Some previous winter/spring calendar posts:
durhamspark.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-2025-new-years-message-from-usmlo-few.html , durhamspark.blogspot.com/2025/02/more-than-year-of-war-in-middle-east.html , durhamspark.blogspot.com/2024/02/some-events-and-anniversaries-around.html , durhamspark.blogspot.com/2024/04/some-additional-events-and.html , durhamspark.blogspot.com/2024/01/some-events-and-anniversaries-around.html , durhamspark.blogspot.com/2023/02/some-events-and-anniversaries-in-late.html , durhamspark.blogspot.com/2024/11/adc-statements-on-ceasefire-in-lebanon.html , durhamspark.blogspot.com/2024/10/biden-harris-and-pro-war-cheney.html , durhamspark.blogspot.com/2023/12/some-events-and-anniversaries-in-late.html , durhamspark.blogspot.com/2023/12/additional-events-and-anniversaries-in.html, and durhamspark.blogspot.com/2023/12/more-events-and-anniversaries-in-early.html
In the censored February 15th post, I might have been wrong about Algonquin languages having been spoken in this area in Contact and Colonial times -- the Eno, Sissipahaw, Occaneechi, Shakori, etc. apparently spoke Siouan languages, like the Catawba, now based in and near York County, in northern South Carolina, near Rock Hill, SC, and Charlotte, NC.
Algonquian groups lived near the North Carolina coast, such as the Chowanoke, Roanoke, Croatan, Secotan, Weapemeoc, Pamlico, and Hatteras (some of these names might be redundant), while the Powhatan and Pamunkey lived in coastal Virginia. Further north there were the Piscataway, Assateague, Lenape, Narragansett, Wampanoag, Massachusett, Patuxet, Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Miꞌkmaq, Abenaki, Mahican, Mohican, Shawnee, Peoria, Miami, Illinois, Kickapoo, Menominee, Potawatomi, Sauk, Ojibwe, Cree, Blackfoot, Gros Ventre, Arapaho, Cheyenne, etc. Some of these names might be redundant and not what they called themselves and of course many Native Americans or entire tribes still live in or near their traditional lands. Many of these Algonquin-speaking tribes are famous in US and Canadian history. I'm not sure what connections they had to the ancient Mississippian city of Cahokia in East St Louis and the mound building cultures known archaeologically in the Midwest. Some groups have moved great distances in recent centuries, and not always due to European or American colonization, or not directly. For more information see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakori , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catawba_people , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algonquian_peoples , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatteras_Indians , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamlico , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eno_people , and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippian_culture There will be powwow on Roanoke Island in NC April 26-27th (see the bottom of the page)
It is a quite foggy and cloudy morning here February 16th. Or maybe the window was just fogged up; later in the morning I realized that it was mild or warm, damp, cloudy, and windy. That morning I had been wondering if I was hearing something like a squirrel or raccoon that had gotten inside, but it must have been the wind. Later in the morning a flock of red-winged blackbirds was singing nearby. I'm not sure now, but I might have heard hawk(s), a sapsucker again, a sound from a red-bellied woodpecker, etc. More of last year's sweetgum balls were blowing down for the spring. I think the power went out briefly after I posted that morning. A lot of chainsawing and heavy thumps nearby on the 17th. I think the birds were much quieter on the 17th. No red-winged blackbirds or hawks? I saw the waning Moon near Spica on the morning of the 17th and in Scorpius before that.
February 18th a returning brilliant green to yellowish pine warbler (?; Dendroica pinus) came to the new suet and I think I heard it sing after I blocked it in the afternoon by standing nearby. Moles have been digging and I saw one probing under the leaf litter on the 18th. I might have heard a skink scurrying under the leaves. In the morning a loose brown and white (young?) dog was at a door. I'm not sure if it was with people on the road. Earlier I saw an unfamiliar black cat (female?) with very slick-looking fur. Recently I saw the brown long-haired cat again. I found a dead shrew (short-tailed?), possibly killed by a cat, that morning. A two-day snowstorm was forecast for Wednesday and Thursday but it was almost clear, with a few fine cirrus clouds on Tuesday. It was almost clear overnight and I looked at Venus, Mars, Jupiter, etc. Shortly before dawn I might have seen a 'first' bank of lower altocumulus drift in front of the waning Moon. It was cloudy all day on the 19th. The forecast called for winter precipitation from the morning of the 19th to mid-day or afternoon on the 20th, with a lull around 9pm-12am the night of the 19th. It began to snow earlier elsewhere, but I noticed a few stray flakes at 10:50am, heavier by mid-day or early afternoon and very snowy in the evening. It is supposed to be a wet snow this time, and it is sticking to the branches as I write.
