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"Humbugs and fol-de-rols!": Highlights from Nineteenth-Century American Drama
This final release of plays from Nineteenth-Century American Drama includes a devastating assault on Abraham Lincoln, an all-female cast in a courtroom drama meant to ridicule women, and a "Negro sketch in two scenes."
The Royal Ape. By William Russell Smith (1863)
William Russell Smith was a U.S. congressman from Alabama who served from 1851 to 1857. He subsequently served as a member of the first and second Confederate Congresses. Smith was not the first, nor the last, to describe Lincoln as a simian. He wrote this "dramatic poem" after the Union's defeat in the Battle of Manassas as the South preferred to call what the North called the First Battle of Bull Run. It is dated January 1, 1863, in anticipation of President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
Smith's cast of characters—with the exception of two former slaves, two White House maids, and extras including officers, soldiers, citizens, and senators—are all prominent politicians and generals of the time. In following the action of the play, knowledge of the actual events of the time provides some perspective.
Act I, Scene I, occurs in the White House on the eve of the battle which Smith refers to as Manassas. We discover Mrs. Lincoln and her son Robert who would have been age 20. He has just returned from the House of Representatives and describes with gusto a physical fight that had broken out there.
"The Drama Is—Rubbish": The Early Impact of 'The Black Crook,' the Shocking and Scandalous American Musical
"The Black Crook"—the progenitor of spectacular theater in the United States—opened at Niblo's Garden, a 3,000-seat New York City playhouse, on September 12, 1866. Whether this American musical can be called the country's first, "The Black Crook" had an immense impact on the future of popular entertainment in the U.S. Its initial production ran for nearly 500 performances and created a nationwide mania, stimulated by the clergy who railed against its abundant display of female pulchritude.
In his preface to "The Naked Truth!": An Inside History of The Black Crook (1897), digitized from the holdings of the New-York Historical Society and found in American Pamphlets, Joseph Whitton wrote:
It is curious that the history of the Black Crook—the pioneer of the American Spectacular Drama, and greater in tinseled gorgeousness and money-drawing power than any of its followers—should never have been told, or, rather, truthfully told.
Whitton by his own account had a "connection with the financial department of Niblo's Garden, previous to the production and during the run of the Crook," which "enables him to know the facts…"
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'Savage Sessions: The Lost History of Congressional Violence in Antebellum America' – Announcing the 2019 Readex ALA Breakfast Event
Readex will host a special breakfast presentation titled "Savage Sessions: The Lost History of Congressional Violence in Antebellum America" at the 2019 American Library Association conference in Washington, D.C. An open discussion will follow the talk by Joanne B. Freeman, Professor of History and American Studies, Yale University.
About the Presentation
In 1856, on the eve of the Civil War, a South Carolina congressman named Preston Brooks viciously attacked Senator Charles Sumner, an outspoken Massachusetts abolitionist, as he sat at his desk in the U.S. Senate chamber. Sumner's caning is unquestionably the most famous violent incident in Congress, but it was far from the only one.
After more than fifteen years of research and writing, historian Joanne Freeman—a leading authority on early American political culture—has uncovered roughly 70 incidents of physical violence in the House and Senate chambers in the decades leading up to the Civil War, most of them long forgotten. Fistfights, guns and knives, canings, duels, and all-out brawls were essentially censored out of the period's equivalent of the Congressional Record. These incidents show how violence—both the threat of it and the actual fact of it—was a tool of debate on the part of Southerners who threatened Northerners into compliance or silence on the contentious issue of slavery.
'A Melancholy Catalogue of Events': Highlights from Territorial Papers of the United States
The April release of Territorial Papers of the United States, 1765-1953, has added more than 350 additional documents to this unique digital collection. Among them are the two Civil War-era reports below from top officials of the New Mexico Territory: Henry Connelly and William Frederick Milton Arny. Both were appointed to their positions by President Lincoln.
Third Annual Message of Governor Connelly to Legislature, December 6, 1864
Addressing "Gentlemen of the Council And House of Representatives," Henry Connelly writes:
The mind of man is a mighty maze in which is engendered, not only the more amiable qualities of the heart, those which teach us charity towards our fellow-beings, and amiabilities of social life, but it is also the laboratory from which do sometimes issue the effects of passion, that lead to the unhappiness of the human race. Pride, envy, egotism, malevolence, and ambition, so unamiable in private life, frequently become criminal when carried into the discharge of public duties.
