Rebekah Marks⚓🧭🐈

Idealistic Pessimist. Christian, Medievalist, Pro-Western Civ, Historian, Cat slave, Chionophile. Books, cats, Dead White Males and occasional cups of tea.

[Save Standard Time @SaveStandard]

Congress is hiding permanent Daylight Saving Time (a mandate to start an hour early every winter day) in an unrelated bill. Tell your congress members to stop this. https://t.co/dO5ticm8U7

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Coats of Arms of the Thirteen Original Colonies

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

The richest man in America signed a document that could have gotten him hanged, and when someone sneered that he was safe because no one would know which Charles Carroll to come for, he picked up the pen and told the British exactly where to find him.

His name was Charles Carroll, and the colonies were crawling with men who shared it. His own father was Charles Carroll of Annapolis. So when the Declaration of Independence came to him for signing in 1776, a delegate made a cruel little joke. He said Carroll risked nothing by signing. There were so many Charles Carrolls that the King's men would never know which one to hang.

Carroll didn't argue. He leaned over the page and added three words to his signature: "of Carrollton." The name of his estate. His address. He was the only signer in the entire room who wrote down where he lived, and he did it on purpose, so that if the British wanted to come hang the traitor, they would know exactly which door to knock on.

That is who Charles Carroll of Carrollton was.

Here is what makes the moment even sharper. He was not a man with little to lose. He was the single wealthiest man in the thirteen colonies and the largest private landowner among them. While George Washington and John Hancock get talked about as rich men, it was Carroll who topped them all. When he signed, he was wagering the biggest personal fortune in America against a noose.

And he was the last man anyone would have expected to be there at all. Carroll was Catholic. In colonial Maryland, a colony founded as a Catholic refuge that had since turned on its own, Catholics could not vote. They could not hold public office. They could not worship in public. The most educated, wealthiest man in America was, in the eyes of the law, a second-class subject barred from the very government he was helping to create. He had spent seventeen years being educated by Jesuits in France and spoke five languages fluently, and back home he still could not legally cast a ballot.

So he became the only Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence, putting his name on a revolution that he hoped would build a country with room for men like him. That was its own enormous bet, made by a man the existing system had already shut out.

Then he simply outlived everyone.

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on the same astonishing day, July 4, 1826, exactly fifty years after the Declaration. When they were gone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton was the last living signer left on earth. For six more years he was the final human link to that room in Philadelphia, the last hand that had signed, a living relic of the founding that ordinary Americans traveled to see and shake.

He finally died in November 1832 at the age of ninety-five, fifty-six years after he wrote his address on a treason document and dared the empire to come find him.

The richest man in America. The only Catholic. The last one standing. He had more to lose than any of them, every legal reason to stay quiet, and he signed his full address anyway.

We remember the names we were handed in school. We forget the man who made sure his couldn't be mistaken for anyone else's.

Which Founding Father do you think history shortchanged the most?

[The English Remnant @Englishremnant]

Most Americans who call themselves Irish aren’t talking about the same thing as the famine Irish of Boston and New York.

A huge number are really Ulster-Scots — English and Scottish border stock, Protestant frontier people whose ancestors came out of the borderlands, were planted in Ulster, then pushed into Appalachia, Tennessee, Kentucky and the South. Not Dublin. Not Cork. Not the tenements. A harder, older story of border clans, rifles, honour, feuds, distrust of authority and life on the edge of empire.

The green beer version of Irish-American identity hides a lot. For millions, the real roots are English, Scottish, Ulster, frontier, Presbyterian, hill country and rebellion.

Different people. Different history. Different temperament. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧

[Rebekah Marks⚓🧭🐈 @LadyHamilton84]

@CaptFitzjamesRN I know in one artistic depiction of the John Ross/Parry expedition, they are shown together and Ross is shorter than Parry, but I think Parry was tall anyway? McClintock called JCR "short" which will always be funny to me.

