Was quite a slow drive into work this morning. Traffic looked bad all over the place. The roads were a little slushy from the last night's snow, so that was part of it. Still.
John really likes the Journey to Ernie part of Sesame Street, and he'll count along with Big Bird when Ernie goes to hide. And, John will look away or cover his eyes when he's counting, like Big Bird does, so he doesn't peek. He's seen the segments enough now that he knows all the various places Big Bird goes to, like the color wheel, the dancing flamingos, the supermarket (John says "mess", because BB knocks over things), the martian (John says "yup yup yup uh-huh like the martian) the penguins (they go sliding down the ice so John says 'lipwees', which is how he says slippery)
history nugget of the day:
In 1685, France's King Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes, declaring that it was simply "too insulting to rule over heretics." Originally promulgated in 1598 to end the country's Wars of Religion between Catholic and Protestant, the Edict had legally recognized the minority Protestants (called Huguenots, from the German eidgenossen, meaning "confederate"), allowed them to hold secular office, and provided courts to guarantee justice.
Louis cared little for such guarantees. Instead, by revoking the Edict he sought to strengthen France's "One faith, One law, One King" policy. Louis also was influenced by his second wife, the pious Madame de Maintenon, who told him that God would forgive his promiscuity if he converted the Huguenots.
To force the Huguenots to convert to Catholicism, Louis unleashed the dragonnades, a form of persecution that billeted dragoons (soldiers) in the homes of the vastly outnumbered Huguenots. The notoriously undisciplined dragoons harassed their unwilling hosts with unpunished attacks against both person and property. Protestant churches were burned and razed, and unjust imprisonment for Huguenots was commonplace. The least fortunate were burned at the stake.
In response, the Huguenots fled France in astonishing numbers, though Louis tried to force them to stay and be converted by forbidding them to emigrate. Entire provinces were depopulated as more than 200,000 escaped to Switzerland, Germany, Holland, England, and the American colonies. While protected under the Edict, the Huguenots had flourished as artisans and craftsmen, and their flight drained France of its largest, most economically successful minority. Indeed, Louis had great difficulty financing his army after the enormous loss of Huguenot tax revenue.
Even worse, many of the Huguenot refugees were talented soldiers and armorers, and often they shared their skills with France's enemies. Historians estimate that more than 10,000 Huguenots fought against France in the Nine Years' War (1689-97), also known as King William's War.
John really likes the Journey to Ernie part of Sesame Street, and he'll count along with Big Bird when Ernie goes to hide. And, John will look away or cover his eyes when he's counting, like Big Bird does, so he doesn't peek. He's seen the segments enough now that he knows all the various places Big Bird goes to, like the color wheel, the dancing flamingos, the supermarket (John says "mess", because BB knocks over things), the martian (John says "yup yup yup uh-huh like the martian) the penguins (they go sliding down the ice so John says 'lipwees', which is how he says slippery)
history nugget of the day:
In 1685, France's King Louis XIV revoked the Edict of Nantes, declaring that it was simply "too insulting to rule over heretics." Originally promulgated in 1598 to end the country's Wars of Religion between Catholic and Protestant, the Edict had legally recognized the minority Protestants (called Huguenots, from the German eidgenossen, meaning "confederate"), allowed them to hold secular office, and provided courts to guarantee justice.
Louis cared little for such guarantees. Instead, by revoking the Edict he sought to strengthen France's "One faith, One law, One King" policy. Louis also was influenced by his second wife, the pious Madame de Maintenon, who told him that God would forgive his promiscuity if he converted the Huguenots.
To force the Huguenots to convert to Catholicism, Louis unleashed the dragonnades, a form of persecution that billeted dragoons (soldiers) in the homes of the vastly outnumbered Huguenots. The notoriously undisciplined dragoons harassed their unwilling hosts with unpunished attacks against both person and property. Protestant churches were burned and razed, and unjust imprisonment for Huguenots was commonplace. The least fortunate were burned at the stake.
In response, the Huguenots fled France in astonishing numbers, though Louis tried to force them to stay and be converted by forbidding them to emigrate. Entire provinces were depopulated as more than 200,000 escaped to Switzerland, Germany, Holland, England, and the American colonies. While protected under the Edict, the Huguenots had flourished as artisans and craftsmen, and their flight drained France of its largest, most economically successful minority. Indeed, Louis had great difficulty financing his army after the enormous loss of Huguenot tax revenue.
Even worse, many of the Huguenot refugees were talented soldiers and armorers, and often they shared their skills with France's enemies. Historians estimate that more than 10,000 Huguenots fought against France in the Nine Years' War (1689-97), also known as King William's War.
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