Connelly continues:
The exercise of these virtues is as essential in legislation as it is in the intercourse of social life. Courtesy in discussion, charity and consideration, with respect to the motives and intentions of your associates, and harmony in your councils, cannot fail to result in honor to yourselves and in benefit to the public.
What makes a primary source interface a GREAT interface?
When Readex recently posed this question to a wide range of researchers, we heard four crucial things:
Modern styling—researchers want primary source databases that are visually engaging and feel "right"
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Flexible tools that optimize content use and which map to common user needs and workflows.
With this feedback front and center, Readex has been busy making fresh improvements to its interfaces.
Two months ago I had the pleasure of announcing a major overhaul of the America's Historical Newspapers and World Newspaper Archive platform. User reaction has been extremely positive, and it's gratifying to see more usage and better research outcomes.
We've already saved many users a substantial amount of time, too, by introducing a number of efficiencies to the interface.
Of course the work is never done, nor should it be. It's important to stay abreast of needs and to make continuous improvements to our interfaces and services.
During the past several months we've been focusing on the fourth bullet above—"flexible tools that optimize content use." Much of our effort has focused on enhancing the "document view" experience (sometimes called the "image viewer") in our products. This is where users encounter the actual primary source in image form.
Throughout 2018, we met with users and asked them about the image viewer. Here's what they said:
Secrets, Deception and Thwarted Love: Comediettas in Nineteenth-Century American Drama
Hundreds of plays in Nineteenth-Century American Drama are designated as comedies in their titles. Of these, there are scores of scripts subtitled as comedietta which oxforddictionaries.com defines as "a short comedy, typically light-hearted or farcical in tone or subject matter." Some common themes are entwined in most comediettas. As seen in these examples, these themes include mistaken identity (accidental or deliberate), talking at cross purposes and other miscommunications, inheritances with conditions, and love triumphant.
Miss Madcap: A Comedietta in One Act
By Charles Townsend
This comedy concerns a will with conditions that necessitate deception. When the curtain rises, Clara is sorting through her mail, opening a letter from her father. She reads it aloud.
"My dear daughter. Your aunt Charlotte is dead. She leaves her fortune to your cousin, Augustus Everson, and yourself—provided you two marry. If either of you refuse to marry, the property goes to the other. I have just seen Augustus. He looks like a dude, but he will hardly throw away a fortune by refusing to marry you, and, although he is a bitter pill—well, suit yourself. He is coming to see you. As ever, your loving father."
'Every honest man in Montana': Highlights from Territorial Papers of the United States
The March release of Territorial Papers of the United States, 1765-1953, includes several items relating to the fascinating history of the Territory of Montana.
Clipping, on Calling of Political Convention (1866)
Born in Waterford, Ireland, Thomas Francis Meagher (1823-1867) led the Young Irelanders in the Rebellion of 1848. He was convicted of sedition and sentenced to death. Instead, Meagher was "transported for life" to Australia.
Escaping to the United States in 1852, he worked as a journalist, studied law, and lectured on Irish nationalism. At the outbreak of the Civil War Meagher joined the Army, eventually becoming a brigadier general. After the war President Andrew Johnson appointed Meagher as Montana's Territorial Secretary of State; he also served as acting governor until Governor Green Clay Smith (1826-1895) arrived and assumed the executive duties.
Early in January 1866 the Montana Democrat reported:
Gov. Meagher has changed the time of the election of Delegates of the Convention, to Saturday, the 24th day of February, 1866, and the meeting of the same to Monday, the 26th day of March. The reasons for the change are given in connection with the Proclamation, which are quite satisfactory.
The Governor's proclamation can also be found in this collection. Defending the Governor from accusations of political chicanery, the Montana Democrat continued:
Illuminating Our Own Moment (Nineteenth-Century American Drama): A Conversation with Professor Amy E. Hughes
Posted on Mon, 3/25/2019 - 10:37
Amy E. Hughes is Associate Professor of Theater History and Criticism at Brooklyn College (CUNY). In this January 2019 interview, she discusses how the study of theater deepens our understanding of history and society; what happens in the classroom when students use these kinds of primary sources; and what the digitization of collections like Nineteenth-Century America Drama has meant to her.
