Showing posts with label Inquisition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Inquisition. Show all posts

Sunday, March 1, 2015

Quotes of the Month: February 2015

Quote of the Month: "A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP"


-Leonard Nimoy

Stupid Quote of the Month:
"Because Michael, face it -- the guy was basically average in terms of size, strength, speed, jumping ability, all the things that you seem to think make a great player."


-Bill Walton on Michael Jordan


Dueling Confusion of the Month:
"When the final accounting is done, 2014 will have been the most lethal year for global terrorism in the 45 years such data has been compiled."


- Director of National Intelligence James Clapper
"Despite ISIL, despite the visible killings that you see and how horrific they are, we are actually living in a period of less daily threat to Americans and to people in the world than normally; less deaths, less violent deaths today, than through the last century."


-John Kerry
 


and the rest...
"Unless we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place,

remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible

deeds in the name of Christ."


-Barack Obama at the 2015-national-prayer-breakfast
"The only problem we’re going to have is running out of fuel and bullets."


-King Abdullah
"In attempting to reduce the importance of one great talent over another, you make a mockery of all musicians and music from every genre, including your own."


-Shirley Manson to Kanye West
"They were killed simply for the fact they were Christians."


-Pope Francis I
"I am my own man."


-Jeb Bush
"No religion is responsible for terrorism, people are responsible for violence and terrorism."

-Barack Obama

"I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America."


-Rudy Giuliani
"If we looked around the world and say long-term we cannot kill every terrorist around the world nor should we try, how do you get at the root causes of this? Look, it might be too nuanced of an argument for some like I’ve seen over the past 24 hours some of the commentary out but it’s really the smart way for Democrats, for Republicans, military commanders, our partners in the Arab world think we need to combat it."


-Marie Harf

Monday, February 2, 2015

17th Century Timeline

1601: The Essex Coup fails

1601: Battle of Kinsale

1601-03: Great Russian Famine

1602: The Dutch East India Company forms

1603: Elizabeth I dies/James I becomes King of England

1603: Tokugawa Shogunate

1605: The Gunpowder Plot

1606: The Long War Ends

1607: Jamestown founded

1607: The Flight of the Earls

1613: House of Romanov assumes power in Russia

1618-48: 30 Years War

1622: Jamestown Massacre

1631: Battle of Magdeburg

1631: Battle of Breitenfeld

1632: Battle of Lutzen

1633: Galileo tried by the Inquisition

1636: Harvard founded

1637: Shimbora Rebellion

1639-40: Prayer Book Riots and Bishop's War

1641: Sokaku instituted in Japan

1641: Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy

1642-51: English Civil War

1643: Battle of Rocroy

1644: Manchu Dynasty founded

1644: Battle of Marston Moor

1645: Battle of Naseby

1648: Treaty of Westphalia

1649: Charles I beheaded

1649-53: Cromwell in Ireland

1660: The Restoration

1665: Great Plague in London

1666: Great Fire of London

1667-99: Great Turkish War

1680: Pueblo Revolt

1682: Peter the Great becomes Czar (r. 1682-1725)

1683: Battle of Vienna

1687: Newton's Philosphise Naturalis Principia Mathematica

1688-89: The Glorious Revolution

1689: John Locke's "Letter Concerning Toleration"

1690: Battle of the Boyne

1692: Salem Witch Trials

1692-94: French famine

1696-97: Finnish famine