#woodrowwilson — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/people/205545/ Donald Trump Puts Himself as Greatest President Ever #AbrahamLincoln #Biden #DonaldTrump #FranklinDRoosevelt #GeorgeWashington #Obama #PastPresidents #POTUS #PresidentOfTheUnitedStates #PresidentTrump #ranking #ThomasJefferson #TruthSocial #UsPresidents #WoodrowWilson

https://www.europesays.com/people/205543/ Donald Trump Shares His Presidential Rankings #AbrahamLincoln #AmericanHistory #AndrewJackson #AndrewJohnson #BarackObama #CalvinCoolidge #DemocraticParty #DonaldTrump #ForeignAffairs #FranklinDRoosevelt #GeorgeWashington #GreatestOfAllTime #JimmyCarter #POTUS #PresidentOfTheUnitedStates #PresidentialRankings #RepublicanParty #ThomasJefferson #TruthSocial #UlyssesSGrant #UsPresidents #USA #WoodrowWilson

América do Sul: a Doutrina Donroe nas urnas

https://outraspalavras.net/geopoliticaeguerra/america-do-sul-a-doutrina-donroe-nas-urnas/

#History#WWI #WoodrowWilson #Mexico #Germany #WeAreAmericans #Isolationism #Video

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON 6/22/26
250 WE ARE AMERICANS 1 minute video
ZIMMERMAN TELEGRAM - narrated by Dr. Daniel W. Drezner is Distinguished Professor of International Politics at The Fletcher School

https://youtube.com/shorts/kmJGBsXj17w?is=SvhZA_jDY4jE8Bf2

Woodrow Wilson, weapons-grade racist shithead

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2094269/woodrow-wilson-weapons-grade-racist-shithead

“Gambling is a tax on ignorance”*…

And as Einstein observed, “two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”

Gambling– and related specualtive investments– have always been, for the vast majority of punters, a sucker’s bet. But, as Paul Kedrosky explains, the growing prevalence of AI and the emergence of prediction markets have amplified that painful reality…

The return skew in prediction markets’ returns is startling. It is partly a function of their nature, but also of vibe-coding script kiddies attacking every market anomaly as quickly as it arises. Check a recent WSJ article for examples.

The same dynamic is now spreading across retail-dominated markets. A driver is how AI lowers the cost of systematic exploitation and exploration to near zero. What used to require infrastructure, data pipelines, and bearded quants is now accessible via off-the-shelf models, APIs, and loosely stitched “agent” workflows doing … stuff that even their users don’t fully understand.

The result isn’t democratization of returns. It is wider participation, of a sort, alongside the rapid re-concentration of profits. A small subset of users—those willing to iterate fastest, monitor continuously, and deploy capital programmatically—capture gains, with everyone else just liquidity.

They scrape sentiment, parse new information, and reprice positions in seconds, compressing the half-life of mispricings. That doesn’t eliminate inefficiency, but changes who harvests it. The edge shifts from insight to speed, coverage, and execution discipline—areas where even modest automation compounds quickly, and edges disappear overnight.

Prediction markets are simply the cleanest expression of this trend because they combine thin liquidity, discrete outcomes, and high retail participation. But the same pattern is visible in options flow, single-stock volatility events, and even online poker, which AI increasingly dominates.

As AI tools continue to scale, expect this to get worse: a small cohort running semi-automated strategies extracting semi-consistent edge, and a much larger base supplying them returns. Under the pressure of AI prevalance, markets don’t flatten, the return gradient steepens to a cliff…

Fewer and fewer winners take more and more of the pot. The mechanics of concentration: “AI is Eating Markets” from @paulkedrosky.com.

* Warren Buffett

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As we contemplate concentration, we might note that today is Mother’s Day. As noted yesterday, the observance became official on that date in 1914. But the quest to honor moms began a good bit earlier. On this date in 1908, Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother at St. Andrew’s Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia, the location of the International Mother’s Day Shrine. But her quest to create Mother’s Day had begun three years earlier when her mother Ann, a lifelong activist, died.

Ann had tried to start a “Mother’s Remembrance Day” in the mid-19th century. On her passing, Anna enlisted the support of retailer extraordinaire John Wanamaker, who knew a merchandising opportunity when he saw one, and who hosted the first Mother’s Day ceremonies in his Philadelphia emporium’s auditorium. In 1912, Anna trademarked the phrases “second Sunday in May” and “Mother’s Day”, and created the Mother’s Day International Association. By 1914, she and Wanamaker had built sufficient support in Congress to score the Congressional Resolution noted yesterday. (President Wilson, who was by current accounts uninterested in the move– distracted as he was by the beginnings of his ultimately unsuccessful effort to keep the U.S. out of the troubles in Europe that became World War I– nonetheless knew better than to take a stand against moms.)

“Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered”*…

Sally O’Reilly on “gray literature,” why it fascinates her… and how an early “AI” attempt to harvest it misses the mark…

In my modest collection of gray literature, the specialist title that comes closest to a blockbuster is Jean Aspin’s Vaginal Examination: A Unique Pocket Guide (ca. 1980s). Or perhaps it’s Dovea Genetics’s Beef Directory (2014).

Aspin was a community midwife in Luton and Dunstable University Hospital’s maternity wing. Her pocket guide is a well-produced, ring-bound, wipe-clean, tongue-shaped booklet, published by the baby milk company Cow & Gate. Its Latinate lists, labeled diagrams, and die-cut holes of increasing diameters, representing vaginal dilation, step a midwife through the assessment of fetal skull position during labor. The Beef Directory promises “Rock Solid Beef Genetics.” It peddles not anonymous meat but the sperm of individual bulls with names that sound like variety acts: Tonroe Lord Ian! Utile Ben! Virginia Andy! Vagabond! Mornity Handyman! Pinocchio! Seaview Tommy! Atok Socrates! Kilowatt D’Ochain! Immense D’Yvoir! It is richly illustrated, suitably glossy, and a chilling ode to muscle. (Behold the bulging rumps of Belgian Blues!)

Among the most niche in my collection of niche titles is the UK Ministry of Defence’s Corrosion: R.A.F. and A.A.C. Aircraft (1966), a bone-dry primer on the control, rectification, and treatment of nine types of corrosion. The Kent County Constabulary’s booklet Special Constabulary Inter-Divisional Competition (1971) is possibly the least read of all. Copied from typewritten documents, with hand-drawn diagrams, and stapled between two pieces of medium-weight red card, the booklet was produced “to enable officials and spectators to follow the progress of the Competition and the fortunes of the teams” during a public event at a Kent police station.3 Fun-seekers watched on as teams, comprising police officers from different divisions within the county, underwent an inspection of uniforms and accoutrements, competed in a quiz, and responded to a hypothetical incident at a demonstration involving a vicar, an unconscious policeman, a drug-addled youth, and an old man with a loaded shotgun.

Gray literature is a diffuse genre. Informational at base, its tone might tend toward bouncy sales patter or flinty authoritativeness. Visually, it ranges between perfunctory pragmatics, rickety flamboyant amateurism, and the polish of corporate comms. The most reliable way to identify an item’s grayness is by its function and milieu. According to the 2010 Prague definition, established at the 12th Annual Conference on Grey Literature and Repositories,

Grey literature stands for manifold document types produced on all levels of government, academics, business and industry in print and electronic formats that are protected by intellectual property rights, of sufficient quality to be collected and preserved by library holdings or institutional repositories, but not controlled by commercial publishers i.e., where publishing is not the primary activity of the producing body.

Gray literature does not have the market or cultural value of a novel or textbook. It is not an end in itself, but facilitative paraphernalia of some other endeavor—midwifery, policing, animal husbandry, war. This vicariousness, and its heterogenous forms, makes it notoriously difficult to place in library catalogues. Should a practical primer on the mitigation of corrosion in airplanes be placed under Dewey Decimal class “671: Metalworking & primary metal products,” “387: Water, air & space transportation,” or “358: Air and other specialized forces”? When a bull sperm directory is a matter of genetics, food production, and commerce, which can it be said to be about? Gray literature isn’t made with libraries or bookshops in mind. It strides out into the world to do an honest day’s work. None of this hanging around on hushed shelves waiting to impart knowledge in the abstract. It’s got sperm to tout, babies to birth, aircraft to maintain, a policed public to mollify.

I find these publications compelling by their very existence and, for the most part, unreadable. Their content slides off my mind. Gray literature’s high and narrow window onto specialist processes is anathema to traditional general-interest non-fiction publishing, which delivers information like a tap dispenses safely managed water—filtered, chlorinated, and piped into your very own quarters. Gray literature is a sploshing bucket of someone else’s water, murky with unfamiliar vocabulary, its means of application not always entirely obvious. Each publication is an invitation to speculate on a sector’s operations, to marvel at the specificity of other people’s knowledge and the focus of their working lives. My paltry library gestures toward the infinite complicatedness of human activity and the vast, disorganized array of murky buckets out of which the materiality of our lives somehow continues to emerge.