Prof. Hughes' first book, Spectacles of Reform: Theater and Activism in Nineteenth-Century America, received the 2013 Barnard Hewitt Award from the American Society for Theatre Research. Her latest book is A Player and a Gentleman: The Diary of Harry Watkins, Nineteenth-Century U.S. American Actor (2018), a critical and digital edition of the pre-Civil War diary of actor-playwright Harry Watkins, coedited with Naomi J. Stubbs.
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Rhyming Verse Reveal, Wielded Women, and a Fraught Freedom: Readex Report (March 2019)
In this issue: Ferreting out forgotten verses of a gifted female poet; using women's reputations as weapons in Jacksonian Era politics; and Caribbean slaves take faltering steps toward freedom.
The Value of Digitized Newspaper Collections in Researching Neglected Women's Writing: Two Newly Recovered Works by Ella Rhoads Higginson, First Poet Laureate of Washington State
Laura Laffrado, Professor of English, Western Washington University
In recent years, my scholarly efforts have been devoted to the recovery of Ella Rhoads Higginson (1862?-1940), the first prominent literary author from the U.S. Pacific Northwest and the first Poet Laureate of Washington State. Internationally celebrated for her writing, Higginson put the Pacific Northwest on the literary map. People across the nation and around the world were first introduced to the Pacific Northwest and the people who lived there when they read Higginson's award-winning… > Full Story
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Scott Pruitt is one step closer to being the next leader of the Environmental Protection Agency.
On Thursday, Republicans on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee voted 11-0 to confirm Pruitt, who serves as Oklahoma Attorney General.
Democrats on the committee boycotted the vote.
Pruitt, a climate change skeptic, was one of 14 attorneys general suing the EPA over regulations to limit carbon emissions put in place by the Obama administration.
The entire Senate will vote on his confirmation next week and the advocacy group Environment Florida is calling on the Sunshine State's two senators to reject his nomination.
"This country needs an Environmental Protection Agency Administrator whose top priority is protecting our air and water and our families' health," says Turner Lott, Environment Florida's campaign organizer. "We need somebody willing to enforce and defend our bedrock environmental laws and a leader guided by science when creating and implementing policy."
The organization is one of several environmental groups criticizing Trump's choice at EPA.
While Environment Florida is calling on both senators to oppose Pruitt, Marco Rubio already declared his support.
"The next EPA administrator should be someone who understands the important balance between protecting our air, water and environment without needlessly hurting workers with excessive regulations," Rubio said in a Jan. 10 statement. "Attorney General Pruitt is the right choice to bring a much-needed dose of common sense to a department where overzealous, out-of-touch regulators have been allowed to operate seemingly unchecked. I look forward to working with him on the many important environmental issues facing Florida."
Florida's senior Senator, Bill Nelson, is getting lobbied from both sides to either support or oppose Pruitt. The Florida Democrat pleased liberals Wednesday by announcing his opposition to Betsy DeVos for Education Secretary.
"I will be joining my Republican colleagues Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski in voting 'no' against Betsy DeVos," Nelson declared in a statement.
"Floridians and all Americans deserve an EPA administrator who will fight to protect the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the planet we love. Scott Pruitt fails on all these accounts," Lott said. "The Senate must stand with science. The Senate must stand up for our families' health, clean water and clean air.
"We urge Senators Nelson and Rubio to reject President Trump's nomination of Scott Pruitt to head the EPA."
In this article:Betsy DeVos, Bill Nelson, Environment Florida, Lisa Murkowski, Marco Rubio, Scott Pruitt, Susan Collins
Written By Mitch Perry
Mitch Perry has been a reporter with Extensive Enterprises since November of 2014. Previously, he served five years as political editor of the alternative newsweekly Creative Loafing. Mitch also was assistant news director with WMNF 88.5 FM in Tampa from 2000-2009, and currently hosts MidPoint, a weekly talk show, on WMNF on Thursday afternoons. He began his reporting career at KPFA radio in Berkeley and is a San Francisco native who has lived in Tampa since 2000. Mitch can be reached at mitch.perry@floridapolitics.com.

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This week's episode of Focal Point, we're live from Lansing's Christmas tradition, "Silver Bells in the City." The face of Michigan State Basketball is now in Detroit's Thanksgiving parade. With new bills in the Michigan House, sports betting may soon be legal in the state.
Transgender Day of Remembrance was this past Wednesday and members of the Transgender community gave us some insight on the holiday. The Sears at Frandor Shopping Center has announced it's closing early next year.
