US and NATO interventions around the world and demanded:
Peace in Ukraine - No weapons, no money for the Ukraine War!
Abolish NATO – End U.S. militarism & sanctions!
Fund people’s needs, not the war machine!
No war with China!
End U.S. aid to racist apartheid Israel!
Fight racism & bigotry at home!
U.S. hands off Haiti!
End AFRICOM!
End the sanctions on Syria!
The action was organized by a broad coalition of antiwar groups including UNAC, ANSWER, Black Alliance for Peace, Code Pink, Popular Resistance, the People’s Forum and over 200 other antiwar and social justice groups. The cooperation between the main organizing groups in building the actions was a big step forward for our movement and a model of how we can build our movement in the future. Other UNAC groups that played a leading role in organizing the actions include the International Action Center, BAYAN USA, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Uhuru movement, Veterans For Peace, the World Beyond War, Socialist Action and more.
The main rally was held near the White House where a number of people spoke before the demonstrators took to the streets. We marched past the Washington Post, where we spoke about propaganda that the corporate media is spreading to help build the case for more weapons, money and war in Ukraine. On this 20th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, we all recall the lies about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction that fueled that war and we see the same kind of lies and propaganda from the corporate media today.
From the Washington Post, we marched to the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church where a teach-in was held. At the rally and the teach-in, a number of UNAC members spoke including UNAC coordinator Joe Lombardo and UNAC administrative committee members, Margaret Kimberley from the Black Alliance for Peace, Margaret Flowers from Popular Resistance, and Wyatt Miller from the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. Other speakers from UNAC affiliated groups including Richie Moreno from the International Actions Center, Lee Siu Hin from the China USA Solidarity Committee, Omali Yeshitela from the Uhuru movement, and Jacqueline Luqman from the Black Alliance for Peace. Also, speaking was Ann Wright from Code Pink and Veterans For Peace, Medea Benjamin from Code Pink, and John Shipton, the brother of Julian Assange. Noam Chomsky also addressed us by video link.
In addition to the march and rally in Washington, DC, about 15 other local actions took place in areas that were too far away for people to travel to Washington. One of the biggest took place in San Francisco where 300 people rallied, other important actions took place in Atlanta, GA, Los Angeles, Seattle, Minneapolis, Chicago, Maine and in other areas.
What next? It is important that we keep up the momentum following this successful demonstration in Washington, DC. UNAC will be discussing with others who organized March 18 doing local and regional action in the spring. Let's get ready.
Click here for more pictures and videos of the March 18 demonstration.
The corporate media has not told us, but twice as many Ukrainians fleeing the fighting have gone to Russia than to any other country. In Russia some Ukrainians have formed an organization called the Union of Political Emigrants and Political Prisoners of Ukraine. This organization sent a message of support to the March 18 protest in Washington, DC. Part of that message was read at the demonstration. The entire text can be found here.
UNAC photos and video: nepajac.org/picvid.htm
Union of Political Emigrants and Political Prisoners of Ukraine statement read at March 18th: nepajac.org/ukmessage.htm –
Dear comrades in UNAC and other peace-supporting groups who initiated the event of March 18!
The Union of Political Emigrants and Political Prisoners of Ukraine endorses your brave effort for peace in Ukraine!
Recently, we have formed a news agency under the name “M.A.R.T. Corp.” to reflect our position from Ukraine and Russia to progressive forces abroad.
The news agency M.A.R.T. Corp. expresses an independent view from the broad circles of the Ukrainian people who are opposed to the Kiev authorities. We wholeheartedly welcome and support the launch of a major campaign by the public of the United States and other countries for peace in Ukraine, in particular, the event of March 18.
For our part, we are looking for opportunities to express the opinion of Ukrainian citizens in support of the movement for peace in Western countries and ask them to voice the following points of our views at your event:
The Kiev regime uses chemical weapons in the conflict zone in Ukraine, in violation of all existing conventions on the prohibition of chemical weapons. This may provoke asymmetrical retaliatory measures on the part of Russia.
At the same time, U.S. President Joe Biden is inflating the Pentagon budget to the detriment of U.S. residents. The ruling circles of the United States are curtailing a number of projects to support socially vulnerable segments of the population, primarily people of color and the unemployed.
The regime of dictator Zelensky in Ukraine is based on power dictatorship and repression. Dictator Zelensky, for the sake of preserving his undivided power, wants to drag the NATO countries and the European Union together with the United States, into an all-out war with Russia, where there will be no winner.
If peace is established in Ukraine, the dictatorship of Zelensky is over! The Kiev regime has no interest in peace in Ukraine.
The present-day U.S. and British politics of sanctions must end! The sanctions do not stop the conflict. They [serve] to prolong the conflict in Ukraine for the benefit of ruling elites in the U.S. and Britain!
We ask you to voice these views and, if possible, depict one or more of these points on your posters.
This will express your solidarity with the struggle of the Ukrainian opposition for peace in Ukraine and show the dictatorial regime of Kiev that the opposition is alive and capable of action and not completely destroyed in the dungeons of the Kiev security forces, in bloody repressions and prisons!
Later, having received from you links, photos and videos of your event, where the views of the Ukrainian opposition were demonstrated, transmitted from M.A.R.T. Corp., we can distribute these photos and videos among the broad circles of the Ukrainian public, crushed by official propaganda, to clearly demonstrate support for our position from the people of the United States and other countries of the West.
Our great and warmest wishes for success in your struggle and with great wish for peace,
The Union of Political Emigrants and Political Prisoners of Ukraine
M.A.R.T. Corp. news agency ]
Former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett will be at Duke soon.
Judging from the mainstream media, is the US government plotting a "color revolution" coup in the Republic of Georgia? I thought Georgia already had a thoroughly anti-Russian, anti-Abkhaz, and anti-Ossetian, pro-US, pro-NATO, pro-"Europe" government, whether it is bourgeois "democratic" or not.
International Women's Day and Women's History Month in Carrboro: www.carrboronc.gov/civicalerts.aspx?AID=2371
Who blew up the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines?
The New York Times and other media are claiming the week of March 7th that elements in the US government think that a "pro-Ukrainian group" sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines, solving what the media calls a great mystery. My first thought was to ask if this is being claimed to deny Seymour Hersh's recent report that the "pro-Ukrainian group" of the US and Norway carried out the bombings on the bottom of the Baltic. [It felt sinister to hear the BBC's headlines – this news that sounds like an obvious cover-up and then talk of the coronavirus lab leak theory, equaling the pandemic is China's fault (in a legal sense?), equaling another obvious attempt to start a new cold war/WWIII with China]
The cover-up/blacking out of Hersh's inconvenient claims: fair.org/home/major-us-outlets-found-hershs-nord-strom-scoop-too-hot-to-handle/
February 22nd there is a report of a case of spontaneous (?) BSE or Mad Cow Disease in the UK.
National Invasive Species Awareness Week ( February 20 - 26 in 2023: www.nisaw.org/ ) in Carrboro: www.carrboronc.gov/civicalerts.aspx?AID=2354
The will be a public hearing for the Sanford wastewater treatment plant's permit March 7th at 6pm: hawriver.org/home/attention-public-hearing-for-sanford-wastewater-treatment-plant-permit/ The high level of PFAS being discharged is an issue.
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-your-state-rep-to-support-house-bill-28-and-address-plastic-pollution
February 10th overshadowed by the UFO shootdown news, an agreement was reached between CSX and two unions on paid sick leave, following the Biden administration and Congress' betrayal of rail workers before the threatened national strike: www.npr.org/2023/02/10/1155763336/freight-rail-workers-union-paid-sick-leave-bernie-sanders-csx
A Norfolk Southern freight train carrying vinyl chloride and other hazardous chemicals derailed around 8:55pm in East Palestine, Ohio, near the eastern state line with Pennsylvania; with fires and chemical spills. There are reports of children getting sick and sick or dead domestic and wild animals in the area. According to the Wikipedia article, this event could relate to inadequate brake regulations; moves to longer and heavier trains, with fewer and possibly ill workers; precision scheduled railroading; lack of maintenance, etc. A reporter from NewsNation was arrested near a press conference by Ohio governor Mike DeWine.
Rage Against the War Machine, organized by the Libertarian Party and the People's Party, along with other organizations, will be in Washington, DC February 19th, with sister events elsewhere and later in the week: rageagainstwar.com/#Resources There has been criticism on the left, said to be based on the organizers' politics.
Paving along Bolin Creek in Carrboro
I forgot to include earlier that the Carrboro Town Council was again considering a paved trail next to Bolin Creek in largely intact Bolin Forest, at its February 14th 7pm work session. There is a petition against this, at bolincreek.org/blog/policy-alerts/save-bolin-creek/ , now with 1575 signatures. For more information, see this page and bolincreek.org/blog/
A new issue of the monthly left newspaper Triangle Free Press finally came out in November-December 2022. It might be much harder to find copies now.
The unidentified balloon floating over the Western US
The media is making a big deal about an alleged Chinese spy balloon, tracked by the USA and Canada, and publicly announced just before a meeting between US and Chinese officials. Allegedly the US considered downing the balloon over Montana, but worried about falling debris. What is the difference between a spy satellite and a probably very high-altitude balloon? Satellites can already observe US nuclear missile silos and other countries know the locations of US land-based ICBMs. It is said that this makes land-based ICBMs in fixed silos a major factor encouraging nuclear war, because they would have to be used before the other side could destroy them, unlike other nuclear weapons. A day or two ago there was a report that there is tension over the US-Russia treaty allowing each side to inspect the other's nuclear weapons, such as ICBM bases, for treaty violations. Can the US military even reliably shoot the balloon down? There is an item about US anti-satellite weapon tests below. This isn't the first such balloon in recent years, they say. During WWII Japan sent incendiary bombs on balloons across the Pacific and Americans were killed. The media asks what China is doing, but it could be asked why the US military decided to reveal this information now. The US complains about spying and military exercises, but it is not aggressive behavior when US aircraft and ships go near or into the territory of China or another country or the US conducts military exercises with the ROK, Israel, and Ukraine, often near countries targeted by the US government. How many uncrewed spy devices has the US flown over other countries or sent in by water? Was the balloon first reported as a UFO/UAP? Is it just a weather balloon?
[Now there are claims about "unidentified objects" the US and Canadian governments and media are very careful not to call UFOs, or even UAPs, being tracked and shot down by US F-22's Friday, February 10th over Alaska and Saturday, February 11th over Yukon, Canada, while there was a possible radar sighting above Havre, Montana February 11th and the air space was closed for a short time. The expensive stealth F-22's first kills are a high-altitude balloon (possibly setting an altitude record for an air-to-air kill) and two small UFOs, using AIM-9X Sidewinder missiles.]
[2/13 – Supposedly the apparently octagon-shaped object detected by radar over Montana was detected again over Wisconsin and Michigan and then shot down Sunday, February 12th over Lake Huron, this time by an F-16C, flown by the Minnesota Air National Guard, also using a Sidewinder missile (apparently first deployed by Taiwan in the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis, and one was captured and reverse engineered by Soviet technicians). These missiles cost a few hundred thousand dollars each and there is the cost to field the aircraft. [Apparently two missiles were required, after the first one missed and is lost, somewhere: www.foxnews.com/us/us-military-first-shot-unknown-octagonal-object-lake-huron-missed ] And here is Gordon G Chang, author of The Coming Collapse of China (by 2011) and The Great U.S. - China Tech War (published in 2020), etc., on NPR's "center-left" imperialist The Takeaway fearmongering about the earlier balloon. Is this UFO flap a psychological warfare operation by elements in Washington? Reports of UFOs are probably rising, because people are looking and maybe 'jumpy.' There were sightings of crewed mystery airships, which would now be called UFOs, mostly in the late 1800's and in the years leading up to WWI. ] [2 It was claimed that this flap is the first time aircraft have been shot down in US airspace, but there are claims that civilian aircraft were shot down on 9/11, and I think it has recently been confirmed that George W Bush did order this, but that is as far as the mainstream media goes. A retired vice admiral type claimed that the military needs more resources to track these balloons and small UFOs.]
