Archive for December 16th, 2021

REMEMBERING THE CHRISTMAS CATALOG

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SPIEGEL 1969 CHRISTMAS BOOK Catalog SPIEGELS WISHBOOK '69 | eBay
Christmas Garland With Red Baubles Stock Photo - Download Image Now - iStock

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THREE MILITARY HEROS AWARDED MEDALS

Valor remembered: three U.S. Soldiers to receive military's top honor |  Article | The United States Army
From left: Sgt. 1st Class Alwyn Cashe, Sgt. 1st Class
Christopher Celiz and Master Sgt. Earl Plumlee  received
the Medal of Honor on Dec. 16, 2021 in a White House
ceremony.

President Joe Biden presents the Medal of Honor to Army Master Sgt. Earl Plumlee for his actions in Afghanistan on Aug. 28, 2013, during an event in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
President Biden awarding  the Medal of Honor to Master Sgt.
Earl Plumlee.

Honoring Utah's Medal of Honor Recipients - Utah Dept. of Veterans and  Military Affairs

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TROUBLE BREWING AT BOSTON HARBOR

7 Myths about the Boston Tea Party - Journal of the American Revolution

 

In Boston Harbor on this day in 1773, a group of Massachusetts
colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians board three British tea
ships and dump 342 chests of tea into the harbor.

The midnight raid, popularly known as the “Boston Tea Party,”
was in protest of the British Parliament’s Tea Act of 1773, a bill
designed to save the faltering East India Company by greatly
lowering its tea tax and granting it a virtual monopoly on the
American tea trade. The low tax allowed the East India Company
to undercut even tea smuggled into America by Dutch traders, a
nd many colonists viewed the act as another example of taxation
tyranny.

 

Cindy deRosier: My Creative Life: Boston Tea Party Drawing

 

 

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