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and the first three are destined to remain stuck on amber, because they have already found their ways into books of mine down the years: the first in "Travels In Familiar Lands", the second in "A Small Drop of Ink", the third in "A Journey in Time".
Jacob Barsimson, who was probably Ya'akov Bar Shimon, by whichever name the first Jew to settle in North America, arrived by boat in New York, which was then still New Amsterdam (the transfer happened ten years later, on September 8, 1664), today in 1654
Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet, drowned, off the coast of Leghorn, today in 1822
The Liberty Bell cracked, today in 1835 - sums it all up really, doesn't it!
Except that the last two numbers in the sum need to be reversed. The great Madama Butterfly incident, the day on which Commodore Matthew Perry led a naval fleet into Yedo Bay, Japan, to insist, at pain of military engagement, that peaceful, Buddhist, closed-to-the-barbaric-world Japan, open its markets to the ghastly garbage which is all America has ever had to trade, today in 1853. If ever you get asked to write an essay on the causes of the Second World War, Pacific section, this should be listed as Item One.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet, drowned, off the coast of Leghorn, today in 1822
The Liberty Bell cracked, today in 1835 - sums it all up really, doesn't it!
Except that the last two numbers in the sum need to be reversed. The great Madama Butterfly incident, the day on which Commodore Matthew Perry led a naval fleet into Yedo Bay, Japan, to insist, at pain of military engagement, that peaceful, Buddhist, closed-to-the-barbaric-world Japan, open its markets to the ghastly garbage which is all America has ever had to trade, today in 1853. If ever you get asked to write an essay on the causes of the Second World War, Pacific section, this should be listed as Item One.
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