Henry the Eighth he was, he was.

England’s King Henry VIII married his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves on this day in 1540. Prior to Henry’s reign heterosexual promiscuity was consummated with one wife and several mistresses. Henry’s break from the Catholic Church was the beginning of the current heterosexual practice of multiple sexual partners, each under the umbrella of “Holy Matrimony.”
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A true story of the macabre

College Avenue is a winding two lane road that runs from the Ellicott City Historical District to Bonnie Branch road at Ilchester. In daylight it is not a spooky place, but at night it can be unnerving. For me and Patti, who both grew up in Ellicott City, the rumors surrounding its haunting were mere [...]

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Catonsville 9 convicted (October 10, 1968)

When Eisenhower left office in 1961 he had warned us to guard against the influence of the military-industrial complex. But his call for people to “live together in a peace guaranteed by the binding force of mutual respect and love,” somewhat uncharacteristic of a military man, went largely unheeded. The war machine fueled the economy, [...]

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1967: Che Guevara ’shot dead’

That was the headline on this day in 1967. But later we discovered it was actually the next day that he had been killed: Executed.
Shortly after his death “Che” (Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna) became the poster child of the fringe folk; not just the poor and oppressed whom he had served in central [...]

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