On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass stood before the 600-odd members of the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society in Central New York and delivered what would become one of his most famous speeches, best known today as “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”
— Lithub.com, July 4 – July 10
SAVAGE CONTINENT: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II, p. 16
July 4, 2021 at 2:43 pm (Books, Holidays, Recommended, Sundays)
Tags: COVID Reading, English writers, Fourth of July, history, Keith Lowe, reading lists, World War II
- Greece suffered about 410,000 war dead — a total that does not appear markedly worse than some of the countries already listed until one realizes that Greece had a prewar population of only about 7 million. The war therefore killed about 6 percent of all Greeks. Likewise Hungary’s 450,000 war deaths represented almost 5 per cent of the population. In Yugoslavia just over a million people were killed, or 6.3 per cent of the population. Deaths in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania probably amounted to between 8 and 9 per cent of all prewar Balts. As a nation, Poland suffered the most proportionally: more than one Pole in every six was killed — a total of over 6 million people in all.
July #TreeSquare Challenge #3: Still the Backyard
July 4, 2021 at 2:08 pm (Holidays, Links, Lists, Places, postaday, Sundays)
Tags: blogs, California, Garden, photo challenge, summer
Self urges everyone to look at the gallery of trees on The Life of B, host of the #TreeSquare challenge. There are many beautiful trees there!
Here are two more from self’s backyard: an olive and a plum tree.
