History Thread...

[romad1]

So today was our final rec game for the season.  Its Virginia so its a goddamn oven and the field (in Mclean, VA of all places) does not have dugouts.  And the fence is so high you can't put a canopy over the benches.  So, as my girls are warming up I tell them to remember D-Day and remember that not because of the history but that it was in Normandy where its a nice misty cool summer and to think of the cool sea breezes.  

[gehringer_2]

3 hours ago, romad1 said:

So today was our final rec game for the season.  Its Virginia so its a goddamn oven and the field (in Mclean, VA of all places) does not have dugouts.  And the fence is so high you can't put a canopy over the benches.  So, as my girls are warming up I tell them to remember D-Day and remember that not because of the history but that it was in Normandy where its a nice misty cool summer and to think of the cool sea breezes.  

they must think you are straight out of central casting.....

[CMRivdogs]

 

[CMRivdogs]

June 7

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/june-7?cmpid=email-hist-tdih-2026-0607-06072026&om_rid=&~campaign=hist-tdih-2026-0607

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On June 7, 1913, Hudson Stuck, an Alaskan missionary, leads the first successful ascent of Denali (formerly known as Mt. McKinley), the highest point on the North American continent at 20,320 feet.

Stuck, an accomplished amateur mountaineer, was born in London in 1863. After moving to the United States, in 1905 he became archdeacon of the Episcopal Church in Yukon, Alaska. Stuck traveled Alaska’s difficult terrain to preach to villagers and establish schools.

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On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia introduces a resolution for independence to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia; John Adams seconds the motion.

Lee’s resolution declared: “That these United Colonies are, and of right out to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved; that measures should be immediately taken for procuring the assistance of foreign powers, and a Confederation be formed to bind the colonies more closely together.”