[On NPR's All Things Considered February 13th there was a brief interview with a (different?) retired US admiral M- on using "UFO" versus "UAP." He said something like the way the public and the entertainment industry uses the word UFO bars the military and government from using it, and NPR's Ailsa Chang helpfully summarized it as UFO equals fiction, versus Unidentified Aerial or Anomalous Phenomenon, a term probably invented by the US government. On Morning Edition February 13th there was a story about state government control over the West Virginia NPR station ( www.npr.org/2023/02/13/1153590012/west-virginia-public-journalist-dismissed-wvpb-political-interference ), but NPR serves the government and capitalist elites whether on the question of what unidentified flying objects should be called or the facts of the war and crimes in Ukraine.
Also on Morning Edition there didn't seem to be much presentation of facts in the claim that "God" wasn't conceived of as male from the beginning of Christianity, regarding an Anglican Church decision to use gender-neutral language. Their guest was from the Yale Divinity School and NPR had plenty of time (4 hours) to provide a historical argument ( www.npr.org/2023/02/13/1156477722/church-of-england-says-gender-neutral-terms-for-god-are-up-for-discussion ). On All Things Considered it was reported that the US now claims something like universal jurisdiction regarding Ukraine (only), though it was mentioned that this leaves out Iraq, Palestine, etc. They didn't mention that many people accused of serious international crimes don't come to the US to visit Disney Land, they are being actively sheltered here.]
Amphibians crossing
Spotted salamanders cross roads to the vernal pools where they breed, such as in seasonal pools close to the NC Botanical Garden's visitor center in Chapel Hill, during the winter and it won't be long before other amphibians begin possibly perilous journeys to breeding locations, followed by the herpetological carnage on roads in the Triangle and elsewhere, maybe especially in late spring to mid-summer. Related marbled salamanders breed in the fall and their larger larvae can eat the smaller spotted salamander larvae. I've seen adult marbled salamanders in Durham, but I've never seen an adult spotted salamander around here, so they seem very rare, though maybe they are more common than I realize.
The annual National Invasive Species Awareness Week will be February 20 - 26 in 2023: www.nisaw.org/
Durham Planning Department announcement – there were earlier meetings:
The full draft of the new Comprehensive Plan is ready for community review and input!
Online engagement through the project’s Social Pinpoint website has launched. Engagement will be open until Monday, March 20 – please plan to review the plan, attend a meeting, and provide your input either online or in person!
In addition to online engagement, community members are invited to attend any of the following open house style in-person meetings or virtual sessions to review the full draft and share their feedback directly with Planning staff. Childcare for the in-person meetings will be provided (by The Safety Nest, LLC ) as well as light snacks, masks, and hand sanitizer. Materials in both English and Spanish along with bilingual staff and/or simultaneous interpretation will be available at all of the meetings.
Virtual Meeting
Monday, February 13, 7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Zoom Virtual Meeting in Spanish
Registration Required: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register...
Virtual Meeting
Thursday, February 16, 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Zoom Virtual Meeting
Registration Required: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register...
In-Person Meeting
Sunday, February 19, 3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Southern School of Energy and Sustainability Cafeteria
800 Clayton Road
Registration Requested: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FXYVM6P
In-Person Meeting (Youth & Family Focused)
Tuesday, February 21, 4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Durham County Main Library Auditorium
300 N. Roxboro St.
Registration Requested: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FXYVM6P
While registration is required for the virtual meetings, registration is requested for the in-person meetings to help Planning staff ensure enough food, printed materials, and staffing for childcare are provided. For the final meeting, Planning staff is partnering with the City’s Office on Youth to create a more youth- and family-friendly space and a celebration of the project that will be open to all.
This engagement will be a chance to see all the pieces pulled together into one document, to better understand how it all works together, and to celebrate what we have accomplished together. During this engagement we will also be sharing information on how community members can continue to be involved in the project as the public hearing and adoption process begins.
Read more information and review the plan here !
If you have feedback or questions, please feel free to contact
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EVENTS
FLOC's annual Songs for Justice Concert benefit was December 9th at 6pm online and in-person at the SSofia Quintero Art + Cultural Center in Toledo, Ohio. There is related a mini-documentary, about 11 minutes long, at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfNIBP2QV1I
Ichibancon 13 was January 12th - 15th in Concord, NC: ichibancon.com/
The NCSSM's annual Native American Indian Powwow was Saturday, February 4th 12 - 5pm in Durham: www.ncssm.edu/powwow Other powwows in the State, most in the late summer or fall, are listed here: calendar.powwows.com/events/categories/pow-wows/pow-wows-in-north-carolina/
History of the Communist Manifesto lecture by Brian Becker February 9th at 6:30pm EST online and in-person at the People's Forum in NYC.
Book talk on Fidel and Malcolm X: Memories of a Meeting, by Dr Rosemari Mealy, about their September 1960 meeting in Harlem, February 10th at 6pm EST online and in-person at the People's Forum in NYC.
UNC-Charlotte Botanical Gardens' Orchid Festival and Ganache in the Gardens is February 11 - 12th: ecom.charlotte.edu/C21561_ustores/web/store_main.jsp?
The Green Party's EcoAction Committee is hosting an EcoAction Webinar Forum on Biodiversity and Rights of Nature on Zoom Monday, February 13 at 8pm EST. The speakers will include Tierra Curry, Natalie Green, and Frederic Guarino.
There was a protest Wednesday, February 15th at 12pm in Washington, DC across from the Longworth and Cannon House office buildings, at the corner of New Jersey and Independence avenues, Support the Men in Guantanamo Who Have Been Cleared for Release. Another vigil was held around the same time in front of the UK's Parliament House in London: worldcantwait.net/index.php/calls-to-action/9187-justice-for-the-20-men-already-cleared-for-release-from-guantanamo
Monthly IDSA event, register here.
The Paul J Ciener Botanical Garden in Kernersville is sponsoring a Red Cross blood drive February 16th 12 - 4:30pm and March 20th 11am - 3:30pm. The NCBG sometimes has blood drives.
There will be a Beethoven Fundraiser for the Haw River Assembly February 16th at the Haw River Ballroom in Saxapahaw.
The annual Japanese pop culture convention Kami-Con will be February 11 –13 in Birmingham, Alabama: www.kamicon.net/
Katsucon 2023 will be February 17 – 19 in National Harbor, Maryland. NashiCon was later in the spring in Columbia, South Carolina, but might no longer be held.
The Friends of the Durham Library will have an in-person book sale February 17 – 18th and there will be library book sales in Chapel Hill and Pittsboro in March – April ( see below).
Chapel Hill-based Camellia Forest Nursery will have open houses in February 17 -19 and 24 - 26; March 10 - 12, 17 - 19, and March 31 - April 3; and April 7 - 9, when there will be spring-blooming camellia cultivars and other flowers: camforest.com/pages/open-house There are also some late winter camellias on the UNC campus and at NCSU's JC Raulston Arboretum, and probably at Duke and Duke Gardens.
The Great Backyard Bird Count begins February 17th.
The annual National Invasive Species Awareness Week will be February 20 - 26 in 2023: www.nisaw.org/ [Carrboro, if no where else in the area recognizes the Week: www.carrboronc.gov/civicalerts.aspx?AID=2354
Soil Sciences - Science Against Capitalism February 22 and 25 at 4:30pm EST online and in-person at the People's Forum in NYC; Marxism in soil science, urban agriculture, and critical physical geography:
UE150 had rallies February 22nd at 12pm at UNC's administrative South Building and at 4pm outside the BOG meeting, moved to 223 South West Street, Raleigh, from UNC: www.facebook.com/events/1911607909199020/?ref=newsfeed
The 2023 Hatteras Village Waterfowl Festival will be February 24 - 25th: hatterasonmymind.com/HVCA/WaterfowlFestival/
The Organic Growers School's 30th Annual Spring Conference will be February 24 - 26 at Mars Hill University: organicgrowersschool.org/conferences/spring/
There will be a Rally for Union Recognition, with food, on the steps of Duke Chapel at 12pm February 24th, following the recognition of the SEIU Duke Graduate Students Union.
The Triangle Labor Seminar will be Friday, February 24th at 3:30 at UNC's Love House, 410 East Franklin Street, and on Zoom. UNC professor Turk will present a paper, "Saints’ or ‘Scabs’: Contesting Feminized Labors, Social Needs, and the Welfare State in the Volunteering Wars of the 1970s," and there will be others. For the link and to RSVP contact: carolinatrianglelaborseminar at gmail
The Haw River Assembly will clean out the trash trout litter trap on Third Fork Creek in Durham Saturday, February 25th and March 25th and seeks volunteers.
There will be a Black History Month Community Bike Ride in Chapel Hill and Carrboro February 26th 12:30 - 2:30, going 5 miles to and from YouthWorx, 117 West Main Street in Carrboro.
Several counties in the Triangle usually hold their Creek Week in March - April and there are spring trash clean ups, such as one organized by the Haw River Assembly. Earth Day is always April 22nd. [The HRA's 33rd annual Haw River Clean-Up-a-thon will be March 18th.
The Eno River Association organizes guided Spring Wildflower Hikes annually, March - May: www.enoriver.org/features/guided-hike-series/
The NC Botanical Garden will host a Hybrid Lunchbox Talk on The NC Fig Buttercup Project: What's in *your* backyard? March 2nd 12 - 1pm: ncbg.unc.edu/event/hybrid-lunchbox-talk-the-nc-fig-buttercup-project-whats-in-your-backyard/ Fig buttercup, Ficaria verna, is a newer non-native plant colonizing the area, I think including in my neighborhood.
Annual Aldo Leopold Week will be March 3 - 12: www.aldoleopold.org/news-events/leopold-week/leopold-week-2023-nurturing-reciprocity/
There will be a screening and panel discussion of Angel from Alabama March 9th at the Chatham County Agriculture and Community Center in Pittsboro at 6pm. The director will attend. This is a free event, but tickets are required: www.eventbrite.com/e/angel-of-alabama-short-film-panel-discussion-tickets-523775164617
The NC Botanical Garden will host Amy Highland for a Virtual Lunchbox Talk on The Trillium of Mt Cuba Center March 9th 12 - 1pm: ncbg.unc.edu/event/virtual-lunchbox-talk-mt-cuba-trillium/ This group of threatened spring woodland flowers is supposed to be represented in the Triangle, but I've never seen one growing in the wild. Mount Cuba Center has more than 80 varieties and several species occur naturally in NC.
The annual Banzaicon will be March 10 - 12 in Columbia, South Carolina: banzaicon.com/
Carrboro's annual Kite Fly will be Sunday, March 12th 1 - 3pm at Hank Anderson Park. Kites available. There might be a similar event at Lake Crabtree; sometime, maybe in the spring, I've seen a large number of kites flying above the first field at the north end.
From BAJ:
There will be a Carrboro Poets' Council open mic at Flyleaf Books Wednesday, March 15th 6 - 7:30pm.
Arbor Day is Friday, March 17th in North Carolina (the first Friday after March 15th - www.arborday.org/celebrate/dates.cfm ). There was usually a Durham Arbor Day celebration.