In sports, Michigan State football had a tough loss to in-state rival Michigan while the basketball team had a more personal loss.
In entertainment, we preview movies coming to theaters soon as well as the dying market for video stores.
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T-Mobile's John Legere Talks Apple SIM, iPhone 6 Demand, and Landing the iPhone
Monday October 27, 2014 9:36 pm PDT by Juli Clover
T-Mobile CEO John Legere today took the stage at Re/code's Code/Mobile event in Half Moon Bay, California, where he spoke on the new Apple SIM, demand for the iPhone 6 Plus, and the importance of selling the iPhone.
According to Legere, the launch of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus was T-Mobile's biggest phone launch the company had ever seen, and Legere called demand for the iPhone 6 Plus "mind blowing." He said that it skewed very differently from what the company anticipated, and while he couldn't comment on the current demand ratio, he said at one point it was around 55/45 rather than the 75/25 or 80/20 projected in favor of the iPhone 6. Legere said that while the backlog is coming down, it will be awhile before the company is able to provide devices to everyone.
While on stage, Legere sorted out much of the confusion surrounding the Apple SIM, which is designed to allow users to easily switch from carrier to carrier with their iPad Air 2 or iPad mini 3. According to Legere, when bought from Apple, the SIM card in the iPad Air 2 and the iPad mini 3 offers customers complete flexibility, letting them choose Sprint, T-Mobile, or AT&T.
iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3 devices that Apple sent to T-Mobile and AT&T for sale include Apple SIMs that are pre-coded to each carrier, which means the SIM cards can't be used interchangeably. Because the iPads purchased directly from Apple are usable with any participating carrier (Verizon has opted out), Legere recommends that users purchase the iPad Air 2 and the iPad mini 3 directly from an Apple Store.
Apple SIMs from an iPad Air 2 or iPad mini 3 purchased from the Apple Store and then associated with a T-Mobile plan will remain unlocked and usable with other carrier plans, but an Apple SIM activated on an AT&T plan will be permanently locked to the carrier, requiring a new Apple SIM if a user wants to switch plans.
Legere also commented on the importance of the iPhone, stating that "[a] store without the iPhone is sh*t," and attributing much of T-Mobile's recent success to its partnership with Apple. Legere noted one of his tasks upon taking the reins of T-Mobile two years ago was to do whatever it took to land the iPhone, and he accomplished it, noting that he was willing to "get down on his knees" to make a deal happen.
Full interview with John Legere (Caution: some strong language)
Just ahead of Legere's appearance at Code/Mobile, T-Mobile announced its Q3 2014 earnings, noting that it saw its biggest growth quarter in the company's history. T-Mobile added 2.3 million customers during the quarter (1.4 million postpaid net adds), with revenue up 10.6 percent to $5.7 billion. T-Mobile also announced that it hit its LTE goals for 2014, bringing LTE service to 250 million customers.
Since 2013, T-Mobile has been on a quest to revamp the mobile industry with a series of Un-carrier initiatives that have thus far seen it uncoupling device fees from service charges, encouraging customers to switch to T-Mobile by paying early termination fees, offering a JUMP! upgrade plan, providing unlimited texting and 2G data in 100 countries, letting customers test drive an iPhone at no cost, offering free streaming music, and bringing Wi-Fi calling to all T-Mobile customers with compatible devices.
yaboyac29
108 months ago
He keeps it real. Need more CEOs like this
redman042
Look at how much Apple has shaken up the mobile industry since the iphone was launched. The carriers will drop to their knees (figuratively or literally) to sell Apple's products, with no bloatware or customization or logos of any kind.
Times have sure changed.
BillyMatt87
I think John Legere is one hell of a CEO and I T-Mobile has done an incredible job shaking up the wireless industry.
That being said, T-Mobile's service (coverage-wise) is atrocious, I switched from Sprint (a really bad service provider in its own right) and I was impressed with the data speeds in the few areas that I had solid coverage but I had such little coverage that I ultimately switched to Verizon when I got my iPhone 6 and haven't looked back.
Verizon and AT&T are the only good carriers in the US and while they're pricier than T-Mobile and Sprint, you definitely get what you pay for.
bearda
Was with him right up until he said stores without the iPhone were s!£*
I have an iPhone and I like it.
Others for reasons I cannot quite get prefer Android and that's fine. I don't think they are **** though.
