On May 11, 1310, Fifty-four members of the Knights Templar were burned at the stake in France after being declared heretics.
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May 11, 1752: The first US fire insurance policy was issued, in Philadelphia.
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Just One Day Left! The special 10-day sale on all the Elk Creek Company percussion gun inventory ends tomorrow night. Most of these are revolvers for which cartridge conversion cylinders are readily available. This includes a group of five minty Ruger Old Army revolvers that I’ve not yet photographed. Many of those are “Pre-Warning” vintage. We also have special pricing on all of our blackpowder hunting rifles. Most of those are .50 caliber rifles in the quite practical Hawken configuration. Take a look at our [1] Percussion category [2]. [1]
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Today, with permission, we are re-posting a recent piece from the excellent Rural Revolution [3] blog. The blog’s Editrix is Patrice Lewis. You may recognize her name from her novels, or from her nonfiction book “The Simplicity Primer: 365 Ideas for Making Life more Livable“, or from her many columns written in her 17 years with WorldNetDaily.
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We are in need of entries for Round 118 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest [4]. More than $950,000 worth of prizes have been awarded since we started running this contest. Round 118 ends on May 31st, so get busy writing and e-mail [5] 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. In 2023, we polled blog readers, asking for suggested article topics [6]. Please refer to that poll if you haven’t yet chosen an article topic.