On May 10, 1765, per the British Longitude Act clockmaker John Harrison was awarded £10,000 for the invention of a practical naval longitude clock. Latitude calculations had been made for hundreds of years with sextants, but the Longitude Problem was finally solved only by Harrison’s invention. This ushered in the era of relatively precise modern maritime navigation.
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May 10th is the birthday of the late Col. Jeff Cooper (born 1920, died September 25, 2006).
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May 10th is also the birthday of the late Janis Pinups (born 1925, died 15 June 2007). He was one of the last of the active Forest Brothers anti-communist resistance fighters. He came out of hiding, after five decades, to obtain a Latvian passport in 1994, after the collapse of eastern European communism. (He was never issued any communist government identity papers and by necessity lived as a nonexistent ghost during the entire Soviet occupation of Latvia.) The history of the Forest Brothers movement certainly deserves more recognition.
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Today’s feature article is a guest piece by global affairs analyst Brandon Smith, the publisher of the highly-recommended Alt-Market.us blog.
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We are in need of a few more entries to have a full roster for Round 118 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. 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 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. Please refer to that poll if you haven’t yet chosen an article topic.
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