Michelle420
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Here is a place to drop random history finds or interests you want to share. It can be an article a video a photo an artifact fact anything related to history. Just something random history related.
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strollingbones
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1921 Tulsa Race Massacre - Tulsa Historical Society & Museum
Following World War I, Tulsa was recognized nationally for its affluent African American community known as the Greenwood District. This thriving business district and surrounding residential area was referred to as “Black Wall Street.”
www.tulsahistory.org
Concerned American
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1921 Tulsa Race Massacre - Tulsa Historical Society & Museum
Following World War I, Tulsa was recognized nationally for its affluent African American community known as the Greenwood District. This thriving business district and surrounding residential area was referred to as “Black Wall Street.”
Attack on Reginald Denny - Wikipedia
Watts Riots of 1965 | Causes, Impact & Legacy
Watts Riots of 1965, series of violent confrontations between Los Angeles police and residents of Watts and other predominantly African American neighbourhoods of South-Central Los Angeles that began August 11, 1965, and lasted for six days. The immediate cause of the disturbances was the arrest of
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The Haymarket Riot: When a Protest Against Anti-Labor Police Brutality Turned Violent | HISTORY
Take a look back at one of the controversial chapters in America’s 19th-century labor movement.
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strollingbones
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100 years ago today: Molasses crashes through Boston's North End
At midday on January 15, 1919, Boston's North End was full of workers and residents venturing outdoors to enjoy unseasonably warm weather. At about 1 p.m., they heard a low rumble. At first, many assumed it was a Boston Elevated train approaching. But, within minutes, they realized something...
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Some things..just never change--from the link:100 years ago today: Molasses crashes through Boston's North End
At midday on January 15, 1919, Boston's North End was full of workers and residents venturing outdoors to enjoy unseasonably warm weather. At about 1 p.m., they heard a low rumble. At first, many assumed it was a Boston Elevated train approaching. But, within minutes, they realized something...
Though locals had observed the structural issues with the molasses tank, the tank's owners initially blamed an anarchist plot to bomb the tank. An initial inquiry and a later class-action lawsuit revealed the structural instability of the tank. In 1925, a court-appointed auditor ruled that the negligence by the tank's owners was to blame for the tank's collapse and the loss of life and property. The tragedy of Boston's molasses flood led to great changes in the way the United States regulated industries. According to Stephen Puleo, regulations stipulating that engineers needed to sign and seal plans, building inspectors needed to examine projects, and that architects needed to show their work all came as a result of Boston's molasses flood.
Most of my family was in Auburn..they say it shook the house--15 miles away from Roseville~
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From the Archives: The 1973 Roseville Yard Disaster
On April 28, 1973, overheated brakes caused sparks and a fire on a train carrying munitions for the Vietnam War at the Roseville trainyard. The explosions could be heard from miles away.
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Concerned American
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Most of my family was in Auburn..they say it shook the house--15 miles away from Roseville~
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From the Archives: The 1973 Roseville Yard Disaster
On April 28, 1973, overheated brakes caused sparks and a fire on a train carrying munitions for the Vietnam War at the Roseville trainyard. The explosions could be heard from miles away.
San Bruno pipeline explosion - Wikipedia
I remember that..I remember reading a Reader's Digest article about it..chilling--people incinerated. I imagine that was bigger than the Roseville explosions--they did go on for hours..I heard that they evacuated a five mile radius--amazingly..no one died.San Bruno pipeline explosion - Wikipedia
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Ahhh..the good ole days eh?
To the surprise of no one who worked on the Cuyahoga, an oil slick on the river caught fire the morning of Sunday, June 22, 1969. The blaze only lasted about 30 minutes, extinguished by land-based battalions and one of the city’s fireboats. It caused about $50,000 in damage to railroad bridges spanning the river and earned a small amount of attention in the local press. The fire was so small and short-lived that no one managed to get a single photo of it. For Donovan, the summer ended uneventfully and he went off to school without having thought much further on the state of Lake Erie or the Cuyahoga River.
