According to the Romans smaller dicks were a symbol of wisdom

Context: During the War of 1812, Hawaii remained neutral as both the US and Great Britain were important trading partners and losing either would have had severe consequences.

Hawaii would fly both flags as a sign of good relations with any passing ship until deciding to just combine the 2 flags for simplicity’s sake.

This design would eventually become the Hawaiian flag we know today

From Encyclopedia Virginia: John Smith (bap. 1580–1631):

1607; in December, he and two other men ventured up the Chickahominy River, where they encountered a hunting party of Pamunkey Indians. His companions were killed, but Smith, whom the Indians initially presumed to be a weroance, or chief, was captured. The Indians escorted him up the York River to Werowocomoco, the principal residence of their mamanotowick, or paramount chief, Powhatan (Wahunsonacock).

At Werowocomoco, Smith participated in a ceremony that many historians now interpret as an adoption ritual. Exactly what happened during this ceremony is unclear; Smith himself gave varying accounts of the event. In his Generall Historie , published in 1624, Smith wrote that “two great stones were brought before Powhatan: then as many as could laid hands on him, dragged him to them, and thereon laid his head, and being ready with their clubs, to beat out his brains … Pocahontas the King’s dearest daughter, when no entreaty would prevail, got his head in her arms, and laid her own upon his to save him from death.” But in a letter written just a few months after his visit to Werowocomoco, he describes being feasted and interviewed by Powhatan only. Some historians argue that this earlier, less dramatic version of events is the more likely; the anthropologist Helen C. Rountree suggests that Pocahontas, about eleven at the time, may not even have been present at the ceremony; her role as a young girl was to prepare for and clean up after the feast.

Two days later, Smith was taken to a remote location in the woods. There, Powhatan told him (in Smith’s words) that “now they were friends,” and ordered him to send two “great gunnes [cannon], and a grindstone” from Jamestown; in exchange, Powhatan would give him the Indian village Capahosic and hold him in esteem as his son, bestowing upon him the name Nantaquoud. Smith may not have fully understood that Powhatan was trying to draw him (and, therefore, the other colonists) into his paramount chiefdom, thereby neutralizing a threat, gaining an ally, and expanding his empire—but he was aware that the savvy leader was trying to gain control of some very powerful weapons.

Smith returned to Jamestown on January 2, 1608, to find that he had been replaced on the council and blamed for the deaths of his two companions. That day he was tried, convicted, and sentenced to hang—but later that night, Newport and some one hundred new settlers arrived from England, and the charges against Smith were lost in the celebration.

From Anglo-Powhatan Wars - Wikipedia (reference citation, not independently verified by myself, nonfree: Helen Rountree, Pocahontas's People, p. 38.):

The settlement at Jamestown, Virginia, was established in May 1607 within the territory of the Powhatan, who were led by Chief Wahunsunacawh, known to the colonists as Chief Powhatan.[2] The area was quite swampy and ill-suited to farming, and Powhatan wanted Captain John Smith and the colonists to forsake the swamp and live in one of his satellite towns called Capahosick where they would make metal tools for him in exchange for full provision.[3]

I’ve noticed that there is this meme of how Fukuyama’s “End of History” essentially argues that “nothing will even happen.” While that is not to deny Fukuyama argues that liberal democracy is the “peak” form of human governance, the implications he makes for this are often left out. He contends that even in a world full of republics, backsliding and conflict are still likely. Not based in any ideology, but rather he believes that these democracies will be undermined by their own citizens struggling against them due to boredom and “the sake of struggle.”

Samuel Pepys kept a detailed diary between 1660 and 1669, giving us an unusually personal account of Restoration London. He wrote repeatedly about his infidelity and his attempts to reform himself, despite repeatedly failing to do so. He was also in London during the Great Fire of 1666 and recorded the disaster in his diary as it unfolded.

Still love my Protestant brethren in Christ tho

Minor spelling mistake.

A lot of people online simplify this into "Ted Kaczynski was part of MKUltra," but the reality is more complicated.
There is no clear evidence that Murray's Harvard experiments were officially part of the CIA's MKUltra program.
However, the time period, the nature of the experiments, and the broader Cold War environment created lasting speculation because MKUltra itself funded and intersected with many psychological research projects during that era.
What is true is that Kaczynski later described the experience negatively, and people have debated for decades whether those experiments contributed to his psychological development and eventual violence.
But turning it into a direct "the CIA created the Unabomber" story oversimplifies both the history and Kaczynski's own choices later in life.

The Long Walk of the Navajo, also called the Long Walk to Bosque Redondo (Spanish: larga caminata del navajo), was the deportation and ethnic cleansing of the Navajo people by the United States federal government and the United States army. Navajos were forced to walk from their land in western New Mexico Territory (modern-day Arizona and New Mexico) to Bosque Redondo in eastern New Mexico. Some 53 different forced marches occurred between August 1864 and the end of 1866. In total, 10,000 Navajos and 500 Mescalero Apache were forced to the internment camp in Bosque Redondo. During the forced march and internment, up to 3,500 people died from starvation, disease and executions over a four-year period.
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One account passed through generations within the Navajos shows the attitude of the U.S. Army:

It was said that those ancestors were on the Long Walk with their daughter, who was pregnant and about to give birth [...] the daughter got tired and weak and couldn't keep up with the others or go further because of her condition. So my ancestors asked the Army to hold up for a while and to let the woman give birth, but the soldiers wouldn't do it. They forced my people to move on, saying that they were getting behind the others. The soldier told the parents that they had to leave their daughters behind. "Your daughter is not going to survive, anyway; sooner or later she is going to die," they said in their own language. "Go ahead," the daughter said to her parents, "things might come out all right with me," But the poor thing was mistaken, my grandparents used to say. Not long after they had moved on, they heard a gunshot from where they had been a short time ago.

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“As I have said, our ancestors were taken captive and driven to Hwééldi for no reason at all. They were harmless people, and, even to date, we are the same, holding no harm for anybody ... Many Navajos who know our history and the story of Hwééldi say the same.”
—Howard Gorman, Navajo Stories of the Long Walk Period, 1973

See:
Long Walk of the Navajo,
General James Henry Carleton,
Colonel Kit Carson,
Bosque Redondo (Fort Sumner),
Battle of Canyon de Chelly,
Navajo Wars.

The Alaska Purchase in 1867 resulted in the transfer of Russian America to the United States for $7.2 million (equivalent to $132 million in 2024)."] On April 9 of that year, the United States Senate ratified a bilateral treaty that had been signed on March 30, and American sovereignty became legally effective across the territory on October 18.