#1758-1831

[carraways-son]

Dimanche

Les kids, près de chez eux à Kyôto, sur la piste des cerisiers en fleur. Mes amours... Et ce fragment d'une poésie de Ryôkan (1758-1831) :

C'est avec les fragrantes

fleurs de cerisiers

s'égaillant au ciel

un de ces soirs de printemps

qui ne devraient jamais finir.

#HM #Pseudo-journal #31 mars 2024

[theworstfoundingfathers]

Who is the worst founding father? Round 5: Henry Laurens vs James Monroe

Henry Laurens (March 6, 1724 [O.S. February 24, 1723] – December 8, 1792) was an American Founding Father, merchant, slave trader, and rice planter from South Carolina who became a political leader during the Revolutionary War. A delegate to the Second Continental Congress, Laurens succeeded John Hancock as its president. He was a signatory to the Articles of Confederation and, as president, presided over its passage.

Laurens had earned great wealth as a partner in the largest slave-trading house in North America, Austin and Laurens. In the 1750s alone, this Charleston firm oversaw the sale of more than 8,000 enslaved Africans.

Laurens’ oldest son, Colonel John Laurens, was killed in 1782 in the Battle of the Combahee River, as one of the last casualties of the Revolutionary War. He had supported enlisting and freeing slaves for the war effort and suggested to his father that he begin with the 40 he stood to inherit. He had urged his father to free the family’s slaves, but although conflicted, Henry Laurens never manumitted his 260 slaves.

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James Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was an American statesman, lawyer, and diplomat who served as the fifth president of the United States from 1817 to 1825. He is perhaps best known for issuing the Monroe Doctrine, a policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas while effectively asserting U.S. dominance, empire, and hegemony in the hemisphere. He also served as governor of Virginia, a member of the United States Senate, U.S. ambassador to France and Britain, the seventh Secretary of State, and the eighth Secretary of War.

As president, Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise, which admitted Missouri as a slave state and banned slavery from territories north of the 36°30′ parallel. 

Monroe sold his small Virginia plantation in 1783 to enter law and politics. He owned multiple properties over the course of his lifetime, but his plantations were never profitable. Although he owned much more land and many more slaves, and speculated in property, he was rarely on site to oversee the operations. Overseers treated the slaves harshly to force production, but the plantations barely broke even. Monroe incurred debts by his lavish and expensive lifestyle and often sold property (including slaves) to pay them off. 

Two years into his presidency, Monroe faced an economic crisis known as the Panic of 1819, the first major depression to hit the country since the ratification of the Constitution. The severity of the economic downturn in the U.S. was compounded by excessive speculation in public lands, fueled by the unrestrained issue of paper money from banks and business concerns.

Before the onset of the Panic of 1819, business leaders had called on Congress to increase tariff rates to address the negative balance of trade and help struggling industries. Monroe declined to call a special session of Congress to address the economy. When Congress finally reconvened in December 1819, Monroe requested an increase in the tariff but declined to recommend specific rates. Congress would not raise tariff rates until the passage of the Tariff of 1824. The panic resulted in high unemployment and an increase in bankruptcies and foreclosures, and provoked popular resentment against banking and business enterprises.

The collapse of the Federalists left Monroe with no organized opposition at the end of his first term, and he ran for reelection unopposed. A single elector from New Hampshire, William Plumer, cast a vote for John Quincy Adams, preventing a unanimous vote in the Electoral College. He did so because he thought Monroe was incompetent. 

#semifinals! #founding father bracket #worst founding father #founding fathers #amrev #brackets #polls #henry laurens #james monroe

[centuriespast]

Head of a Woman (perhaps Sarah Siddons, 1755–1831) John Hoppner (1758–1810) Lady Lever Art Gallery

[rae-unbeloved]

SO. I WAS INNOCENTLY GOOGLING WHO WAS THE YOUNGEST FOUNDING FATHER, AND YK WHO THE RESULT WAS? FUCKING EDWARD RUTLEDGE (BORN 1749 BTW), I GOT SO UNBELIVEBLY PISSED OFF BECAUSE IM 99% SURE JAMES MONROE IS CONSIDERED A FOUNDING FATHER.