What happened next was the real surprise.
Time magazine published an article on the fire—with an accompanying photo from an incident in 1952. National Geographic featured the river in their December 1970 cover story “Our Ecological Crisis” (but managed to get the date of the fire wrong). Congress established the Environmental Protection Agency in January 1970, for the first time creating a federal bureau to oversee pollution regulations. In April 1970, Donovan was one of 1,000 students marching down to the river for the country’s first Earth Day. The nation, it seemed, had suddenly woken up to the realities of industrial pollution, and the Cuyahoga River was the symbol of calamity.
But on the day of the fire, it had meant nothing to the masses. Only in the following months and years did the fire gain its strange significance. As historians David and Richard Stradling write, “The fire took on mythic status, and errors of fact became unimportant to the story’s obvious meaning. … Clearly this transformative fire must have been massive; the nation must have seen the flames and been appropriately moved. Neither is true.”
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To the surprise of no one who worked on the Cuyahoga, an oil slick on the river caught fire the morning of Sunday, June 22, 1969. The blaze only lasted about 30 minutes, extinguished by land-based battalions and one of the city’s fireboats. It caused about $50,000 in damage to railroad bridges spanning the river and earned a small amount of attention in the local press. The fire was so small and short-lived that no one managed to get a single photo of it. For Donovan, the summer ended uneventfully and he went off to school without having thought much further on the state of Lake Erie or the Cuyahoga River.
What happened next was the real surprise.
Time magazine published an article on the fire—with an accompanying photo from an incident in 1952. National Geographic featured the river in their December 1970 cover story “Our Ecological Crisis” (but managed to get the date of the fire wrong). Congress established the Environmental Protection Agency in January 1970, for the first time creating a federal bureau to oversee pollution regulations. In April 1970, Donovan was one of 1,000 students marching down to the river for the country’s first Earth Day. The nation, it seemed, had suddenly woken up to the realities of industrial pollution, and the Cuyahoga River was the symbol of calamity.
But on the day of the fire, it had meant nothing to the masses. Only in the following months and years did the fire gain its strange significance. As historians David and Richard Stradling write, “The fire took on mythic status, and errors of fact became unimportant to the story’s obvious meaning. … Clearly this transformative fire must have been massive; the nation must have seen the flames and been appropriately moved. Neither is true.”
The Cuyahoga River Caught Fire at Least a Dozen Times, but No One Cared Until 1969
Despite being much smaller than previous fires, the river blaze in Cleveland 50 years ago became a symbol for the nascent environmental movement
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Concerned American
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The Paradise fire a few years back was another--I would say on the same scale as the current Lahaina fire.I remember that..I remember reading a Reader's Digest article about it..chilling--people incinerated. I imagine that was bigger than the Roseville explosions--they did go on for hours..I heard that they evacuated a five mile radius--amazingly..no one died.
This woman was almost lost to history. She left no picture or painting--we only have 'presumed' portraits, with no provenance, so we don't know what she even looked like..but her contribution was huge!
Rebecca Lee Crumpler: Physician, Author, Pioneer - Science in the News
Rebecca Lee Crumpler was a true pioneer, becoming the United States' first Black woman to earn an M.D. back in 1864.
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Yeah..a lot of similarities..sadly~The Paradise fire a few years back was another--I would say on the same scale as the current Lahaina fire.
Michelle420
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Amazing photos thanks for sharing.1921 Tulsa Race Massacre - Tulsa Historical Society & Museum
Following World War I, Tulsa was recognized nationally for its affluent African American community known as the Greenwood District. This thriving business district and surrounding residential area was referred to as “Black Wall Street.”
Photos - Tulsa Historical Society & Museum
www.tulsahistory.org
ozro
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The only film of Mark Twain. Shot by none other than Thomas Edison
Pretty cool
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