As we all observe the June 6th anniversary of the 1944 Allied landing at Normandy during World War II, Balladeer’s Blog takes a look at the events from other June 6ths in history.
1775 – In New York City, 100 Sons of Liberty rebels attacked British soldiers who were escorting five wagonloads of arms and other supplies. The Sons of Liberty won and seized the supplies. Lt. Col Marinus Willett led the Americans.
1780 – Hessian General Wilhelm Von Knyphausen’s 6,000 British-allied troops boarded boats in preparation for the next day’s attack on American forces in New Jersey for the indecisive Battle of Connecticut Farms.
1782 – In the Ohio Country, American Rebel Colonel William Crawford’s 500 men were defeated in the wilderness by 750 British, Shawnee, Ojibwe and Potawatomi troops as the Revolutionary War continued despite Cornwallis’ surrender the previous October.
1787 – Franklin College, now part of Franklin & Marshall College, was founded in Lancaster, PA.
1813 – As the War of 1812 continued, British forces learned the password for the American troops at Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada. That password, “Wil-Hen-Har”, as in the name of General (and later President) William Henry Harrison, enabled the British to take the Americans by surprise and win the battle in a rout.
1816 – The eruption of Indonesia’s Mount Tambora volcano earlier in the year spread so much ash and smoke into the atmosphere that this became known as “the year without a summer.” On June 6th, TEN INCHES OF SNOW fell in New England. Continue reading
“See how he apes his father” was a saying long associated with contemporary enemies of John Quincy Adams as a complaint about how the younger Adams was as stubborn and single-minded as his father John Adams. He pursued his own ends regardless of political consequences. 
THE CORSICAN BROTHERS (1941) – Another of the many adaptations of the Alexandre Dumas novel that have very little to do with the original storyline. In this case the tale was transformed into an action-packed sword-fighting, gun blazing, hell-for-leather chase vehicle for Doug Jr. 
Each grows into a man of action, Lucien as a bandit chief and Mario as a dueling, gambling ladies’ man. When they are reunited they set out to bring down the man who massacred their family – Baron Colonna (Akim Tamiroff), now the tyrannical ruler of Corsica. 
NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics)
POLEIS – In this post I’m looking at Poleis (Cities), written by Eupolis, one of the Big Three of Ancient Greek Comedy along with Aristophanes and Cratinus. This satirical comedy is dated from approximately 422 B.C. to 419 B.C. Like so many other such comedies it has survived only in fragmentary form. 
A BATTLE BETWEEN AIRSHIPS – Word reaches our Air Pirate Kapitan Mors about French efforts to duplicate his Luftschiff in anticipation of the global conflict that many fear is inevitable. Still considering himself outside international law, Mors determines to nip in the bud any challenge to his aircraft. 
THE WITNESS (1960-1961) – This David Susskind production offered a nice change of pace in a crime drama. It wasn’t a standard police story nor was it a courtroom drama. Instead, it featured a revolving committee of real-life lawyers cross-examining actors (Telly Savalas most frequently) who portrayed real-life criminals, their victims and their accomplices. 
THE EPISODES: 
I love exploring the mythology behind the world’s various belief systems.
If anything history has shown that people – ESPECIALLY the self-congratulatory asses called Democrats – take great delight in loudly and repeatedly condemning people of the past for (GASP) having opinions that differ from their own. It takes no courage and little effort to put on an air of moral superiority toward long-dead human beings. 
The obsessive conformity, status-anxiety and insecurities of Democrats prevent them from questioning their faith and thereby realizing that their own condemnation of figures from long ago is every bit as much of a shallow, meaningless pose as the attitude that may be shown toward them by Democrat Fundamentalists of the future. 
In the middle 1980s/ Way down on Level 31 … 
FILM VAULT LORE: Randy and Richard’s presentation of Ghosts of Hanley House has occupied a very odd niche in Movie Host trivia for quite a long time. Among people who remember The Texas 27 Film Vault this episode is famous as “the one where Psychotronic‘s Michael Weldon seems to have confused T27FV with MST3K.”
BATTLE BRICK ROAD IS NOT TO BE MISSED.
Get ready for Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion like you’ve never seen them before – as technologically and biologically enhanced warriors in a dystopian world that not even Mad Max could survive. 
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