The NC Museum of Art's annual Art in Bloom will be March 15 - 19th: ncartmuseum.org/series/art-in-bloom-presented-by-pnc/
Demand Peace in Ukraine: Stop the US War Machine! - ANSWER, CODEPINK, and The People' Forum are organizing a demonstration at the White House Saturday, March 18th at 1pm and events around the country that weekend:
UNAC on March 18th:
"Coinciding with the 20th anniversary weekend of the criminal U.S.-invasion of Iraq a major set of actions including a demonstration at the White House in Washington, D.C. on Saturday March 18 demanding "Peace in Ukraine – Say NO to Endless U.S. Wars” and “Fund People's Needs, Not the War Machine.” Since 2003, the U.S. has engaged in sanctions (economic war) on more than 40 countries. These targets of U.S. economic warfare include the people of Cuba, Zimbabwe, Venezuela, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Iran and many other nations. Even in the wake of the worst disasters, like the recent deadly earthquake, Washington keeps its cruel sanctions in place against Syria. U.S. bases and “commands” blanket most of the world. It is a global empire.
The Biden administration is determined to escalate the Ukraine war. The real goal of the massive arming and training of Ukrainian forces has nothing to do with the interests of Ukrainian, Russian or American people. The aim instead is to “weaken Russia” as stated by the U.S. Secretary of Defense himself, even at the risk of a catastrophic nuclear war that could end life on Earth. A U.S. General commanding 50,000 troops in the Pacific also issued a letter to his sub-commanders in recent days informing them that he believes that the United States will be at war with China within two years. The danger of global war is growing! The people must act!
The demonstration will make connections between the human and financial toll of U.S. militarism at home and abroad. Key demands include:
- Peace in Ukraine - No weapons, no money for the Ukraine War
- Abolish NATO – End U.S. militarism & sanctions!
- Fund people’s needs, not the war machine!
- No war with China!
- End U.S. aid to racist apartheid Israel!
- Fight racism & bigotry at home, not other peoples!
- U.S. hands off Haiti
- End AFRICOM"
Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site's 158th Anniversary Living History event will be March 18th 1 - 4pm in Four Oaks: historicsites.nc.gov/upcoming-events/bentonville-battlefield
The People's Forum will hold a Spring Equinox People's Market March 18th 1 - 8pm in New York, and apparently there are still Really, Really Free Markets on some or all Saturdays at the Carrboro town commons by the town hall, in addition to the many farmers' and flea markets in the Triangle.
The annual National Cherry Blossom Festival will be March 20th - April 16th in Washington, DC, with the Sakura Matsuri –Japanese Street Festival April 15 – 16th: nationalcherryblossomfestival.org
The NC Botanical Garden will host Hannah Levenson from NCSU for a Virtual Lunchbox Talk on Supporting Native Pollinator Communities in NC Agroecosytems March 23th 12 - 1pm: reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_page.aspx?ek=0005-0014-e20546b9f29a4930b3bdbb2d6f1d2600 I've been seeing an unfamiliar, probably native very fuzzy small brown bee species this unseasonable early spring, for example at Chinese holly flowers.
Earth Hour will be Saturday March 25th in 2023 and March 30th in 2024, especially 8:30 - 9:30pm, when people are encouraged to turn off unnecessary lights as a symbol of commitment to dealing with climate change and other environmental problems (and it could reduce light pollution for a short time). National Dark-Sky Week is supposed to be held annually the week of the New Moon in April, and highlights light pollution and stargazing.
The annual Triad Anime Con will be March 31st - April 2nd in Winston-Salem, NC: triadanimecon.com/
Register at: peoplesforum.org/events/the-untold-successes-of-german-democratic-republic/
The annual North Carolina Science Festival will be April 1 - 30 with events throughout the State: ncsciencefestival.org/
The NC SciFest will be at Cary's Hemlock Bluffs Nature Preserve April 1st 10am - 1pm.
The NC Botanical Garden's Annual McNeill Sims Native Plant Lecture will be Sunday, April 2nd 5:30 - 6:45.
The Organic Growers School's Cuba Agroecology Tour will be April 4 - 13: organicgrowersschool.org/events/travel-cuba/
The NC Botanical Garden's Twilight Thursdays, days when it will be open until 7pm, for equity, will be April 6 - June 15th and August 17 - September 28th.
The annual NC Pilgrimage for Peace and Justice, inspired by Nicaraguan examples, will end in Raleigh April 7th, Good Friday, starting at 9am.
The annual NC Azalea Festival will be April 12 - 16th in Wilmington: ncazaleafestival.org/
Register at: peoplesforum.org/events/unfinished-ferment-indonesia-from-independence-to-today-2/
There will be a Carolina Wetlands Association meet and greet in Raleigh April 12th 6 - 8pm.
There will be a Labor Rising Teach-in at UNC April 14 12 - 1 and 5 - 6, with food at the evening session; details TBA: carolinatrianglelaborseminar at Gmail
The Lyrid meteor shower is April 15 - 29th, peaking on the night of the 22nd amsmeteors.org/meteor-showers/2020-meteor-shower-list/ and amsmeteors.org/meteor-showers/meteor-shower-calendar/
Bentonville in Bloom, part of the annual North Carolina Science Festival [April 1 - 30: ncsciencefestival.org/ ], and looking at local flora and fauna, will be at Bentonville Battlefield State Historic Site Saturday, April 15th 10am - 3pm: historicsites.nc.gov/upcoming-events/bentonville-battlefield The Triangle Land Conservancy recently acquired 1120 acres of swampy bottomland, the Brogden Bottomlands, along a remote stretch of the Neuse River nearby: triangleland.org/blog/tlc-saves-1120-acres-in-johnston-county
US Tax Day is April 18th in 2023: www.irs.gov/newsroom/irs-sets-january-23-as-official-start-to-2023-tax-filing-season-more-help-available-for-taxpayers-this-year
The annual Haw River 5K Island Ramble will be April [22nd] in Saxapahaw: hawriver.org/haw-river-island-ramble/
The NCGP is organizing an Eco-Socialist Earth Day event Saturday, April 22 12 - 3pm at Raleigh's John Chavis Community Center, shelter #2505; with some food.
The Durham County Library's Third Annual Library Fest: The Storytelling Edition will be April 24 - 29th.
NC's coastal Bodie Island Lighthouse will be open for stair climbing April 26 - October 9th this year, and the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse further south on the OBX, which I have been up, will probably not open, but there is a virtual tour: www.nps.gov/caha/planyourvisit/lighthouseclimbs.htm and www.nps.gov/caha/planyourvisit/bils.htm
Bullington Gardens' Spring Plant Sale will be April 27 - 29 9am - 4pm in Hendersonville, NC: bullingtongardens.org
International Workers' Day/May Day is May 1st. Area university commencements are roughly around the same time and Mother's Day is May 14th. [Lawyer Benjamin Crump, from Lumberton, NC, will speak at NCCU's commencement.]
According to the NC WRC, bats have pups starting around May 1st, so any in houses should only be be removed before then: www.ncwildlife.org/Connect-With-Us/homeowners-should-prepare-for-bat-roosting-season-now-14
The Spring 2023 Shakori Hills GrassRoots Festival will be May 4 - 7th: www.shakorihillsgrassroots.org/
The 9th annual Freight Train Blues concert series will be May 5 - June 23 on the Carrboro Town Commons: www.carrboronc.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=2359 There is/was usually a similar live concert series outside Chapel Hill's Carolina Inn on Friday evenings during the summer.
The Haw River Festival will be May 6th in Saxapahaw and the beginning of Saturdays in Saxapahaw.
There will be a Spring Flea Market 8am - 12pm May 6th at 5122 Revere Road, at the intersection with Seaton Road in the Parkwood neighborhood in southern Durham, the first in a (very?) long time if it goes through; there used to be two per year, attended by at least hundreds (?) of people and occasionally with organizational tabling; vendors can register starting April 3rd: parkwoodhoa.nabrnetwork.com/
The annual Got to Be NC Festival will be May 19 – 21 at the NC State Fairgrounds in Raleigh, and concessionaire applications are due by April 1st: ncstatefair.org
Sumter, South Carolina's annual Iris Festival will be May 25 - 28: www.sumtersc.gov/irisfestival
The Strategic Corporate Research Summer School will be June 18 - 23, with applications due May 1st: www.ilr.cornell.edu/scr-summer-school
The Uproar Festival of Public Art will be July 14 - August 12 in Orange County: uproarfestnc.com/
[CREEK WEEKS:
Durham County - March 18 - 25: keepdurhambeautiful.org/creek-week-events
Orange County - early March? [March 17 - 26; www.orangecountync.gov/CreekWeek ]: www.co.orange.nc.us/2905/Events-and-Activities
Chatham County/Regional - March 18 - 25; theme - Water Connects Us: www.chathamcountync.gov/government/departments-programs-i-z/watershed-protection/regional-creek-week
Forsyth County - March 18 - 26: forsythcreekweek.squarespace.com/
Raleigh's Regional Creek Week - March 19 - 25: raleighnc.gov/stormwater/celebrate-regional-creek-week A few years ago there was a creek week for Swift Creek only (?).
Alamance County - May 13 - 21: alamancecreekweek.wordpress.com/
Guilford County - in early June?: www.guilfordcreekweek.org/ , www.guilfordcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/3822/
This might not be an exhaustive list and some areas might have their creek weeks in the fall.]
LIBRARY BOOKSALES:
The Friends of the Durham Library's Books Among Friends has a new location, in the Shoppes of Hope Valley, 3825 South Roxboro Road, #131, zipcode 27713. There are satellite sales at each library. For more information and the Friends membership form, see: fodlnc.org/book-sales/ Their online store is at: shopfodlnc.org There will be an in-person sale February 17 -18th:
The Friends of the Chapel Hill Public Library has an online store at: friendschpl.org/online-book-store and there will be in-person sales March 24 - 26, August 25 - 27, and December 1 - 3: friendschpl.org/FCHPLevents
The Friends of the Chatham County Library will have in-person sales March 30 - April 1 and September 21 - 23 in 2023: www.friendsccl.org/ and they now have an online store, at: friendsccl.org/Store
The Friends of the Lee County Libraries has sales at open libraries: library.leecountync.gov/friends
Until about 2019 the Wake County Public Libraries had a massive book sale or expo, with hundreds of thousands of books and other items for sale, over a few days every May at the NC State Fairgrounds in Raleigh, but books culled by WCPL or donated by the public are now being sold through Thrift Books ( Thriftbooks.com ) for higher profit, or shredded for recycling by the company. See www.wakegov.com/book-donations and www.wral.com/wake-county-public-libraries-stops-annual-book-sales-for-now/20032795/
There is supposed to be a sale every Monday 2-4pm at the Warren County Memorial Library: www.wcmlibrary.org/friends-of-the-library-book-sale/
Granville County: granville.lib.nc.us/friends-of-the-library/ and www.facebook.com/FriendsOfTheGranvillePublicLibrarySystem/
Person County: www.personcountync.gov/departments-services/departments-i-z/library/friends-of-the-library-1603
Vance: www.facebook.com/friendsperrymemoriallibrary/
Moore County: www.facebook.com/moorecountylibrary/
Caswell: www.caswellcountync.gov/blog/categories/library-programs
Alamance County: www.facebook.com/AlamanceLibraries , www.alamance-nc.com/library
The Friends of the High Point Library: www.highpointnc.gov/927/Friends and www.facebook.com/HighPointPublicLibrary/
Forsyth: www.facebook.com/groups/105298719513537 , www.forsyth.cc/library/ www.facebook.com/FCPublicLibrary , www.facebook.com/GSOLibrary , library.greensboro-nc.gov
See also Book Sale Finder: www.booksalefinder.com/NC.html
The Digging Durham Seed Library is open: durhamcountylibrary.org/digging-durham-seed-library/ [A seed library opens in Carteret County April 14th; see the notice earlier.]