SO I GOOGLE IF JAMES MONROE WAS A FOUNDING FATHER AND GUESS WHAT??? HE IS CONSIDERED THE LAST FOUNFJNG FATHER, AND HE WAS BORN 1758, THATS A WHOLE 9 FUCKING YEARS, I WENT ON THE GODDQMN WHITE HOUSE WEBSITE AND GUESS WHAT? HES A FUCKING FOUNDING FATHER. SO GODDAMN RUTLEDGE ISNT EVEN NEAR THE YOUNGEST. FROM YOUNGEST TILL RUTLEDGE IT GOES:

-James Monroe (1758-1831)

-Either aaraon Burr (1756-1836) or Alexander Hamilton (1757 or 1755-1804)

-James Madison (1751-1836)

THEN ITS FINALLY FUCKING RUTLEDGE. HES NOT NEAR THE YOUNGEST. AUGH

Im sprry abt this rant chat, i had to get it off my chest because the person im on call with fuckin disappeared.

#amrev #founding fathers #american revolution #im pissed #also i did fact check this #im pretty sure im right #google is failing me #im disappointed #rae's dumbass rants :3

[begottaum]

Where there is beauty, there is ugliness.

When something is right, something else is wrong.

Knowledge and ignorance depend on each other.

It has been like this since the beginning.

How could it be otherwise now?

Wanting to toss out one and hold onto the other

makes for a ridiculous comedy.

You must still deal with everything ever-changing,

even when you say it’s wonderful.

- Ryokan (1758-1831)

#zen #poetry #ryokan #ever-changing

[arthistoryanimalia]

Ernst Haeckel was born #OTD (16 Feb 1834 - 9 Aug 1919). Here are two of his Kunstformen der Natur (1904) reptile plates that don't get shared as often, along with keys to the species depicted: Plate 79 Lacertilia (lizards) + Plate 89 Chelonia (turtles).

Key to Plate 79: 1. Cameroon Sailfin Chameleon 2. Chameleon Forest Dragon 3. Flying Dragon 4. Texas Horned Lizard 5. Kuhl's Flying Gecko 6. Common Basilisk 7. Frill-necked Lizard 8. Thorny Devil - 1.Chamaeleon montium (Buchholz) = Trioceros montium/Chamaeleo montium Buchholz, 1874 (See Trioceros montium) 2. Lophyrus tigrinus (Duméril) = Gonocephalus chamaeleontinus Laurenti, 1768 (See Gonocephalus chamaeleontinus) 3. Draconellus volans (Linné) = Draco volans Linnaeus, 1758 (See Draco volans) 4. Phrynosoma cornutum (Wiegmann) = Phrynosoma cornutum (Harlan, 1825) (See Phrynosoma cornutum) 5. Ptychozoon homalocephalum (Kuhl) = Ptychozoon kuhli Stejneger, 1902 (See Ptychozoon kuhli) 6. Basiliscus americanus (Daudin) = Basiliscus basiliscus (Linnaeus, 1758) (See Basiliscus basiliscus) 7. Chlamydosaurus kingii (Gray) = Chlamydosaurus kingii Gray, 1827 (See Chlamydosaurus kingii) 8. Moloch horridus (Gray) = Moloch horridus Gray, 1841 (See Moloch horridus)

Key to Plate 89: 1: Leatherback Turtle 2: Hawksbill Turtle 3: Argentine Snake-necked Turtle 4: Mata Mata 5: Geometric Tortoise 6: Galápagos Tortoise 7: Common Snapping Turtle - 1. Dermatochelys coriacea (Blainville) = Dermochelys coriacea (Vandelli, 1761) 2. Caretta imbricata (Gray) = Eretmochelys imbricata (Linnaeus, 1766) 3. Hydromeda tectifera (Wagler) = Hydromedusa tectifera Cope, 1869 4. Chelys fimbriata (Duméril) = Geochelone nigra (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) 5. Testudo geometrica (Linné) = Psammobates geometricus (Linnaeus, 1758) 6. Testudo elephantina (Duméril) = Dipsochelys dussumieri Gray, 1831 7. Chelydra serpentina (Schweigger) = Chelydra serpentina (Linnaeus, 1758)

