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1812 – War of 1812: Sir Isaac Brock’s British and native forces repel an invasion of Canada by General Rensselaer’s United States forces.
The Battle of Queenston Heights was the first major battle in the War of 1812. Resulting in a British victory, it took place on 13 October 1812, near Queenston, Upper Canada (the present-day province of Ontario). It was fought between United States regulars and New York militia forces led by Major General Stephen Van Rensselaer, and British regulars, York and Lincoln militia and Mohawk warriors led by Major General Isaac Brock, and Major General Roger Hale Sheaffe, who took command when Brock was killed.
The battle was fought as the result of an American attempt to establish a foothold on the Canadian side of the Niagara River before campaigning ended with the onset of winter. This decisive battle was the culmination of a poorly managed American offensive and may be most historically significant for the loss of the British commander.
Despite their numerical advantage and the wide dispersal of British forces defending against their invasion attempt, the Americans, who were stationed in Lewiston, New York, were unable to get the bulk of their invasion force across the Niagara River due to the work of British artillery and reluctance on the part of the undertrained and inexperienced American militia. As a result, British reinforcements arrived and defeated the unsupported American forces, forcing them to surrender.
1902 – Arna Bontemps, American librarian, author, and poet (d. 1973)
Arna Wendell Bontemps (/bɒnˈtɒm/ bon-TOM[1]) (October 13, 1902 – June 4, 1973)[2] was an American poet, novelist and librarian, and a noted member of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Steven Savage’s Newsletter for October 13th, 2019
Colleen M. Chesebro for 10/13/2019: Happy 20th Wedding Anniversary to D.G. Kaye – A Review of “Twenty Years: After ‘I Do:’ Reflections on Love and Changes Through Aging” and more ->
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Call for submissions will open on October 14, 2019 and close on November 23, 2019. Applicants will be notified in late December, 2019. The call will be for two solo exhibitions: January through mid-April of 2021 and January through mid-April of 2022. For more information contact the Sheldon Jackson Museum curator by calling 907-747-8904 or e-mailing Jackie Fernandez-Hamberg.
Military.com: Francis Currey, Medal of Honor Recipient, Dies at 94; Pearl Harbor Sailor’s Remains Welcomed Home; 15 Years After the Iraq War’s Deadliest Battle, Marines Fight to Save Their Comrades; New Chairman to the Joint Chiefs: Stay Out of Politics; Judge Orders Release of Ailing Muslim Cleric Convicted of Supporting Taliban and more ->
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“If you have respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.”
John W. Gardner
“Respect is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.”
Annie Gottlieb
“We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.”
Terry Brooks
“It is more profitable to stay aware of trends generally, yet concentrate your energies on simply writing the best novel you know how to write. Don’t chase the market. Write the novel that is in you.”
Jack Bickham, Author & University Professor of Creative Writing program
When you look at people who are thriving in their jobs, you notice that they didn’t find them, they made them.
Ashley Goodall,
business executive
It is no use to grumble and complain; It’s just as cheap and easy to rejoice; When God sorts out the weather and sends rain – Why, rain’s my choice.
James Whitcomb Riley, 1849-1916
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
Will Rogers
I’ve seen a look in dogs’ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
John Steinbeck
Anybody who doesn’t know what soap tastes like never washed a dog.
Franklin P. Jones
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
Andy Rooney
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
James Thurber
You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, “Wow, you’re right! I never would’ve thought of that!’
Dave Barry
If you think dogs can’t count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then give him only two of them.
Phil Pastoret
Politicians would be wise to heed what President Harry Truman said, “If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.”
Never give up. Always find a reason to keep trying.
Unknown
1773 – America’s first insane asylum opens.
Eastern State Hospital is a museum and former hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia. Built in 1773, it was the first public facility in the present-day United States constructed solely for the care and treatment of the mentally ill. The hospital’s patients were moved in the 20th century to a new facility outside Williamsburg. The original building had burned but was reconstructed in 1985. Today it operates as a museum about the treatment of mental illness.
1908 – Ann Petry, American novelist (d. 1997)[11]
Ann Petry (October 12, 1908 – April 28, 1997) was an American writer of novels, short stories, children’s books and journalism. Her 1946 debut novel The Street became the first novel by an African-American woman to sell more than a million copies.[1][2]
“In 2019, the Library of America published “The Street” in one volume along with Petry’s 1953 masterpiece, “The Narrows,” and a sampling of her critical writing, edited by Farah Jasmine Griffin, a professor of English and African American Literature at Columbia University and the author of “Harlem Nocturne,” a group biography of radical women artists in the 1940s, including Petry”, notes the New York Times.[3]
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Alaska News from APRN: A new menace for Anchorage dogs: river otters and more->
There’s a history of beavers attacking dogs at University Lake in Anchorage. But state wildlife biologists said Friday that they haven’t heard of attacks by river otters in the city. Dave Battle, an Anchorage-area biologist, said he was forwarded one other report of “otter aggression” from the Nextdoor app.
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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill
In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.
David Steindl-Rast
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
Paul Boese
I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.
Marilyn Monroe
The thing about life is that our emotional experiences, if we don’t finish them, stay with us.
The pain we don’t process can follow us for a lifetime
Brianna Wiest
Don’t plan it all. Let life surprise you a little.
Julia Alvarez,
Dominican American poet, writer
National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15 to Oct. 15
Sometimes it takes sadness to know happiness, noise to appreciate silence and absence to value presence.
Unknown
It takes some courage to stand up and speak; it takes even more courage to open your mind and listen.
Unknown
Learn to let go, Not everyone in your life is meant to stay.
Unknown
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