PLANT SALES:
JC Raulston Arboretum at NCSU: online April 6th and in-person April 28 – 29th
Mordecai Historic Park in Raleigh: April 22nd – 23rd
Bullington Gardens in Hendersonville, NC: April 27 – 29th
NC Botanical Garden: Saturday, May 6th 9am – 1pm
CALENDAR
Saturday, December 3, 2022 two Duke Energy electrical substations in Moore County, NC, nearby southwest of Durham, in the Sandhills region, were expertly shot up, starting around 7pm, knocking out the power over much of Moore County. A curfew was imposed, schools closed, a shelter opened, and a reward offered. The power was restored by December 7th or 8th.
Early on April 16, 2013 several people cut communication cables and then carefully shot up 17 transformers at PG and E's Metcalf substation in Coyote, near San Jose, California, but there wasn't much power loss. In August and October of that year one man attacked electrical equipment in central Arkana. In March and April 1975 a guarded PG and E substation was bombed twice by the NWLF, or so they claimed. December 31st that year the George Jackson Brigade bombed a substation in Seattle. In 2016 a man shot at a substation in Utah and had plans for further attacks. November 11, 2022 a Carteret-Craven Electric Cooperative substation in Jones County, NC was vandalized, knocking out power for over 12,000 people. In late November there were at least six attack in the Pacific Northwest, two with guns. The morning of December 25th four substations were attacked around Tacoma, knocking out the power to more than 14,000 people. Two men were arrested January 3rd, but apparently did it only as part of a plan for burglaries. [There were also attacks on electrical infrastructure in Brazil around January 8, 2023.] [A man was arrested on suspicion that he bombed PG and E transformers in December and January: abc7news.com/san-jose-explosives-pge-transformers-blown-up-peter-karasev-arrest-sj-man-arrested-in/12910094/ ]
December 7, 1981 rightist James Wenneker von Brunn attempted to seize members of the Federal Reserve Board in DC December 7, 1981.
A Reichsbürger monarchist coup plot was allegedly foiled December 7, 2022 in Germany. In April 2017 Rightist soldiers in Germany's special forces were charged with planning to assassinate several politicians in the Day X plot.
Activist Norman David Mayer (March 31, 1916 – December 9, 1982), claiming to have explosives, threatened to blow up the Washington Monument December 8, 1982, over nuclear weapons; he was shot and killed.
The AquaDom aquarium and elevator, in Berlin, Germany's Radisson Collection Hotel, apparently the largest cylindrical aquarium in the world, failed around 5:45am Friday, December 16, 2022. Two people were hospitalized and there could have been fatalities if more people had been around, but all or most of the aquarium's 1500 tropical fish, representing 100 species, were killed. Fish kept behind the scenes survived. It isn't clear how the fish were killed, but the failure might have occurred because it was about 16 outside that night while the aquarium was about 79 degrees Fahrenheit.
Kentucky Air National Guard Captain Thomas Francis Mantell Jr was killed chasing a UFO January 7, 1948 near Franklin on the southern state line bordering Tennessee. Mantell, 25, was flying a WWII-era P-51 Mustang fighter. It has been suggested that the UFO was a Skyhook balloon, after the USAF's claim that Mantell had been chasing the planet Venus fell through. A similar balloon allegedly crashed in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947.
Jared Lee Loughner shot 19 people, including Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, Federal judge John Roll, and 9-year-old Christina-Taylor Green, killing 6, January 8, 2011 at a Safeway in Casas Adobes, Tucson.
Following US calls for full-spectrum dominance, including in space, and missile shields, China used a missile to destroy one of its old weather satellites January 11, 2007. The Dong Neng-3 missile, possibly an anti-satellite weapon, was tested February 5, 2008. More recently Russia and India have also tested anti-satellite weapons. The USSR and the USA worked on such weapons throughout the Cold War, and the first successful interception seems to have been by the USSR in February 1970. The US tested anti-satellite missiles fired from a modified F-15 fighter in 1984-85.
Warfare in space could produce debris that would prevent human use of space long-term and anti-ballistic missile weapons make a nuclear war more likely. One country would think it had an edge and could escape retaliation by using nuclear weapons first, so other countries would be more likely to use their weapons, under the idea of 'use them or lose them.'
UNC - Chapel Hill apparently opened January 16, 1795, but did not have any students until that February.
Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of newly independent Democratic Republic of Congo, was executed January 17, 1961, with the involvement of Belgium (which had held the DRC as a colony), the UK, and the USA. November 25, 1965 Mobutu seized power and later renamed the country Zaire; he wasn't deposed until 1997 and was supported by the USA and China.
The DPRK seized the spy ship USS Pueblo in or near its coastal waters January 21, 1968.
Evo Morales became president of Bolivia January 22, 2006 and was elected to two more terms, until he was toppled by a violent US-backed coup and received asylum in Mexico, November 12, 2019. An unelected rightist and anti-Indian government temporarily ruled Bolivia. The security forces refused to protect the elected government, but violently repressed and killed Morales supporters. Morales' party returned to power in the next election.
January 24, 1978 Kosmos 954, a malfunctioning nuclear-powered Soviet naval surveillance satellite disintegrated over Canada, requiring clean up of radioactive debris and the USSR paid restitution, though only half of what Canada asked for. Another malfunctioning nuclear-powered satellite, Kosmos 1402, fell to Earth early in 1983, but completely burned up or sank into the ocean.
January 25, 1995 a scientific rocket was launched from Norway to study the aurora borealis and Russia thought it could be a nuclear missile and prepared to launch a nuclear counterattack, marking the first and only time that a nuclear power is known to have activated its "nuclear football" and prepared to fire off its weapons, though nuclear war almost began during the Cuban Missile Crisis as well.
The Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by the USSR January 27, 1945 and January 27th is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The Tet Offensive in Vietnam against US and ARVN forces began January 31, 1968 (see: michaelharrison.org.uk/2017/02/31st-january-1968-tet-offensive-vietnam/ )
Explorer 1, the USA's first satellite, was launched February l, 1958.
Germany's 6th Army, occupying Stalingrad, surrendered February 2, 1943. The Battle of Stalingrad was August 23, 1942 to February 2, 1943, with pockets of resistance afterwards, and was a major turning point in WWII; February 23, 1943 was marked as Red Army Day in the UK, while today media in the USA and UK often give the public the impression that WWII was mainly a victory won by the Americans and British (or even Ukraine apart from the USSR as a whole), though much or most of the fighting in Europe was on the Eastern front and it has been argued that Japan surrendered in the end because the Soviets entered the Pacific War, not because of the horror of the Allies' nuclear warfare. See: redphoenixnews.com/2023/02/02/the-battle-of-stalingrad-and-the-german-soviet-non-aggression-pact-of-1939/
Former congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard's 2020 presidential campaign kicked off with an event February 2, 2019 in Hawaii. She appeared to be running as a left Democrat and was attacked as if she were against the USA's international brigandage and aggression, but then issues came out, like her disappointing vote for a pro-Israel bill in Congress, etc and finally Gabbard endorsed Biden when she dropped out of the race March 19, 2020. Bernie Sanders' appeal has also declined over the years.
February 5, 2003 Colin Powell spoke before the UN Security Council, claiming that Iraq had mobile biological weapon labs and was developing nuclear weapons, helping pave the way for the war the US and UK launched in late March. During press conferences by Powell and John Negroponte a tapestry copy of Pablo Picasso's Guernica hanging in the UN headquarters was covered with a blue curtain, allegedly just for the aesthetics of TV broadcasts.
The Seattle General Strike began February 6 - 11th, 1919: www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/08/the-seattle-general-strike-a-100-year-legacy/
Cuban revolutionary Camilo Cienfuegos, the Hero of Yaguajay, was born February 6, 1932 and is thought to have died in plane crash over the ocean October 28, 1959. Cuba's Order of Cienfuegos award is named for him.
Novelist Charles Dickens was born February 7, 1812.
Abraham H Galloway was born as a slave in Smithville (today's Southport), NC February 8, 1837, but escaped in 1857. He was involved in the Civil War, rewriting the NC constitution, and was a state senator 1868-1869. He passed away September 1. 1870 in Wilmington due to fever and jaundice.
The Charonne Massacre was February 8, 1962 at a Paris Metro station, where the police killed nine trade unionists demonstrating against a French terrorist group during the Algerian War.
Charles Darwin was born February 12, 1809 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK. There are Darwin Day events, such as at the NCBG, around his birthday today.
British and American bombers targeted Dresden, capital of the German state of Saxony, February 13 - 15, 1945 with high-explosive and incendiary bombs, causing a firestorm and killing up to 25,000 people. Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the bombing as a POW.
Maurice Audin, an ethnic French member of the Algerian Communist Party and a mathematics assistant at the University of Algiers, was born February 14, 1932. The French Army seized him at his apartment June 11, 1957, during Algeria's war for independence, and then used his home as a trap for others. He was taken elsewhere and tortured to death, something French President Macron acknowledged in September 2018. This was not an isolated case.
[It was reported that what seemed to be pieces of flesh, liver, brain, and blood fell from a red cloud February 15, 1850 on the farm of Thomas Clarkson, 13 miles from Clinton, Sampson County, NC. The material fell across a span of 250-300 yards. The Clarkson children had been playing about 100 yards from the house and saw the shower, crying out “Mother, there is meat falling!” A scent or smell of blood was reported and a red liquid was dripping from the foliage. Samples are supposed to have been examined with a microscope in Fayetteville and confirmed to be flesh and blood. This was reported in the March 8, 1850 issue of the North Carolinian March 8, 1850, apparently not available online, but the incident is covered in Jerome Clark's Unnatural Phenomena: A Guide to the Bizarre Wonders of North America and covered briefly in Weird America: A Guide to Places of Mystery in the United States and in the book Weird Carolinias.
It is unclear if the site was actually in Sampson County. Clark says that the location 13 miles southeast of Clinton – which might be somewhere in the next county over, unless the south end of sort of heart-shaped Sampson County is meant. I think Weird Carolinias says the location was 13 miles southwest, but that could be inaccurate. That book also has quote comparing the red cloud to a “wind cloud” – a dustdevil or other cloud of dust?
A similar shower of flesh and blood from a red cloud was reported at a farm on Spring Creek, near Bairds Mills (near Lebanon), in Wilson County, Tennessee in August 1841 and along the Pamunkey River in Hanover County, Virginia on Good Friday 1850 (see below). The sky was clear when hundreds of pounds of thinly sliced meat edged with “fine black bristles” was supposed to have fallen over two acres in Los Nietos, California, in the Los Angeles area, August 1, 1869.]
Following an explosion, the USS Maine sank in Havana, Cuba February 15, 1898, killing 260 crew members. The explosion was probably accidental, but became a spark for the Spanish-American War later that spring. Military construction on Great Gull Island, New York during this war was a factor in the extinction of the Gull Island vole, discovered by science and then exterminated in a few months. In 1962 the US military proposed various terrorist acts to justify war with Cuba (Operation Northwoods), including blowing up a US ship in Guantánamo Bay.
Robert Kenneth Preston, a private in the Army, stole a Bell UH-1B Iroquois (Huey) helicopter from Tipton Field, near Fort Meade, Maryland, and joyrode around Washington, before landing on the White House's South Lawn February 17, 1974. There was a hail of bullets from the Secret Service, but Preston was only lightly wounded. Preston was court-martialed and sentenced to a year in prison, with time served, and fined $2400 dollars.
President Ford signed Executive Order 11905 February 18, 1976, among other things banning "political assassination." Similar executive orders were signed by Carter on January 24, 1978 and by Reagan on December 4, 1981.
February 18, 2010 Andrew Joseph Stack III crashed a Piper Dakota small airplane into an IRS office in the 4-story Echelon complex in Austin, Texas. IRS Revenue Officer Group Manager Vernon Hunter was killed and 13 others were injured, two with critical injuries. Stack also burned his house in North Austin before the attack.
Republic of Kosovo or Kosova declared independence February 17, 2008.
Soviet astronomer Klim Ivanovych Churyumov was born February 19, 1937 and passed away October 14, 2016.
