Some previous winter/spring calendar posts:
[The censored: durhamspark.blogspot.com/2025/02/events-and-anniversaries-around-lunar.html ]
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.
[Frogs have come out and are breeding in the UK:
katebradbury.substack.com/p/on-frogs-hope-and-dreams-of-spring
tootlepedal.wordpress.com/2025/02/27/jam-today-6/
I heard thunder twice February 27th. I might have heard frogs calling again the last week of February, and it was mild and rained, so they were probably out calling in the area even if I didn't hear any. A hermit (?) thrush (on the 23rd, etc.) and one or more myrtle warblers have been around. I haven't seen or heard a sapsucker in a while, but the red maple has been bleeding sap like it has been taped recently. On the 22nd the sap attracted the female downy woodpecker (?). I have seen woodpeckers, myrtle warblers (also around this week, maybe yesterday), etc. at the bleeding sapsucker holes other years. The red maple's flower buds have been swelling, but aren't open yet (?). I haven't seen or heard the or a pine warbler this week. I had forgotten about a young winged elm nearby; its relatively few flower buds seemed to be open by the 26th. I heard bluejays around the 27th or 26th but haven't seen any. A pair of brown-headed nuthatches was visiting a birdfeeder around February 26th and I suspect that there was a pair of chickadees. I haven't seen the other usual nuthatches. I've heard barred owls more often, though not very often or nearby. The hawks might be quieter, maybe because they are nesting. I saw one or more black vultures February 21st; the one I saw was quite high up, moving on a straight course, quickly and without flapping its wings. I haven't seen many vultures this winter. A small, wide, dark, gray moth came in around the 25th and an overwintering (?) gray stinkbug came to an interior light the next night. Butterflies should be coming out soon or even now. The familiar black and white cat came by the afternoon of the 21st. The flock of red-winged blackbirds has been nearby some mornings. The snow was gone after the 22nd? Apparently around 14" fell in coastal northeastern North Carolina (with place names apparently from Algonquin languages, such as the Chowan River and County, Perquimans County, Pasquotank County, Roanoke Island, etc.), but that is outside the local media market. The Meherrin River near there is named for the apparently Iroquoian-speaking Meherrin tribe, but "Meherrin" isn't what they called themselves and so might not be an Iroquoian word: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meherrin ]
[By March 7th four Vinca minor flowers were open here, and a Forsythia and a yellow or orange and white daffodil were blooming; a Pachysandra flower bud opening or opened?; four yellow daffodils were blooming here by March 4th or 5th; the male red maple's flowers (mostly yellow) were open by March 2nd or 3rd; the morning of March 3rd I saw a quiet sapsucker in a hickory and nearby a pair of bluebirds; the male gave food to the female?; red-winged blackbirds were singing nearby?; heard barred owls a few times in a week? Stilt grass was coming up in a an indoor/outdoor pot by the 2nd? Carpet beetles are out. About two deer, one with one prong, I heard, around March 1st in the morning.]
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. [March 7th: According to the HRA the comment period ends March 28th – "Please make your comment here. You can read more HERE."]
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
Google Map Directions
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
Google Map Directions
Virtual Webinar via Zoom: Register to Attend.
Date: Tuesday, March 4
Time: 6-8 p.m.
[Also from the HRA, March 7th:
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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
[Morning Edition will cover Iran's supposed nuclear weapons program March 3rd; Trump or not, they prepare another war in the Middle East for oil, Israel, the rule of the dollar, etc.]
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, [that Hamas or protesters did something reprehensible while Israel or its supporters did not,] 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
[In The Chronicle: About 200 people protested on the edge of Duke University's East Campus in downtown Durham Wednesday, February 26th: www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025/02/duke-chronicle-duke-dont-comply-protest-trump-administration-dei-ppd-policy-east-campus-demonstration-diversity-equity-inclusion-free-speech-activism
On WRAL recently: There were anti-Musk protests at a Tesla dealership on Glenwood Avenue in Raleigh (similar in size to the Duke protest?) and somewhere in High Point Monday, February 24th (or the 25th or 26th?). [A woman carried a Ukrainian flag at the Raleigh protest if I remember correctly.]
There was a rally in favor of the Ukrainian government and continuing the Ukraine War in downtown Raleigh (at the old capitol?) Sunday, February 23rd, the day before the anniversary of the War. A woman from a North Carolina Ukrainian-American heritage organization was interviewed. Am I forgetting a third protest in about a week? A few weeks ago there was a 50 states anti-Trump protest in Raleigh, if I remember correctly it circled the local Federal building.
There will be a friends of the library book sale in Clayton, NC Saturday, March 1st 8am-4pm (?).
[Apex Restaurant Week is February 24th-March 2nd: apexnc.org/restaurantweek ]
[There will be another renaming ceremony for "Fort Bragg" around March 7th.]
[Last week, around Wednesday, February 19th (?) WRAL reported that a great horned owl, a hawk of some kind, and (Canada?) geese had been found dead in Cary (in one place?) from avian flu. Around the 21st WRAL addressed the issue of road salt harming aquatic life when it washes off, though it is more of a potential problem further north. NPR and maybe WRAL are playing up anger shown at recent town hall meetings held by Republican members of Congress, but dose this reflect actual feeling in the districts, or are Democrat-leaning voters packing the meetings? A district might be "deep red," but there are probably still enough opponents to fill a town hall meeting and make it seem like even a Republican-dominated district is against what Trump-Vance (and Musk, the Democrats add) administration and Congress have been doing. Polls seem to show some support for the policies, though I think Trump was and still is not that popular overall. A private security company lost its license for recently removing a woman from a meeting with a member of Congress? The mainstream media has been talking about deadly outbreaks of measles, a very infectious disease. At some point I think I heard chickenpox mentioned as a relatively minor disease, but I thought the trend in recent decades has been to portray chickenpox as a 'major' disease. Chickenpox used to be a routine childhood illness, and if I'm not mistaken measles used to be 'normal.' Of course both diseases can have serious consequences and might be far more dangerous for 'naive' populations that don't have past experience. The new coronavirus is now routine, like colds, the seasonal flu, etc. At one time human groups were apparently too small and isolated for even colds to spread.]
