Brief Historical Tidbits
A place of reference mostly for myself, but informative none the less.  Most of my time spent in history class was daydreaming about not being in history class.  Now decades later, with a ferocious appetite for a good history lesson, I find note taking in this way proves helpful.  My sources come from Books. Interviews, Podcasts, or anyone willing to share their knowledge. Below are tidbits of history I want to be able to reference back to as I go through this learning process. This page will certainly be tied to books I am reading, so I will do my best to provide sourcing.
Entente Cordiale
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The French term Entente Cordiale (usually translated as "cordial agreement" or "cordial understanding") comes from a letter written in 1843 by the British Foreign Secretary Lord Aberdeen to his brother, in which he mentioned "a cordial, good understanding" between the two nations.
The Zimmerman Telegram
The Zimmerman Telegram
The Zimmermann Telegram was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico. In the event that the United States entered World War I against Germany, Mexico would recover Texas, Arizona and New Mexico.
The Angel of Mons
The Angel of Mons
The Angel of Mons. The facts behind the story that a heavenly host saved a small group of British from a large German force in WWI. It was August of 1914, near Mons in Belgium.
Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism is any of various theories of society which emerged in the United Kingdom, North America, and Western Europe in the 1870s, claiming to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics.
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"...Social Darwinism, that bastard child of evolutionary thinking and its cousin Militarism fostered the belief that competition among nations was part of natures rule. And that in the end the fittest would survive and that probably meant through war...."
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...Margaret MacMillian
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Huguenots
The Huguenots were French Protestants most of whom eventually came to follow the teachings of John Calvin, and who, due to religious persecution, were forced to flee France to other countries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Some remained, practicing their Faith in secret.
Huguenots were French Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who followed the teachings of theologian John Calvin. Persecuted by the French Catholic government during a violent period, Huguenots fled the country in the 17th century, creating Huguenot settlements all over Europe, in the United States and Africa.
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There is no order to these random tidbits (much like how my brain absorbs this subject matter).