Book of Days: asher553

PEOPLE OF THE WOLF (O'NEAL-GEAR): to Chapter 45. The People (the POV tribe in the story), led by Wolf Dreamer's aggressive twin brother Crow Caller, launch their first retaliatory attacks against the enemy tribe. The younger men get their first taste of violence and cruelty, and find that they like it. The passing of two beloved figures forces both Wolf Dreamer and Dancing Fox to make difficult choices. The shaman Heron, in her final vision, glimpses a warm land to the south - an alien landscape filled with strange creatures. Meanwhile, Ice Fire, the shaman of the enemy tribe, harbors a disturbing secret - and a mystical connection.

KING OF THE VAGABONDS (STEPHENSON): to Saxony, April 1684. Jack encounters an ostrich in Oesterreich, and makes his getaway from the Siege of Vienna with Eliza, whom he has liberated from a harem. Jack reveals the nature of an unfortunate accident that has left him short-changed in the romantic department. He and Eliza roam the Bohemian countryside through the winter of 1683 - '84, subsisting on a limited diet that leaves Eliza weak. Eliza, smuggling the precious ostrich plumes, hatches a plan to buy mining shares. They travel to Leipzig, where they meet a certain scholar, "the Doctor", who is working on certain mathematical discoveries rivaling those of the Englishman Newton. The Doctor is everything Newton is not - urbane, sophisticated, a ladies' man (which Newton definitely is not), and able to enjoy a trashy romance novel with the best of 'em.

Stewart (Calculus, 9th ed.) states that Leibniz "sought to develop a symbolic logic and system of notation that would simplify logical reasoning. In particular, the version of calculus that he published in 1684 established the notation (dy/dx) and the rules for finding derivatives that we use today." The priority dispute between Newton and Leibniz is one of the main themes of Stephenson's Baroque Cycle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth

'More isolated geographically, Texas was not a battleground, and thus its slaves were not affected by the Emancipation Proclamation unless they escaped.[6] Planters and other slaveholders had migrated into Texas from eastern states to escape the fighting, and many brought their slaves with them, increasing by the thousands the number of slaves in the state at the end of the Civil War.[7]

Although most slaves lived in rural areas, more than 1000 resided in both Galveston and Houston by 1860, with several hundred in other large towns.[8] By 1865, there were an estimated 250,000 slaves in Texas.[7] As news of end of the war moved slowly, it did not reach Texas until May 1865, and the Army of the Trans-Mississippi did not surrender until June 2.[7] On June 18, 1865, Union General Gordon Granger arrived at Galveston Island with 2,000 federal troops to occupy Texas on behalf of the federal government.[6] On June 19, standing on the balcony of Galveston's Ashton Villa, Granger read aloud the contents of "General Order No. 3", announcing the total emancipation of slaves:

The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere.[9]'

... was the first President to do what in office?

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