[A Middle Eastern woman (from The National) on "1A" Friday, February 28th: after the Ukraine War, Russia is a "paper tiger," the same thing the Clintonites have been saying for about a decade, while online commentators have been saying that a multipolar world has arrived. Russia hasn't lost the War, but the EU and USA are fraying?? Todd Zwillick (?) makes sure to say that Russia started the War, Zelensky isn't a dictator, etc. The UK didn't hold elections during WWII (the USA held elections during the Civil War)? Around the 26th or 27th they they were talking about an NPR podcast, and started going on about how "conspiracy theories" reflect an underlying personality problem, etc. Maybe it is, but when NPR and Co. condemn "conspiracy theories," they mean ideas that the Democratic Party and the "deep state" don't like, unlike theorizing about Putin and false flags in Russia, al Qaida, Trump, China, etc. [PBS also spreads "conspiracy theories" about countries targeted by the US government.] The US voted with DPR Korea and Iran at the UN??? Apparently "raw milk" is gaining popularity on the right (and "1A," if not other shows onNPR, made sure to condemn it as very dangerous and wrong).] [Dutch politician Erik Stegnik started selling ice cream made from pig milk at his farm, Piggy's Palace: the January 2025 issue of Fortean Times (FT453)]
[The three-part "conspiracy theory" podcast in question above, by a producer at Vox and NPR's Emedded, is on on This American Life the evening of Friday, February 28th (a rebroadcast from Saturday, Februay 22nd, or will it be on again March 1st?). It doesn't sound so bad, so far (are they going to air the "political science" 'experts' on "conspiracy beliefs?" Not this time.). In recent years it has seemed like This American Life has moved from being a 'cultural' or 'entertainment' show on NPR to sometimes pretty overtly pushing the lame US government and Democratic Party-type propaganda line as NPR's news shows. I think they had an episode on the recent election in Venezuela, and I didn't care to listen. Did the host of Snap Judgement really once work for the CIA, or was that a work of fiction? On NPR and Co., 'once KGB, always KGB,' don't hear such people out, but working for the CIA or some other praetorian guard agency means nothing. A few months ago a 'disinformation' type researcher who admitted to having once worked in the CIA's actual headquarters was on NPR somewhere, condemning grassroots Republicans or whomever online, for saying that she serves a hidden agenda, targeting them. Of course, NPR portrays Voice of America as just another independent journalistic concern.]
Several creek weeks are coming up later in March in the Triangle.]
[WUNC had a news headline on February 28th about a local [or Charlotte?) "bicycle library" opening soon.]
[Anti-war writer Yves Engler of Canada was arrested in late February over speech supporting Palestine and embarrassing the local police: yvesengler.com/2025/02/18/im-being-charged-for-responding-to-anti-palestinian-hate-on-x/ , etc.] [ theworker.news/2025/02/28/pro-palestine-journalist-yves-engler-charged-and-arrested-in-canada-red-herald/ ]
[There has apparently been an epidemic of sacrifices of animals at parks in Queens, New York City: the February 2025 issue of Fortean Times (FT454). In the same issue it was reported that juror Paul Powlesland was sworn in on water from the River Roding in the Snaresbrook Crown Court, in eastern London, UK a first, though pagan oaths were legalized in 2006 (from the BBC News, August 2, 2024). Maybe this could relate to giving personhood to the Dan River, trees, mountain, etc. I think the BBC reported that a mountain in New Zealand was given personhood a several weeks ago, with Maori support. Apparently a moustache was mandatory in the British Army from 1860 to 1916; so different from elite affairs in the late 20th and early 21st centuries in many countries; on Leftist Trainspotters, if not elsewhere, the banner showing Marx, Engels, Lenin, etc. has been called "the history of shaving," which does fit.]
[Two foxes and an RSPCA officer's phone camera in Bagshot, Surrey, UK, about a year ago? – the December 2024 issue of Fortean Times (FT451).]
[On NPR's All Things Considered the afternoon of February 28th: A new recording of Soviet disco-type (?) music (originally from Tashkent?), "Synthesizing Silk Roads," has been released.]
[A public dispute between Trump, Vance, and Zelensky at the White House the afternoon of February 28th.] [More clear on the BBC.]
[The PKK is giving up??] [ theworker.news/2025/03/05/pkk-endorses-abdullah-ocalans-call-and-announces-laying-down-of-arms-a-nova-democracia/ , etc.]
[By March 7th – the BBC [Lina Sinjab, etc. Contradictory?] and FT [Financial Times] magazine claim that Alawites and/or Ba'ath Party loyalists [so the new authorities, etc. say] have risen up against the Sunni Islamist coup "government" imposed in Syria months ago. Or did the warlord "government" begin summary executions? Fighting in the Kurdish-controlled Northeast as well? Israel, Turkey, and the US directly occupy parts of the country, as with war-torn China and Russia a century ago.]
[Hammering on Syria and Trump on This American Life March 7th, or is it nothing out of the ordinary?]
[By March 7th – infighting between Rubio and other Cabinet members and Musk? Another Musk rocket explosion.]
[A [fatal] road rage shooting on a freeway in Cary the morning of March 7th?]
[SC execution by firing squad, with rifles, indoors?? Claim that hantavirus and other causes separately killed the Hackmans and one of their three dogs.]
[The first annual Space Piracy Conference was held at the Naval Academy in February? – the December 2024 issue of Fortean Times (FT451).]
[The NCGP recently held its 2025 Winter Gathering in...]
[Muslim Ramadan will begin the weekend of March 1-2?]
[PBS here will re-broadcast Bill Moyers' interviews with Joseph Campbell on myth (a first?) Sunday, March 2nd (?); I've never seen them.]
[A Stand for Science March 7th [a rally in Raleigh, etc.]?]
[March 8th 10am-5pm ~ Rain or Shine: discoverseagrove.com/events/tea-with-seagrove-potters-3/
[There will be a City of Durham Parks and Recreation and Maintenance job fair Monday, March 10th 5-7pm at the Walltown Recreation Center (1308 West Club Boulevard): www.durhamnc.gov/5358 ]
["Focus on American Indian Art on Paper" March 14th 6-6:45pm [or 7-7:45pm]: events.ackland.org/event/focus-march2025-6pm/ ]
[March 28th-May 11th: ackland.org/exhibition/phantom-limb-selected-works-by-the-mfa-class-of-2025/ ]
[The 17th Annual Celebration of Spring Pottery Tour-Spring Kiln Openings will be April 2527, 2025, 10am – 5pm in Seagrove, NC: discoverseagrove.com ]
[June 6th-August 31st: ackland.org/exhibition/radical-clay-contemporary-women-artists-from-japan/ ]
[LIBRARY BOOKSALES
There was a friends of the library book sale in Clayton, NC Saturday, March 1st 8am-4pm (?).
There will be an in-person Friends of the Durham Library book sale at Books Among Friends March 7-8th: fodlnc.org/events/
There will be a Friends of the Chatham Community Library book sale March 20-22 at the Chatham Community Library in Pittsboro (197 NC Hwy 87 North): friendsccl.org/Spring-2025-Book-Sale
The Friends of the Chapel Hill Public Library will have book sales April 11-13, August 22-24, December 5-7 in 2025 and April 10-12, August 21-23, December 4-6 in 2026 (!!) -- friendschpl.org/
CREEK WEEKS
The 17th annual Durham Creek Week will be March 15-22: www.keepdurhambeautiful.org/creek-week
PLANT / GARDEN SALES
Brunswick County?
SEED LIBRARIES
Spring Lights Out for Migrating Birds:]
[March 15-16th: historicsites.nc.gov/all-sites/bentonville-battlefield , www.johnstoncountync.org/160th-bentonville-reenactment/ , and historicsites.nc.gov/events ]
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
[A groundhog was found in a crane game or claw machine at the Colonel Custard shop and mini-golf park in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania: the January 2025 issue of Fortean Times (FT453), which cites The Guardian website, August 15, 2024.]
