Infinite Wisdom

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Epicurus

La Triviata

• Cunaxa, the site of the battle in 401 B.C. that marked the end of the “Expedition of Cyrus” and the onset of the “Retreat of the Ten Thousand,” as recounted in Xenophon’s Anabasis, appears to take its name from the Persian mispronunciation of the Aramaic word “kenista – synagogue,” as it was in an area of heavy Jewish settlement.


• During the American Revolution, about 6,000 black men served in the Continental Army or the U.S. Navy, roughly 3-percent of personnel in Congress’s pay.


• On Feb 16, 1939, Congress approved a bill that permitted the Cuban government to decorate Maj. Andrew S. Rowan, , Ret., for having carried the famous "Message to Garcia" back in 1898.


• When the Royal Navy took the Canadian liner Montcalm into service as an armed merchant cruiser in 1939, they renamed her HMS Wolfe, thus commemorating the general who defeated Montcalm on the


• Don José Sarmiento y Valladares, who served as the Vice-Roy of New Spain from 1696 to 1701, was the husband of María Jerónima Moctezuma y Jofre de Loaiza, the third Countess de Moctezuma, a several times great-granddaughter of the Aztec Emperor Motecuhzoma II Xocoyotzin.


• Of the 3.5 million men in the armed forces during World War I, nearly 250,000 were Jewish.


• It was not until 1927 that the United States settled the claims of the owners of the Canadian ship Lord Nelson, captured by the U.S. Brig Oneida on Lake Ontario on June 5, 1812, agreeing to pay $24,000 in compensation for having illegally seized the ship before the American declaration of war on Britain that initiated the War of 1812.


• The philosopher and mathematician Archytas of Tarentum (428-347 B.C.) was also a noted soldier, who served as commander-in-chief of his city’s army and fleet on seven occasions, during which he secured a number of notable victories.

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