Under Khrushchev Crimea and nearby areas was transferred from Russia to Ukraine within the USSR February 19, 1954, but there have been questions about the legality.
Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping passed away February 19, 1997. He was born August 22, 1904. His predecessor, Hua Guofeng, was born February 16, 1921 and passed away August 20, 2008.
According to the website Prisoner Solidarity, anti-imperialist activist Tsutomu Shirosaki might be released from prison in Japan February 20, 2027: prisonersolidarity.com/prisoner/tsutomu-shirosaki
Frederick Douglass passed away February 20, 1895 in Washington, DC.
The last known Carolina parakeet died February 21, 1918 at the Cincinnati Zoo, apparently in the same place where the last captive passenger pigeon, Martha, died September 1, 1914. He was named Incas and died months after his mate Lady Jane. The last known wild bird was killed in Okeechobee County, Florida in 1904, though sightings were reported in southern Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp in 1937 and in swamps near the Santee River in South Carolina in 1938. Off course the Santee was dammed the next year. It would seem like Carolina parakeets could be cloned with DNA from preserved specimens.
A chapter of the Deacons for Defense and Justice was founded February 21, 1965 in Bogalusa, Louisiana.
Bob Sheldon, founder of leftist Internationalist Books in Chapel Hill, was killed the evening of February 21, 1991, and the case remains unsolved. The police concluded that this happened during a robbery, but others think it was a political murder.
February 22, 1974 Samuel Joseph Byck attempted to hijack an airliner at the Baltimore/Washington International Airport for a 9/11-like attack, to kill President Nixon. Byck killed a police officer and a pilot, but was wounded and then killed himself while the DC-9 was still on the ground. Byck was born January 30, 1930 in South Philadelphia.
Russia entered the civil war in Ukraine February 24, 2022, though pro-Russian forces had occupied the Crimean Peninsula in late February 2014 and it was later annexed by Russia. This followed the overthrow of the elected Ukrainian government by pro-US forces. Under Khrushchev Crimea and nearby areas was transferred from Russia to Ukraine, both Soviet republics at the time, February 19, 1954, but there have been questions about the legality.
[It was reported that a shower of blood fell from a cloudless sky in the middle of the day on February 25, 1884 in New Hope Township, on the central eastern edge of Chatham County, NC. The Weekly Raleigh Register specifies that the location was near “the old stage road between Pittsboro and Raleigh, in the fork of New Hope Creek [River] and Haw River,” near “Cyprett's bridge over New Hope.” An 1870 map of Chatham County (available at UNC's Wilson Library and the Chatham County Historical Association sells copies www.chathamhistory.org/Sys/Store/Products/267580 ) shows an unnamed bridge over the New Hope River just upstream from White Oak Creek, on the very north edge of squareish New Hope Township. UNC chemistry professor Francis Preston Venable's account says that the site was “about a quarter of a mile from the Raleigh and Pittsboro road.” The soil was described as sandy, which might indicate that it was near a waterway. The book Weird Carolinas puts the location near Parkers Creek, something like a mile east of the current Mount Gilead Church (this seems to be their website: mountgileadbaptist.org/ ), which is on Mount Gilead Church Road by Red Hill, which would seem to put the location of the blood fall on private land west of Big Woods Road. I thought it might be in the gameland around the Jordan Lake reservoir or underwater, and maybe a bit further south.
The wife of Kit Lasater, a black tenant farmer on land owned by Silas Beckwith, was outside her home, near a plowed field, and saw something red fall and heard rain, but the shower had already ended by the time she looked up. The wind was calm; Venable thought that there might have been a slight breeze from the south or southwest. Many people came to see the wonder. An SA Holleman visited the location the next morning and said that a rectangular area about 50 by 70 feet had been hit by drops the size of a small pea to the size of a man's finger, the larger drops having coagulated while the smaller ones had been absorbed by the soil. The Chatham Record said the area was about 60' around while the Weekly Raleigh Register said it was an area of 25 – 30 square yards. A Dr Robinson who lived nearby studied the material and thought that it really was blood and said that it smelled like blood. Dr Venable, a future UNC president and namesake of UNC's old chemistry building, and buried on the campus ( www.ncpedia.org/biography/venable-francis-preston ), analyzed samples and concluded that the material was blood, though the samples had been gathered and delivered by third parties. Venable visited the site himself, but not until almost three weeks later, after “several heavy rains.” He still found one or two stains on a fence and interviewed Mrs Lasater.
Several years ago I was unable to locate any Lasaters who could talk about the incident (Lassiter is probably a much more common name, and I tried contacting Lassiters as well) and no Beckwiths. In 1870 there was a Lasater's Crossroads north of White Oak Creek, around where NC 751 is today, in Williams Township, and a few individual Lasater homesteads are shown on the 1870 map. Silas Beckwith is supposed to have lived February 19, 1815 – August 16, 1882, in which case he wasn't alive when this happened and maybe that is why the Lasaters were living there ( www.findagrave.com/memorial/9556160/silas-beckwith ). There was an SM (Sire Manly?) Beckwith who lived November 1, 1841 to April 21, 1907 ( www.findagrave.com/memorial/9556158/sire-manly-beckwith ). These graves are supposed to be in the Beckwith or Council Family Cemetery, in New Hope Township, on the south side of Highway 64, today's Pittsboro to Raleigh Road, a tenth of a mile west of John Horton Road (SR 1745), east of Jordan Lake and Wilsonville, at the intersection of 64 and Farrington Road: cemeterycensus.com/nc/chat/cem370.htm and www.findagrave.com/cemetery/1994787/beckwith-cemetery I've been by these places many times without knowing that Silas Beckwith was buried right there beside 64, and I've been in the area east of Mount Gilead Church.
All of the newspaper accounts referenced by the NCpedia ( www.ncpedia.org/chatham-blood-shower-1884 ) have been digitized and are available at: www.digitalnc.org/newspapers/#advsearch in addition to an article on page 3 of the March 6, 1884 edition of the Chatham Record. Dr Venable's report, published in the Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society (1883 – 1884 Volume 1), is online at: dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/jncas/id/999 and was reprinted in some of the newspaper accounts above. There are also accounts in Jerome Clark's Unnatural Phenomena: A Guide to the Bizarre Wonders of North America , Weird Carolinas , and on the NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources' blog: www.ncdcr.gov/blog/2016/02/25/chatham-county-blood-shower
Also in the area there is an abandoned underground government communications facility, built for World War III, near the end of the Cold War. Maybe it is on Big Hole Road, west of Jordan Lake, off of Big Woods Road. There was an article in the News and Observer a few years ago.]
William Z Foster, the CPUSA's General Secretary between 1945 and 1957, was born February 25, 1881.
Robert Franklin Williams, born February 26, 1925 in Monroe, North Carolina, was president of the local NAACP chapter and formed the NRA-affiliated Black Armed Guard. He wrote Negroes with Guns (1962). He spent some time in Cuba, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, and China. He died October 15, 1996 in Baldwin, Michigan.
Albanian revolutionary Nexhmije Xhuglini Hoxha was born February 8, 1921 in Bitolj, today part of recently renamed North Macedonia, formerly a Yugoslav republic and having a significant ethnic Albanian minority (see above and previous calendars). She passed away February 26, 2020 at age 99. Some of her memoirs are translated at: ml-review.ca/aml/index/subject.html and some short writings are posted at www.mltranslations.org/Albania/index.htm She has a daughter Pranvera; two sons, Sokol and Ilir (born March 31, 1949 and also imprisoned for years after the counterrevolution); and several grandchildren.
Some left
statements and generally scathing and similar articles from
the "Western" mainstream media, especially those from
the
US:
theredphoenixapl.org/2020/02/26/a-bright-red-star-has-joined-the-heavens/
revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv25n1/NHObituary.pdf
www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/world/europe/nexhmije-hoxha-dead.html
www.reuters.com/article/us-albania-hoxha-idUSKCN20K30K
www.france24.com/en/20200226-nexhmije-hoxha-widow-of-albania-s-communist-tyrant-dies-aged-99
www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/26/nexhmije-hoxha-widow-of-albanias-dictator-dies-aged-99
www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/02/nexhmije-hoxha-obituary
livre.fnac.com/a2422752/Fahri-Balliu-La-femme-du-diable-Nexhmije-Hoxha-veuve-du-dictateur-albanais-Enver-Hoxha
Translated
statement from the War Veterans Association of the NLA (posted
on the For a People's Democracy Facebook
group: www.facebook.com/groups/312850322214080/ ;
there is also an untranslated announcement from Ilir
Hoxha there):
"WAR
VETERANS ASSOCIATION OF THE NATIONAL LIBERATION ARMY
Died
comrade Nexhmije Hoxha
A
young girl born in Saint Naum (Bitola), raised in Dibra, married in
Gjirokastra, with a more sensational life in Tirana, where she
supported the Gervalla family, left behind one [major] Nationwide
Works, testament to be realized from generations of dedication for
National Unity ...
Glory!
War Veterans Association
of the National Liberation Army
Fazli
Veliu, Chairman
Tetova, February, 2020"
(I assume the Gervalla family refers to brothers Jusuf and Bardhosh Gervalla, Kosovar Albanian activists assassinated in West Germany January 18, 1982, and Tetova is a city in Macedonia with a large ethnic Albanian population.)
International Polar Bear Day is around February 27th ( polarbearsinternational.org/get-involved/international-polar-bear-day )
The elected government of Haiti was toppled February 28, 2004, with the involvement of the USA, Canada, and France. Haitian president Jean Bertrand Aristide says US special forces forcible flew him to exile in the Central African Republic as paramilitaries approached the capital. This was the second coup to overthrow Aristide and there were several assassination attempts.
After March 1983 it looked like the city of Rancho Palos Verdes (in Los Angeles County, California) had (intentionally?) killed off the last population of the Palos Verde blue butterfly (a subspecies of the more abundant silvery blue), but in 1994 another population was discovered, though it differed from the others in having an additional larval foodplant. A conservation program was started. The Palos Verde blue was classified as endangered July 2, 1980. Rancho Palos Verde was charged with violating the Endangered Species Act in 1987, but the case was dismissed because at the time only a person could be charged with this crime (this error was fixed in 1988).
www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/esa_works/profile_pages/PalosVerdesBlueButterfly.html
www.urbanwildlands.org/pvb.html www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Glaucopsyche-lygdamus terranealife.com/rediscovering-palos-verdes-blue-butterfly/ butterflywebsite.com/endangered-butterflies.cfm
The Xerces
blue was
driven to extinction by military construction near San Francisco in
1943. The species is remembered in the name of the Xerces
Society, an invertebrate conservation group
( www.xerces.org ).
The Xerces and Palos Verde blues are in the same genus
and their caterpillars eat some of the same plant species.
Militarism today contributes to climate change and other problems,
threatening to kill off many species this century, even if some
endangered species, such as the St.
Francis' satyr butterfly
and the red-cockaded
woodpecker in
North Carolina, have unwittingly been temporarily sheltered on
military bases. Rare wildlife has also found shelter along
militarized borders, such as inside the DMZ across Korea.
In 2020 supposedly "liberal" or "progressive" Democratic Party-ruled California was allowing a
fish, the delta
smelt,
to go extinct due to human actions (see for
example: www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/24/will-the-extinction-of-delta-smelt-be-governor-gavin-newsoms-environmental-legacy/ ).
German
botanist and painter Catharina
Helena Dörrien was
born March 1, 1717.
Korea's March 1st Movement for the end of Japanese colonial rule began March 1, 1919 with a reading of the Korean Declaration of Independence in Seoul, and was brutally suppressed. See: koryogroup.com/blog/the-march-1st-movement
The Mongolian
People's Revolution of 1921 began
March 1st.