[November 23rd is the People's Day of Death or the People's Day of the Dead (?), from the Toxteth Day of the Dead, in Toxteth and Future Yard in Birkenhead, UK: the February 2025 issue of Fortean Times (FT454).]
[These might be out of date records, but Bill Valverde reeled in a 7-foot 9-inch, 279 pound alligator gar December 2, 1951 in the Rio Grande River in Texas and one found in Louisiana was 9 feet 8 1/2 inches, 302 pounds. [A 302-pound gar was caught in Texas in 1953. Kenny Williams (Vicksburg, Mississippi) fished or netted an 8' 5 1/4," 327-pound gar (girth 47"and age 50-70 or even over 95 year) in Lake Chotard February 14, 2011 (it is preserved at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science in Jackson?): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alligator_gar and tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/species/alg/ ] There have been claims of much larger alligator gar [long ago?] and attacks by gar on humans: /Familiar Freshwater Fishes of America, by Howard T Walden, 2d, illustrated by Carl Burger, 1964. Only much smaller longnose gar, to 72," are found in North Carolina, and I have yet to see one of these ancient fish [in the wild], though they might live in Durham's Eno River (?) and northern Wake County. Walden notes a 6-foot, 1/4-inch, 50 pound, 5 ounce longnose gar reeled in by Townsend Miller in the Trinity River of Texas July 30, 1954. UNC Press' 1994 Freshwater Fishes of the Carolinas, Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware is the source of the longnose gar figure and says that alligator gar can get to about 11 feet long and 300 pounds. There are stories about giant and sometimes 'man-eating' freshwater catfish of various kinds from many countries, including the USA, South America, the Himalayas, and even long-since 'tamed' Western Europe (and at Chernobyl in Ukraine?), but the records are later in the year. North Carolina's most dangerous fish are the probably the various large sharks that live near the coast, though "attacks" aren't common and humans are overfishing these very old fish towards extinction around the world.]
[The weekend of December 7-8, 2024 Monel "King Mikanor" Felix, leading the Wharf Jeremie gang, reportedly had 184 or more people, mostly elderly (over 60) or Voodoo practicioners, killed in the Cite Soleil area of Port au Prince, Haiti, after his son died of an illness. The bodies were mistreated and publicly burned: the February 2025 issue of Fortean Times (FT454).]
[Down I-40 in Tucumcari, New Mexico a fireball (not mentioned in the Wikipedia entry about the town) reportedly came down and caused a 30-foot water tank to fail, killing four people and destroying 20 buildings December 13, 1951: Unexplained Mysteries of the 20th Century, by Janet and Colin Bord, 1989.]
[Church services in Saint Mary's County, Maryland on Christmas Eve were disrupted by a 34-year-old man, using an onion, tangerines, and a bottle of whiskey: the February 2025 issue of Fortean Times (FT454), from wtop.com December 26th. If I'm not mistaken Saint Mary's County has a history of religious tolerance. During the pandemic Reverend Kira Austin Young and Michael Schupbach of San Francisco, California created a trend of making what might be called 'Biblically correct' depictions of Christian angels.]
[Brigadier General Razi Mousavi ? (رازی موسوی; 1963 – killed by Israel in Syria on Christmas Day, December 25, 2023): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razi_Mousavi ]
[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.]
[Journalist Herbert Lionel Matthews, author of the 1975 book Revolution in Cuba and other works, was born January 10, 1900 in Manhattan, NYC and passed away July 30, 1977. He met with Fidel Castro February 17, 1957, etc.]
[Oil was struck at the Spindletop oil field, near Beaumont, Texas, at the very southeast corner of the state, January 10, 1901, setting off a gusher that spewed oil for 9 days. The find broke the semi-monopoly of Standard Oil – apparently Texas had anti-trust laws and populist sentiment back then – and the find made oil a common fuel in the USA, one of top oil-producing countries, and led to our "oil addiction" today. This wasn't the beginning of the oil industry in the state. Canada's first gusher was the Shaw Gusher January 16, 1862 in Oil Springs, Ontario: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spindletop and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowout_(well_drilling) ]
[The Revolutionary War Battle of Cowpens was January 17, 1781, near Cowpens in Cherokee County, in northwestern South Carolina, between victorious Continental forces under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan and British and Loyalists forces under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton.
[Comet Encke, the second known to be periodic, was discovered January 17, 1786. Encke is the source of meteor showers seen from Earth and maybe from Mercury. In the 80's it was proposed that a comet such as Encke could have been the origin of the swastika symbol: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Encke ]
[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.]
[Over Colonial Boston Harbor, in Massachusetts, UFOs and voices were reported in March 1639 and again January 18, 1644 and over the following two weeks – from Jim Brandon's Weird America: A Guide to Places of Mystery in the United States, 1978; mentioned in Governor John Winthrop's Journal, etc.]
[As part of the movement against the Afghanistan War and the Bush administration's plans for an invasion of Iraq, poorly covered by the US media at the time, there were demonstrations around the world and in the USA in January 2003, including massive demonstrations January 18th in Washington, DC and San Francisco, as well as smaller demonstrations elsewhere, organized by International ANSWER and Not In Our Name (NION).]
[[Ingenuity: 4/19/2021-2/7/2022 after a Martian weather delay-1/18/2024, retired 1/25.]
[According to the 2023 Old Farmer's Almanac, a 0.66-pound meteorite hit a medical office in Lorton, Virginia January 18, 2010; this location in Fairfax County had a Nike Ajax anti-aircraft missile site 1955-73; also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorton,_Virginia Related to the former factory in Burlington, NC?]
[Venezuelan protester Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, or Tortuguita, was shot to death at the proposed "Cop City" site in Atlanta January 18, 2023. There were protests afterward, January 20-22, and a march January 21st in downtown Atlanta, with damage to buildings and a police car was burned.]
[Saturnino Paredes Macedo, one of the founders of the Communist Party of Peru (Marxist-Leninist) (with José Sotomayor, and Abimael Guzmán, according to the Wikipedia entry), was born January 19, 1921 in Ancash, on the northern coast: pcpml.com/2021/01/20/viva-el-centenario-del-natalicio-del-dr-saturnino-paredes-macedo/. The PCP(M-L) itself was founded in January 1964, splitting from the Peruvian Communist Party (according to Wikipedia, while the party's website traces its origin to October 28, 1928 and Mariátegui); the PCP(M-L) is a member of the ICMLPO.]
[January 20-21, 2006 the River Thames Whale, Willy, a northern bottlenose whale, a beaked whale, in the UK.]
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
[A squareish lunar halo was reportedly seen January 21, 1913 from the RMS Balmoral Castle off of equatorial Africa? – Mysteries of the Unexplained, by The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., 1982.]
[January 21, 2025 is V.I. Lenin's 101st death anniversary.
[420356 Praamizus, a large object beyond Neptune, was discovered January 23, 2012 and is named for a major ancient Lithuanian deity.]
[Supposed to be the first Abkhazian female pilot, and a veteran of WWII, Meri Hafizovna Avidzba was born January 24, 1917 and passed away April 12, 1986.]
