- the aggregate of past events; “a critical time in the school’s history”
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- The study of past events, particularly in human affairs
- a record or narrative description of past events; “a history of France”; “he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president”; “the story of exposure to lead”
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Your job is a big one: unite China under your rule. To accomplish this task, you must sway your enemies through use of diplomacy, subterfuge, and force, all the while keeping your homelands protected and your people fed. No one man could do all this, so you must delegate authority to a variety of historical officers with varying degrees of ability. Some are suited for leading troops in battle, and some are better at spying. It’s up to you to pick the best man for the job.
The game’s biggest problem is its interface, which consists of dozens of nested menus, packed with commands that are not very well described in the thin manual. This is not a title you load up for a quick gaming fix, but one that–if it’s your cup of tea–you start playing on Friday night and continue through Monday (after calling in sick). Unfortunately, few gamers will have the patience or resolve to overcome the more frustrating aspects of RotTK VI. –T. Byrl Baker
Pros:
Incredibly deep gameplay for a console game
Historical content is interesting
Cons:
Convoluted interface with too many menus
Perhaps too complex for most people’s tastes
Ulysses S Grant second inaugural carriage – Smithsonian Museum of Natural History – 2012-05-15
Hiram Ulysses Grant was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio, on April 27, 1822, to Jesse Root and Hannah Simpson Grant. His father was a tanner. He won acceptance into West Point at the age of 17. (Congressman Thomas Hamer nominated him, and mistakenly listed his name as "Ulysses S. Grant". Grant kept the name at West Point. The "S" meant nothing, but Hamer thought it meant "Simpson" — Grant’s mother’s maiden name.) He graduated in the bottom third of his class. Assigned to the quartermaster corps, he was bored and anxious. He served in the Mexican-American War (1846–1848), where he was twice promoted for personal bravery and learned leadership and organizational skills. He married, had several children, and served at Ft. Vancouver (now Vancouver, Washington) and in Humboldt, California. He resigned abruptly from the Army at the age of 32 after being accused of drunkenness while off-duty. (Grant was never a drunkard. In fact, he rarely drank. He did, however, suffer from severe migraines which left him unable to function and which affected his sight, speech, and balance. People interpreted this as alcoholism.)
With four kids, Grant tried his hand at farming and bill collecting and failed, then took a job selling harness and tack in his father’s leather goods shop in Galena, Illinois.
When the American Civil War broke out in April 1861, Grant began raising volunteer divisions for the state of Illinois. The federal Army did not give him a field commission (despite his old rank of captain), so the state of Illinois gave him a commission as Colonel in the 21st Illinois Volunteers. He served under General John C. Fremont and then General Henry Halleck.
After victories at several forts — which secured the Tennessee River for Union use — Grant helped lead the union to a stalemate at Shiloh (in Tennessee) after a surprise attack by two Confederate corps. Scapegoated by his superiors and blamed for the high Union casualties (which were minimal by later standards of the war), Grant almost resigned. But William Tecumseh Sherman convinced him to stay in the Army. Quickly absolved of blame, Grant was reinstated and put in command of the Army of the Tennessee. (Several other generals had led the army, but failed miserably. Grant was not only next in line for the command, but his tenacity and generalship at Shiloh had finally been recognized.)
After successfully laying siege to Vicksburg and securing the Mississippi River, Grant took Chattanooga. Lincoln put him in charge of the Army of the Potomac in Virginia, where he doggedly pursued Robert E. Lee. "Hit the enemy, move, and hit him again," Grant said. Lee had never faced anyone who believed in mobility, in never backing down, and in not blanching in the face of initial defeat. Lee crumpled. Grant defeated Lee at Appomattox on April 9, 1865.
With President Andrew Johnson facing no support in the Republican Party after the war, the GOP asked Grant to run for president. He handily won in 1868. During his first term, he granted amnesties to all Confederate troops, established the Department of Justice, reduced genocidal attacks on Native Americans, and got the 15th Amendment enacted.
In his second term, Grant put down racist white revolts in the Deep South, signed a civil rights law, and opened up free trade. But he failed to deal with the Panic of 1873, allowing the country to sink into the "Long Depression." His administration was also rocked by numerous scandals. He retired, personally beloved but his administration in disgrace, in 1877.