I heard one or more owls calling far off early on the 19th. In the morning I saw around 10 juncos and fewer white-throated sparrows, joined by one of the small, heavily streaked sparrows I often see early in the year (they resemble savannah sparrows, Passerculus sandwichensis ??; It stayed in one place more than the larger sparrows and it could forage in tangled vines and brush. Separately female and male downy (?) woodpeckers were at the suet, displaced at times by the smaller pine warbler (?; most threatening?) and Carolina wren(s; only one at a time). A myrtle warbler also came again; I hadn't seen any recently. Twice a dark junco tried to get to the suet and probably a white-throated sparrow as well. I saw robin(s) and I think a thrush of some kind going to a bucket to drink. I wondered if I saw a bluebird at a feeder before, but today I definitely saw a bright blue and reddish male bluebird there. One or more chickadees, titmice, the pair of cardinals, and the pair of towhees came. Little traffic, but some crunching on ice after dark. I'll miss the snowstorm again? I did this on the 19th. I saw that the daylilies in a bucket have sent up new spring foliage and earlier in the week I saw that more daffodil leaves have come up and are pretty tall now.
State Proposes Access Pass for Game Lands
Audubon encourages members, public to weigh. --
nc.audubon.org/news/state-proposes-access-pass-game-lands
www.ncwildlife.org/conservation-access-pass
A pass would be required for those without a hunting or fishing license. How would this be enforced, when many gamelands can be entered from adjacent yards, public roads, the ATT, parks, navigable waterways, etc.? I doubt they have enough officers to look for people out in the woods. Has the NC Wildlife Resources Commission been keeping this proposal quiet? I didn't see it mentioned in their newsletters, though maybe I missed something. Is this aimed at animal rights activists, or is the WRC underfunded? Individual NC tax refund money can be donated to the WRC and I've done that.
See the articles for the WRC's contact information.
The Mountain Region meeting was to be held in Asheville, Buncombe County February 20th, but will be rescheduled.
The Eastern Region meeting will be held in Greenville, Pitt County
Date: Tuesday, February 25
Time: 7-9 p.m.
Location: Pitt Community College, 169 Bulldog Run, Winterville, NC 28590
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The Central Region meeting will be held in Greensboro, Guilford County
Date: Wednesday, February 26
Time: 7-9 p.m.
Location: Guilford Technical Community College, 3505 E. Wendover Avenue, Greensboro, NC; Room 152 AB Combined
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Virtual Webinar via Zoom: Register to Attend.
Date: Tuesday, March 4
Time: 6-8 p.m.
Thursday, February 6th (instead of the 3rd) Steve Inskeep of NPR's Morning Edition had a very friendly interview with allegedly "progressive" Marc J Dunkelman on 'why nothing works;' they didn't say "YIMBY," but that is what it was. Not only is NPR basically all in with the bipartisan warmongers, the "national security state," (and Silicon Valley/"tech" industry types) but now they are going to beat on me for real estate/construction/financial interests (like Donald J Trump? FIRE interests??) NPR goes on about "gentrification," but then condemns communities having influence over local land use, and what about other regulations? Kill wildlife for big "green" energy, EV batteries, smartphones, and more metal ores? Remove regulations requiring earthquake, fire, and hurricane resistant construction? NPR has yet to balance out this anti-environmental and anti-social line. -- www.npr.org/2025/02/06/nx-s1-5245230/progressives-administrative-state-weakened-marc-j-dunkelman and steveinskeep.substack.com/p/did-progressives-stop-government
More of the same from Yoni Appelbaum at The Atlantic: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/03/american-geographic-social-mobility/681439/ Being in The Atlantic, of course he was interviewed by Steve Inskeep on Morning Edition around Monday, February 17th. I came in to the room and at first I thought that it was a repeat or extension of the Dunkelman interview.