Can't take him seriously.
His point seemed to be if you don't offer the iPhone you're ****, not that everything else is ****. The iPhone separated the tier 1 carriers from everyone else for a long time. It didn't matter if you actually ended up buying an iPhone or not; like car buying there's a halo effect to just having it available. I don't read his statement as disparaging other devices, though.
cowbellallen
This guy is the main reason I switched from Verizon to T-Mobile. I sold my unlimited Verizon plan for $600 once the iPhone 6 was announced, and now my bill is half of what it used to be. Customer service has been great, especially their Twitter support.
I'll mention that their iPhone launch was absolutely terrible, but so was everyone else's. T-Mobile wouldn't even let new customers buy the phone online, only existing members.
If T-Mobile service is good in your area, this guy is a great reason to switch. CEOs like this are very rare and need to be supported.
iolinux333
Maybe this guy could run Apple when TC is moved out.


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Blu-ray Review: Teen Titans GO to the Movies!
November 7, 2018 | By Herija Green | comment on this post
The Teen Titans come face to face with Slaaaaaaaaaade…
Coincidentally, we first stumbled upon Teen Titans GO when they were doing a special on Cartoon Network promoting the release of their new movie… this movie, Teen Titans GO to the Movies! Turns out we enjoyed the show — a far cry from the much more serious Teen Titans show we'd seen years prior — and found ourselves interested in checking it out.
In a world where every superhero gets his own movie, one person is feeling left out, Robin. The leader of the Teen Titans believes the only way to legitimize himself and the team is to get their own film franchise. His dreams look like they're about to be realized during a Batman screening as trailers for spin-offs are shown, but when Robin celebrates prematurely he ends up getting laughed out of the theatre.
As a group, the Titans — Robin, Cyborg, Beast Boy, Raven and Starfire — decide that what they need to be taken seriously is an arch-nemesis. Enter Slade (Will Arnett), a Deadpool ripoff that they encounter as he tries to steal a crystal from S.T.A.R. Labs. They're eventually able to stop him, and that gives them the boost they need to get famed superhero director Jade Wilson (Kristen Bell) to make a movie about them.
Things don't go smoothly out in Hollywood, however, with the other Titans destroying a sinister-looking but theoretically innocent satellite for a streaming service while Robin is being given a tour of the premises. After that, Wilson fires the Titans and proposes a solo project entitled Robin: The Movie, which Robin accepts much to the team's dismay. With his friends gone, will Robin finally get the recognition he covets or are dark forces at work here?
There are inherent concerns with taking a short, fast-paced cartoon and stretching it into a feature-length film (even if it is on the short side at around 80 minutes), but Teen Titans GO holds up from start to finish. The pacing is brisk without being manic, and there are some scenes and musical numbers that are laugh-out loud funny.
Part of the film's charm is putting serious characters in ridiculous situations, and it does so to great effect. Watching the Titans ride big wheels to travel back through time to prevent origin stories from happening is probably the highlight of that approach whether they're fixing Krypton or guiding the Wayne family through a safer part of town. Taking a new, silly twist on stories we're all familiar with was a great idea.
From a parents' perspective, one of things we really appreciated was that this was something we could watch together that wasn't Pixar or Disney, and in that way it felt really fresh. Its meta-humour about the proliferation of superhero films is an easy target, but it's still well done. And does anyone have a better voice for animation than Arnett? He's perfect as Slaaaaaaaade.
While this won't go down as an animated classic, it understands what it is and what it wants to be, and we don't have much to complain about. The animation style is a little rough, but that's part and parcel to the show so it didn't need to be changed. It leans into the potty humour at times, which may bother parents of younger children, but we were OK with that, too.
THE BONUS FEATURES
Although there are quite a few extras, none of them are very long or interesting. An animated short about Bat Girl is probably the best, and there's an extra song that wasn't in the movie, though it lasts less than a minute and is only storyboards. A couple of sing-alongs might be fun for kids, while a handful of snippets translated in multiple languages is worth a chuckle.
Fast paced, colourful and legitimately funny, Teen Titans GO to the Movies! is well worth your time whether you're an existing fan of the series or not.
By Herija Green
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• What is a relational database? What is SQL?
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This class will be taught in four blocks of two hours each, with food being provided by Pillar Technology.