In retirement, Grant proved luckless. He was recruited to seek a third term as president in 1879, but lost after several ballots to James A. Garfield (who narrowly won in November). Grant put all his money into an investment firm founded by his son. When the other partner in the firm embezzled all the money, Grant was left destitute. Suffering from throat cancer, and unable to eat or speak, Grant quickly penned his memoirs as he died. They were a huge success, and left his widow able to live comfortably the rest of her life. They are considered some of the best memoirs by a military officer ever written.
Grant’s second inaugural was the coldest on record! The low temperature at dawn was just 4 degrees Fahrenheit. That was a record low, and it remains the coldest March day on record even to this day. Winds gusted up to 40 mph. By noon, the temperature was 16 degrees F, but the wind chill meant that it felt more like 15 to 30 below!
Few people in the inaugural stand wore hats or coats, feeling it was disrespectful. The sailors and soldiers in the inaugural parade fell down from hypothermia. Grant’s inaugural ball was held in an open-air tent, and the food froze solid.
THE OLD DRUG STORE ON KING STREET
[Taken from THE [CHARLESTON] POST AND COURIER as reported by Warren Wise, reporter.]
Sixty years ago, Vera Tellis and her brother, Tony, graduated from pharmacy school at the same time and opened a drugstore on Lower King Street.
The area thrived with shops on both sides of the one-way thoroughfare between Queen and Broad streets. Residents lived above the stores.
Over time, though, the streetscape changed. An office building rose next door toward Queen Street. A parking garage went up across the street.
“The street was robbed of its soul during that period,” said John Critikos, son of Alice Tellis Critikos, who owns the 125 King St. landmark with her sister, Vera.
Business began to wane, but the two sisters, who took over the business after their brother died in 1983, kept the pharmacy alive because they wanted to provide a service to the residents in the area and keep the drugstore’s tradition around for as long as possible.
On Saturday, that homespun tradition in a pharmacy with hardwood floors and personal service will end.
Tellis Pharmacy will close for good.
Vera Tellis, who took over as pharmacist in 1988, after retiring from her pharmacy job at Medical University Hospital, is now 80. She closed the drugstore part of the business last fall.
“It’s about time,” she said of the decision to close.
What remains inside the two-story wooden building with rented-out office space on the second floor are over-the-counter remedies, toiletries, greeting cards and other items.
It all will go on sale before they close the doors Saturday, but there is no certain percentage off.
What doesn’t sell, Alice Tellis Critikos will like to donate to charity.
The apothecary items, such as old glass jars used by doctors and hospitals long ago, will stay with the family, she said.
Built in 1887, one year after the great earthquake that struck Charleston, the building was a metalworks store. In the 1920s it became Schwettmann’s Pharmacy.
The sisters’ father, James Anthony Tellis, bought the building in 1946. Three years later it became Ye Olde Fountain, a soda shop on Lower King Street where Vera first worked.
In 1952, Vera and her brother, Tony, with pharmacy degrees fresh in hand, opened the drug- store. The fountain remained on the right side until the 1960s, when it was dismantled to make way for more floor space.
John Critikos, Alice’s son, and now a cardiologist in Hendersonville, N.C., remembers competing with his siblings as a child to see who would get to spend the day at the pharmacy, where they would jump on their balloon-tired bikes and deliver prescriptions in the neighborhood.
“The whole street was filled with buildings like this,” he said.
There was a typewriter shop, bookstore, laundry, shoe-repair business and a grocery store, just to name a few on the street now anchored by Berlin’s men’s and women’s clothing stores, the sisters remembered.
“It was packed with people,” Vera Tellis said.
When the city did away with overhanging storefront signs, Tellis Pharmacy moved it to the side of the building for awhile before having it grandfathered in and restored to the front of the store.
The neon sign remains in place and is sometimes lit up until late at night, except for when it is taken down for approaching hurricanes and stored away for safety.
“It has been a pleasure to be around here, but after they built that building beside us and decided to build the garage across the street, we lost a lot of business,” said Alice Tellis Critikos, pointing out that very few customers had come into the shop on Wednesday.
“We were here to serve the public, and that’s what we did,” she said. “We held on as long as we could.”
They plan to keep the building and rent it out.
Reach Warren L. Wise at 937-5524
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