On March 4, 1681, William Penn [1] secured from King Charles II [2] of England the colonial province of Pennsylvania [3] in North America, hoping to provide a refuge in the New World for Quakers [4] and other persecuted people and to build an ideal Christian commonwealth.
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And on March 4, 1955, the first radio facsimile (or “fax”) transmission, was sent across the continent.
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I mailed out the first four-page hardcopy issue of the SurvivalBlog Old School (SOS) Newsletter on Friday. If you’d like to get a copy of that first issue and become a subscriber, then send a donation of $55 or more to: SurvivalBlog, P.O. Box 303, Moyie Springs, ID 83845. Be sure to include some mention of “SOS” or “505” inside the envelope. For your privacy, I recommend that you send payment via money order, USPS PMO, or cash. Also, please use the same address in the upper-left corner of your envelope.
To clarify: The blog is updated with fresh daily, almost without fail. It has been operated this way since 2005. We’ve never had any e-mailings. We keep NO e-mail lists! The voluntary Ten Cent Challenge [5] is intended for donations to support the blog. For a separate fee, we recently added the SOS hardcopy U.S. Mail newsletter, but that is just a contingency mailing list, for the event that blog posting becomes unavailable, due to government or Internet service action. I’ve only promised one issue per year, and perhaps a few others, sporadically. More frequent or longer issues will be added only if SurvivalBlog itself is disrupted from WWW posting.
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Today’s feature article was penned by SurvivalBlog Field Gear Editor Tom Christianson.
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We are seeking entries for the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest [6]. More than $875,000 worth of prizes have been awarded since we started running this contest. In 2023, we polled blog readers, asking for suggested article topics [7]. Refer to that poll if you haven’t yet chosen an article topic. Round 111 ends on March 31st, so get busy writing and e-mail [8] us your entry. Remember that there is a 1,500-word minimum, and that articles on practical “how-to” skills for survival have an advantage in the judging.