I have recently acquired some items that confuse the already untidy category of grayness. While seeking out books on theatrical quick-change (more on that another time), I came across the Webster’s Timeline History series and, out of curiosity, bought the three cheapest of the second-hand editions available: Wallpaper, 1768–2007; Secrecy, 393 BC–2007; and Bristol, 1000–1893. They are collations of excerpts, references, and citations that feature their titular word or phrase, and there are thousands of them. The series’s aggregate subject matter reads like the archest of list poems, the word associations of a disheveled mind, or dying humanity’s life flashing before its eyes…

Do read on for a fascinating/horrifying/illuminating tale all-too-relevant to our times– the story of the Webster’s Timeline History series…

On gray literature and Webster’s Timeline History books: “The First Tomato to Know Everything,” from @sosallyo.bsky.social in @cabinetmagazine.bsky.social.

* Marcus Aurelius

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As we hold onto the human, we might (in preparation for tomorrow) remind ourselves that it was on this date in 1914 that President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation declaring the first national Mother’s Day. The previous day, May 8, Congress had designated the 2nd Sunday in May as Mother’s Day and had requested the proclamation.

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Wilson Secures Election Amidst Fractured Political Landscape

Woodrow Wilson won the 1912 US presidential election because the Republican Party split into two groups, Taft and Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party. This helped Wilson win.

#1912Election, #WoodrowWilson, #RepublicanSplit, #BullMooseParty, #USPolitics

https://newsletter.tf/1912-election-republican-party-split-wilson-wins/

In 1912, Woodrow Wilson won the US presidency. The Republican party split, with Theodore Roosevelt forming the Bull Moose Party. This division helped Wilson win more easily than if they had stayed together.

#1912Election, #WoodrowWilson, #RepublicanSplit, #BullMooseParty, #USPolitics
https://newsletter.tf/1912-election-republican-party-split-wilson-wins/

https://www.europesays.com/sk/59378/ Stúpol počet lekárnikov i veriacich #1920 #1933 #AlCapone #alkohol #AndrewVolstead #Chicago #FrancesWillardová #FranklinDRoosevelt #gangstri #mafia #NewYork #News #prohibícia #ProtisaloonováLiga #SK #Slovak #Slovenčina #Správy #Svet #USA #WoodrowWilson #World #WorldNews

Уезжая из Праги, я обратил внимание на памятник Вудро Вильсону около вокзала. Но при чём здесь президент США и Чехия? Оказывается политик приложил деятельное участие в создании государства Чехословакия. #чехия🇨🇿 #travel #woodrowwilson #prague #history #reisen #usa #chekhiia

Trump vs. Powell: Interest rates, investigation and a replacement

April 22 (UPI) — Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell‘s term is nearing its end and President Donald Trump…
#Economy #DonaldTrump #FederalReserve #FederalReserveSystem #FederalTradeCommission #FranklinDelanoRoosevelt #georgewbush #JeromePowell #jimmycarter #PamBondi #SupremeCourt #TopStories #U.S. #WoodrowWilson
https://www.europesays.com/2937926/

https://www.europesays.com/2937926/ Trump vs. Powell: Interest rates, investigation and a replacement #DonaldTrump #Economy #FederalReserve #FederalReserveSystem #FederalTradeCommission #FranklinDelanoRoosevelt #GeorgeWBush #JeromePowell #JimmyCarter #PamBondi #SupremeCourt #TopStories #US #WoodrowWilson

https://www.europesays.com/people/31553/ Trump’s dyslexia barbs stir anguish and anger, perpetuating a myth about the learning disability #BillCassidy #BruceWesterman #DonaldTrump #Education #GaryCohn #GavinNewsom #JohnGabrieli #JohnMCooper #LaurynMuller #LiaBeatty #MarilynMuller #MeaganSwingle #Politics #Trump #USNews #WashingtonNews #WoodrowWilson

"No bloodshed? 🥺" - Theodore Roosevelt

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1980542/no-bloodshed-theodore-roosevelt

Fuck Woodrow Wilson

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1931103/fuck-woodrow-wilson

⬆️ @paolo-calleri.de

>> 15 points #USA #Iran

#Trump HAD to beat #WoodrowWilson's 14 Points in the wake of the #US rejection of the #VersaillesTreaty after #WWI.

