Dear KAG: 20201125 Open Thread

Let me be the first to say …

GOBBLE GOBBLE !!!

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! One of the things I am very thankful for is this site and Wolf and all the authors. I’d go crazy without this site and would probably think I was the only one in the world who hadn’t been jabbed.

I’m very thankful for this site, Wolf, and everyone here! Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃
Very rousing musical selections!

The Lion Sleeps Tonight:
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/the-tokens/the-lion-sleeps-tonight

A hunting song originally sung in Zulu in what is now Swaziland, the original title was “Mbube,” which means lion.

This was popularized in the 1930s by South African singer Solomon Linda, who recorded it in 1939 with his group, The Evening Birds. Apparently they were a bold bunch, and got the idea from when they used to chase lions who were going after the cattle owned by their families.

Solomon Linda recorded the song in Johannesburg, South Africa after being discovered by a talent scout. The chanting was mostly improvised, but worked extraordinarily well. Released on the Gallo label, it became a huge hit across South Africa. Around 1948, Gallo sent a copy to Decca Records in the US, hoping to get it distributed there. Folk singer Pete Seeger got a hold of it and started working on an English version.

Seeger thought they were saying “Wimoweh” on the original, and that’s what he wrote down and how it was recorded in English. They were actually saying “Uyimbube,” which means “You’re a Lion.” It was misheard for “Wimeoweh” because when pronounced, Uyimbube sounds like: oo-yim-bweh-beh.

Solomon Linda’s version:

Grrrr!

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Following the jury selection for the Maxwell trial, Biden federalizes Judge Alison Nathan at the recommendation of Chuck Schumer who was a great friend of Epstein. Judge suddenly decides the public doesn’t need to see the trial. Play ball or you’ll end up like the last judge.

“Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.”
– Samuel Adams, The Rights of the Colonists
The Report of the Committee of Correspondence 
to the Boston Town Meeting, Nov. 20, 1772

https://billofrightsinstitute.org/primary-sources/the-rights-of-the-colonists

On this day in history, November 25, 1783, the last British soldiers evacuate the United States. The signing of the Treaty of Paris ended hostilities between the United States and Great Britain on September 3, 1783. Sir Guy Carleton, commander of British forces in North America at the time, received orders in August to begin planning the evacuation of all remaining British troops from the United States.

The evacuation plans dragged on because of large large numbers of Loyalists descending on New York in a panic to flee the country. Nearly 30,000 Loyalists and escaped slaves left with the British, most ending up in Quebec or Nova Scotia.

General Carleton finally announced the last of the troops would be leaving at noon on November 25th. George Washington waited outside the city until the British left and their flag was removed from a pole at the Battery at the southern end of Manhattan (A battery is a military fortification with guns or cannons). Wiley British soldiers had hoisted their Union Flag on a greased pole on their way out of the city.

Several attempts were made to get the flag down, but were unsuccessful due to the grease. Eventually, American soldier John Van Arsdale was able to climb the pole by nailing pieces of wood to the pole and climbing up on them. He tore the British flag down and replaced it with the American Flag. Shortly after, a triumphant General George Washington entered the city and marched down Broadway to the Battery.

For a hundred years after, Evacuation Day was celebrated around the United States, but especially in New York City. Evacuation Day was New York City’s biggest celebration of the year for a century and the evacuation was commemorated with a game of boys competing to take down a Union Flag from a greased flagpole in Battery Park. A descendant of John Van Arsdale would then climb the pole and put up a US Flag.

Once the Civil War came and Abraham Lincoln announced the annual Thanksgiving Day, Evacuation Daycelebrations around the country tended to be absorbed by Thanksgiving Day celebrations. Evacuation Day was eventually lost because the date of November 25 was so close to the Thanksgiving date of the last Thursday of the month. The annual celebrations continued in New York, however, until World War I, at which time people seemed to lose their animosity toward Britain after its allied cooperation with the United States during the war.

https://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/last-british-soldiers-evacuate-the-united-states.html