Nuadha's Tale

Ignorance can be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it. -Thomas Jefferson

Friday, February 20, 2004

This Day in History
1725: Ten sleeping Indians scalped by Capt. Lovewell and troops at Wakefield (in what will be New Hampshire) for scalp bounty. First recorded instance of scalping.

1942: Norweigan teachers begin successful nonviolent strike against Nazification of schools.

1956: U.S. rejects Soviet proposal to ban nuclear weapons tests and deployment.

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