14 points summarized (see ALT text) or ➡️ https://www.theworldwar.org/learn/peace/fourteen-points

Read 'The Wilsonian Moment" for a better understanding of how the disappointed post Versailles hopes of the formerly colonised have shaped relations between "the west" and "the south".

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-wilsonian-moment-9780195176155?cc=us&lang=en&#

#History #TheWilsonianMoment #SelfDetermination #Nationalism #Colonialism #ParisPeaceConference #WoodrowWilson #Egypt #India #Korea #China

I WON'T run... unless... the stars align... or there's an opportunity... or I want to...

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1797364/i-won-t-run-unless-the-stars-align-or-there-s-an-opportunity-or-i-want-to

Home on the Coast served as a presidential getaway more than a century ago

PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. (WLOX) – Presidents Day is a time to reflect on how presidents have left their…
#UnitedStates #US #USA #coastlife #dixiewhitehouse #historicalsociety #passchristian #scenicdrive #theWhiteHouse #TrumpAdministration #WoodrowWilson
https://www.europesays.com/2784288/

https://www.europesays.com/2784288/ Home on the Coast served as a presidential getaway more than a century ago #CoastLife #DixieWhiteHouse #HistoricalSociety #PassChristian #ScenicDrive #TheWhiteHouse #TrumpAdministration #WoodrowWilson

https://www.europesays.com/ee/98803/ LAURI HUSSAR ⟩ Tartu rahu näitab teed ka Ukrainale #AdolfJoffe #BreakingNews #BreakingNews #EE #Eesti #EestiKeel #Estonia #Estonian #FeaturedNews #FeaturedNews #Headlines #JaanPoska #LatestNews #LatestNews #liitlassuhted #News #PopulaarseimadLood #TartuRahu #TopStories #TopStories #Ukraina #ÜldisedUudised #Uudised #vabadus #Venemaa #ViimasedUudised #WoodrowWilson

https://www.europesays.com/2722608/ Trump’s dispute with the Fed puts agency independence in question #DonaldTrump #Economy #FederalReserve #FederalReserveSystem #FederalTradeCommission #FranklinDelanoRoosevelt #JeromePowell #SupremeCourt #TopStories #U.S. #WoodrowWilson

https://www.europesays.com/2652968/ How 1913 Legislation Transformed U.S. Banking #1913Legislation #BankingReform #Economy #FederalReserveAct #FederalReserveHistory #FederalReserveSystem #FinancialCrisis #MonetaryPolicy #PanicOf1907 #U.S.CentralBank #U.S.Economy #WoodrowWilson

That time a divisive president secretly had a stroke during his second term (in 1919) #history #ushistory #historyteacher #wilson #ww1 #wwi #woodrowwilson #president #apush #YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFNzk8qcRo

Wie ein rennomierter, akademisch weithin anerkannter College President (at Princeton) der schlechteste US-amerikanische Präsident (vor Trump) wurde.

Soviel zur Nützlichkeit akademischer Bildung für "gute Politik".

Case closed. Q.e.d.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWagDm4utv0

#WoodrowWilson

https://www.europesays.com/2439973/ Vital Books on Canada-U.S. should be in the Ottawa Public Library #BrianMulroney #Canadá #CanadianPrimeMinisters #DonaldTrump #FreeTradeAgreement #OttawaPublicLibrary #PeterLougheed #RonaldReagan #U.S. #U.S.Treasury #WoodrowWilson #YankeeDoodleDandy

Ich werd hier grad immer noch mehr zum Manfred-Berg-Fan.

Ein weiterer wirklich hörenswerter Vortrag, ein weiteres wirklich interessantes Buch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXmPact5yYA

#WoodrowWilson #USA #Selbstbestimmungsrecht #EdmundBurke

@ksaj @AnneTheWriter1

According #Wikipedia #AmericaFirst was coined by #WoodrowWilson:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First

Presidio’s Immigrant Point Overlook, Washington Boulevard in the Presidio. “We opened the gates to all the world and said: ‘Let all men who want to be free come to us and they will be welcome.'” –Woodrow Wilson Address at Independence Hall: "The Meaning of Liberty, July 04, 1914.