March
1 is Remembrance
Day (Nuclear
Victims' Day and Nuclear Survivors' Day) in the Marshall Islands,
remembering those impacted by US nuclear tests, conducted when the
islands were under direct US control (today there is a "free
association" agreement and dependence on the US).
Castle
Bravo,
the USA's biggest nuclear weapon test and the fifth largest
ever, was March 1, 1954 in the Bikini Atoll, today part of the Republic of
the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. It was a test of a
new type of fusion-based hydrogen or thermonuclear bomb,
more powerful than the fission-based atom bombs dropped on Japan.
The US tested the first hydrogen bomb at a nearby atoll in 1952,
escalating the arms race that could lead to
human extinction. The Castle Bravo test was much more
powerful than the physicists expected and radioactive fallout fell on
several islands, a US Navy ship, and on up to 100 fishing boats
outside of the area that had previously been announced
as dangerous, including the Japanese bonito fishing
ship Daigo
Fukuryū Maru. Its 23 crewmen contracted radiation
sickness and one died September 23rd, though not directly from
radiation sickness, and this caused a an
international incident. The fallout
also sickened nearby islanders and US military
personnel, and blanketed the world in smaller amounts. Bikini
was left contaminated, though there is an effort at
remediation. The atoll's original inhabitants were
shuffled around to different islands and at one point were left
starving to death. Testing destroyed some of the small islands,
but there is rich marine life there today. A quote in In a Dark Time might refer to a test at Bikini Atoll.
There was a shooting in the US Capitol March 1, 1954, a bombing in 1971: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_political_violence_in_Washington,_D.C.
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), similar to BSE, was first found in a deer in North Carolina last sometime March: www.ncwildlife.org/hunting/chronic-wasting-disease
Around March 1st glittering Venus and Jupiter will appear close together in the western sky after sunset (a conjunction). Mars and the waxing Moon were very close together the night of February 27th. Comet ZTF might still be visible in the southern sky, roughly near Orion. Near the end of March there will be conjunctions of the Moon and Uranus, Venus and Uranus and of Jupiter and Mercury.
The Comintern,
the third international organization of revolutionary communist and
socialist parties and organizations, was founded during a
congress held in Moscow March 2 - 6, 1919, with 34 groups
participating.
A
prototype Concorde supersonic
airliner first took to the air March 2, 1969.
National Reading Day is March 2nd or the closest school day to that date, marking Dr Seuss' (Theodor Seuss "Ted" Geisel's) birth in 1904, and was started in 1997 by the National Education Association.
Bernie
Saunders' first 2020 presidential campaign rally was
March 2nd at Brooklyn College.
The traditional celebration Hinamatsuri, Doll Festival, or Girls' Day (apparently once known as the Peach Festival) is March 3rd in Japan.
[It was reported that “half a wagonload of pieces of fresh meat, sliced into thin strips, some of it quite bloody” fell from a clear sky over an area 300' by 150' on the farm of Allan Crouch in Olympia Springs, in Bath County, northeast Kentucky on March 3, 1876. Mrs Couch witnessed the fall while outside making soap. This is referenced in Weird America: A Guide to Places of Mystery in the United States and Unnatural Phenomena: A Guide to the Bizarre Wonders of North America. It was reported that a similar fall of meat, said to resemble and taste like beef, fell from a clear sky near Gastonia, in Gaston County, NC November 11, 1876 (from Unnatural Phenomena; many things have been reported to have fallen near Charlotte), and something like meat fell in California's Santa Clara County/San Jose area, near San Francisco in June 1869.]
The Treaty
of Brest-Litovsk,
signed March 3, 1918 in what is now Belarus, ended hostilities
between Soviet Russia and the Central Powers during WWI, leading
to several countries being created by the occupiers or declaring
independence and other territorial concessions by Russia.
Norman Bethune (Henry Norman Bethune) was born March 4, 1890 in Gravehurst, Ontario, Canada. In the 30's he joined the Communist Party of Canada. He served as a surgeon on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War and with the Communist Party of China during the Sino-Japanese War. He contracted blood poisoning and died November 12, 1939. He has long been well-known in China (for example, Mao wrote In Memory of Norman Bethune and China's highest medical honor is called the Norman Bethune Medal), and more recently in his native Canada and Spain. There is a revolutionary song in French, probably Canadian, "Chanson de Norman Bethune."
In
Memory of Norman Bethune is
online
at:
marx2mao.com/Mao/NB39.html
www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_25.htm
Following Khrushchev's so-called Secret Speech condemning Stalin, on February 25, 1956, there were pro-Stalin demonstrations in Tbilisi, capital of Stalin's native Georgia Soviet Socialist Republic March 4 -10th, ending with possibly dozens to hundreds of protesters killed or wounded by Soviet soldiers.
John Patrick Bedell shot two police officers at the Pentagon Metro station March 4, 2010. Bedell was the only fatality.
March 5, 1841 abolitionists called "anarchists" broke two people alleged to be fugitive slaves out of the Lorain County, Ohio jail.
His works can be found at: marx2mao.com/Stalin/Index.html , www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/index.htm , michaelharrison.org.uk/the-great-marxist-leninist-theoreticians/ , etc. and can often be found at library book sales in Durham and probably elsewhere (as can other classic Marxist works), sometimes cheaper than the when originally printed by International Publishers, etc. Inexpensive new books in English and Spanish are available from: redstarpublishers.org/
March 5th is Learn from Lei Feng Day in China, and is marked by doing volunteer work. Lei Feng was a young People's Liberation Army soldier killed in a traffic accident August 15, 1962.
Venezuelan president Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias passed away 10 years ago, March 5, 2013.
The "Cop City"/ South River Forest/Welaunee Forest Atlanta mass arrests for domestic terrorism were the night of March 5, 2023, and included a Southern Poverty Law Center legal observer: mronline.org/2023/03/13/at-least-23-cop-city-protesters-charged-with-domestic-terrorism-in-atlanta/ etc. The same charge was used December 13th.
The first woman in space, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, was born March 6, 1937, and went into space June 16, 1963.
[Glenn Greenwald was born March 6, 1967 in Queens, New York.]
Michael Lucas was born March 7, 1926 in Slovakia, but his family moved to Canada during his childhood. He was a leader of the Society of Carpatho-Russian Canadians, the Canadian Friends of the Soviet People (and the USSR-Canada Friendship Association from 1972 to 1991), and former editor of Northstar Compass, a magazine published by the International Council for Friendship and Solidarity with the Soviet People until several years ago. Lucas was also a long-time member of the Communist Party of Canada. In his working life he was an artist and designer and directed the Southam Newspapers' art department. He frequently visited the former Czechoslovakia and USSR. He passed away peacefully early on May 4, 2020 at 94 and was survived by his wife Helen, who served as financial secretary of the CFSP and helped produce Northstar Compass, and two children.
northstarcompass.org/history.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lucas_(political_activist)
Fightback!
News obituary: www.fightbacknews.org/2020/5/9/passing-michael-lucas-immigrant-organizer-and-friend-soviet-people
Funeral
information: turnerporter.permavita.com/site/MichaelLukac.html
Related
article
at: www.pressreader.com/canada/toronto-star/20190106/281496457419898 or www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/01/05/the-golden-girls-of-prospect-cemetery.html
The Civil War naval Battle of Hampton Roads was March 8 - 9, 1862 where the James River flows into Chesapeake Bay in Virginia. It was the first battle between ironclad warships, the CSS Virginia and the USS Monitor. Neither ship could sink the other and this was their only battle. The Virginia was built using the hull and engines of the USS Merrimack, still under construction at what is now the Norfolk Naval Shipyard when the War began. The Monitor had a revolutionary, though flawed, design, leading to a new class of warships (monitors) around the world and, with further developments, to the battleships of the early 20th century, which were then eclipsed by aircraft carriers during WWII.
The week of March 8th is Women Of Aviation Worldwide Week, commemorating the first pilot license given to a woman, Raymonde de Laroche, on March 8, 1910.
International Women's Day is Wednesday, March 8th.
The first human in space, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, was born March 9, 1934 and went into space April 12, 1961.
The US firebombing of Tokyo the night of March 9 - 10, 1945 is thought to have killed 100,000 people, injured a million more, and left one million homeless. It levelled 16 square miles of the densely inhabited Japanese capital city. There were other bombing raids on Tokyo, but this was the most destructive and resulted in more immediate deaths than any other attack during World War II, including the atomic bombings: www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0310-08.htm and Wikipedia.
March 10th is Harriet Tubman Day: www.harriettubman.com/day.html
March 11th (or September 26th) is Johnny Appleseed Day.
The Soviet/Russian newspaper Izvestia was founded March 13, 1917, representing the Petrograd Soviet of Workers' Deputies.
Around 3am March 13, 2020 Julius Giron, an elderly leader of the Communist Party of the Philippines; his wife Lourdes Tan Torres; and their aide were killed in Baguio City by military and police forces supposedly carrying out an arrest warrant. The government of the Philippines said that it wants to negotiate, but killed the "principle peace consultant to the National Democratic Front of the Philippines:" www.fightbacknews.org/2020/3/19/frso-condemns-murder-communist-party-philippines-leader-julius-giron ; cpp.ph/red-salute-to-ka-nars/
March 14th is White Day in Japan, a commercially inspired holiday related to Valentine's Day. Apparently White Day is also celebrated in other East Asian countries.
[Black rain was reported to have fallen from an intensely black cloud early on March 15, 1900 from Louisburg, in Franklin County, NC, through Wake Forest, to Morrisville, just southeast of Durham, in Wake County.
This is referenced in the book Unnatural Phenomena: A Guide to the Bizarre Wonders of North America by Jerome Clark, quoting the March 23, 1900 edition of the Statesville Landmark, which reprinted an article from the the March 20th News and Observer in Raleigh (available online at: www.digitalnc.org/newspapers/ ).
Searching through that edition of the News and Observer – how the headlines don't change – “Our Warships in Chinese Waters,” with “no hostile meaning” (US and Canadian warships just passed through the Taiwan Strait, around the time Defense Secretary Austin was calling for dialogue at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore in early June). In 1900 US imperialism could be named and discussed in a major newspaper, with references to William Jennings Bryan and debate at UNC's Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies. Today it is literally stated in the mainstream Anglophone media that only Russian imperialism exists, the others having died out in the 20th century (this might have been stated by US-UK guest journalists on a Friday edition of NPR's 1A). It's like the “War on Terror” and the Libya War never happened, and the US military weren't occupying part of Syria and stealing the war- and disaster-torn country's resources right now. There is even empty (?) talk in Washington of invading Mexico again. Even without invading, the US government shot and killed at least one Mexican civilian, a minor, in Mexico several years ago. The media can discuss How to Hide an Empire, as long as it refers to long past events, though the US still runs Puerto Rico and has soldiers in the Philippines, etc. Imperialism isn't only the direct military occupation of other countries and financial, economic, and diplomatic methods are currently on display against Russia, Venezuela, China, Syria, Cuba, etc. I don't recall many anti-war letters to the editor appearing in the Democratic Party-leaning N and O in recent decades, though they did receive letters.]
The United Communist Party of Russia was founded March 15, 2014 at a congress held in Moscow: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Communist_Party
UNC's Davie Poplar Jr was planted in McCorkle Place (the northern quad) March 16, 1918, by the Class of 1918. This tree is a clone of the massive Davie Poplar, growing nearby (these are tulip-poplars/yellow-poplars or tuliptrees, actually in the magnolia family; the Davie Poplar is named for Governor William Richardson Davie) ; there is a legend that the decision to build the University at this site was made under the Davie Poplar and that the University will die with the tree (fortunately, though tuliptrees grow fast, they can live for hundreds of years). A few clones and descendants of the Davie Poplar have been planted around UNC and there are a number of large tuliptrees, probably blooming in April or early May (possibly earlier than tuliptrees in Durham or in more rural ares) with large yellowish-green and blaze orange flowers attractive to honey bees.