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Robert E. Lee, who was considered to be the greatest soldier fighting for the Confederate States of America, descended from a long line of famous heroes. Many of Lee's ancestors played important roles in America's history. His father was a Revolutionary War hero and a friend of George Washington. He was often referred to as "Light Horse Harry" Lee.
Lee was born on January 19, 1807 in Stratford, Virginia. Lee always admired Washington, and was his hero as a youngster. Young Lee decided to become a soldier, partly because of the military tradition of his family. Lee enrolled in West Point Military Academy and graduated 2nd in his class in 1829. Lee majored in military engineering and supervised several army projects, he was named Second Lieutenant in the Corp engineers. His devotion and hard work in supervising harbor improvements in Saint Louis got him promoted to Captain in 1838.
As a captain, his first experience in actual battle was in the Mexican War. He served under General Winfield Scott, and was the best engineer in General Scott's campaign. Lee's actions at the battles of Cerro Gordo, Churubusco, and Chapultepec received many high praises and earned him a reputation. General Scott claimed that the success of the war was due to Lee's bravery and skills, Lee was appointed the rank of Colonel.
In 1582 he was appointed superintendent of West Point Military Academy. Under his service, James B. McPherson, Phillip Sheridan, and John Bell Hood would graduate from the academy, soon to be famous. Lee finished his duty as the superintendent in 1855, and served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Second Cavalry, stationed in Texas.
In 1859, while serving in Texas, Lee was sent to command a group of Marines to suppress John Brown's uprising. John Brown was a northern abolitionist would believed a rebellion in the south would lead to abolition. He was taken down by Lee's forces. After suppressing the uprising, Lee was called to Washington is 1861. The succesion movement had begun. Some southern states had left, but Lee's own Virginia was still uncertain.
As much as Lee had supported the Union, he couldn't bear the sight of union soldiers invading and destroying his hometown. Lee had thought over this matter for days, and finally decided to resign from the union forces and offer his help to the confederacy. When Lee reached Richmond, Virginia had succeeded and they had appointed Lee commander of Virginia Military forces.
When Virginia joined the confederacy, the capital was set at Richmond, and they took over all the forces Lee controlled. Although Lee was a full colonel, he had no troops. Finally the confederacy's president, Jefferson Davis, sent him to stop Union foces coming in from Western Virginia. He failed and was reassigned to building coastal fortifications in South Carolina and Georgia.
Lee was called back to Richmond in 1862 and appointed by president Jefferson Davis to be the chief commander of all Confederate forces. Although his name sounded powerful, it was actually very pathetic. President Davis took the matters into his own hands, and only allowed Lee to interfere in small decisions of the war. Soon after Lee was appointed, a large Union force had approached the gates of Richmond, and he was sent to stop the penetration of union forces.
Lee arrived in Richmond in June of 1862. The Union army was under the command of General McClellan, and was only a few miles away from the city along the Chickhominy River. Lee had decided to destroy the smaller group of union forces guarding the north side of the river, and push the rest back from there. Lee also took a great risk by only leaving a small portion of his army guarding the gates of the city. Anyway, Lee was successful in pushing the union forces back 25 miles in the next 7 days.
The union government retreated General McClellan's forces back up to Northern Virginia where they will regroup with General Pope's forces. Lee, receiving word of this plan, hurried his forces to meet pope before McClellan. Again, he took the risk of only leaving a small force behind to guard the city. He was successful in crushing Pope's forces. Lee had pushed Pope's forces back to Washington, and had decided to invade the state of Maryland. McClellan moved his forces to meet Lee, and the two forces clashed in the battle of Antietam. McClellan attacked Lee but failed to break his lines, and Lee realizing the shortage of supplies, retreated to a defensive position behind the Rappahannock river. In December of 1862, Ambrose E. Burnside, led the union forces and attacked Lee. Lee led a terrifying response which resulted in a major Confederate victory.
In the spring of 1863, Lee sent Stonewall Jackson to attacked the union forces from the right while Lee led a frontal attack. Lee wanted to divide the union forces into two and destroy them at Chancellorsville, he did so and gave the south another major victory. But the remaining union forces managed to withdraw across the river. After Chancellorsville, Lee began an offensive movement, hoping to win the war. He decided to invade Pennsylvania. Lee moved his forces up and was confronted by union forces at Gettysburg in s three day battle. Lee threw strong attacks at the union forces, but was repulsed with heavy losses. The battle of Gettysburg was the largest battle ever fought in North America. He was criticized for attempting an impossible battle, the union forces had and advantageous position and more men.
