- 20 Homeschool Genealogy Ideas -- “Older children can help calculate how much time it will take your family to document an entire cemetery (beginners take about 250 photos per hour). Younger children can learn how to use a map.”
- A Texas Time Capsule: the 1847 T.C. Lindsey & Co. General Store in Jonesville -- “Not exactly lost but not exactly in plain sight, the community of Jonesville sits near the Texas-Louisiana border, just as it has since Texas’ earliest days as a state.”
- Century-old memorabilia box opened at Arlington Cemetery -- And now, a peek inside the old copper box, along with its historic relics, are available virtually, as ANC hosts it’s first-ever online exhibit starting this week.”
- Coronavirus and the smell of Saul Alinsky -- “Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future.”
- Deepfakes Are Going To Wreak Havoc On Society. We Are Not Prepared. -- “Deepfake technology enables anyone with a computer and an Internet connection to create realistic-looking photos and videos of people saying and doing things that they did not actually say or do.”
- Did Japan Beat COVID-19 with a Decentralized Response? -- “Rather than uniform, top-down, centralized, and nationwide policies, the Japanese people mostly resorted to diverse, bottom-up, decentralized, and local responses and achieved much better results than many countries that imposed lockdowns and other draconian measures.”
- Fired Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin charged with 3rd-degree murder, manslaughter in George Floyd’s death -- “For his part, [County Attorney] Freeman noted that his office has never before charged a police officer four days after a lethal force incident. “This case has moved with extraordinary speed,” he said.”
- Gravestone Cleaning Tips 101 -- “Time has been hard on gravestones that were originally considered nearly permanent. Weathering, erosion, neglect, and vandalism have all taken their toll.”
- Headstones sinking underground at West Side cemetery to be reset after found illegible -- “...in July 2019...the headstone was completely visible. They were shocked to see that in less than a year’s time, it had been completely covered by grass and dirt.”
- New coronavirus losing potency, top Italian doctor says -- “...new infections and fatalities have fallen steadily in May and the country is unwinding some of the most rigid lockdown restrictions introduced anywhere on the continent.”
- The Story Behind a Forgotten Symbol of the American Revolution: The Liberty Tree -- “Early in the morning of August 14, Bostonians discovered the effigy hanging from the tree. Initials pinned to the effigy, ‘A.O.’, identified it as Andrew Oliver, the Boston merchant who had agreed to collect the stamp tax.”
- Trump signs social media executive order that calls for removal of liability protections over ‘censoring’ -- “Twitter’s...move immediately backfired...Twitter’s fact-check itself contained false statements; and Twitter failed to apply the standard of review to other users.”
- Twitter “fact checks” the president – so why not these lies by Biden and other Democrats? -- “American Priority then showed eight instances which Breitbart cited that showed over the past few weeks where Twitter allowed misinformation and downright lies from leftist sources to go unchallenged.”
- WHO Now Says Only Wear a Mask If You are Sick or Working with Sick — Otherwise You Don’t Need One -- Excuse us if we don’t believe a word coming from these fickle elites.”
- Wisconsin city refuses to arrest rioters, but hands out hefty fines to churches with more than 50 worshipers -- “While Madison didn’t do much to prevent the barrage of looting in the city, officials want citizens to know that church services of more than 50 people will absolutely not be tolerated.”
“Ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein.” Caveat lector
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Wednesday, June 03, 2020
20 Homeschool Genealogy Ideas, and other links
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