#turtle #turtles #tortoise #tortoises #lizard #lizards #reptiles #Chelonia #Testudines #Lacertilia #herpetology #natural history art #scientific illusration #Ernst Haeckel #European art #20th century art #1900s #Art Nouveau #illustration #print #book plate #Kunstformen der Natur #OTD #animals in art

[primordialsoundmeditation]

One of my all time

favorite Zen poets

and his poetess love …

“Even if you consume

as many books

as the sands

of the Ganges.

It’s not as good

as really catching

One verse of Zen.

If you want the

secret of Buddhism,

Here it is:

Everything is in the Heart”

Ryōkan (1758–1831)

Teishin (1798-1873)

was a Japanese

Zen Buddhist nun

and poetess.

She was the pupil

and closest friend of

the Zen poet Ryōkan

Zen Taoism Buddhism Tick Nhat Hanh Dalai Lama

[delux2222]

"In a representative republic, the education of our children must be of the utmost importance!"

Happy Birthday, James Monroe (1758-1831)

Portrait by Gilbert Stuart.

#Apr 28

[jarwoski]

James Monroe (28 de abril de 1758 — 4 de julho de 1831)

[zirhlikuzgun]

January's crew - Page 17

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[brookstonalmanac]

Events 12.25 (before 1900)

36 – Forces of Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han, under the command of Wu Han, conquer the separatist Chengjia empire, reuniting China. 274 – A temple to Sol Invictus is dedicated in Rome by Emperor Aurelian. 333 – Roman Emperor Constantine the Great elevates his youngest son Constans to the rank of Caesar. 336 – First documentary sign of Christmas celebration in Rome. 350 – Vetranio meets Constantius II at Naissus (Serbia) and is forced to abdicate his imperial title. Constantius allows him to live as a private citizen on a state pension. 508 – Clovis I, king of the Franks, is baptized into the Catholic faith at Reims, by Saint Remigius. 597 – Augustine of Canterbury and his fellow-labourers baptise in Kent more than 10,000 Anglo-Saxons. 800 – The coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome. 820 – Eastern Emperor Leo V is murdered in a church of the Great Palace of Constantinople by followers of Michael II. 1000 – The foundation of the Kingdom of Hungary: Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary. 1013 – Sweyn Forkbeard takes control of the Danelaw and is proclaimed king of England. 1025 – Coronation of Mieszko II Lambert as king of Poland. 1046 – Henry III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Clement II. 1066 – William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy is crowned king of England, at Westminster Abbey, London. 1076 – Coronation of Bolesław II the Generous as king of Poland. 1100 – Baldwin of Boulogne is crowned the first King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. 1130 – Count Roger II of Sicily is crowned the first king of Sicily. 1261 – Eleven-year-old John IV Laskaris of the restored Eastern Roman Empire is deposed and blinded by orders of his co-ruler Michael VIII Palaiologos. 1492 – The carrack Santa María, commanded by Christopher Columbus, runs onto a reef off Haiti due to an improper watch. 1553 – Battle of Tucapel: Mapuche rebels under Lautaro defeat the Spanish conquistadors and executes the governor of Chile, Pedro de Valdivia. 1559 – Pope Pius IV is elected, four months after his predecessor's death. 1758 – Halley's Comet is sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch, confirming Edmund Halley's prediction of its passage. This was the first passage of a comet predicted ahead of time. 1766 – Mapuches in Chile launch a series of surprise attacks against the Spanish starting the Mapuche uprising of 1766. 1776 – George Washington and the Continental Army cross the Delaware River at night to attack Hessian forces serving Great Britain at Trenton, New Jersey, the next day. 1793 – General "Mad Anthony" Wayne and a 300 man detachment identify the site of St. Clair's 1791 defeat by the large number of unburied human remains at modern Fort Recovery, Ohio. 1809 – Dr. Ephraim McDowell performs the first ovariotomy, removing a 22-pound tumor. 1814 – Rev. Samuel Marsden holds the first Christian service on land in New Zealand at Rangihoua Bay. 1815 – The Handel and Haydn Society, oldest continually performing arts organization in the United States, gives its first performance. 1826 – The Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy concludes after beginning the previous evening. 1831 – The Great Jamaican Slave Revolt begins; up to 20% of Jamaica's slaves mobilize in an ultimately unsuccessful fight for freedom. 1837 – Second Seminole War: American general Zachary Taylor leads 1,100 troops against the Seminoles at the Battle of Lake Okeechobee. 1868 – Pardons for ex-Confederates: United States President Andrew Johnson grants an unconditional pardon to all Confederate veterans.