After Gettysburg, Lee retreated back to Virginia for the rest of the war. With the loss of more and more soldiers, Lee had no choice but to start taking a defensive position. In the spring of 1864, General Ulysses Grant got control of the union forces and decided to bring Lee into northern Virginia and crush the confederate forces there. Grant rushed to Petersburg, hoping to seize the railroad the was supplying Lee with supplies. Lee had arrived first and Grant started a siege. In 1865, Grant finally seized control of the railroads and lee retreated to the west. Lee, realizing his loss of men, met Grant at Appomattox and surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia.
After the war, Lee was considered a hero of the south, with dignity he accepted his defeat and preached to his people the necessity of peace and national unity. He later became the principal of Washington college at Lexington. He died on October 12, 1870.
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-- Wearing uniforms that honored the Olympic champion 1960 U.S. hockey team and deploying a lineup that included the son of a player from the 1980 "Miracle on Ice" squad, the current U.S. Olympic team made some history of its own Sunday.
In an exhilarating game that often went end to end without giving fans a moment's pause to do more than gasp, the Americans punished Canada goalie Martin Brodeur for his puckhandling mistakes and rode a two-goal, one-assist performance by Brian Rafalski to a 5-3 winat a jam-packed Canada Hockey Place.
The U.S. earned first place in Group A and a bye into the quarterfinals while sentencing Canada to compete in a play-in game against Germany Tuesday.
"It's phenomenal. I wouldn't want to play Canada anywhere else than in Canada, and beating them in Canada feels great," defenseman Jack Johnson said after the first U.S. victory over Canada in Olympic play in 50 years. This was the seventh try since a 2-1 American win at Squaw Valley in 1960.
Rafalski scored his third and fourth goals of the tournament -- equaling his total in 57 games with the Detroit Red Wings -- and fellow defenseman Ryan Suter, son of 1980 gold medalist Bob Suter, set up two goals.
And when Canada gave its fans some hope and pulled within a goal on Sidney Crosby's power-play redirection of a Rick Nash pass at 16:51 of the third period, U.S. goalie Ryan Miller protected that precious 4-3 lead until Ryan Kesler scored into an empty net with 44.7 seconds left. Canada had a 14-4 edge in shots in the third period and 45-23 overall, but the U.S. players weren't cowed.
"It gives our guys a lot of confidence," said Rafalski, the oldest U.S. player at 36. "They didn't realize or know what they could get done. Going forward it's going to give them confidence to play with anybody."
Canada had every reason to feel confident Sunday with a bigger and deeper team. But talent doesn't always translate to results, as Brodeur showed.
He's one of the best among his brethren at playing the puck -- and he has more freedom to roam without the NHL's trapezoid to limit him -- but he simply goofed by throwing the puck up the middle on Rafalski's second goal.
"I hate to say it but I think we just need to play more games," Brodeur said. "There's things we need to work on."
They can start with not giving up the kinds of gifts that Brodeur dispensed.
"Not taking anything away from them, but we kind of gave them some of their goals. We didn't make them work for some of them," Canada defenseman Duncan Keith said.
"It's a good eye-opener. We realize that we've lost a game and there's no pressure now."
Rafalski scored the first U.S. goal by taking a cross-ice pass from Suter and slapping a shot that glanced off Canada's Sidney Crosby and past Brodeur 41 seconds into the game. Canada tied it at 8:53 on Eric Staal's redirection of a shot by defenseman Brent Seabrook, but Rafalski put the U.S. ahead, 2-1, at 9:15 by intercepting Brodeur's clearing attempt and firing it home from about 35 feet.
"I saw what he did and I said, 'I've seen him do that before,"' said Rafalski, formerly Brodeur's teammate with New Jersey. "There were people up the right side and nobody up the middle."
Canada pulled even at 3:32 of the second period, as Chicago's Jonathan Toews passed across the slot to Dany Heatley, who had an open right side of the net. But the U.S. surged ahead again at 16:46 after Canada was scrambling in its own end and Brodeur had flopped on his belly.
With defenseman Dan Boyle standing in the crease, Chris Drury flicked the puck home on assists from Bobby Ryan and brawny David Backes. Brodeur said Drury bumped him. "After that the puck went up in the air and I tried to poke check and it just got chaotic there," Brodeur said.
