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Posted on 12/27/22 at 5:29 am
Posted on 12/27/22 at 5:29 am
Today in History December 27
537 Hagia Sophia inaugurated by the Emperor Justinian I as an Eastern Orthodox cathedral
1932 Radio City Music Hall opens.
1943 Montgomery discusses Overlord with Eisenhower & Bedell Smith
1944 General George S. Patton's Third Army, spearheaded by the 4th Armored Division, relieves the surrounded city of Bastogne in Belgium.
1968 The United States agrees to sell F-4 Phantom jets to Israel.
1983 President Reagan takes all responsibility for the lack of security in Beirut that allowed a terrorist on a suicide mission to kill 241 Marines.
2001 China receives permanent normal trade relations with the US.
2004 Radiation reaches Earth from the brightest extrasolar event ever witnessed, an explosion of magnetar SGR 1806-20.
2009 The World Health Organization says 208 countries, territories and communities have reported H1N1 cases, including at least 12,220 deaths
Born on December 27
1822 Louis Pasteur, French chemist and microbiologist.
JOTD
A man goes to a $10 hooker and contracts crabs.
When he goes back to complain, the hooker laughs and says, "What do you expect for $10 -- lobster?"
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Posted on 12/27/22 at 12:00 pm to Armymann50
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537 Hagia Sophia inaugurated by the Emperor Justinian I as an Eastern Orthodox cathedral
It is hard for most Westerners to grasp just how important the Hagia Sophia was to the Eastern Orthodox Church. Russia fought a handful of wars solely with the intent of retaking the site from Turkey.
The Sophia is also one of the few places you can see classic Eastern Roman art. It was the Eastern half of the Roman empire that had most of the money and culture and they were a noted center of the arts. However, an iconoclasm movement swept through the Orthodox church that any artwork depicting religious subjects was evil and most of the classical art was destroyed.
Now only a handful of places have artwork from that time period... most of them in Italy. After the fall of Rome the Eastern Roman Empire managed, at various times, to briefly reconquer parts of Italy, but with their ongoing wars on their Eastern borders they were never able to hold onto them. But the artwork remains.
Posted on 12/27/22 at 9:45 pm to Armymann50
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1983 President Reagan takes all responsibility
the last time in recorded history this happened.
Posted on 12/28/22 at 12:17 pm to five_fivesix
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the last time in recorded history this happened.
1983 - yeah, could be when personal responsibility took a nose dive and it because popular to blame others. Even more true today.
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