The Babylonian Exile took place in the sixth century B.C., after the Babylonians conquered the kingdom of Judah.
Not all Jews were deported to Babylonia; in fact, there were several deportations, each one occurring after an uprising.
The date of the first deportation was probably 597 or 586 B.C. The exile ended in 538 B.C., when the Persian emperor Cyrus the Great, conqueror of Babylon, allowed the Jews to return home.
Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry first brought an armed squadron to Tokyo Bay in 1853, when he delivered a letter from President Millard Fillmore to the emperor of Japan. In 1854, on a second expedition, Perry succeeded in persuading the Japanese to open their previously isolated society to U.S. trade.
F. Scott Fitzgerald said, “There are no second acts in American lives”.
The Boy Scouts of America was incorporated in 1910 in Washington, D.C., by painter and illustrator Daniel Carter Beard. Known as “Uncle Dan,” Beard based the organization on the British group founded in 1908 by Sir Robert Baden-Powell. Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Scouts organization in Savannah, Georgia, in 1912.
Jane Wyman, Ronald Reagan’s first wife (married 1940, divorced 1948), is Maureen Reagan’s mother. Nancy Davis Reagan (married 1952) is her stepmother.
D Day is a standard military term referring to the day set for the beginning of an attack. The D stands for “Day” (Day-Day). Similarly, the time for an attack is H-Hour (Hour-Hour). The most famous D Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy, took place on June 6, 1944.
Mark Twain said, “Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to”.