Tintin in the Congo is the second volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the conservative newspaper Le Vingtième Siècle (The Twentieth Century) for its children's supplement, it was serialised weekly from May 1930 to June 1931. The story tells of young reporter Tintin, who is sent to the Belgian Congo with his dog Snowy. Encountering native Congolese people and wild animals, Tintin unearths a diamond smuggling operation run by the American gangster Al Capone. Following Tintin in the Land of the Soviets and bolstered by publicity stunts, it was a commercial success and appeared in book form shortly after the serial's conclusion. The Tintin series grew over the 1930s and 1940s to become a defining part of the Franco-Belgian comics tradition. In 1946, Hergé re-drew and coloured Tintin in the Congo in his distinctive style of uniform lines and low contrast for republication by Casterman, revised for a 1975 edition. In the late 20th century, Tintin in the Congo was criticised for its representation of big-game hunting and for its typically colonial depictions of Africans as unable to fend for themselves and in need of European masters.

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1862:

American Civil War: Union victory in the Battle of Fort Donelson gave General Ulysses S. Grant the nickname "Unconditional Surrender" Grant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Donelson

1918:

The Council of Lithuania signed the Act of Independence of Lithuania (facsimile pictured), proclaiming the restoration of an independent Lithuania governed by democratic principles, despite the presence of German troops in the country during World War I. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Independence_of_Lithuania

1940:

Second World War: The British Royal Navy boarded and captured the German tanker Altmark and freed 299 captured British sailors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altmark_Incident

1985:

"The Hizballah Program" was released, describing the ideology and goals of the Shia Islamic political and paramilitary organization Hizballah. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah

2005:

The Kyoto Protocol, an amendment to the international treaty on climate change, entered into force. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol

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seriatim: One after another, in order; taking one topic or subject at a time in an order; sequentially. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/seriatim

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In essence, religion was love; in no case was it logic. Reason can reach nothing except through the senses; God, by essence, cannot be reached through the senses; if he is to be known at all, he must be known by contact of spirit with spirit, essence with essence; directly; by emotion; by ecstasy; by absorption of our existence with his; by substitution of his spirit for ours.   --Henry Adams https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Adams