Posted on 03/25/2024 2:51:44 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Hallelujah, so-called Women’s History Month is almost over, and we’ll soon get a break from having woke feminist pieties shoved in our faces. By now, we’ve all had our fill of encomiums to pampered mediocrities like Kamala Harris, Sonia Sotomayor, and other first this-that-or-the-other-things. As Women’s History Month draws to a close, let me introduce you to a total baller who was also a Christian nationalist and a true heroine of the West — what the left today calls a "white supremacist domestic terrorist."
Today, March 25, is Greek Independence Day. In 1821, Greece had been ruled by the Ottoman Empire for longer than the United States has existed — nearly 400 years. I will leave detailed accounts of Islamic barbarities against Christians to my PJ Media colleagues Raymond Ibrahim and Robert Spencer, so suffice it to say that the Ottoman Turks were medieval monsters of the first order in their oppression of the Greeks. But for all that time, the proud Greeks never forgot who they were.
History holds that on March 25, 1821, Bishop Germanos of Patras raised the Hellenic flag over the Monastery of Agia, sparking the Greek revolt from Turkish rule. The cry “Freedom or death” became the motto of the Greek revolutionaries. But a week earlier, a woman named Laskarina Bouboulis (née Pinotsi) had already hoisted the Greek flag in defiance of the Turks — on her very own ship of war.
Bouboulina, as she is still known, was no friend of the Ottomans. She was born in a Turkish prison in Constantinople (which the Turks renamed Istanbul), where her mother had traveled to visit her interned father. (He later died there.) She married at 17 and had three children. But nine years later, her husband was killed by Barbary pirates...
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When the new Greek republic finally came into being, Laskarina Bouboulina was a national hero. After her death, the Russian Tsar posthumously granted her rank of Admiral of the Russian Navy, making her the first woman in history to hold that title. (Sorry, "Rachel" Levine, you're just not all that.)
Outstanding post. That was a fighting woman of Freedom. Hillary and karamella are frumpy losers beyond any thought of comparison to Bouboulina. Islam still hates her, as it does really all women when one gets down to basics.
fine examples of prostitution idolized
And Melania Trump and Jackie Kennedy Onassis will be more of women than Richard Levine would ever dream of being.
She was the first scientist two win two Nobel Prizes, by about 40 years. And the first man who did it, one was a Peace Prize. Maybe three or four other men have done it, but I believe both were in the same subject. I think she is the only one with chemistry AND physics.
And I should say, she shared one Nobel with her husband, but not the other.
That painting is remeniscent of the famous featuring Washington crossing the Delaware.
Save Thy people, O Lord,
and bless Thine inheritance.
Grant victory to Thy Church over her enemies,
and protect Thy people by Thy Holy Cross!
Zito i Ellas !!!
Many Orthodox Greeks hold off celebrating Greek Independence Day until after Great Lent.
But the actual date is Annunciation Day!
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