World War Two is the event which changed the World, the United States and California forever. Before the War, California was, and in many places still is, an agricultural powerhouse; but the War made the Golden State an industrial one as well. As recently as 2018, manufacturing accounted for 10.67% of the state’s economic output worth $316.76 billion dollars. As early as the 1850’s, there was manufacturing in California, but it was the … [Read More...]
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Broderick-Terry Duel
By: Douglas Love, Grand Trustee, Napa Parlor #62 Dueling has been a part of the human experience since at least the Middle Ages if not before. Starting as the medieval trial by combat, dueling as a method to establish the guilt or innocence of a person or to defend their, or another party’s “honor”, has a long and checkered history. One of the earliest recorded trials by combat occurred in 630 in the Kingdom of the Lombards in Northern … [Read More...]