[January 24, 1978 Kosmos 954, a malfunctioning nuclear-powered Soviet naval surveillance satellite, disintegrated over Canada, requiring clean up of radioactive debris; 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.]
[The UN's International Day of Education is January 24th: www.un.org/en/observances/education-day ]
[Hundreds of dead and dying or injured ducks of various kinds – canvasbacks, redheads, scaups – were found in Saint Mary's City, Maryland January 25, 1969; it was as if they had run into something or been near an explosion – Weird America: A Guide to Places of Mystery in the United States, by Jim Brandon, 1978 and Mysteries of the Unexplained, by The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., 1982. A site of early religious toleration, Saint Mary's City was officially founded March 25, 1634. The Maryland Toleration Act/Act Concerning Religion was passed April 21, 1649, but it failed later.]
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
[The demonstrations that ultimately led to the overthrow of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak began January 25, 2011 (Egypt's National Police Day); Mubarak withdrew from office February 11th. As in the revolution in Tunisia, several people set themselves on fire in protest, starting January 18th.]
[The Brumadinho mining dam disaster in Brazil was January 25, 2019.]
[The Baia Mare cyanide spill was January 30, 2000 in Romania.]
[Manitoba Pageant January 1960; July 1873 basis of Incident at Hawk's Hill, by Allan Wesley Eckert (January 30, 1931 – July 7, 2011): www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/pageant/05/boybadgerhole.shtml and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incident_at_Hawk%27s_Hill and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_W._Eckert ]
[Allen Dallen Nease (February 1, 1914 – September 1984).]
[Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin February 1, 1931 – April 23, 2007.]
[Three dead from a "sweet-smelling gas" February 1, 1944 in Coatesville PA; the UK's Springheel Jack reported, for example, Feb 20? 1838 in Old Ford, UK 8:45pm; before April 2,8 1877 two of them were reportedly in Aldershot, UK; the Mineral Point, Wisconsin "Vampire" entity end of March 1981, before the attempt to assassinate Reagan on the 30th – Mysterious America: The Revised Edition, by Loren Coleman, 2001.]
[Explorer 1, the USA's first satellite, was launched February l, 1958.]
[Nguyen Van Lem or Bay Lop, an officer of the National Liberation Front, was captured during the Tet Offensive February 1st in what was known as Saigon at the time and summarily executed by Nguyen Ngoc Loan, leader of the South Vietnamese National Police, shown in a famous image captured by NBC and the Associated Press. Loan later took refuge in the USA, living near Washington, DC.]
[Taíno leader Hatuey fought the Spanish conquistadores in Hispaniola and Cuba, but was burned at the stake February 2, 1512 near what is now Bayamo, Cuba (also near where one of Cuba's 19th century wars for independence began). Before he was killed, a priest is supposed to have asked Hatuey if he would become a Christian and go to heaven, and he asked if the Spanish went to heaven. Hearing the inevitable answer he said that he would rather go to hell where the Spaniards and their cruelty would be absent. He has been honored as a Hero of the Republic of Cuba.]
[John Warner Barber (February 2, 1798 – June 22, 1885).]
[The Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo was signed February 2, 1848, ending the Mexican-American War and ceding a large part of Mexico to the USA, though I imagine that much of this territory was still controlled by Indian groups, who might have been living there for hundreds or thousands of years, and was only controlled to a limited extent by the Mexican government.]
[The shortest solar eclipse between 2000 BCE and 3000 CE was February 3, 919 CE, at 2.5 seconds.]
[Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson (Betsy Graeme) (February 3, 1737 – February 23, 1801).]
[The Communist Party of Vietnam was founded through the merging of a few groups February 3-7, 1930 in Kowloon, Hong Kong.]
[Author Michael Craig Ruppert (February 3, 1951 – April 13, 2014, allegedly by suicide): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ruppert ]
[Operation Bongo II, an FAA (human) experiment looking at the impact of sonic booms on the people and buildings of Oklahoma City, began February 3, 1964. Air Force F-104, B-58, F-101, and F-106 aircraft broke the sound barrier over OKC 1,253 times over six months according to Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_sonic_boom_tests ]
[Aafia Siddiqui was convicted February 3, 2010 and sentenced to 86 years of Federal imprisonmen and is held in Fort Worth's Federal Medical Center, Carswell. She was born March 2, 1972 in Karachi, Pakistan.]
[Workers at the Monaghan Lunatic Asylum, now called Saint Davnet's Hospital, declared the first of several Irish soviets, January 29-February 4, 1919: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_soviets and redphoenixnews.com/2024/01/24/psychiatric-hospital-uprising-the-first-irish-soviet/ ]
[Russia's Znamya-2 space mirror experiment, originally a solar sail experiment, launched October 27, 1992 on Progress M-15, was successfully deployed near the Mir space station February 4, 1993. The 20-meter mirror created a five kilometer wide spot lit as if by the light of a full Moon, racing at 8 kilometers a second from the south of France to western Russia. I wonder if anyone was upset by this gigantic light trespass, or was everything prearranged? I remember that a Russian orbital mirror was covered in Durham's Herald-Sun newspaper at the time. The satellite was deorbited and burned up over Canada after a few hours.
February 5, 1999 – Znamya-2.5, 25 meters wide and designed to illuminate an area 7 kilometers wide with light equal to five to 10 full Moons, was deployed but damaged before much could be done. A Znamya-3 60 to 70 meters wide had been planned, but wasn't built. In a limited way maybe Znamya was going too far, though these were just experiments.]
[Novelist and writer Patricia Highsmith was born January 19, 1921 in Fort Worth, Texas and passed away February 4, 1995 in Locarno, Switzerland. She is also noted for her personal diaries or journals.]
[February 4th: www.un.org/en/observances/human-fraternity ]
[2/4/1999 – Guinean Amadou Diallou was killed by the NYPD.]
[2/4/2021 – US to get out of Yemen?? Getting back in now: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden#First_100_days ]
[2/4/2024 – the 20th anniversary of Facebook? – the BBC.
[2/4/2024 – a bakery in Lisichansk or Lysychansk, Lugansk was bombed by the Ukrainian government?]
[2/3/2024 A Sinn Fein or nationalist First Minister for the first time in Northern Ireland, UK.]
[Bernardino de Sahagún, OFM (~1499 – February 5, 1590).]
[February 5, 1958 the Tybee Bomb (nuclear) was lost in Georgia.]
[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.]
[Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004); attempted assassination in March 1981.]
[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. ]
Anthropologist Frank Gouldsmith Speck (November 8, 1881 – February 6, 1950): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Speck
[A few large snakes – February 6, 1957, a ball python along a road to Burlington, in Alamance County; January 20, 1902 along Town Creek in Salisbury; April 1880 in Burgaw, Pender County – Monsters of North Carolina: Mysterious Creatures in the Tar Heel State, by John Hairr, 2013.]
[February 6 1973 – The Custer, SD Chamber of Commerce and courthouse burned over lack of prosecution after an Indian was killed – This Country Was Ours: A Documentary History of the American Indian, by Virgil J Vogel, 1974.]