#sanfrancisco #presidio #goldengate #immigration #immigrants #welcome #welcomethestranger #freedom #nps #sfparks #nationalpark #woodrowwilson #stonemason #california #usa #landofimmigrants

“The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.” — Woodrow Wilson, “The New Freedom”
#quotes #government #democracy #woodrowwilson

My review of the audiobook Fall of Giants by Ken Follett – The World is Changing #audiobookreview #bookreview #historicalfiction #KenFollett #RussianRevolution #WoodrowWilson #workersrevolution #WorldWarI #WorldWarIfiction

https://thoughtsfromthemountaintop.com/2024/03/17/audiobook-review-fall-of-giants-by-ken-follett-the-world-is-changing/

I've seen #DavidFrum lambasted online for this piece, and admittedly I didn't have a strong opinion about #WoodrowWilson. But I found it a thoughtful and logically argued piece. #ushistory #uspolitics

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/03/woodrow-wilson-racism-civil-rights/677174/

Seine #Außenpolitik war innovativ – von den einen bejubelt, von den anderen abgelehnt, bis heute referenziert. Zum 100. Todestag von #WoodrowWilson lesen Sie hier unseren Artikel des Tages https://www.dwds.de/wb/B%C3%BCndnis

Part 16:
#PittTheYounger & #WoodrowWilson are considered founders of today's tax law.
Pitt died in debt (i.e. #GBP 40,000); Wilson was a clear racist (e.g. "ignorant & inferior colored folk need white supervision").
This poses a question:-
Are taxes inherently counter-productive?

"In New Jersey, then-Gov. Woodrow Wilson took office pledging to clean up New Jersey’s corporate sector...

"With these new measures in place, corporations began racing to Delaware. By the 1920s, its position as a leader in the corporate race to the bottom was all but assured, with state legislators focused only on making corporations as happy as possible."
https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/11/19/delaware-illicit-finance-corruption-offshore-wealth-american-kleptocracy-book-excerpt/
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#corporations #corruption #Delaware #WoodrowWilson #ushistory

I'm reading "American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis" by Adam Hochschild and it made me wonder: what would have happened if Woodrow Wilson had kept his 1916 campaign promise and the US had not participated in the first World War?

There are plenty of dystopian novels that speculate what would have happened if the US had skipped the second world war but what about the first?

#WWI #GreatWar #AlternativeHistory #WoodrowWilson #NoTreatyOfVersailles

Today in #Connecticut History, June 19: Connecticut Troops At the Mexican Border

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https://todayincthistory.com/2023/06/19/june-19-connecticut-troops-sent-to-guard-the-mexican-border/

#20thcentury #arizona #connecticuthistory #connecticutnationalguard #june #mexico #militaryhistory #panchovilla #waranddefense #woodrowwilson #worldwari #wwi

100 years later, the Espionage Act is still being used as originally intended by #woodrowwilson, as a blunt cudgel to silence political opposition.
#espionageact
#espionageactatwork
#espionageactcharges
#doj

#Drag #History : On April 7, 1918, the Society page of The #SanAntonio Light newspaper, excitedly announced a “Womanless Wedding” featuring a cast of the #Texas city's most prominent citizens in an all-male production. “As the name implies, the entire bridal party will be made up of men and it is whispered that the bride, a fairy-like young thing tipping the scales at 300 pounds or thereabouts, will be costumed in marvelous fashion. There will be bridesmaids galore and dainty little girls to strew posies in the path of the blushing bride.” Partaking in the drag were prominent local politicians and businessmen, architects and even the city's top funeral director. Performed at Beethoven Hall on the first day of the city's annual Fiesta celebration, the occasion attracted important #GOP dignitaries such as President and Mrs. #WoodrowWilson, Mr. and Mrs. #HerbertHoover, and General Jack Pershing . Womanless Weddings were apparently a popular #gender bender fundraising gambit held throughout Texas

Today in #Connecticut History, April 7: WWI War Fever Heats Up Hartford

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https://todayincthistory.com/2023/04/07/april-7-hartford-residents-gather-to-show-support-for-wwi-2/

#20thcentury #april #connecticuthistory #frankhagarty #hartford #patrioticrallies #patriotism #politicalhistory #waranddefense #woodrowwilson #worldwari #wwi

8/23 America wove a wink-wink social fabric with #racism that was never rooted out but left to simmer as long as former slaves stayed in their place; and would boil over in terrorizing violence whenever they threatened to get too uppity, or successful.

This simmering tension has been a part of the American landscape since forever, and it got cranked up under Virginia Democrat #WoodrowWilson — he was not your typical racist, but one considered extreme even by the standards of his day. Yikes.

Woodrow Wilson Moving in to Shadow Lawn https://youtu.be/dbT51IzXuF0 #1916 #WoodrowWilson #AmericanHistory

PM Llyod George to the House of Commons, Dec 1916: British response to Wilson settlement proposal: "..quoted from Abraham Lincoln’s speech to a war-weary nation in the summer of 1864: 'We accepted this war for an object, and a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God I hope it will never end until that time.'”

