SOMEthing to THINK ABOUT

on the INDEX, the Vatican's list of forbidden books

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) rocked the existing worldview and religious thoughts and dogma, by proposing, after several scientific experiments (with a Dutch telescope), that our planet is not the centre of God's universe but was in fact one of several planets orbiting the sun.

The Catholic Church rejected and condemned this analysis and in an infamous trial by the Inquisition in Rome (1632), Galileo was forced to admit publicly that he had been wrong and his writings were forbidden. Furthermore he was sentenced to house-arrest for life and forbidden to publish anything on this subject and/or have contact with other scientists.

But Galileo's new view on the cosmos and the solar system became prevalent and found his way into Europe's mainstream science.

It took the Roman Catholic Church till 1822 to lift the ban on his books and thoughts.

WHAT happened in 1775

The American Revolution begins this year, with the first military engagement being the April 19 Battles of Lexington and Concord on the day after Paul Revere's now-legendary ride. The Second Continental Congress takes various steps toward organizing an American government, appointing George Washington commander-in-chief (June 14), Benjamin Franklin postmaster general (July 26) and creating a Continental Navy (October 13) and a Marine force (November 10) as landing troops for it, but as yet the 13 colonies have not declared independence, and both the British (June 12) and American (July 15) governments make laws. On July 6, Congress issues the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms and on August 23, King George III of England declares the American colonies in rebellion, announcing it to parliament on November 10. On June 17, two months into the colonial siege of Boston, at the Battle of Bunker Hill, just north of Boston, British forces are victorious, but only after suffering severe casualties and after Colonial forces run out of ammunition, Fort Ticonderoga is taken by American forces in New York Colony's northern frontier, and American forces unsuccessfully invade Canada, with an attack on Montreal defeated by British forces on November 13 and an attack on Quebec repulsed December 31.

SiTU BASICS: RAIN
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THEY ARE EVEN POISONING THE RAIN. NO MORE RITUAL,CLEANSING OR PLAY.
CLEAR WATER IS LIFE. dM, SiTU

SOMEthing to THINK ABOUT

Ik vind het ongepast, dat in de tijden van crisis, die aanstaande zijn, de Nederlander naar het casino wordt gelokt. Tientallen malen per dag word ik op het internet en tv. met deze duivelse verleiding geconfronteerd.

Deze campagne wordt over ons uitgestort in opdracht van

DE NEDERLANDSE STAAT, trotse eigenaar van deze poelen des verderfs.

En dan denk ook aan de vele, potentiële, gokverslaafden, die bij elke muisklik

“What a wonderful night”

te horen krijgen.

dM, SiTU

EVERYTHING WILL BE REVEALED. SiTU

Minnares koning Albert spreekt openlijk

De moeder van Delphine Boël, Sybille de Selys Longchamp, doorbreekt na meer dan 40 jaar het stilzwijgen rond haar relatie met koning Albert II.

CONNECT THE DOTS. SiTU

Greatest Mysteries of WWII: Hitler's Stealth Fighter
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GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
Crew: 1
Length: 7.47 m (24 ft 6 in)
Wingspan: 16.76 m (55 ft 0 in)
Height: 2.81 m (9 ft 2 in)
Wing area: 50.20 m² (540.35 ft²)
Empty weight: 4,600 kg (10,141 lb)
Loaded weight: 6,912 kg (15,238 lb)
Max. takeoff weight: 8,100 kg (17,857 lb)
Powerplant: 2 × Junkers Jumo 004B turbojet, 8.7 kN (1,956 lbf) each

PERFORMANCE
Maximum speed: 977km/h (607 mph) at 12,000 metres (39,000 ft)
Service ceiling: 16,000 m (52,000 ft)
Rate of climb: 22 m/s (4,330 ft/min)
Wing loading: 137.7 kg/m² (28.2 lb/ft²)
Thrust/weight: 0.26

ARAMAMENT
Guns: 4 × 30 mm MK 108 cannon
Rockets: R4M rockets
Bombs: 2 × 500 kilograms (1,100 lb) bombs

WHAT HAPPENED IN 1186

Year 1186 (MCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.

Events

• January 27 – Constance of Sicily marries Henry (the future Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor).
• John the Chanter becomes Bishop of Exeter.
• The Byzantine Empire recognizes the independence of Bulgaria and Serbia.
• Joscius becomes Archbishop of Tyre.
• Jayavarman VII, the king of Cambodia, founds the temple of Ta Prohm.
• After the death of the child-king Baldwin V, his mother succeeds him as Sibylla of Jerusalem and appoints her disfavoured husband Guy de Lusignan king consort. This comes as a shock to Jerusalem's court, who had earlier forced the possible future Queen into promising that should she become so, she would not appoint him the title.
  
• Births
  

• May 18 – Konstantin of Rostov, Prince of Novgorod (d. 1218)
• Queen Urraca of Portugal, wife of King Afonso II of Portugal (d. 1220)
• Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk (d. 1225)
• Iziaslav IV Vladimirovich, Grand Prince of Kiev
• Ögedei Khan, third son of Genghis Khan and second Great Khan of the Mongol Empire (d. 1241)
• Song Ci, Chinese physician and judge (d. 1249)
  

Deaths

• January 26 – Ismat ad-Din Khatun, wife of Saladin
• May 29 or June 23 or June 24 – Robert of Torigni
• June 1 – Minamoto no Yukiie, Japanese warlord
• August 19 – Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1158)
• August – Baldwin V of Jerusalem (b. 1177)
• September 29 – William of Tyre, Archbishop of Tyre (b. c. 1130)