[Rebekah Marks⚓🧭🐈 @LadyHamilton84]

@SCweather_wx So much hail it collects in drifts like snow and sudden torrential rivers out of nowhere? Just your average Colorado summer storm.

[Rebekah Marks⚓🧭🐈 @LadyHamilton84]

@MattWalshBlog J.J. Astor's Pacific Fur Company and the Astoria venture is a fascinating story. It ultimately failed, but the trail they created eventually became the Oregon Trail. It would make a great movie or TV series.

[Rebekah Marks⚓🧭🐈 @LadyHamilton84]

@HannahWardEdu I am a slave to six cats, and I would not have it any other way.

[Rebekah Marks⚓🧭🐈 @LadyHamilton84]

@HannahWardEdu Cats seem to automatically just know how to use a litter box. They are so smart.

[Rebekah Marks⚓🧭🐈 @LadyHamilton84]

Oh no! My book is ruined!!
Where's the tape?

[Rebekah Marks⚓🧭🐈 @LadyHamilton84]

@HannahWardEdu Thank you for saving her! Cats are amazing. Your life just got more fun.

[Mary Margaret Olohan @MaryMargOlohan]

SCOOP: Kamala Harris got rid of a historic bust of Christopher Columbus from her ceremonial VP office, source familiar tells @realDailyWire. When JD Vance took her place as VP, he found it and put it back — another reminder that in this White House, “Christopher Columbus is a hero.”

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

“The USS Constitution set out from the Charlestown Navy Yard and blasted this salute off Fort Independence on Castle Island.”
Video: WCVB Boston

[h and n @neilh32]

44 years ago today we were liberated by 2 Para. We had been locked up for 29 days , boy we were all pleased to see them ! Please retweet so that this message is seen.

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

A new DNA study has revived a long‑running theory that Christopher Columbus may not have been Italian at all, but actually Pedro Álvarez de Soutomaior, a Galician nobleman also known as Pedro Madruga. Researchers compared genetic material from remains believed to be linked to Columbus with DNA from documented descendants of Madruga’s family line, finding striking similarities.

This theory argues that Madruga disappeared from historical records after a regional war in Galicia, the same moment Columbus suddenly emerged in Portugal with a new identity, nautical expertise, and connections that would later launch his Atlantic voyages.

Supporters of the theory point to additional clues: Columbus named over 100 places in the Americas after Galician towns, and 80 handwriting experts have concluded that Columbus’s writing style is virtually identical to Madruga’s.

If true, this would radically reshape the accepted biography of one of history’s most famous explorers, suggesting he may have concealed his origins for political survival. While the theory remains debated, the new DNA evidence has pushed it further into mainstream historical discussion.

One of the strangest supporting clues is Columbus’s 'obsessive use of Galician‑Portuguese language patterns', even in private notes. His letters contain idioms, spelling habits, and grammatical structures that do not match Italian dialects of the era but align closely with the writing of nobles from southern Galicia.

Even more intriguing: Columbus repeatedly used Galician nautical terms that were not common in Genoa or broader Italy, but were standard among sailors from the exact region where Pedro Madruga ruled.

Linguists argue this is nearly impossible to fake, especially for someone supposedly born and raised in Italy, and it quietly strengthens the case that Columbus was hiding a past tied to Galicia’s political conflicts.

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[Secretary Doug Burgum @SecretaryBurgum]

Columbus Circle is a historic front door to Washington, D.C. and thanks to @POTUS, today it is once again ready to welcome the public! 🇺🇸

[Anthony Galli @AnthonyGalli]

@EndWokeness To mark the start of our New Age of Exploration, NASA should add a Columbus statue to the Moon.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Trump just restored Columbus Circle in DC. It hasn't flowed in 2 decades.

[‘Chinese’ Gordon 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Gordon_Pasha]

Stained glass windows dedicated to the memory of General Gordon

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[Vintage Maps @vintagemapstore]

North America’s Berries