The International Day Against Police Brutality is March 15th.
The Civil War Battle of Averasboro was March 16, 1865 in eastern North Carolina.
Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov (born June 3, 1885) passed away March 16, 1919 and is buried in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.
Chemical weapons were dropped on the city of Halabja in Iraqi Kurdistan March 16, 1988, during the Iran-Iraq War.
Canadian Airborne Regiment soldiers tortured and killed Somali Shidane Arone, 16, and posed with his body: cpcml.ca/Tmlm2023/MS5302.HTM#4
Saint Patrick's Day is Friday, March 17th.
The Battle of Bentonville was March 19 - 21, 1865 in Johnston County, NC. There is usually a reenactment, but nothing has been announced so far: historicsites.nc.gov/all-sites/bentonville-battlefield There will be events March 18th and "Bentonville in Bloom" will be April 15th (see the link).
Chinese revolutionary and wife of Mao Tse-tung, Jiang Qing/Chiang Ching, was born March 19, 1914.
Tulsi Gabbard ended her first presidential campaign March 19, 2020 and endorsed Joe Biden.
[The Dutch East India Company, apparently the world's first joint-stock company, was created March 20, 1602.]
There was an important battle of the Tuscarora War March 20 - 23, 1713 at Fort Neoheroka near Snow Hill in Greene County ( blog.ecu.edu/sites/nooherooka/ ).
[Condemning US wars and proxy wars was "above the pay grade" of Durham officials back then, even when Republicans were in the White House, but they made a show of yellow and blue international solidarity with Ukraine in 2022: twitter.com/CityofDurhamNC/status/1499903958621597703 and 'unfriended' the city of Kostroma, Russia, ending a sister city relationship that began in 1968. Too bad there wasn't more "anti-American" cultural retaliation over the US invasion of Iraq, like BDS. Is Google going to let me say that?] [ See also: cpcml.ca/Tmlm2023/MS5302.HTM#4 ]
The UN's French Language Day is March 20th: www.un.org/fr/observances/french-language-day/ , in French.
The Northern Hemisphere's spring equinox will be Monday, March 20th in 2023. Nowruz will on or around the 20th.
World Sparrow Day is March 20th: www.worldsparrowday.org Specifically this day refers to house or English sparrows, which are not native to the US, but are or were common in places like strip malls. Now house finches, native to the Western US, seem to be replacing house sparrows in my area. House sparrows are also in decline where they are native, such as in India. American species of sparrow aren't closely related to house sparrows.
Mexican president Benito Pablo Juárez Garcia was born March 21, 1806, honored with a national holiday.
Arbor
Day is
Friday, March 17th in North Carolina (the first Friday after March 15th
- www.arborday.org/celebrate/dates.cfm ).
There was usually a Durham Arbor Day celebration.
March
21st is the UN's International
Day for the Elimination of Racial
Discrimination: www.un.org/en/events/racialdiscriminationday/ and
the Week
of Solidarity with the Peoples Struggling Against Racism and Racial
Discrimination is
March 21 - 27:
www.un.org/en/sections/observances/international-weeks/index.html
March
21 is also the International
Day of
Forests ( www.fao.org/international-day-of-forests/en/ ), World
Poetry Day, International Colour Day, and World
Down Syndrome Day, among
others.
Braxton Bragg, the namesake of Fort Bragg, was born March 22, 1817 in Warrenton, North Carolina. He served in the US army during the Second Seminole War and the Mexican-American War. Apparently Ft. Bragg honors him, for his artillery command in Mexico. He was a general in the Confederate army but is often blamed for defeats such as the loss of Wilmington, so naming a Ft. Bragg in NC seemed to be meant as an ironic insult.
The Lao People's Democratic Party, at the time called the Lao People's Party, was founded at a congress March 22-April 14, 1955 in Vientiane, Laos.
Through
the USSR's Interkosmos program, the Soyuz 39 mission, launched March 22, 1981, to the
Salyut 6 space station, included Jügderdemidiin
Gürragchaa,
Mongolia's first cosmonaut.
The
Hungarian Soviet Republic was declared March 21, 1919,
but was overthrown by outside military intervention in
August 1919. It was led by Béla
Kun,
born February 20, 1886.
World Water Day is March 22nd: www.un.org/en/observances/international-days-and-weeks
International Seal Day is supposed to be March 22nd.
Ukraine's only submarine, the Zaporizhzhia, was captured by Russia March 22, 2014 and half the crew joined the Russian navy. Russia was apparently going to return the ship to Ukraine but Ukraine did not renew a ceasefire that summer.
Patrick Henry is supposed to have said "Give me liberty, or give me death!" during a speech before the Second Virginia Convention in Richmond, March 23, 1775.
The Lao People's Democratic Party, at the time called the Lao People's Party, was founded at a congress March 22-April 14, 1955 in Vientiane, Laos.
US forces besieged Fort Macon, on the coast of North Carolina near Beaufort, March 23-April 26, 1862 and took the fort with few losses on either side. The Fort built of brick and stone, was becoming antiquated by the 1860's with the development of more accurate rifled artillery, unlike earthen Fort Fisher, but much of Fort Fisher has been destroyed or eroded away. Fort Macon has been used by the US military as recently as WWII, but is now a small state park: www.ncparks.gov/state-parks/fort-macon-state-park
March 23rd is the Day of the Sea in Bolivia, commemorating the loss of Bolivia's access to the Pacific Ocean in the late 19th century War of the Pacific, involving Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. The USA's education system teaches very little about the history of countries bordering the US, let alone in relatively nearby South America, though the US government still believes in the Monroe Doctrine of controlling the Western Hemisphere, with a major anniversary this year. I had a high school history teacher who at least wanted to cover Latin America, but it didn't work out.
Indian revolutionary Bhagat Singh was hung by the British March 23, 1931. He was born September 27, 1907 in Banga, or Bangay, Punjab, now in northeastern Pakistan.
Historian and political leader Walter Anthony Rodney was born March 23, 1942 in Georgetown, in what was then British Guiana, and was assassinated June 13, 1980 in independent Guyana: mronline.org/2022/04/13/the-mecca-of-african-liberation/
Reagan
announced his Strategic
Defense Initiative (nicknamed
Star Wars) in a televised speech March 23, 1983. A successful
Star Wars program would have allowed the USA to use nuclear weapons and
avoid Mutually Assured Destruction. SDI was also criticized as
being technologically unfeasible, very costly, and in violation of
treaties.
Historic Soviet/Russian space station Mir (meaning peace) was sent into the South Pacific March 23, 2001 due to lack of funding. Construction had begun February 19, 1986. People from many countries worked there and there was extensive US-Russian cooperation during the 90's. Until October 2010 Mir held the record for the longest continuous human presence in space. Cosmonaut Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov lived there for 437 days during the mid-90's.
According
to Wikipedia, the anti-war organization Not
In Our Name (NION) was
founded March 23, 2002, and dissolved March 31, 2008.
World Bear Day is supposed to be March 23rd; black bears are occasionally seen in the Triangle but probably no longer live here permanently, though they breed elsewhere in NC. Bears are rumored to have lived in the bottomlands along the New Hope and Haw rivers, cut and flooded for Jordan Lake.
Former secretary of state Madeleine Albright passed away March 23, 2022 and was born May 15, 1937 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. She is well-known for defending the deadly sanctions against Iraq during the 90's and other service to US imperialism and neoliberalism with the Clintons, Zbigniew Brezezinski, etc.
Yugoslav WWII Partisan general and anti-revisionist dissident Arsenije "Arso" Jovanović was born March 24, 1907 in Zavala, Montenegro, near the capital. After the denunciation of Tito a group tried to cross into Romania near Vršac, in Vojvodina, Serbia and Jovanović was killed by Yugoslav border guards the night of August 11, 1948.
Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdamez was assassinated March 24, 1980 in El Salvador.
March
24th is World
Tuberculosis Day.
March
24th is also the International
Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights
Violations and for the Dignity of Victims, commemorated
March 24th because Monsignor
Óscar Arnulfo Romero was assassinated in
El Salvador on that day in 1980.
Argentina's Day
of Remembrance for Truth and Justice is
March 24th, the date of a military coup in 1976, and
commemorates the victims of the US-supported Dirty War and Operation
Condor.
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 was discovered March 24, 1993 by astronomer Carolyn Shoemaker (June 24, 1929 -August 13, 2021 , geologist Eugene M Shoemaker (April 2, 1928 - July 18, 1997) and amateur astronomer David H Levy (born May 22, 1948). The comet broke apart as it passed close to Jupiter - someone might have compared it to a string of pearls - and it crashed into the planet July 16 - 22, 1994. In July 19, 2009 another impact site was observed and something might have been observed to crash into Jupiter March 17, 2016.
NATO bombed Yugoslavia from March 24 - June 10, 1999 over the war in Kosova, hitting China's embassy in Yugoslav capital Belgrade, hospitals, health centers, schools, houses, medieval monuments, the Avala Tower, bridges, and transportation infrastructure. This is similar to what Russia is accused of doing in Ukraine, and people have drawn comparisons between the USA/NATO use of force to redraw borders in the Balkans and what Russia is doing in Ukraine, and as in Kosova there is apparently at least some local popular support for secession. [ See also: cpcml.ca/Tmlm2023/MS5302.HTM#4 ]
Christiaan Hyugens, born April 14, 1629 in The Hague, Netherlands, discovered Titan, Saturn's largest moon, March 25, 1655. Titan has a thick atmosphere, lakes of liquid hydrocarbons, and possibly subsurface oceans, so it could potentially harbor extraterrestrial life or even descendants of earthly microbes through panspermia.
The quarter day Lady Day / Feast of the Annunciation is March 25th; this was once the beginning of the year in some places.
March 25th is the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
The infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire was March 25,1911 in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, NYC.
Ida B Wells (Ida Bell Wells-Barnett) passed away March 25, 1931 in Chicago. [[She was born July 16, 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi.]
Birdie
Sanders
Remarkably,
a songbird, reportedly a female house finch, landed on the
podium as Bernie Sanders spoke to a crowd of about
11,500 at an outdoor rally in Portland, Oregon March
25, 2016 (Good
Friday): www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/03/26/watch-small-bird-lands-bernie-sanders-podium/82289730/ ; www.huffpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-bird-podium-one-year_n_58d67c55e4b03692bea661ee ; www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/mar/25/bernie-sanders-rally-bird-portland-oregon-portlandia The
Guardian quotes
Sanders: “I think there may be some symbolism here. I know it
doesn’t look like it, but that bird is really a dove asking us
[for] world peace.” "Birdie Sanders" is probably the
origin of Our Revolution's logo (www.ourrevolution.com/ ).
Reportedly Trump and a bald eagle didn't get along.
December 14, 1981 Israel's Knesset passed the Golan Heights Law, applying Israeli laws to the Golan Heights, Syrian and disputed Lebanese territory occupied by Israel. This was seen as annexation and condemned even by the Reagan administration, demonstrating how much more pro-Zionist the US government has become. The Trump administration recognized this annexation March 25, 2019. Moving the embassy to Jerusalem May 14, 2018 might have been recognition of Israel's claim to all of the city and a violation of UN Security Council Resolution 478. The Biden administration hasn't reversed what Trump did, but condemns Russia. In addition several Palestinians claim that the site of the embassy includes land stolen from them, and the US government knows this and some of these claimants are US citizens. One March in a recent year the USAF might have first conducted military exercises with Israel over the occupied West Bank, another form of recognition of Israeli annexation of foreign territory by force, within the USA's "norms" and 'rules-based international order.'