[The Durham City Council approved the 55-Hopson project; the final, second (?) hearing was February 7, 2022 (?), and many acres of mass grading soon began; surveying and some clearing began prior to the approval. The public comment period for the related extension of Hopson Road to Grandale ended February 22nd in 2022, and it was revealed that the extension of Grandale Road in Chatham County is also being planned. It was reported that bobcats, coyotes, maybe otters, turkeys, woodcocks, wood ducks, migratory waterfowl, bald eagles, prothonotary warblers, red-headed woodpeckers, many roosting black and turkey vultures, nesting great blue herons, maybe nesting nightjars, ancient bowfin, a summer roar of green treefrogs (?) and other herptofauna, a high density of fireflies, many wildflower, etc. live in the 'rural' and partially protected area along Northeast Creek, but will these all remain after what the members of the City Council and road planners approved is finished? The new elementary school nearby to the west, by a very large power substation and the Tobacco Trail, was finished recently and maybe, hopefully, the possible pink ladyslipper orchids, white vetch, nesting nightjars, and an abandoned beaver pond with alders and frequented by nesting indigo buntings were mostly left alone. Add Ellis Road area dates, north of RTP?]
[Emanuel Swedenborg (born Emanuel Swedberg; February 8, 1688 – March 29, 1772).]
[Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905).]
[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 CSA was founded February 8, 1861, but not in Virginia.]
[Albanian revolutionary Nexhmije Xhuglini was born February 8, 1921 in Bitolj, today part of Macedonia. She fought as a partisan in the war to liberate Albania from Italian and German occupation during WWII and served in leading positions in the Party of Labor of Albania, the Democratic Front, the Institute of Marxist-Leninist Studies, the Albanian Women's League, the National Assembly of Albania, and other bodies during her political career. She was imprisoned for 5 years after the counterrevolution. Apparently she was arrested on December 10, 1991, Human Rights Day, and charged with embezzlement, sentenced in January 1993, and released in January 1997. She was married to PLA First Secretary Enver Hoxha and she is supposed to have been the oldest living member of the PLA leadership before passing away February 26, 2020. For more information on the Kombinat (Factory) cemetery in Tirana where the the Hoxhas rest (Enver Hoxha had been buried in the National Martyrs' Cemetery, but was disinterred by the counterrevolutionaires) see: michaelharrison.org.uk/2021/12/nexhmije-and-enver-together-in-kombinat/ See also: michaelharrison.org.uk/2021/02/february-the-8th-2021-the-centenary-of-the-birth-of-nexhmije-xhuglini-hoxha/ For some of her works see: november8ph.ca/catalogue/ etc. www.mltranslations.org/Albania/index.htm , ml-review.ca/aml/index/subject.html and ml-today.com/?s=nexhmije ]
[February 8, 1928 Camden, New Jersey and summer 1972 Elberton, Georgia 'sky lines'; summer 1970 Caldwell, NJ a shooting of a kind, without projectiles being found? – Weird America: A Guide to Places of Mystery in the United States, by Jim Brandon, 1978.]
[Philippine revolutionary Jose Maria Canlas Sison (Joma) (February 8, 1939 – December 16, 2022).]
[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.]
[The Battle of Saltley Gate was February 8, 1972: michaelharrison.org.uk/2021/02/10th-february-1972-victory-at-the-battle-of-saltley-gate/ ]
[February 8, 1974 the last crew left Skylab and it came down beginning 7/11/1979.]
[William Henry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841): www.nps.gov/people/william-henry-harrison.htm ]
[According to Wikipedia, the first and only time a submarine has sunk another submarine while both were underwater happened February 9, 1945, when British HMS Venturer sank U-864 off Norway. U-864 was carrying jet engine and missile guidance system components, as well as mercury, to aid German ally Japan.]
[The first test flight of a Boeing 747 was February 9, 1969 in Washington state (?).]
[Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (June 15, 1914 – February 9, 1984).]
[The first confirmed discovery of extrasolar and pulsar planets, around pulsar PSR B1257+12, was announced January 9, 1992 (found at Arecibo in Puerto Rico February 9, 1990 ?): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSR_B1257%2B12 And a comet? – exoplanet.eu/catalog/psr_1257_12_d--236/ Another pulsar planet May 30, 1993 and the first around two stars and in a globular cluster of stars: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSR_B1620%E2%88%9226_b The first planet around a main-sequence star was announced October 6, 1995: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/51_Pegasi_b Multiple planets around a main-sequence star in a multi-star system, Upsilon Andromedae, in 1999: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upsilon_Andromedae The discovery of a planet around Proxima Centauri, only about 4 light years away, but not visible from here, was announced August 24, 2016: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxima_Centauri_b A planet orbiting two stars was announced/discovered September 15, 2011: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler-16b About 5,576 extrasolar planets had been found (by January 1, 2024, according to Wikipedia).]
[In February 1220 – the Mongols took Otrar, now ruins in Kazakhstan, then besieged and burned Bukhara, and later took Samarkand; both ancient cities now lie in Uzbekistan.]
[Hernán Cortés, disobeying the governor, set sail from Cuba February 10 [18?], 1519 on the expedition that would result in the defeat of the Aztecs and the colonization of Mexico?]
[Playwright Bertolt Brecht was born February 10, 1898 in Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany.]
[The Catalonia Offensive, December 23, 1938 to February 10, 1939, during the Spanish Civil War, July 17, 1936 to April 1, 1939.]
[Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collided February 9, 2009; February 13th sonic booms in Kentucky: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision (note en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_West_Ford )]
[The evening of February 10, 2015 Craig Stephen Hicks shot and killed Deah Shaddy Barakat, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha in Finley Forest Condominiums (Summerwalk Circle) on the eastern edge of Chapel Hill along NC 54.]
[World Pulses Day, devoted to important food plants such as kidney beans, lima beans, black-eyed peas, chickpeas, broad beans, and lentils, is February 10th. The UN General Assembly declared 2016 the International Year of Pulses: www.un.org/en/observances/international-days-and-weeks ]
[February 10th: www.un.org/en/observances/arabian-leopard-day ]
[October 14, 1924 the Kara-Kirghiz Autonomous Oblast was created within the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and February 11 (1st?), 1926 it became the Kirghiz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, still part of the RSFSR. Presumably this is when Bishkek was renamed for Mikhail Frunze. The Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic was created as a constituent republic of the USSR when the "Stalin Constitution" was adopted, December 5, 1936.]
[Kosaburo Eto (江藤 小三郎, Etō Kosaburō, April 20, 1946 in Sage Prefecture – February 11, 1969 by burning, in front of the National Diet in Tokyo, Japan): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosaburo_Eto Add?]
[Charles Darwin was born February 12, 1809, in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK. There are Darwin Day events at the NCBG around his birthday.]
[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.]
[Allegedly to prevent the potential of injuries from a toxic hydrazine leak on a malfunctioning surveillance satellite, the US Navy was ordered to destroy it with an anti-ballistic missile on February 14, 2008. This also conveniently allowed the USA to test a space weapon.]
[The Day of Rage in Bahrain – February 14, 2011.]