#Events

[umapalavraqueajude]

27 de agosto...

🇲🇩

Dia da Independência da Moldávia (da URSS em 1991)

🇧🇷

Dia do Psicólogo, aniversário da regulamentação desta profissão através da Lei Federal 4.119/62

Dia do Corretor de imóveis

Dia da Limpeza urbana

Aniversário de:

Americana -SP

Candói -PR

Correntes -PE

Ielmo Marinho -RN

Imaruí -SC

Itobi -SP

Matão -SP

Mauriti -CE

Minador do Negrão -AL

Palestina -AL

Santa Cruz de Goiás -GO

Santa Quitéria -CE

São Vicente Ferrer -MA

1828 Império do Brasil e Províncias Unidas do Rio da Prata reconhecem a soberania da República Oriental do Uruguai no Tratado do RJ.

1840 Criadas as Companhias de Aprendizes Nacionais, q + tarde se tornaram as Escolas de Aprendizes-Marinheiros do Brasil.

1883 Erupção do Krakatoa: quatro enormes explosões destroem a ilha de Krakatoa e causam anos de mudança climática.

1939 1º voo do Heinkel He 178, com motor turbojato, o 1º avião a jato do mundo.

1962 A missão espacial não tripulada Mariner 2 é lançada p Vênus pela NASA.

1964 Campanha da Legalidade: O marechal Lott é preso. O governo federal fecha rádios de Porto Alegre. Leonel Brizola, governador do Rio Grande do Sul, requisita a Rádio Guaíba.

1972 O 1º trecho da Rodovia Transamazônica é inaugurado pelo presidente Médici.

1991 A Comunidade Europeia reconhece a independência dos Países Bálticos da Estônia, da Letônia e da Lituânia.

1991 Moldávia declara independência da União Soviética.

2003 Marte atinge a menor distância da Terra em quase 60 mil anos: aproximadamente 55 768 006 quilômetros.

Nasceram…

Confúcio 551 a.C.-479 a.C.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1770-1831

Ira Levin 1929-2007

Morreram…

Ticiano 1490-1576

Maria Bárbara de Bragança 1711-1758

Le Corbusier 1887-1965

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[theworstfoundingfathers]

Who is the worst founding father? Round 3: George Clinton vs James Monroe

George Clinton (July 26, 1739 – April 20, 1812) was an American soldier, statesman, and Founding Father of the United States. A prominent Democratic-Republican, Clinton served as the fourth vice president of the United States from 1805 until his death in 1812. He also served as the first Governor of New York from 1777 to 1795 and again from 1801 to 1804.

He became one of the most prominent opponents to the ratification of the proposed United States Constitution, which would grant several new powers to the federal government. After New York and other states had ratified the Constitution, Clinton focused on passing constitutional amendments designed to weaken the powers of the federal government.

James Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was an American statesman, lawyer, and diplomat who served as the fifth president of the United States from 1817 to 1825. A member of the Democratic-Republican Party, Monroe was the last president who was a Founding Father as well as the last president of the Virginia dynasty. He is perhaps best known for issuing the Monroe Doctrine, a policy of opposing European colonialism in the Americas while effectively asserting U.S. dominance, empire, and hegemony in the hemisphere. He also served as governor of Virginia, a member of the United States Senate, U.S. ambassador to France and Britain, the seventh Secretary of State, and the eighth Secretary of War.