Jamie Langenbrunner extended the U.S. lead to 4-2 at 7:09 of the third period. That held up until Crosby trimmed the Americans' lead to one.


HAMILTON, Bermuda--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 11, 2019-- Everest Re Group, Ltd. ("Everest") (NYSE: RE) today reported fourth quarter 2018 net loss of $382.3 million, or $9.50 per common share, compared to net income of $571.0 million, or $13.85 per diluted common share for the fourth quarter of 2017. After-tax operating loss1 was $236.9 million, or $5.89 per common share, for the fourth quarter of 2018, compared to after-tax operating income¹ of $535.5 million, or $12.98 per diluted common share, for the same period last year.
For the year ended December 31, 2018, net income was $103.6 million, or $2.53 per diluted common share, compared to net income of $469.0 million, or $11.36 per diluted common share, for the year ended December 31, 2017. After-tax operating income¹ was $190.7 million, or $4.65 per diluted common share, compared to after-tax operating income¹ of $412.6 million or $10.00 per diluted common share, for the same period in 2017.
Effective this year, the Company changed its reporting of operating income, a non-GAAP financial measure. Historically operating income represented net income, excluding realized capital gains and losses and the tax impact related to the enactment of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Starting in first quarter 2018, the Company further adjusted operating income to exclude foreign exchange gains and losses as it believes the impact of foreign currency movements on income is not indicative of the performance of the underlying business in a particular period.
Gross written premiums for the quarter were $2.3 billion, an increase of 18% compared to the fourth quarter of 2017. Worldwide reinsurance premiums were up 26% to $1.7 billion with growth across each segment including increased casualty and property pro-rata premium, increased shares on existing business and profitable new growth.
The combined ratio was 134.1% for the quarter and 108.8% for the year, compared to 70.0% and 103.5% for the same periods in 2017. Excluding catastrophe losses, reinstatement premiums and the favorable prior period loss development, the current attritional combined ratio was 90.4% for the quarter and 87.0% for the year, compared to 83.7% and 85.0% for the same periods in 2017.
Catastrophe losses, net of reinsurance and reinstatement premiums, amounted to $875.0 million in the quarter, primarily related to losses from Hurricane Michael, the California Camp and Woolsey wildfires and an Australia hailstorm event.
Net investment income amounted to $140.2 million for the quarter and $581.2 million for the full year 2018, up 7% over the full year 2017 results.
Net after-tax realized losses amounted to $143.9 million for the quarter. For the full year, net after-tax realized capital losses were $109.1 million, while net after-tax unrealized capital losses were $228.2 million.
Cash flow from operations was $66.4 million for the quarter and $610.1 million for the full year 2018. This compared to $118.5 million and $1.2 billion for the same period, respectively, in 2017.
Although no shares were repurchased during the quarter, the Company repurchased 342,179 shares at a total cost of $75.3 million for the year 2018. The repurchases were made pursuant to a share repurchase authorization, provided by the Company's Board of Directors, under which there remains 1.4 million shares available.
Shareholders' equity ended the year at $7.9 billion compared to $8.4 billion at year end 2017. Book value per share was down from $204.95 at December 31, 2017 to $194.43 at December 31, 2018.
A conference call discussing the fourth quarter results will be held at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time on February 12, 2019. The call will be available on the Internet through the Company's web site or at www.streetevents.com.
Recipients are encouraged to visit the Company's web site to view supplemental financial information on the Company's results. The supplemental information is located at www.everestre.com in the "Financial Reports" section of the "Investor Center". The supplemental financial information may also be obtained by contacting the Company directly.
Return on equity calculations use adjusted shareholders' equity excluding net after-tax unrealized (appreciation) depreciation of investments.


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President of Ukraine Poroshenko Presented new version of Dozor-B armored car. The Dozor-B is also used by special units of the armed forces (quick reaction forces and military police) to carry out reconnaissance, patrolling, and peace-keeping operations, as well as being used as the main transportation vehicle under combat conditions (including NBC environment).
Dozor-B is an combat armoured vehicle with 4×4 wheel arrangement intended for transportation of personnel, cargo and mounting of light armament of different type, communication means and special equipment. DOZOR-B APC can be efficiently used in special units of the armed forces (quick-reaction forces and military police) during reconnaissance, observational and peace-keeping operations as transport facility in combat conditions (including usage of weapons of mass destruction).
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