[Vasant Panchami (वसन्तपञ्चमी, Vasantapañcamī), or Vasanta Panchami and Saraswati Puja,was February 14, 2024 and January 26, 2023.]
[Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei was born February 15, 1564 in Pisa, then part of the Duchy of Florence.]
[New Jersey abolished slavery, gradually, February 15, 1804, yet slavery still existed there in 1865: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jersey and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_New_Jersey ]
[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 that 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?
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.]
[Karl Theodor Robert Luther, April 16, 1822 in Świdnica, Poland – February 15, 1900 Düsseldorf, Germany).]
[Susan B. Anthony (Susan Anthony), February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906.]
[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.]
[Korean statesman Kim Jong Il was born February 16, 1941, when Korea was a colony of Japan, and passed away December 17, 2011 in Pyongyang, capital of resolutely independent DPR Korea, though the struggle for independence from Japan and the first battles with US imperialism were led by his father, Kim Il Sung; some of his works and other documents are online at: www.marxists.org/archive/kim-jong-il/index.htm , november8ph.ca/catalogue/ , michaelharrison.org.uk/the-democratic-peoples-republic-of-korea/ , and might be available in print at UNC's Davis Library.]
[Hezbollah leader Abbas al-Musawi (عباس الموسوي; October 26 1952 – killed by Israel, using the then new US Apache helicopter, February 16 1992 with his wife and son, age five, and four more).]
[February 17, 1864 Confederate submarine Hunley sank the USS Housatonic outside of Charleston Harbor using a spar torpedo (a pole tipped with an explosive), becoming the first submarine to sink an enemy ship, though the Hunley was not underwater during the attack. It was not meant to be a suicide mission, but the eight volunteers operating the Hunley were killed, possibly instantaneously. Five crew were killed on the USS Housatonic. The Hunley was raised in 2000 and can be seen at the Warren Lasch Conservation Center in Charleston. There was a movie about it on TNT. Apparently there were other Confederate submarines, and a Federal submarine was lost off Cape Hatteras. A submarine was even deployed in the Revolutionary War, but it was unsuccessful.]
[Around February 17–20, 1894 domestic cats reached Stephens Island, in the Cook Strait of New Zealand, and the Lyall's wren or Stephens Island wren (Traversia lyalli) soon went extinct. The last known South Island piopio or New Zealand thrush was killed on the Island by Hugo H. Schauinsland around December 31-January 7, 1896: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyall%27s_wren ]
[Huey P Newton of the Black Panther Party: February 17, 1942-August 22, 1989: r.mailer.peoplesdispatch.org/mk/mr/sh/SMJz09SDriOHVCKsKTbP5osc48lm/7Q4zu7pI8hQ4 ]
[It might be a now out of date record, but Baxley McQuaig, Jr reeled in a 31-inch, 9 pound 6 ounce chain pickerel February 17, 1961 in the vicinity of Homerville, Georgia: /Familiar Freshwater Fishes of America, by Howard T Walden, 2d, illustrated by Carl Burger, 1964.]
[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.]
[February 17th: www.un.org/en/observances/tourism-resilience-day ]
[90482 Orcus, a large object beyond Neptune, with a moon, Vanth, was discovered February 17, 2004 and is named for a chthonic Etruscan/Roman deity ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orcus , en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanth ).]
[Republic of Kosovo/Kosova declared independence February 17, 2008.]
[Georgian Bolshevik Sergo Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze October 24, 1886 in Ghoresha, now in the western central area of the Republic of Georgia – February 18, 1937 in Moscow, interred in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.]
[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.]
[February 21st: www.un.org/en/observances/mother-language-day ]
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 so advanced F-22's first kill was a lost Chinese research "airship"/weather balloon or a sinister Chinese spy balloon, violating US sovereignty, until it was shot down at great expense as it was leaving US territory off of South Carolina February 4th (near Hainan, China January 15, 2023, the Aleutians in AK January 28th, over Canada January 30th, Idaho January 31st, seen from an airliner, near Billings, Montana February 1st; NORAD supposedly knew about it for days before February 2nd). The US media portrayed it as China accidentally or intentionally derailing an attempt to cool US-China tensions, but it could be asked whether a faction in the US government created an incident to worsen relations. A military official expected the US war with China to start in 2025, and earlier testimony to Congress predicted war by something like 2028, rather than decades from now. Consider the comments at: www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/02/chinese-spy-balloon-over-the-us-an-aerospace-expert-explains-how-the-balloons-work-and-what-they-can-see.html First aircraft shot down over the USA after WWII and the highest air-to air ever, supposedly?? February 2 Costa Rica, Colombia, and Venezuela; February 9-10 Beaufort Sea, Alaska; February 11 Yukon; February 11-12 Lake Huron; February 12 Shandong; February 14 Romania and Moldova; February 16 Shijiazhuang Zhengding International Airport in Hebei; February 19 northeast of Hawaii; April-May over Hawaii, going towards Mexico, but these UFOs stopped being news: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Chinese_balloon_incident and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_high-altitude_object_events_in_2023 ]
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. [The Town of Chapel Hill, under Mayor Kevin Foy, declared "Bob Sheldon Day" in 2006 if not before.]
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.
[February 22, 1966 Kosmos 110 was launched.]
[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.]
[2/22/1976 a UFO report in Great Falls and 11/17/1975 in Whitefish, MT – Weird America: A Guide to Places of Mystery in the United States, by Jim Brandon, 1978.]
[Nature writer Hal Borland (Harold Glen Borland) passed away February 22, 1978.]
[The Merriespruit tailings dam disaster in South Africa began the night of February 22, 1994.]
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
[Edward St. John Gorey (February 22, 1925 in Chicago – April 15, 2000 at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Massachusetts); I recently saw a very large or page-sized commemorative ad in a review of books magazine, in 2025: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Gorey ]
[English official and noted diarist Samuel Pepys was born February 23, 1633 in London, and passed away May 26, 1703 in nearby Clapham, Surrey.]
[According to Wikipedia, President Theodore Roosevelt signed the first agreement to lease Guantánamo Bay from Cuba February 23, 1903. This was one of the demands of the Platt Amendment giving the US control of Cuba in exchange for ending the direct military occupation that followed the Spanish-American War. The Platt Amendment was added to Cuba's constitution verbatim December 25, 1901 and the same demands were included in a treaty signed May 22, 1903. Today the US government attempts to hide some of its crimes, such as extrajudicial detention and torture, by carrying them out on stolen Cuban territory.]
[February 23, 1942 a Japanese submarine shelled a Bankline Oil Company refinery in Goleta, California, not far north of Santa Barbara; the great and deadly phantom L.A. air raid was early on February 25th: Alien Agenda: Investigating the Extraterrestrial Presence Among Us by Jim Marrs, 1997.]
[February 23rd to December 9 in 1969 – the UNC-Chapel Hill Food Workers Strike, an on-going issue.]
