Politics: a Trojan horse race.
— Baron Stanisław Jerzy de Tusch-Letz
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Today is Wednesday, December 27th. It is Make Cut Out Snowflakes Day, National Fruitcake Day, and Visit the Zoo Day.
On This Day
In 1657, 30 residents of the small settlement of Vlissingen (later Flushing, Queens) requested an exemption to the ban on Quaker worship implemented by Peter Stuyvesant, the Director-General of New Netherland. The Flushing Remonstrance articulated, for the first time in North American history, the view that freedom of religion is a fundamental right. It is considered a precursor to the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment.
In 1831, Charles Darwin embarked on his journey aboard HMS Beagle, during which he began to understand evolution.
In 1845, John L. O’Sullivan, writing in his newspaper the New York Morning News, argued that America should claim the entire Oregon Country “by the right of our manifest destiny.”
In 1922, Japan’s Hōshō became the first purpose-built aircraft carrier to be commissioned in the world.
In 1929, Stalin ordered the “liquidation of the kulaks as a class.”
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