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Sector7 1 points 11 months ago

3. Joshua Norton: "I'm Emperor of the United States!" - 'Obey him'

Freemason
Live: https://californiafreemason.org/2022/06/27/emperor-norton/

Archive:https://web.archive.org/web/20230204083735/https://californiafreemason.org/2022/06/27/emperor-norton/

jew
Live: https://www.anumuseum.org.il/blog/americas-last-emperor-the-crazy-story-of-joshua-norton/

Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20230509022756/https://www.anumuseum.org.il/blog/americas-last-emperor-the-crazy-story-of-joshua-norton/

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Narrator: Then on Sunday, August 28th, 1859, oil bubbled up the drive pipe. Uncle Billy and his son Sam bailed out several buckets of oil. - https://www.corbettreport.com/bigoil/

The Carrington Event was the most intense geomagnetic storm in recorded history, peaking from 1 to 2 September 1859 during solar cycle 10.

September 17, 1859 – Joshua A. Norton, who lost his money in an attempt to corner the rice market, today declared himself Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

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It was a time of odd coincidences.

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WTF is wrong that keeps destroying links on voat? Something moved text around, or deleted it. Here's how it looked before voat scrambled it: https://files.catbox.moe/3g33ms.png

@System

Is this fixable?

✂️https:✂️//files.✂️catbox.✂️moe/3g33ms✂️.png

Can't even post a catbox link... Manually add the 'h't't'p' to the front of that link, assuming it doesn't get removed from this sentence too. It did, but maybe fixed now.