The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan
#PastIsPrologue
#GhostAtTheFeast #RobertKagan #LlyodGeorge #WWI #WoodrowWilson #lincoln #Ukraine #bookstodon

“For six months I have talked about the struggle between Autocracy and Democracy, but do not see that I have made any great impression.”

Excerpt From
The Ghost at the Feast
Robert Kagan

Robert Lansing, Secretary of State from June 24, 1915, until February 13, 1920.

"What's past is prologue"

#ThenAsNow #PastIsPrologue
#GhostAtTheFeast #RobertKagan #RobertLansing #WWI #WoodrowWilson

Will history repeat itself? "#TheodoreRoosevelt, whose campaign to regain the office from his successor, #WilliamHowardTaft, divided the #Republican Party and ensured the victory of #Democrat #WoodrowWilson in the presidential #election of 1912." https://theconversation.com/teddy-roosevelts-failed-bull-moose-campaign-may-portend-the-future-of-the-gop-and-donald-trump-196267 @TheConversationUS

let’s do an #introduction bc i’ve been inconsistent about coming on here.
Sharing would be appreciated :)
#college #hebrew #jewish #antisemitism #jew #writer #writing #history #historical #historicalfiction #romance #romancenovels #reading #books #bookstore #scifi #fantasy #journalism #archaeology #truecrime #genealogy #Israel #boston #astronomy #wwii #wwi #woodrowwilson #greatwar #lordhuron #taylorswift #catfishandthebottlemen #washingtondc #maryland #moco #mcps

Flag Day 2013

Today is Flag Day in the United States.

National Flag Day commemorates Congress’s adoption on June 14, 1777 of the Stars and Stripes as the flag of the United States. Although not officially a federal holiday, Pennsylvania has declared it an official state holiday. (Huzzah Pennsylvania!)

HISTORY

June 14th, 1885 – Bernard J. Cigrand, a then 19 year old grade school teacher at Stony Hill School, placed a 10 inch, 38 star flag in a bottle on his desk and assigned essays on the flag and its significance. He went on to work for decades spreading recognition of June 14th as a nation day of remembrance and observation of the Stars and Stripes. (See also, House Resolution 622.)

May 30, 1916 – President Wilson issued Presidential proclamation 1335, calling for a nation wide observance of Flag Day on June 14th:

Proclamation 1335 – Flag Day
May 30, 1916

By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation

My Fellow Countrymen:

Many circumstances have recently conspired to turn our thoughts to a critical examination of the conditions of our national life, of the influences which have seemed to threaten to divide us in interest and sympathy, of forces within and forces without that seemed likely to draw us away from the happy traditions of united purpose and action of which we have been so proud, It has therefore seemed to me fitting that I should call your attention to the approach of the anniversary of the day upon which the flag of the United States was adopted by the Congress as the emblem of the Union, and to suggest to you that it should this year and in the years to come be given special significance as a day of renewal and reminder, a day upon which we should direct our minds with a special desire of renewal to thoughts of the ideals and principles of which we have sought to make our great Government the embodiment.

I therefore suggest and request that throughout the nation and if possible in every community the fourteenth day of June be observed as FLAG DAY with special patriotic exercises, at which means shall be taken to give significant expression to our thoughtful love of America, our comprehension of the great mission of liberty and justice to which we have devoted ourselves as a people, our pride in the history and our enthusiasm for the political programme of the nation, our determination to make it greater and purer with each generation, and our resolution to demonstrate to all the world its, vital union in sentiment and purpose, accepting only those as true compatriots who feel as we do the compulsion of this supreme allegiance. Let us on that day rededicate ourselves to the nation, “one and inseparable” from which every thought that is not worthy of our fathers’ first vows in independence, liberty, and right shall be excluded and in which we shall stand with united hearts, for an America which no man can corrupt, no influence draw away from its ideals, no force divide against itself,-a nation signally distinguished among all the nations of mankind for its clear, individual conception alike of its duties and its privileges, its obligations and its rights.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington this thirtieth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixteen, and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fortieth.

1949 – In the summer session of the 1949 Congress, the House and the Senate agreed to H.J. Res. 170, a joint resolution officially recognizing June 14 of each year as Flag Day, and authorizing and requesting the president to issue an annual proclamation informing the American people of the occasion.

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