[Great horned owls lay eggs around late December to March here, and incubation takes about a month. They usually occupy nests built by hawks, crows, or ospreys, and sometimes share bald eagles nest with the owners. February 23, 1992 great horned owls were found nesting on a platform built for ospreys at (in?) the North Pond of Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge on the coast of North Carolina near Roanoke Island – Birds of the Carolinas: Second Edition, 2006. Pea Island is south of Oregon Inlet and is no longer a separate barrier island, connecting to much larger Hatteras Island, though any new inlets opened by storms are closed artificially. The area might be vanishing beneath the water, possibly in part because the natural movement of sand has been interfered with, along with climate change, but Highway 12 has not been relocated. ~2/13/24? NC 12 was flooded there, from the west? Large ponds or lagoons take up much of the sandy Island's interior (I think the freshwater floats on saltwater), with few trees in my memory, compared to a place like the very wide and even hilly area around Cape Hatteras, with marshes, wooded swamps, and deep forest. Pea Island is relatively narrow, but apparently surrounded by a much wider area of very shallow water in Pamlico Sound, potentially habitat for stingrays. The Refuge was created around May 17, 1937. I heard one or more barred owls here for the first time in weeks January 7, 2024 in the afternoon and again in early February and on the 6th, etc.?; barred owls also nest in the winter, usually in tree hollows, but they sometimes occupy hawk or crow nests. In 2024: I heard one or more hawks (red-shouldered?) one day recently and one was sitting on a low branch across the street after having been disturbed by the mail February 5th. Turkey and black vultures frequently overhead. Bluebirds have been around and the sapsuckers left in January?]
[Flaco, a famous Eurasian eagle-owl in New York City, was found dead on West 89th Street in Manhattan February 23, 2024. It is thought that he flew into a building and died due to the impact or after falling to the ground. The collision might have happened because Flaco was sick or suffering from rodenticide or lead poisoning (lead from eating pigeons, etc). The Eurasian eagle-owl, Bubo bubo, is one of the largest species of owl and is related to and resembles native congeneric great horned owls, B. virginianus. Eurasian eagle-owls range from the south of Spain, through Italy, Greece, maybe the Gaza Strip, Iran, and Pakistan, to northern Scandinavia, across Russia, and are found in northern Japan and most of Korea and China. Flaco seems to have been intentionally released from the Central Park Zoo February 2, 2023 – I didn't know that Central Park has a zoo until this news in 2024. There were fears that he wouldn't be able to survive outside of captivity, but re-capture attempts failed and he seemed to be doing okay, so he was left alone. His birth date is listed as March 15, 2010 in Scotland Neck, Halifax County, in northeastern NC. There is a well-known bird park in eastern NC (Sylvan Heights Waterfowl Park, in Scotland Neck), so maybe Flaco came from there, but I think it focuses on international waterfowl. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaco_(owl) and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_eagle-owl ]
[British naturalist Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, February 24, 1743 – June 19, 1820.]
[The Revolutionary War Battle of Haw River was February 24, 1781 in what is now Alamance County, NC.]
[An explosion and a broken meteorite fell in Tombstone, Arizona on February 24, 1897 – Weird America: A Guide to Places of Mystery in the United States, by Jim Brandon, 1978.]
[Apparently the Zweiss planetarium projector, of which there is or was one in use at UNC's Morehead Planetarium, was first unveiled at Munich's Deutsches Museum October 21, 1923. The projector had first been proposed February 24, 1914. The Deutsches Museum had opened November 12, 1906: spacewatchtower.blogspot.com/2023/10/centennial-projection-planetarium.html ]
[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 of this.]
[National Day Calendar website: National Tortilla Chip Day February 24th? Nachos November 6th]
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
[William Z Foster, the CPUSA's General Secretary between 1945 and 1957, was born February 25, 1881.]
[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 unnamed 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 years ago.]
[The new Marc Basnight Bridge over Oregon Inlet opened February 25, 2019, replacing the 2 1/2-mile long Herbert C Bonner Bridge, which had been built by November or December 1963. I think the SELC wanted a much longer bridge, going around collapsing Pea Island. Oregon Inlet, between Bodie and Pea/Hatteras "islands," was created by a hurricane and found by the sidewheel ship Oregon, September 7, 1846 – The North Carolina Gazetteer: A Dictionary of Tar Heel Places and Their History: Second Edition, 2010.]
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 ?
[Graham, NC town commissioner and constable Wyatt Outlaw was killed February 26, 1870. After state senator John W Stephens was killed May 21st in Caswell County Governor William Holden declared Alamance and Caswell counties insurrectionary and the Kirk-Holden War against the KKK began, with actions in places such as Yanceyville, Caswell Co. and in Pittsboro, Chatham Co., which the KKK apparently intended to seize. The state of insurrection was declared over by November, but the newly Democrat-dominated legislature impeached Governor Holden in December 1870. Tennessee Unionist Colonel George Washington Kirk, who led the 3rd North Carolina Mounted Infantry or Kirk's Raiders during the Civil War, commanded the militia fighting the KKK forces.]
[November 15, 1884-February 26, 1885: robertjprince.net/2025/02/28/partitioning-africa-the-1884-1885-conference-of-berlin/ ]
[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.]
[John R. Cash (JR Cash; February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Cash ]
[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.)]
[2/26/2024 – The 105th anniverary of Grand Canyon NP.]
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 Revolutionary War of Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge was February 27, 1776 in Pender County, near Wilmington, NC; there is supposed to be an annual reenactment.]
[An iron meteorite landed in Mazapil (small deer in Nahuatl, mazatl/deer plus pilli/small? Traditional homeland of the Chichimec Guachichiles) in Zacatecas, in northern Mexico not far from Texas November 27, 1885, during the Andromedid meteor shower (stemming from Biela's Comet, discovered February 27, 1826), but the meteorite and the Andromedids are now thought to be unrelated.]
[International Polar Bear Day is around February 27th ( polarbearsinternational.org/get-involved/international-polar-bear-day )]
[There is an eye-opening list of military nuclear accidents at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accidents , in some instances potentially risking WWIII. Among other accidents around this time of year, February 13, 1950 a USAF B-36 Peacemaker bomber jettisoned a simulated but still radioactive bomb, a dirty bomb, in British Columbia, Canada; January 31, 1958 a USAF B-47 carrying an armed nuclear bomb crashed and burned in Morocco; February 5, 1958 a nuclear bomb was jettisoned and lost in the ocean off Georgia; February 28, 1958 at a USAF base in the UK a B-47 ejected its external fuel tanks, setting a parked and manned B-47 carrying a nuclear bomb on fire for 16 hours, and the incident was kept secret for decades; January 18, 1959 a parked F-100 Super Sabre fighter carrying a nuclear bomb burned at an undisclosed US base in the Pacific; January 13, 1964 a B-52 carrying nuclear weapons broke up over Pennsylvania; January 17, 1966 a collision during midair refueling in Francoist Spain released four nuclear bombs, and the conventional explosives in two of the bombs went off, scattering plutonium over the countryside; January 21, 1968 a B-52 carrying four bombs crashed nearThule Air Base (renamed...) in Greenland, where an explosion could have been confused with a nuclear attack, and the crash caused a nuclear weapons scandal in Denmark, the colonial power.[\
[According to Wikipedia February 28, 2025 is Tibetan New Year or Losar, Kalevala Day or Finnish Culture Day, and Peace Memorial Day in Taiwan; Liu Bang overthrew the Qin dynasty and took the title Emperor Gaozu of Han February 28, 202 BCE; France overthrew Ranavalona III of the Kingdom of Madagascar February 28, 1897, Raman scattering was discovered February 28, 1928; the London Underground's very deadly Moorgate tube crash was February 28, 1975, the Gujarat riots or pogrom in India began February 27, 2002 (if I remember correctly Narendra Modi was in charge in Gujarat at the time and has been blamed for this conflagration of Hindu-Muslim communal violence); the Wadi C-4 tomb, in a wadi west of Luxor in Egypt, was recently determined to have belong to Pharaoh Thutmose II, though the tomb is vacant; Flemish researcher Cornelius Gemma was born February 28, 1535 and German field marshal Alfred von Schlieffen (note the Schlieffen Plan at the beginning of WWI) was born February 28, 1833.]
