The following is my own perception of George Armstrong Custer. I am not asking you to share the way I feel, your thoughts about the man are your own. George Armstrong Custer was in no way a hero. The man was a coward. In July 1861 quickly earned recognition for himself with his brilliant direction of his actions at the First Battle of Bull Run. He also seemed to possess a gift for avoiding injury, which he came to call "Custer's luck." (Unfortunately, the men under his command weren't always so lucky, suffering disproportionately high casualties during the war.) George Custer would wait until the braves were away from camp to attack killer women, children, and the elderly. General Custer had most of the qualities which made him a first-class asshole. Sitting Bull, the revered Lakota chief who had originally wanted peace at Little Bighorn. Custer, however, was determined to fight. Custer wasn't but 18 when he went to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He arrived in 1857. While intelligent and talented, he dismissed the Academy’s disciplinary system and was a lazy student. He was nearly expelled several times. (in short - a troublemaker). He racked up 726 demerits in just four years – one of the highest amounts in West Point history – and graduated last in his class, a position commonly known as the “goat.” Despite his unimpressive record, the U.S. Army desperately needed officers to serve in the newly-begun Civil War. He was commissioned a second lieutenant and based in Washington, D.C. (Washington, D.C. - that alone should tell you something). He took every opportunity to get himself in front of the cameras and newspapermen documenting the war. He loved the public spotlight. He would wear unusual and flamboyant uniforms, which brought him even more attention. Ulysses S. Grant removed Custer from command and briefly had him arrested when he tried to return to his troops. after his testimony at a Congressional hearing in Washington, D.C., implicated several members of the administration, including Grant’s brother. Only after several high-ranking generals intervened was Custer allowed to return to his post. Major Marcus Reno and Captain Frederick Benteen were later believed to have played a role in Custer's death by not rushing to his aid at the Little Bighorn. As popular opinion about America’s mistreatment of Native Americans shifted, so to did attitudes about Custer, who remains a highly controversial figure. https://www.history.com/topics/early-us/george-armstrong-custer https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-george-armstrong-custer

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This is a blatant lie. Otherwise TEXAS, NM, OKLAHOMA WOULD HAVE THIS ALL THE TIME The current heat wave blazing through Kansas feedlots has killed an estimated 10,000 head of fat cattle. Final death numbers continue to come in, but that early estimate was shared with DTN by livestock experts, who put the geographical center point for those deaths at Ulysses, Kansas. DTN calls to feedlots in the area and to ranchers whose branded animals were seen in some privately shared photos of dead cattle were not immediately returned. What is known is that leading up to these heartbreaking losses, temperatures in the area were over 100 degrees Fahrenheit, there was humidity, and there was little to no wind to help cool the animals. Temperature readings reported for Ulysses began to exceed the 100-degree mark on June 11. By June 13, the high temperature was reported at 104 degrees, with humidity levels ranging from 18% to 35%. Temperature and humidity levels began to break some on June 14. Just a few days prior to the heat setting in, highs had been in the 80s.

L'ODYSSÉE 1968 FRANCO ROSSI (FRENCH) 1/4 - https://ugetube.com/watch/2PDe6wDg8J65pvR 2/4 - https://ugetube.com/watch/l2NFd63Rc4pWFYi 3/4 - https://ugetube.com/watch/mQ4J8CrDgPvHy7P 4/4 - https://ugetube.com/watch/gbIrz4rmHOKQhMx Mini-série télé, réalisée en 1968 par Franco Rossi, Piero Schivazappa et Mario Bava, adaptation du poème épique d'Homère, produite par Dino De Laurentiis, avec la collaboration de l'Italie, la France, l'Allemagne, et la Yougoslavie. TV mini-series, directed in 1968 by Franco Rossi, Piero Schivazappa and Mario Bava, adaptation of Homer's epic poem, produced by Dino De Laurentiis, with the collaboration of Italy, France, Germany, and Yugoslavia. (Unfortunalely, I don't have an english translation for this great classic) #Lodyssee #Ulysse #Homer #FrancoRossi #BekimFehmiu #IrenePapas #RenaudVerley #BarbaraBach #ScillaGabel #MarinaBerti #MicheleBreton

