History Trivia & Comment: The Fun, The Serious, The Useless (12/14/2007)
Posted by avicena on 12/29/07 • Categorized as Edukacja
On this day in …
- 1861, "Prince Albert [right], husband of Britain’s Queen Victoria, died in London." … Is this when they put him in the can? … Hah! … Dashing, isn’t he?
- 1902, "The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from Ocean Beach, San Francisco to Honolulu, Hawaii." … Doesn’t this entry make it sound like the whole thing, however many
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- 1934, "The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman becomes the first to officially exceed 100mph." ... I just love the image this conjures in my mind. Which below did you think of?
- 1954, "Elizabeth Hodges [lower right] of Sylacauga, Ala., was slightly injured when an 8 1/2 - pound meteorite crashed through the roof of her house." ... 'Tis only a flesh wound. ... [I
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- 1930, "W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts broadcasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The broadcast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I.J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show." ... Wait, did the orchestra supply company? ;) ... So TV commercials are 77 years old. Wow. I wonder if I.J. Fox
History Resource Spotlight: Film & HistorySometime back my wife brought to my attention an online resource, Film & History. This site is rooted in the print journal with the same title. That publication came out of the work of the Historians Film Committee, founded by John E. O'Connor and Martin A. Jackson in 1970. The history of this effort is located here.
While this resource might be old news to some, what impressed me most about the
Panel Discussion: On Melvin Ely’s Israel on the AppomattoxHere's notice on an upcoming panel discussion at Chicago's Newberry Library. - TL
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Rethinking Black Freedom in the Era of Slavery: The Challenge of Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War
Featuring author Melvin Patrick Ely
Saturday, December 15, 2007, 11:00 am -- 3:00 pm
The recent publication of the
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