[February 29, 357 BCE – an eclipse before Alexander the Great? – Larousse Encyclopedia of Astrology (1977).
[March 1st was the Disability Day of Mourning; Longtaitou Festival; Yap Day;1562 – the Massacre of Vassy in France; 1869 – Russian Dmitri Mendeleev's first periodic table; a Serb wedding procession was attacked in Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1992, etc.]
[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 (an academic who was working, I think, in Boise, Idaho wrote about this), 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/ ).]
[Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), a TSE similar to BSE, and possibly likewise a threat to humans, was first found in a deer in North Carolina in March of a recent year: www.ncwildlife.org/hunting/chronic-wasting-disease ]
[German botanist and painter Catharina Helena Dörrien was born March 1, 1717.]
[en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Comet_of_1744 perihelion around March 1st, gone after April 22nd, bright, 6 tailed, not coming back?]
[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.]
[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 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 comes from a test on Christmas Island (see: durhamspark.blogspot.com/2024/03/from-in-dark-time-words-of-us-nuclear.html ).]
[March 1st 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).]
[There was a shooting in the US Capitol March 1, 1954 and a bombing in 1971: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_political_violence_in_Washington,_D.C. ]
[The Battle of Hue or Siege of Hue, part of the Tet Offensive and one of the longest and costliest battles during the Vietnam War, was January 31-March 1, 1968; at the time the city of Hue was at the north end of the southern Republic of Vietnam.]
[January 17, 1977 French mercenaries under Bob Denard attempted to overthrow the People's Republic of Benin or the Popular Republic of Benin (around November 30, 1975 to March 1, 1990) under President Mathieu Kérékou.]
March 1st: www.un.org/en/observances/seagrass-day
[March 2nd: Ethiopian Adwa Victory Day, commemorating 1896; the Battle of the Rice Boats, on the Savannah River in 1776; 1949 -- the B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II flew around the world without stopping; Kherson was taken in 2022, etc.]
[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.]
[Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (March 2, 1931 – August 30, 2022).]
[A prototype European 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.]
[March 2, 2004 the European Space Agency launched the Rosetta probe, with lander Philae, on a mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It was discovered by Soviet astronomers Klim Ivanovych Churyumov (February 19, 1937 - October 14, 2016) and Svetlana Ivanovna Gerasimenko in 1969. March 2, 2004 the European Space Agency sent a mission to the comet, with the probe Rosetta becoming the first spacecraft to orbit a comet and Philae becoming the first lander on a comet. Rosetta was also the first spacecraft to rely on solar power while about as far from the Sun as Jupiter (deep space missions are usually powered by the decay of radioactive elements, leading to some anti-nuclear opposition, as with NASA's Cassini).]
[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.]
[March 3, 1913: the historic Woman Suffrage Procession in DC; March 3, 1991: the beating of Rodney King; etc.]
[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 passed away 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:
www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-2/mswv2_25.htm ]
[March 4, 1918: the "Spanish flu" began at Camp Funston, Kansas, etc.]
[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.]
[Edward Cornwallis was born March 5, 1713; Puerto Rican pirate Roberto Cofresí was captured March 5, 1825; J. R. Kealoha passed away March 5, 1877; the British Supermarine Spitfire fighter plane of WWII first flew March 5, 1936; the British ZX81 home computer came out March 5, 1981; etc.]
[March 5, 1841 abolitionists called "anarchists" broke two people alleged to be fugitive slaves out of a jail in Lorain County, Ohio.]
[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.]
[The joint military (through an organization related to SDI) and NASA Clementine mission to the Moon was launched January 25, 1994 from Vandenberg AFB in CA. March 5, 1998 there was an announcement about the detection of frozen water that could be mined, and now we have the crewed (and now delayed) Artemis program and a new space race: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clementine_(spacecraft). On Here and Now January 10th: NASA "scrapped" its lunar expertise decades ago, and now the news about Artemis and the recent private lunar mission.]
[Venezuelan president Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias passed away 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 13, 2023 (year?). Find more information at: stopcop.city ]
[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 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
[The "Bloody Sunday" in Alabama was March 7, 1965.] [March 7, 1573 – The Fourth Ottoman–Venetian War ended with Cyprus going to the Ottoman Empire; U-47 disappeared March 7, 1941; etc.]
[March 7, 1972 in Gordon, NE 1000 American Indians marched over the killing of Raymond Little Thunder – This Country Was Ours: A Documentary History of the American Indian, by Virgil J Vogel, 1974.]
[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 on 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, contra a recent CAR magazine article). 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 those in Durham or in more rural areas) with large yellowish-green and blaze orange flowers attractive to honey bees.]
[The International Day Against Police Brutality is March 15th.]
Linguist Blair Arnold Rudes (May 18, 1951 – March 16, 2008): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blair_A._Rudes
[March 17th – Saint Patrick's Day; the Anniversary of the Unification of Italy in 1861; the Prusso-Danish Battle of Jasmund in 1864, during the Second Schleswig War; Kosovar unrest March 17-18, 2004; etc.]
[March 21st – Alice Henry was born in 1857; the Great Dayton Flood in 1913 in Ohio; Al Williamson was born in 1931; the Battle of Karameh was in 1968 in Jordan; Dallas "A House Divided" in 1980 – "Who shot J.R.?;" Chinua Achebe passed away in 2013; etc.]
[March 22nd: World Water Day; Phan Xích Long was arrested in 1913; etc.] [Valeri Polyakov spent 437 days on Mir.]
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
[March 23rd: Earth Hour (20:30 local time)?; Pierre-Simon Laplace was born in 1749; Bhagat Singh was executed by the UK in 1931; etc.]
[March 24th – the Shia Muslim Night of Power?; Purim; World Tuberculosis Day; etc.]
[March 26, 1934 the Press and Journal of Aberdeen and the Dundee Courier published articles about the Tarves Beastie at the Gates Croft, torn down by 1995, in Tarves district, Aberdeenshire, northeastern Scotland, UK, apparently prefiguring the Isle of Man's Gef the Talking Mongoose: the January 2025 issue of Fortean Times (FT453).]
[Louisiana became the 18th state April 30, 1812 and seceded January 26, 1861: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana ]
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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