” he said, “December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy.” A declaration of war on Japan was swiftly approved by Congress. A formal state of war with Germany and its allies came days later.
Civil War by Last Best Hope of EarthMay 27, 2024 The Civil War: Jefferson Davis: Message to the Confederate Congress April 29, 1861 With only a few weeks at the helm of the Confederate government, president Jefferson Davis and the Confederate Congress had cause for concern—but also cause...
A British intelligence report (probably on the first Palestinian National Congress in Jerusalem in 1919) described participants as dumbfounded that the World War I Allies could talk about self-determination butdoi:10.1177/0964663911425825Robert Wintemute...
"This, to borrow an apt airplane image, is walking into a rotating propeller: the advertising and service arrangements are just what Congress did not want states regulating, whether at high cost or at low. When the Supreme Court invoked the rubric ("tenuous, remote, or peripheral"), it use...
Elizabeth Taylor, a name synonymous with glamour and allure, was a British-American actress who etched her mark in the golden era of Hollywood. Born on February 27, 1932, in London to American parents, she moved to Los Angeles before the outbreak of World War II where her beauty attra...
2024_12_12A4_LOC_Holiday129Library of Congress -- Event: Holiday Celebration Live! At The Library: Holiday Celebration The Live! At the Library Holiday Celebration will begin at 4:30 p.m. with a program for families and the lighting of the Library’s holiday tree in the Great Hall. NBC...
Thomas Jefferson and others sought to have the convention adopt their ideas, but they found that Mason's version could not be stopped. During the American Revolutionary War, Mason was a member of the powerful House of Delegates of the Virginia General Assembly but, to the irritation of Washingt...
On February 11, Wisconsin's new Republican Governor Scott Walker made what amounts to a declaration of all-out war on public sector workers in his historically progressive state, moving to deprive them of the very right to bargain collectively on matters essential to their economic security. ...
Hence prisoners of war or slaves are said to be ransomed when they are liberated in exchange for a valuable consideration…. Whatever is substituted or exchanged in compensation for the party is his ransom.” Since Adam’s sin, all mankind have been like prisoners of war or slaves, bound ...
In Congress, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separa...