A different view: kollibri.substack.com/p/the-desert-is-for-wildlife-not-green energy
On Weekend Morning Edition Sunday the 16th they had an interview with Lydia Kang MD (?) and "historian" Nate Pedersen (?), the authors of Pseudoscience: An Amusing History of Crackpot Ideas and Why We Love Them (?; I didn't catch the authors' names or the exact title of the book). They talked at length about the idea of "spontaneous human combustion" and... And I should believe whatever they are saying because...? NPR didn't say what their credentials are. It might be stated as obvious that 'bigfoot isn't real,' but I don't think that having an MD and being a historian constitutes proof of expertise on "pseudoscience," other than possibly on issues related to medicine or whatever a historian's specialty is. It is just meant to be humorous? But the group seemed to be making claims that they know the truth and that you are a "crackpot" if you think differently. I don't remember them talking about "why we love" "crackpot ideas." NPR is really into "science" ("Science") this month, against RFK Jr, etc. If the US government makes allegations about Ba'athist Iraq and Syria and WMDs, that Iran wants to build nuclear weapons, that China is legally at fault for the coronavirus, that GMOs and "AI" are great, or that Havana Syndrome is real and caused by a new microwave weapon, it must be true. Trust the professional liars and killers in the "intelligence community," they say. There is nothing to see regarding a certain laptop or a former president's health. I'm surprised they covered "UAPs" at all in 2024. SETI is serious business, free from bias or baseless assumptions. Senior staff at NPR have demonstrated in recent years that they can't define "communism" properly (like the Arizona Republicans they condemned, "communism" is whatever the NPR staff want to condemn that is foreign, Russian, sort of left, etc.) and they once aired the theory that a Soviet flying saucer utilizing Nazi German technology crashed in Roswell, NM a few years after WWII. What happened to NPR's concern for cultural sensitivity? -- www.npr.org/2025/02/16/nx-s1-5235258/the-authors-of-a-new-book-explain-pseudoscientific-conspiracies-and-why-we-love-them , www.amazon.com/dp/1523524251/and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Kang
A few other stories:
www.npr.org/2025/02/16/nx-s1-5232176/how-going-flouride-free-has-impacted-one-alaskan-city
simplicius76.substack.com/p/rift-grows-into-chasm-as-trump-lays Final Nail in Zelensky's Casket
There is an article about The Report from Iron Mountain, a bestselling 1967 satire (?) in the current issue of Harper's magazine; in The New York Times Book Review issue of March 19, 1972 Leonard C. Lewin claimed that he had written the pro-war, anti-peace book as a hoax. A real former iron mine at Iron Mountain in Germantown, New York is used as a private storage facility and bomb shelter by various organizations: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Report_from_Iron_Mountain
The alleged Reichsburger coup plot arrests in Germany were December 7, 2022: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_German_coup_d%27état_plot and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsbürger_movement See also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_X_plot
The Golpe Borghese (Borghese Coup) in Italy was alleged planned for the night of December 7 or 8 in 1970, but the plan was revealed or claimed to exist March 18, 1971, which was quickly followed by arrests: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golpe_Borghese
Border agent David Christopher Maland was killed January 20, 2025 after about 3:15pm on I-91 southbound, about 15 km south of the Canadian border, in Coventry, Vermont; the two suspects, Teresa Youngblut (wounded) and Ophelia Bauckholt (killed; a German citizen), allegedly lived separately in Airbnbs in Chapel Hill; Zizians; named for Jack Amadeus LaSota or "Ziz;" Why was this older news story scrolling all day on WRAL around February 17th, without further details? -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_David_Maland ; see also: www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/leader-of-zizians-cultlike-group-linked-to-6-killings-ordered-held-without-bail-in-maryland and and www.google.com/search?q=maryland+cult+murder
Harpal Brar, 85, founder and chairman of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist), passed away January 25, 2025. There will be a memorial and fundraiser for Palestine Saturday, March 22nd 1-7pm at Bolivar Hall in London (54 Grafton Way, W1T 5DL) thecommunists.org/events/harpal-brar-memorial-fundraiser-for-palestine/ He was born October 5, 1939 in Muktsar, Punjab Province, British India: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpal_Brar
Anthropologist Frank Gouldsmith Speck (November 8, 1881 – February 6, 1950): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Speck
The traditional Pisces period begins around February 19th, though the Sun is actually in the constellation Aquarius around February 17th-March 13th, followed by Pisces around March 13th to April 19th.