WILMER MCLEAN Bible Study / Daily Devotional Daily Devotions Average reading time is about 5 and a half minutes AN AMAZING FACT: In the early afternoon on April 9, 1865, Wilmer McLean stood on the front porch of his two-story brick house. General Robert E. Lee arrived first on horseback that day, accompanied by Colonel Charles Marshall. Wil greeted the two Confederate officers and invited them into his parlor. At about 1:30 p.m., General Ulysses S. Grant arrived on horseback. Among his Union officers were Major General George Armstrong Custer, and Captain Robert Todd Lincoln, son of President Lincoln. For about an hour and a half, General Lee and General Grant talked until they finally agreed on the terms of surrender for the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, which, in effect, ended the long, bloody Civil War. While Lee and Grant were conferring, Wil McLean waited outside the house where, we can only surmise, he must have thought about the very strange hand of fate that brought this historic event to his home. Meeting in Wil’s home was especially unusual because, at the outset of the Civil War in 1861, Wil was a farmer living in northern Virginia with his family. The beginning of the war had struck very close to home. In fact, a cannon ball from the first battle landed in his kitchen. Concerned for the safety of his family, Wil moved them from the war zone to central Virginia and eventually bought a home at Appomattox Court House. The first battle of the Civil War, known as the First Battle of Bull Run, fought on July 21, 1861, took place on Wil McLean’s farm. In one of the strangest and most unusual twists of fate, the Civil War started in Wilmer McLean’s back yard in 1861 and ended in his parlor in 1865! In similar fashion, the Bible teaches that the last spot that Jesus’ feet touched the earth when He left—the Mount of Olives—will be the very spot He places them when He arrives with the New Jerusalem to establish His eternal kingdom of peace on this earth. KEY BIBLE TEXTS And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. Zechariah 14:4

April 14, 1865 – John Wilkes Booth shoots President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford’s Theater in Washington. Five days earlier, Confederate General Robert E. Lee had surrendered his army to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. The war was nearly over, although there were still Confederate forces yet to surrender. The president had recently visited the captured Rebel capital of Richmond, and now Lincoln sought a relaxing evening by attending a production of Our American Cousin starring Laura Keene. Ford’s Theater, seven blocks from the White House, was crammed with people trying to catch a glimpse of Grant, who was rumored to be in attendance. The general and his wife had cancelled abruptly for an out-of-town trip. Lincoln occupied a booth above the stage with his wife; Henry Rathbone, a young army officer; and his fiancée, Clara Harris, daughter of New York Senator Ira Harris. The Lincolns arrived late for the comedy, but the president was in a fine mood and laughed heartily during the production. At 10:15, Booth slipped into the box and fired his .44-caliber single-shot derringer into the back of Lincoln’s head. Rathbone rushed Booth, who stabbed the soldier in the shoulder. Booth then leapt from the president’s box to the stage below, breaking his leg as he landed. He shouted, “Sic semper tyrannis!” (“Thus ever to tyrants!”–the Virginia state motto) and ran from the stage. There was a pause, as the crowd initially thought the unfolding drama was part of the production, but a scream from Mrs. Lincoln told them otherwise. The stricken president was carried from the box to a house across the street, where he died the following morning.

April 9, 1865 – Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrenders his army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. For more than a week, Lee had tried to outrun Grant to the west of Richmond and Petersburg. After a ten-month siege of the two cities, the Union forces broke through the defenses and forced Lee to retreat. The Confederates moved along the Appomattox River, with Union General Phillip Sheridan shadowing them to the south. Lee’s army had little food, and they began to desert in large numbers on the retreat. When Lee arrived at Appomattox, he found that his path was blocked. He had not choice but to request a meeting with Grant. They met at a house in Appomattox at 2:00 p.m. on the afternoon of April 9. Lee was resplendent in his dress uniform and a fine sword at his side. Grant arrived wearing a simple soldier’s coat that was muddy from his long ride. The great generals spoke of their service in the Mexican War, and then set about the business at hand. Grant offered generous terms. Officers could keep their side arms, and all men would be immediately released to return home. Any officers and enlisted men who owned horses could take them home, Grant said, to help put crops in the field and carry their families through the next winter. These terms, said Lee, would have “the best possible effect upon the men,” and “will do much toward conciliating our people.” The papers were signed and Lee prepared to return to his men. In one of the great ironies of the war, the surrender took place in the parlor of Wilmer McClean’s home. McClean had once lived along the banks of Bull Run, the site of the first major battle of the war in July 1861. Seeking refuge from the fighting, McClean decided to move out of the Washington-Richmond corridor to try to avoid the fighting that would surely take place there. He moved to Appomattox Court House only to see the war end in his home. Although there were still Confederate armies in the field, the war was officially over. Four years of bloodshed had left a devastating mark on the country: 360,000 Union and 260,000 Confederate soldiers had perished during the Civil War.