Microsoft releases operating system Windows XP.

‘How are you so focused under pressure?’ Me in 1995:

It is now 37 years ago that the last episode of #Blackadder Goes Forth was screened. This TV gold concluded 3 hrs of unmatched of comedy to many of us. But there was a deeper message throughout encapsulated in this moving final scene. Vid: BlackadderQtes

💙 Lest We Forget

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The New York Rangers organization mourns the loss of Ron Duguay, one of the most popular players in franchise history. Ron's signature skating style - with his hair flowing as he moved down the ice - captivated The Garden Faithful, and his skill, tenacity, and charisma earned him the admiration of all New Yorkers. We join the hockey community in sending our condolences to Ron's friends, family, and loved ones during this difficult time.

Peace is not the absence of war; it is the presence of justice.

RIGHT NOW in 1805, Horatio Nelson signals the British fleet sailing into battle at Trafalgar: "England expects every man to do his duty."

Ahhh yeah #XBOX25

🚨🚨 #Bond26 According to @TheInSneider the testing process for #JamesBond has been completed. Both Jacob Elordi and Jack Lowden were part of the final round, according to Sneider. He expects Elordi to be “the one” and an announcement “very, very soon”…😮😬

Today is the 245th anniversary of the surrender at Yorktown, the last major battle of the American Revolutionary War. On October 19, 1781, the British army surrendered to George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia. French soldiers and warships fought alongside the Americans and trapped the British with no way out. The war dragged on for two more years, but after this day, Britain knew it had lost. America would be free.

🇺🇸 This flag went to Vietnam with paratrooper Adam Cesario. Then it went to Iraq with his son. In Vietnam, Cesario carried his own American flag and raised it every single day. Didn’t matter the situation. If he had to, he hung it off a radio antenna. One mission went bad and he got cut off from his platoon. He spent three days alone in the jungle with Viet Cong after him, but he still raised the flag every day. After the war, Cesario kept the flag carefully. Family members were rarely allowed to handle it. When his son Alexander deployed to Iraq with the 82nd Airborne Division, Adam entrusted him with the same flag. Alexander carried it on every mission, tucked into the front flap of his body armor, close to his heart. The same flag that flew in the Vietnam jungle later made it to Baghdad. Photo by Staff Sgt. Michael Pryor. 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division. Baghdad, Iraq. 2008.

I know just what France needs right now. Rooftop Koreans.

Liberté has failed. Now, we must make a choice. Return or ruin. Christ or collapse.

Live view of Paris:

The Muslim call to prayer is the ugliest thing ever. I never want to hear it again.

This is what the barbarians just burned down in France.

Japanese girl in America 👌💯 I'll allow it

For almost twenty years, the highest-ranking general in the United States Army was secretly on the payroll of Spain, and it wasn't proven until long after he was dead. His name was James Wilkinson. He'd been an officer in the Revolution, and even then he had a talent for being near trouble. He was tangled up in the Conway Cabal, the whispering campaign to replace George Washington with Horatio Gates. Later he was forced out of a job as clothier general over sloppy accounts. Somehow, none of it ever stuck. In 1787, Wilkinson made a trip down the Mississippi to New Orleans, which was Spanish territory at the time. Americans living in Kentucky depended on the river to get their goods to market, and Spain controlled it. Wilkinson came back with valuable trading rights. What nobody knew was the price. While in New Orleans, he swore an oath of allegiance to the King of Spain. In Spanish reports he became known as Agent 13. In exchange for a pension, he fed Spain information and promised to help pull the western territories away from the United States. Then he went back into the U.S. Army. He rose all the way to the top. By the late 1790s he was the senior officer in the entire Army, and he held that role on and off until 1812. All the while, money from Spain kept coming, sometimes smuggled up the river in barrels of sugar or coffee. There were rumors the whole time. People in Washington whispered that Wilkinson was a Spanish agent. Presidents heard the talk. Nobody could prove it. In 1804, when Lewis and Clark set out to explore the West, Wilkinson quietly advised Spanish officials to stop them. Spain sent out patrols to intercept the expedition. They never found it. Then came Aaron Burr. After killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel, the former vice president headed west with a mysterious plan. Depending on who you ask, he wanted to invade Spanish Mexico, carve off part of the American West, or both. Wilkinson was deep in it with him. Then Wilkinson decided Burr was going to fail. So he flipped. He wrote to Thomas Jefferson warning of a dangerous conspiracy and cast himself as the loyal general saving the nation. The key evidence against Burr was a coded letter Burr had sent to Wilkinson. Before handing it over, Wilkinson changed it, cutting out the parts that made himself look guilty. At Burr's treason trial in 1807, Wilkinson was the star witness. It went badly. The doctored letter came out. The grand jury came close to indicting Wilkinson himself. The foreman, John Randolph, later described him as rotten from top to bottom. Burr was acquitted, and Wilkinson kept his command. He faced courts of inquiry and a court-martial over the years. He beat every one of them. It was later said of him that he never won a battle and never lost a court-martial. His luck on the battlefield finally ran out in the War of 1812. In 1813 he led an invasion aimed at Montreal that fell apart in confusion and defeat. He was removed from command. Wilkinson died in Mexico City in 1825. It wasn't until historians dug through the Spanish archives decades later that they found the proof. The reports, the payments, the code name. The man who led the U.S. Army had been working for a foreign power the whole time. It's called the Wilkinson affair, and almost nobody learns about it.

Bringing style, wit and charisma to the role of Bond. Remembering Sir Roger Moore on what would have been his 99th birthday.