Red Books Day is February 21st.
Astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was born February 19, 1473.
Swedish naturalist Daniel Carlsson (Charles) Solander (February 19, 1733 – May 13, 1782).
Abkhazia became a treaty republic within (?) the Georgian SSR December 16, 1921 (or in March?) and an autonomous soviet socialist republic within the Georgian SSR February 19, 1931.
Soviet astronomer Klim Ivanovych Churyumov was born February 19, 1937 and passed away October 14, 2016.
The WWII Battle of Iwo Jima was February 19 – March 26, 1945.
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 of the transfer.
Construction of the Soviet space station Mir (Peace or World in Russian) began February 19, 1986. Until 2010 the record for longest continuous human presence in space was the habitation of Mir and some individual cosmonauts spent at least a year on the station. Mir was retired and deorbited into the South Pacific in late March 2001.
Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping passed away February 19, 1997. He had been born August 22, 1904. His predecessor, Hua Guofeng, was born February 16, 1921 and passed away August 20, 2008.
February 12, 1733 the colony of Georgia was founded, initially without slavery. Georgia ratified the US Constitution January 2, 1788. The state of Georgia seceded January 19, 1861 and was the last state brought back in; a new flag was adopted February 19, 2003 yet I saw the previous one flying in the greater Atlanta area in fall 2018? Many states seem to have lacked flags until the second half of the 19th century. Utah adopted a new flag March 9, 2024 and Minnesota on May 11th: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_U.S._states_and_territories
The Rage Against the War Machine anti-war demonstration in Washington, DC was February 19, 2023 and a sequel was February 17, 2024.
Angelina Emily Grimké Weld (February 20, 1805 – October 26, 1879)
February 20-21, 2024 – there was a Julian Assange hearing in the UK relating to whether he could be extradited to the US; RFK Jr condemned the US extradition effort around then.
According to the website Prisoner Solidarity, political prisoner Tsutomu Shirosaki might be released from prison in Japan February 20, 2027: prisonersolidarity.com/prisoner/tsutomu-shiros
Hungarian revolutionary Béla Kun (Béla Kohn) was born February 20, 1886 in a Transylvanian village that was part of Austro-Hungarian Empire at the time and is now in Romania. Some of his writings are posted at: www.marxists.org/archive/kun-bela/index.htm and otheraspect.org/bela-kun-and-hungarian-soviet-republic/
The First Franco-Dahomean War, one of two, was February 20 to October 4 in 1890, in what is now Benin (formerly called Dahomey, after a powerful Fon or Aja state there, the "Black Sparta," or Mexico? Not related to the Benin Bronzes?), between Togo and Nigeria in West Africa. The second war was July 4, 1892 to January 15, 1894. In 1860 the Clotilda brought slaves captured by Dahomey to Mobile; importing slaves from abroad had long been illegal. There is still a king of Dahomey, who has a role in the Vodun religion, etc.
Frederick Douglass passed away February 20, 1895 in Washington, DC.
The World Day of Social Justice is February 20th: www.un.org/en/observances/international-days-and-weeks
February 21st is also Red Books Day, according to the People's Forum in New York City. This is the 176th (?) anniversary of the Communist Manifesto: peoplesdispatch.org/2023/02/21/red-books-day-2023-fight-the-rise-of-the-right-read-a-red-book/
The last known Carolina parakeet died February 21, 1918 at the Cincinnati Zoo, apparently 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. But of course the Santee was dammed the next year. It would seem like Carolina parakeets could be cloned with DNA from preserved specimens.
Jeffrey "Jeff" M Shaara, author of the Battle of Gettysburg novel Killer Angels, was born February 21, 1952 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, but grew up in Tallahassee, Florida.
A chapter of the Deacons for Defense and Justice was founded February 21, 1965 in Bogalusa, Louisiana.
