On November 16, 534, the Second and final revision of the Justinian Code (“Codex Justinianus [1]“) was published. This was a codified set of imperial and classical laws that initially began in 528.
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November 16, 1933: Swiss physicist Fritz Zwicky published the first evidence for the existence of dark matter in his seminal article “The Redshift of Extragalactic Nebulae”.
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November 16th was the birthday of Michael D. Echanis (born 1950, died September 1978), a former United States Army Special Forces and 75th Ranger Battalion enlisted man. He was awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star with “V” device as a LRRP in the Vietnam War. He was born and raised in eastern Oregon. Echanis was killed while working for the CIA in Nicaragua in 1978 in a plane crash along with his colleague Charles Sanders and members of the Nicaraguan armed forces. There was conjecture that the plane was destroyed in flight by a saboteur’s bomb. My novel Survivors includes a minor character from Oregon with the surname Echanis, as a small homage to Mike Echanis.
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Today’s feature article is an essay by Brandon Smith. He is a frequent guest contributor to SurvivalBlog. He is the editor of the free Alt-Market.us [2] website and the by-subscription newsletter The Wild Bunch Dispatch [3].
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We still need some entries for Round 121 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest [4]. More than $970,000 worth of prizes have been awarded since we started running the contest. Round 121 ends on November 30th, 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.