Earth Hour will be Saturday March 25th in 2023 and March 30th in 2024, especially 8:30 - 9:30pm, when people are encouraged to turn off unnecessary lights as a symbol of commitment to dealing with climate change and other environmental problems (and it could reduce light pollution for a short time). National Dark-Sky Week is supposed to be held annually the week of the New Moon in April, and highlights light pollution and stargazing.
The Civil War Battle of Glorietta Pass was March 26 – 28, 1862 in northern New Mexico Territory, near Sante Fe. The site is considered endangered today.
Thirty-nine members of the Heaven's Gate cult were found dead March 26, 1997 in Rancho Santa Fe, San Diego, having committed mass suicide so that their souls could board an alien spacecraft they believed to be following Comet Hale-Bopp, a very bright comet at the time. Comet Hyakutake was bright the March before, though I think my memory wants to say that Hale-Bopp was first and that I saw both, without optical aids.
The "Saudi Coalition," materially supported by the US, intervened in the Yemeni Civil War March 26, 2015, fighting the Houthi coalition (termed Operation Decisive Storm). [ See also: cpcml.ca/Tmlm2023/MS5302.HTM#4 ]
Russian revolutionary Sergei Kirov was born March 27, 1886 in what is now Kirov Oblast. He was assassinated December 1, 1934.
Hungarian sociologist Karl Mannheim, author of Ideology and Utopiwas born March 27, 1893 in Budapest.
Two Boeing 747s collided on a runway in Tenerife in the Canary Islands March 27, 1977, the deadliest airliner crash.
The North Carolina Green Party gained official recognition March 27, 2018, meaning people could register as Greens and the Green Party could appear on ballots, making it easier for Greens to run for office ( www.ncgreenparty.org/sb656 ). It lost recognition again after the 2020 election, and then had to petition again and even go the courts to force the Democrat-run State Board Elections to follow the law in 2022. See a few summer-fall 2022 posts.
Soviet
writer Maxim
Gorky (Alexei
Maximovich Peshkov) was born March 28, 1868. Some of his works
are online at:
www.marxists.org/archive/gorky-maxim/index.htm and in
print from redstarpublishers.org/
The second known asteroid, 2 Pallas, was discovered March 28, 1802 by German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthaus Olbers.
Silo Plowshares
On March 28, 1986 (Good Friday that year) five peace activists damaged two Minuteman II ballistic missile silos controlled from Whiteman Air Force Base, near Holden, Missouri. The activists displayed banners including ""Disarmament - An Act of Healing." Working in two groups, they used sledgehammers to damage the tracks used to open the 120-ton silo covers, used masonry hammers to damage sensors, and cut wires. They drew crosses in blood on the silo covers and wrote "Disarm and Live" and "For the Children" with spraypaint on the silo pads. They also indicted the government for violating religious and secular law and indicted churches that abet the arms race. About 40 minutes later they were arrested by military police. They were found guilty of destroying government property and conspiracy. Three were jailed for contempt because they refused to answer questions, such as who had alerted CBS' "60 Minutes" about the action. The remaining two were again jailed for lack of cooperation in protest of the three jailed for contempt. Four were sentenced to eight years imprisonment and five years probation and one to seven years imprisonment and the same five years probation. All were fined $100 dollars, two had to pay $1680 in restitution and two $424. These summaries come from Swords Into Plowshares: Nonviolent Direct Action for Disarmament, edited by Arthur J Laffin and Anne Montgomery, and published in 1987.
Lavrenti
Pavlovich Beria was
born March 29, 1899 in what is now Abkhazia, a Soviet autonomous
republic that seceded from the Republic of Georgia after Georgia
seceded from the disintegrating USSR. Beria and people
associated with him were tried and executed December 23,
1953, paving the way for Khrushchev's rise, though it has
been alleged that Beria poisoned Stalin and was involved in
other crimes. Some of Beria's works are online
at:
www.marxists.org/archive/beria/index.htm , neodemocracy.blogspot.com/search/label/Beria , michaelharrison.org.uk/2022/03/writings-of-the-soviet-leadership/ , and
in print from redstarpublishers.org ;
there is some discussion of Beria in articles
at ml-review.ca/aml/index/subject.html#b
The
Maoist New
People's Army,
armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines
(English-language website: cpp.ph/ ),
was established March 29, 1969 and has been waging armed struggle
ever since. The US government classified it as a "terrorist"
group in 2002. I think this Smithsonian Folkways CD has NPA music: folkways.si.edu/philippines-bangon-arise/historical-song-struggle-protest-world/music/album/Smithsonian
March
29th is the unofficial Day
of the Young Combatant / Día del joven combatiente in
Chile, commemorating the killing of Rafael and Eduardo Vergara
Toledo, brothers who allegedly belonged to MIR (Revolutionary Left
Movement) during the US and China supported Pinochet
dictatorship.
Manatee Appreciation Day is supposed to be the last Wednesday in March, the 29th this year.
Two Army HH60 Black Hawk helicopters from the 101st Airborne Division crashed during training the night of March 29, 2023 near Fort Campbell, in western Kentucky near Hopkinsville and Clarksville: www.foxnews.com/us/fort-campbell-helicopter-crash-kentucky-gov-andy-beshear-confirms-multiple-fatalities-expected
Russian
revolutionary Alexandra
Kollontai was
born March 31, 1872. See
also: www.marxists.org/archive/kollonta/index.htm , neodemocracy.blogspot.com/search/label/Kolontai , michaelharrison.org.uk/2022/03/writings-of-the-soviet-leadership/ ,
and redstarpublishers.org/ [See also the March 8, 2023 posts.]
A US-backed
military coup in Brazil beginning
March 31, 1964 installed a brutal military government that
lasted until 1985, praised by former rightist president Jair
Bolsonaro.
According
to Wikipedia,
the Communist
Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist),
known as the Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada for electoral purposes,
to separate it from the unrelated Communist Party of Canada, was
founded March 31, 1970 [On the 53rd anniversary: cpcml.ca/Tmlm2023/MS5304.HTM#1 ]. Some music from the CPCML is online
at: www.youtube.com/channel/UCGM05kHPxsmToUjm-sSZefg
March 31st is the International Transgender Day of Visibility, declared in 2009 and officially proclaimed by Biden in 2021, and Cesar Chavez Day (March 31, 1927 – April 23, 1993), proclaimed nationally in 2014 by Obama, at the end of Farmworker Awareness Week: saf-unite.org/national-farmworker-awareness-week/
[It was reported that slices of meat fell from a cloud near Cloverlea (Clover Lea? Not Clover leaf), on the south bank of the Pamunkey River, close to Richmond [?], in Hanover County, Virginia, on land belonging to Dr GW Bassett, a medical doctor, on Good Friday, 1850. The brief mention in Weird America: A Guide to Places of Mystery in the United States (page 175) says that the cloud was red. In Unnatural Phenomena: A Guide to the Bizarre Wonders of North America it is said that several men observed a small cloud going northeast to southwest overhead and fragments of flesh and liver fell over a span of 5 yards. Bassett and another person picked up 15 – 20 samples, some of which weighed an ounce, the next morning. The samples were preserved in alcohol and one was sent to a doctor in Richmond. This Dr Bassett seems to be the George Washington Bassett (August 23, 1800 – August 25, 1878) buried in Old Church, Hanover County – www.findagrave.com/memorial/6446088/george-washington-bassett ]
By Easter Sunday 1987 every known California condor had been captured, for a captive breeding program. The birds were de-loused, apparently exterminating the California condor louse Colpocephalum californici , discovered in 1963, destroying the information that could have been gained from studying them and possibly causing future problems for the condors, when they get new parasites, the ecological niche now being vacant. Insights into human evolution have come through the study of our parasites, also going extinct, just through better hygiene or through active extermination campaigns, though some are generalists and could live without feeding on us. I feel like there is some tension or problematic questions that public health workers and officials ignore. The BBC often reminds me of it. Apparently when the first nuclear bomb was detonated there was some acknowledgement of the magnitude of what the Manhattan Project had done or achieved. [More examples at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation-induced_extinction ]
The Hainan Incident, George W Bush's first foreign policy crisis, was April 1, 2001, and resulted in the destruction of a Chinese PLA Navy J-8II fighter and the presumed death of pilot Lt Cmdr Wang Wei and the capture of the offending US Navy EP-3 ARIES and its 24 crew members when they landed at a Chinese base. The EP-3 was shipped back to the US in pieces and rebuilt. EP-3's and military aircraft from other countries apparently came very close January 29 and November 5, 2018 over the Black Sea, July 19, 2019 near Venezuela, etc, in each case the US claiming to be the innocent party, operating over international waters.
The US Capitol Car Attack was April 2, 2021.
There were many UFO reports in Lumberton, NC April 3-5, 1975, according to the book Weird Carolinas.
The Weather-connected May 19th Communist Organization bombed an Israeli Aircraft Industries Building April 5, 1984.
A mystery airship, a period UFO, with a searchlight, reportedly travelled rapidly (but airships aren't noted for their speed today) over Wilmington, North Carolina April 8, 1897, according to the book Weird Carolinas.
USPS employee Douglas Hughes flew an ultralight gyrocopter from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to the west lawn of the US Capitol April 15, 2015, in a non-violent protest against Congress' corruption and dysfunction.
There was a bombing at the Pentagon May 19, 1972, claimed by the Weather Underground.
The La Paz Incident, May 20, 1863 near the southwest corner of Arizona, somewhat close to Yuma, was one of the westernmost acts of violence during the US Civil War, between a recently released Confederate sympathizer from California and apparently unarmed US soldiers.
[In July 1882 two roaring clouds of locusts are reported to have converged near the Reese River in central Nevada [?]. Dead locusts and drops of water are supposed to have rained down. Locusts, dead for some reason, covered more than 100 acres six inches to 3 feet deep in less than 15 minutes. The masses of dead grasshoppers attracted “thousands of crows and buzzards.” This comes from Jerome Clark's book Unnatural Phenomena: A Guide to the Bizarre Wonders of North America, drawing from an article, “ A Hopper Cloudburst,” in the July 16, 1882 Daily Nevada State Journal.
The species of grasshopper isn't identified in the account, if this really happened, but maybe they were Rocky Mountain locusts, which once gathered in vast and amazing or terrifying swarms over much of what is now the central USA, but they are now probably extinct. The settlers wanted to get rid of the grasshoppers, but if the species is extinct, it was probably an unintended consequence of settlement/colonization in the Rockies. A wading bird, the Eskimo curlew, might have gone extinct with the locust. The bounty of the land could go to the locusts and other forms of life, as it had for probably millions of years, or to capitalist agriculture. How did the locust interact with native subsistence agriculture and food systems? The UN and international technocrats might want to repeat this history on other continents. Have they looked for alternatives? In the East, Americans couldn't coexist with Carolina parakeets, large animals of many kinds, etc., though we now ask poorer countries to preserve their wildlife and forests.]
[It was reported that, during a thunderstorm the evening of July 7 (?), 1885, “just after the flash of lightning and crash of thunder which made every one believe for an instant that he had been struck,” “a beautiful as well as awe inspiring scene was presented to the gaze of those so fortunate to be upon the street at the time” – “a ball of fire, resembling a meteor” rapidly crossed the sky east to west over Bismarck (?), North Dakota “produc[ing] a whizzing, sizzling sound, and thr[owing] off numerous sparks in its flight.” The sight “fill[ed] the startled spectator with feelings of terror” as the object raced down. ” With terrific force the glaring missile, hurled from some planetary wreck or produced by some freak of electricity, struck the Missouri River about a quarter of a mile below the landing, the gurgle and momentary roar of the aggravated waters being plainly heard on west Main Street.” This comes from an article, “An Electric Ball,” in the the Bismarck Daily Tribune July 8, 1885, reprinted in Jerome Clark's Unnatural Phenomena: A Guide to the Bizarre Wonders of North America]
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