A week after the capture of Baghdad, General Maude issued the Proclamation of Baghdad, which contained the famous line, "our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators".
Such proclamations add contrast to ISIL's apocalyptic narrative, and also frame the Sunni-Shi'a prophetic divide as one which contains common and intriguing threads.
It contains no episodes comparable to Russell's imprisonment (for making pacifist propaganda during World War I) or Wittgenstein's disastrous stint as an elementary school teacher or Heidegger's proclamation that "the Führer, and he alone, is present and future German reality".
This fact sheet contains lots of ideas for getting involved, but, better yet, you can use this October to petition your state or local government to officially recognize Farm to School Month with a proclamation or declaration.
It contained a bolder proclamation.
The same paper contained Confederate President Jefferson Davis's proclamation that the "war would be carried on with re-newed vigor".
"The proclamation issued by this Office designating April as Confederate History Month contained a major omission.
In 2012 the museum reported its library collection to contain over 80,000 items of historic importance (such as maps, proclamations and rare books) and a further 254,000 items of reference material.
Despite Southern howls that the Emancipation Proclamation was an act of unrestrained wartime barbarism meant to unleash slave revolts, Witt hails Lincoln's great edict as containing "a millennium of moral and legal reasoning".
When he got aware of the older of the two codices, he proclaimed: "Vere hicce millenarius codex est!".1 Although his dating later proved to be somewhat too early, its proclamation lead to the name of codex CC Cim 1. Codex Millenarius Maior (henceforth: MMA) is a Gospel plenary, containing the complete text of the four Canonical Gospels [9].
