According to Swiss lore, on November 18, 1307, William Tell of the canton of Uri was forced by Habsburg invaders to shoot an apple off his son’s head, with a crossbow. The international gun rights organization ProTell was named in his honor. — On November 18, 1865, Mark Twain published the short story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” in The New York Saturday Press. — On this day in 1978, Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones led hundreds of his followers in a mass murder-suicide at their agricultural commune in a remote part of the South American nation of … The post Preparedness Notes for Tuesday — November 18, 2025 appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.