After his service in the war, Monroe resumed studying law under Jefferson and continued until 1783. He was not particularly interested in legal theory or practice, but chose to take it up because he thought it offered “the most immediate rewards” and could ease his path to wealth, social standing, and political influence.

As president, Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise, which admitted Missouri as a slave state and banned slavery from territories north of the 36°30′ parallel. 

Monroe sold his small Virginia plantation in 1783 to enter law and politics. Although he owned multiple properties over the course of his lifetime, his plantations were never profitable. Although he owned much more land and many more slaves, and speculated in property, he was rarely on site to oversee the operations. Overseers treated the slaves harshly to force production, but the plantations barely broke even. Monroe incurred debts by his lavish and expensive lifestyle and often sold property (including slaves) to pay them off. The labor of Monroe’s many slaves were also used to support his daughter and son-in-law, along with a ne'er-do-well brother and his son.

Two years into his presidency, Monroe faced an economic crisis known as the Panic of 1819, the first major depression to hit the country since the ratification of the Constitution. The severity of the economic downturn in the U.S. was compounded by excessive speculation in public lands, fueled by the unrestrained issue of paper money from banks and business concerns.

Before the onset of the Panic of 1819, business leaders had called on Congress to increase tariff rates to address the negative balance of trade and help struggling industries. As the panic spread, Monroe declined to call a special session of Congress to address the economy. When Congress finally reconvened in December 1819, Monroe requested an increase in the tariff but declined to recommend specific rates. Congress would not raise tariff rates until the passage of the Tariff of 1824. The panic resulted in high unemployment and an increase in bankruptcies and foreclosures, and provoked popular resentment against banking and business enterprises.

The collapse of the Federalists left Monroe with no organized opposition at the end of his first term, and he ran for reelection unopposed. A single elector from New Hampshire, William Plumer, cast a vote for John Quincy Adams, preventing a unanimous vote in the Electoral College. He did so because he thought Monroe was incompetent. 

#founding father bracket #worst founding father #founding fathers #amrev #brackets #polls #george clinton #james monroe

[playitagin]

1831-James Monroe

James Monroe (/mənˈroʊ/ mən-ROH; April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was an American statesman, lawyer, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fifth president of the United States from 1817 to 1825, a member of the Democratic-Republican Party. He was the last president who was a Founding Father as well as the last president of the Virginia dynasty and the Republican Generation; his presidency coincided with the Era of Good Feelings, concluding the First Party System era of American politics. He is perhaps best known for issuing the Monroe Doctrine, a policy of limiting European colonialism in the Americas. Previously he served as governor of Virginia, a member of the United States Senate, U.S. ambassador to France and Britain, the seventh Secretary of State, and the eighth Secretary of War.

#Jul.4.1831 #date of death #James Monroe #American soldier #lawyer #politician #5th President of the United States #history today

[bobmccullochny]

History

April 28, 1789 - On board the British ship Bounty, Fletcher Christian led a mutiny against Captain William Bligh, setting him and 18 loyal crew members adrift in a 23-foot open boat. Bligh survived a 47-day voyage sailing over 3,600 miles before landing on a small island. Christian sailed the Bounty back to Tahiti, eventually settling on Pitcairn Island and burning the ship.

April 28, 1945 - Twenty-three years of Fascist rule in Italy ended abruptly as Italian partisans shot former Dictator Benito Mussolini. Other leaders of the Fascist Party and friends of Mussolini were also killed along with his mistress, Clara Petacci. Their bodies were then hung upside down and pelted with stones by jeering crowds in Milan.

Birthday - James Monroe (1758-1831) the 5th U.S. President was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia. He served two terms from 1817 to 1825 and is best known for the Monroe Doctrine which declared the U.S. would not permit any European nation to extend its holdings or use armed force in North or South America.

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