Real Time Analytics


Walter Pearson's Blog – April 2011 Archive (6)

Search Blog Posts

Friday! History, Remembrance, Quotes, and More!

On This Date In 1376 the first Speaker of Britain's House of Commons, Sir Peter De La Mare, took office.
On This Date In 1429 During the Hundred Years' War, the 17-year-old French peasant Joan of Arc lead a French force in relieving the city of Orleans, besieged by the…
Continue

Added by Walter Pearson on April 29, 2011 at 3:03pm — No Comments

Friday! Good Friday! History, Remembrance, Quotes, and More!

On This Date In 238 The Year of the Six Emperors, the Senate outlawed Maximinus for his bloodthirsty proscriptions in Rome and nominated two of its members, Pupienu and Balbinus, to the throne.
On This Date In 1500 Portuguese navigator…
Continue

Added by Walter Pearson on April 22, 2011 at 12:33pm — No Comments

Friday! History, Remembrance, Quotes, Facebook and More!

On This Date In 1452 Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452, "at the third hour of the night” in the Tuscan hill town of Vinci, in the lower valley of the Arno River in the territory of Florence. He was the illegitimate son of Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci, a Florentine notary, and Caterina, a peasant who may have been a…
Continue

Added by Walter Pearson on April 15, 2011 at 1:17pm — No Comments

Friday! History, Remembrance, Quotes, and More!

On This Date In 564 Buddhists celebrate the commemoration of the birth of Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, thought to have lived in India from 563 B.C. to 483 B.C. Actually, the Buddhist tradition that celebrates his birthday on April 8 originally placed his birth in the 11th century B.C., and it was not until the modern…
Continue

Added by Walter Pearson on April 8, 2011 at 10:51am — No Comments

Friday! History, Remembrance, Life Appreciation, Quotes, Videos, Music...!

On This Date In 1605 Pope Leo XI (2 June 1535 – 27 April 1605), born Alessandro Ottaviano de' Medici, was Pope from 1 April 1605 to 27 April of the same year. He died on the 27th day of his pontificate, and was succeeded by Pope Paul V.…
Continue

Added by Walter Pearson on April 1, 2011 at 3:17am — No Comments

Friday! History, Remembrance, Life Appreciation, Quotes, Videos, Music...!

On This Date In 1605 Pope Leo XI (2 June 1535 – 27 April 1605), born Alessandro Ottaviano de' Medici, was Pope from 1 April 1605 to 27 April of the same year. He died on the 27th day of his pontificate, and was succeeded by Pope Paul V.…
Continue

Added by Walter Pearson on April 1, 2011 at 3:16am — No Comments

Latest Blog Posts

Most Popular Blog Posts

Blog Topics by Tags

Monthly Archives

2012

2011

2010

2009

1999

Tea Party Nation is a social network

 



© 2013   Created by Judson Phillips.

Badges  |  Report an Issue  |  Terms of Service

Sign in to chat!