History Clearinghouse 📜

American actor Rob Lowe is descended from one of the German Hessians who took George Washington up on his offer to join the Continental Army for citizenship and land... 🔗

In 1776 Benjamin Franklin had propaganda leaflets disguised as packets of tobacco, so they would reach the enemy's soldiers. The offer inside was a farm. Britain had hired 30,000 German troops to put down the rebellion. They were peasants' sons, mostly from Hesse-Kassel, conscripted by their prince and rented to George III at a price per head. If one was killed, the prince was paid extra. At home they owned nothing.…

Alexander Selkirk - the Real Robinson Crusoe Stranded on an island at his own request, on principle, as he had concerns about the quality of repairs done to the ship upon which he served, it would be four harrowing years before his rescue. During that time, his Scottish ingenuity served him well... and at night he was guarded from vermin by the island's cats! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Selkirk

"Owing to geographic proximity, Germans had a front row seat, in essence, to the atrocities of the Judeo-Bolsheviks which proceeded their valiant resistance against them and their Jewish agents..." 🔗

🔗 Judeo-Bolshevik atrocities #Cheka

"You cannot legislate morals."

Note "History shapes better citizens" poster on the wall which he no doubt thinks beating people over the head with the Holohoax will accomplish. No, no dear man - we shall accomplish this aim with actual history...

https://youtu.be/2cVsY_rX9PU

"Our legion was ambushed in the wild realm called Caledonian Forest and was almost completely annihilated... We were attacked by a demonic pack of the barbaric Picts. They looked more like wild beasts than humans" ~ Titus Ursus 🔗

NEW - UK counterterrorism program says interest in great literature is a sign of "far-right extremism." The taxpayer-funded document included references to The Lord Of The Rings by JRR Tolkien, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent…