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April Fool's Day probably has its origin with a pre-Gregorian new year celebration which went from the spring equinox to April 1. When the new calendar, starting on January 1, replaced it, people who continued to celebrate the traditional New Year were, apparently, mocked and teased, the subject of various humorous harassment.
I would just dismiss kooks like this guy. He's just trying to sell a book and carve a nitch out for himself in the field for short term gain. He's screwing himself royally though as a long term scholar of note. He's just a blip on the radar screen, here today and gone tomorrow.
Thats an interesting observation. People who want to be taken seriously wouldnt sell out tomorrow for today for 'fifteen minutes' of fame.
Intresting. I thought it had been a territory before a state. I didn't know it had once been part of the old Dominion.
When I went to Harpers Ferry in October I found an L&C museum there as it is the starting point for the expedition (at least for Lewis) the museum was very small, only about the size of an average livingroom. No one was there and you just walked in through an open door off the street. There were a few boards up telling of the Harpers Ferry connection and reproductions of the equipment he bought behind glass partitions.What I found amusing is that when you start in the east L&C are not all that popular a subject. As you work your way west it gets to be a bigger deal the farther you go west, until you get to Oregon where it is the hugest thing. Towns, collages, streets, parks, rivers and creeks, all get their names from that expedition.
Hindsight. If I had to choose I would say it would be easier for me to choose now rather than the past. But having never been in battle, who am I to judge?
12-30-1916 : Rasputin murderedGrigory Rasputin, a self-fashioned Russian holy man, is murdered by Russian nobles eager to end his sway over the royal family.Rasputin won the favor of Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra through his ability to stop the bleeding of their hemophiliac son, Alexei. Although the Siberian-born peasant was widely criticized for his lechery and drunkenness, he exerted a powerful influence on the ruling family of Russia. He particularly influenced the czarina, and when Nicholas departed to lead Russian forces in World War I, Rasputin effectively ruled Russia through her.In the early hours of December 30, 1916, a group of nobles lured Rasputin to Yusupovsky Palace, where they attempted to poison him. Seemingly unaffected by the large doses of poison placed in his wine and food, he was finally shot at close range and collapsed. A minute later he rose, beat one of his assailants, and attempted to escape from the palace grounds, where he was shot again. Rasputin, still alive, was then bound and tossed into a freezing river. A few months later, the imperial regime was overthrown by the Russian Revolution.ADVERTISEMENT
But like you said if the Constitution didn't apply to Virginia because it had seceded and it it self didn't recognize the constitution, then I would have to assume it was all 'west Virginians' that voted to break off and join the union. Therefore Since they had remained loyal they could vote and allow themselves to become part of the union as a new state.