Two Israeli F-4 Phantom II fighter jets shot down Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 February 21, 1973 over part of the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula occupied by Israel, killing 108 people, with 5 survivors.
Bob Sheldon, founder of the former leftist bookstore 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 called it a political murder: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalist_Books See the fall or winter 2024 article on the Internationalist in UNC's Daily Tar Heel, linked in a post here a few months ago.
Florida professor Sami al-Arian (born January 14, 1958 in Kuwait) was indicted February 21, 2003; his case brings to mind what Nancy Pelosi advocated doing to anti-war protesters in winter 2024).
February 21-22/2014 – the US-EU-backed Maidan coup was completed and in power, in Ukraine? – en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yanukovych February 19, 2025 NPR flatly declared that it is just 'not true' that the Ukrainian coup government started the war in eastern Ukraine. About 200 people protested in Raleigh on February 17, 2025, calling for NC Republican senator Tillis to oppose Trump (?), and on the 19th he criticized Trump for blaming Ukraine for the war, and said that Russia will invade the EU or whatever if it isn't stopped in Ukraine. Someone satirized the USA's new "Persimmon Revolution" under Trump on Sonar21.
February 21, 2024 – the 125th anniversary of Vicksburg NMP.
There "The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass" at the President James K Polk State Historic Site in Pineville will be February 22nd 11am-12pm; an 18th-century linen "Wallet Workshop" will be at the Alamance Battleground State Historic Site in Burlington will be February 22nd 10am-3pm; "Family Night at the CSS Neuse Museum" in Kinston will be February 22nd-23rd; there will be a reenactment of a March 5, 1781 Revolutionary War skirmish at the Alamance Battleground March 1st; there will be another reenactment March 1st, commemorating a February 27, 1760 Cherokee attack on Fort Dobbs, in Statesville; etc. – historicsites.nc.gov/events
National Invasive Species Awareness Week 2025 will be February 24-28th: naisma.org/programs/nisaw/ Related articles: durhamspark.blogspot.com/2016/04/emerald-ash-borer-unnecessary.html and durhamspark.blogspot.com/2017/01/redbay-sassafras-and-harm-caused-by.html
Today on the HASTRO listserv: A second Western zodiac, after the system of the ancient Sumerians, was developed by an institution established in ancient Babylonia by Nabonassar February 26, 747 BCE? Babylonian king Nabû-nāṣir -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabonassar ?
February 27, 1714 -- an agreement between the colony of Virginia and the Siouan Saponi, Tottero, Occaneechi, Keyauwee, Enoke/Eno, and Shakori tribes? -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakori , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saponi , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Christanna , and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haliwa-Saponi_Indian_Tribe
The Aldo Leopold Foundation's Leopold Week 2025 will be March 4-6th: www.crowdcast.io/c/leopold-week2025
The Tuscarora tribes' Fort Neoheroka (or Neherooka, Nooherooka, or Neyuherú·kęʼ), now in Greene County, in eastern North Carolina, was besieged around March 1-23, 1713, during the Tuscarora War (September 10, 1711 to February 11, 1715). Many hundreds of people were killed or sold as slaves in the colony of South Carolina. The very bloody Yamasee War in South Carolina began around Good Friday, April 15 or 14 in 1715 (or the Pocotaligo Massacre, near Yemassee, South Carolina; the Tugaloo Massacre was January 27, 1716) and ended in 1717 -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuscarora_people , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Neoheroka , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuscarora_War , and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamasee_War
Linguist Blair Arnold Rudes (May 18, 1951 – March 16, 2008): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blair_A._Rudes
From Powwows.com:
UNC Pembroke BraveNation Pow Wow and Gathering 2025
March 22 - March 22
Jones - 1 University Drive, Pembroke, NC - 28372
Annual Youth Pow Wow 2025 (Eden, NC)
April 26 - April 26
134 N. Pierce St., Eden, NC - 27288
Roanoke Island Native American Heritage Festival and Pow Wow 2025
April 26 - April 27
829 Wingina Ave, Manteo , NC - 27954
On WRAL around February 18th: a Real ID or passport will now be necessary to fly domestically or enter certain US government buildings starting May 7th??
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