United States History, Conspiracy Facts, and an Attitude Problem. PhD student in History @LibertyU. Witches of Washington podcast producer. Witch Hunters Unite!
I am far from insensible, that at this extraordinary Time of the Devils coming down in great Wrath upon us, there are too many Tongues and Hearts thereby set on fire of Hell; that the various Opinions about the Witchcrafts which of later time have troubled us, are maintained by some with so much cloudy Fury, as if they could never be sufficiently stated, unless written in the Liquor wherewith Witches use to write their Covenants; and that he who becomes an Author at such a time, had need be fenced with Iron, and the Staff of a Spear.
--Cotton Mather
@UScrimeReview Oh, the problem will solve itself. These people cannot compete with frontier AI. This is the UBI class. Do you see how they are dismantling SNAP benefits? They want UBI because those fake degrees will soon become more worthless than they already are.
@EmeraldRobinson Now that you mention it, the Constitution was written in secret, with a goal of forcing different governments together. And Ben Franklin was a bit of a media man. There is nothing new under the sun.
@MoundLore 0.o fun fact: Washington used a hemp rope to hang Thomas Hickey in front of like 14-20,000 people, mostly soldiers (gotta send that message).
In the dense forests of Tsenacommacah, around 1596, a girl named Matoaka was born to the paramount chief Powhatan. They called her Pocahontas—“the playful one”—for her lively spirit amid the longhouses and rivers of the Powhatan confederacy. When English ships anchored at Jamestown in 1607, she was a child of about eleven.
Captain John Smith later claimed she flung herself across him to spare his execution; historians judge the tale inflated or invented, yet the young woman did move between worlds, carrying food and messages that briefly eased the settlers’ hunger.
In 1613 English raiders seized her on the Potomac. Held hostage at Jamestown for more than a year, she learned English ways, accepted baptism as Rebecca, and in 1614 married the tobacco planter John Rolfe.
Their union, one of the first recorded between colonist and Native, produced a son, Thomas, and a fragile peace that lasted only as long as she lived. In 1616 the family sailed to England. There the “Indian princess” walked the streets of London in English dress, met the king, and became a living emblem of the New World’s promise.
Within months disease claimed her. She died at Gravesend in March 1617, not yet twenty-two, and was buried in foreign soil far from the rivers of her childhood.
The doctor who delivered Dolly Parton in a one-room Tennessee cabin in 1946 was paid with a sack of cornmeal. Her father farmed other people's land and could not read or write. Eighty years later, the reading program she built in his name has mailed more than 300 million books.
She wrote "I Will Always Love You" on the same afternoon she wrote "Jolene," as a goodbye to Porter Wagoner, and released it in 1974. Elvis wanted it. The night before the session, Colonel Tom Parker called and said Presley would only record it if they got half the publishing, meaning half of everything the song ever earned. She had been in Nashville ten years by then. She said no, and cried all night. Whitney Houston cut her version in 1992, held number one for fourteen weeks, and Forbes later put Parton's royalties from it near $10 million. She put some of that money into an office complex in Nashville and called the place the house that Whitney built.
Dollywood opened in Pigeon Forge in 1986 because she wanted paychecks in the county she came from. Around 4,000 people work there now. Three million visitors come every year. The University of Tennessee put its economic impact at $1.8 billion, and it is the largest employer in Sevier County. Since 2022 the company has paid tuition, fees, and books in full for every worker from their first day, seasonal hires included.
Wildfires tore through those mountains in November 2016, killing fourteen people and destroying more than 2,400 buildings. Her foundation was handing out money within 48 hours. Every family that lost a home got $1,000 a month for six months, regardless of income. The final check was $5,000. Total delivered: $8.9 million.
In April 2020 she sent $1 million to Vanderbilt for coronavirus research. When Moderna's vaccine results ran in the New England Journal of Medicine that November, her fund appeared in the footnotes.
Carl Dean, her husband of nearly sixty years, died in March 2025. The note she wrote to fans afterward ended with the same five words she wrote for Porter Wagoner back in 1974. She died in Nashville today. Her family asked that instead of flowers, people give to the Imagination Library, which still mails 3.4 million books a month to children who will never get to meet her.