Month: April 2019

April 7, 2019, marks the hundredth anniversary of Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles — the infamous war-guilt clause. Although the treaty was not signed until June 28, the Supreme Council approved the notorious article on April 7, 1919. The authors were John Maynard Keynes, & John Foster Dulles. The Allied and Associated Governments […]

Tamerlane, is known in his native Uzbekistan as Amir Timur, or Timur the Great, but in the West he is remembered from his epithet, Timurlenke (Turkish)  or in Persian  Timur-i lang (Temur the Lame). He was one of history’s greatest and cruelest conquerors. Early days of Timur Edgar Allen Poe wrote a poem for him, […]

William Clarke Quantrill was a Confederate captain during the American Civil War. He was the Confederate version of General William Tecumseh Sherman who is renowned for his burning and pillaging non-military supporters. It is hard to say which man invented the scorched earth policy, but historians seems to favour Quantrill over Sherman because of the Lawrence KS […]

Sen Birch Bayh was the legislative shepherd of the 25th Amendment, passed by Congress in 1965 and ratified in 1967, that provided for filling a vacancy in the office of vice president and, crucially, for the declaration by Cabinet officials and Congress of a sitting president’s incapacity to discharge his duties. Two presidents have temporarily […]

Charles E. O. Carter the great British astrologer, says that the key in working with murder charts is understanding where they put the bodies, and why they chose them, so we know how to find them. He worked with the London police and did, much to his credit, apprehend several criminals; Carter had a rare […]

President Jimmy Carter, the United States 39th President, is now our oldest living president since George H. Bush passed away in December. He was born October 1, 1924 in Plains, Georgia at the Wise Sanitarium where his mother was a registered nurse (RN). He attended the Georgia Southwestern College , US Naval Academy at Annapolis & Georgia […]

President Jimmy Carter, the United States 39th President, is now our oldest living president since George H. Bush passed away in December. He was born October 1, 1924 in Plains, Georgia at the Wise Sanitarium where his mother was a registered nurse (RN). He attended the Georgia Southwestern College , US Naval Academy at Annapolis & Georgia […]