Worked out with weights and had my granola with Greek yogurt, cranberries and blueberries. Good start to the day. What is your plan?
Get Faith
Jeremiah 31:3 "I have loved you, O my people, with an everlasting love; with loving-kindness I have drawn you to me." It is the type of love we all yearn for. Someone to be with us in heart and mind every minute - caring for us, thinking of us and providing for us. It is why when we have a close relationship with him, acknowledging Him daily we are naturally drawn to him in our thoughts and in our actions. Pray, praise and thank God every time you think of Him today because, He is thinking of you!
On this day
1975 This was a long day. Pete and I were in Montreal and after having breakfast in our room (the people there were totally inhospitable) we boarded the train back home. It was an excessively long 12 hour trip that I don't think I would ever do again. Pete complained the entire time. We met a girl on the train and as I had left a car at the Windsor train station, Pete offered to drive her home to Woodward Avenue somewhere. At least WE were nice people. I believe that there was a rift between English speaking and French at that time which caused the attitudes in Montreal.
1810 - Colombia declared independence from Spain. Think of the taxes they could have imposed on the drug trade - what a loss!
Dalap-Uliga-Djarrit Marshall Islands
German protectorate[edit]
Although the Spanish Empire had a residual claim on the Marshalls in 1874, when she began asserting her sovereignty over the Carolines, she made no effort to prevent the German Empire from gaining a foothold there. Britain also raised no objection to a German protectorate over the Marshalls in exchange for German recognition of Britain's rights in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands.[20] On October 13, 1885, the gunboat SMS Nautilus under Captain Fritz Rötger brought German emissaries to Jaluit. They signed a treaty with Kabua, whom the Germans had earlier recognized as "King of the Ralik Islands," on October 15.
Subsequently, seven other chiefs on seven other islands signed a treaty in German and Marshallese and a final copy witnessed by Rötger on November 1 was sent to the German Foreign Office.[21] The Germans erected a sign declaring an "Imperial German Protectorate" at Jaluit. It has been speculated that the crisis over the Carolines with Spain, which almost provoked a war, was in fact "a feint to cover the acquisition of the Marshall Islands", which went almost unnoticed at the time, despite the islands being the largest source of copra in Micronesia.[22] Spain sold the islands to Germany in 1884 through papal mediation.[dubious ]
A German trading company, the Jaluit Gesellschaft, administered the islands from 1887 until 1905. They conscripted the islanders as laborers.[18] After the German–Spanish Treaty of 1899, in which Germany acquired the Carolines, Palau, and the Marianas from Spain, Germany placed all of its Micronesian islands, including the Marshalls, under the governor of German New Guinea.
Catholic missionary Father A. Erdland, from the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart based in Hiltrup, Germany, lived on Jaluit from around 1904 to 1914. He was very interested in the islands and conducted considerable research on the Marshallese culture and language. He published a 376-page monograph on the islands in 1914. Father H. Linckens, another Missionary of the Sacred Heart visited the Marshall Islands in 1904 and 1911 for several weeks. He published a small work in 1912 about the Catholic mission activities and the people of the Marshall Islands.[23] If you have been following this, it is interesting to see how the Germans took
control here. I think because the islands were so strategically located they were a good
acquisition. The book or monograph by the missionary is probably pretty interesting.
Enjoy the day! Make it memorable! Happy Birthday Candice!
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