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- 1251: Industrial Revolution 3
- ... mining industry was to try to promote safety and get better deals for its members. The early trade unions were known as trade societies, these societies helped members who were out of work by using letters or tickets to help them obtain work from other societies outside their own towns. Sometimes society men would combine against an employer or master. They would use this and another method called tuning out or ...
- 1252: Imperial Telecommunications
- ... the idea for the telegraph while traveling from Italy to America. He began work and patented the first successful telegraph in 1838, along with a system of dashes and dots of electric pulses to represent letters (Stall sec. 1). The first message on a commercial telegraph cable was sent on May 24, 1844, from Washington DC to Baltimore. Morse sent the message “What hath God wrought” himself to his partner Albert ...
- 1253: History Atomic Bomb Essay
- ... with is advisors, it nonetheless becomes extremely difficult to believe Truman and Stimson’s claim that the only reason the bomb was dropped was for military reasons. There exists evidence in Truman’s diaries and letters to his wife that seems to contradict Alperovitz’s revisionist theory of American diplomacy concerned with using the bomb to intimidate the Russians23. The first entry of note is from June 7th 1945, slightly more ...
- 1254: Historical Relations Between T
- ... their inherent exploitation of the Indians of the Hudson Valley, the Dutch were intent on gathering as much information as possible about the tribes they encountered, who they referred to as Wilden, or wildmen. Many letters from colonists that went back to the Netherlands included detailed descriptions of the native persons, their clothing, houses, food, domestic habits and social customs.(Kenney 25) The traders had little or no knowledge of Indian ...
- 1255: Heros Of The Sixties Counter C
- ... teaches at the University of California at Davis. Ron Thelin-Whether it was helping the Haight-Ashbury’s homeless obtain food and shelter, supporting a community newspaper called the Oracle, or spending countless hours writing letters on behalf of the environment, Ron Thelin brought to his many activities the same values that won him an Eagle Scout award as a youngster: a belief in community, a thoughtful, generous nature, and a ...
- 1256: Herman Melville
- ... story, has several walls of his own to break out of. In his final grasp at communication, the narrator invites the reading that Bartleby's life, and the story that presents it, are like dead letters that will never reach those that would profit from them. He leaves us with the words, "Ah Bartleby! Ah, humanity!" In "Bartleby, the Scrivener", Melville tries to relate to the reader and explain his declining ...
- 1257: Glory
- Robert Gould Shaw was a son of wealthy Boston abolitionists. At 23 he enlisted to fight in the war between the states. The movie opens by Robert reading one of many letters he writes home. He is captain of 100 Union soldiers most of whom are older than himself. He speaks of the spirit of his men and how they are enthusiastic about fighting for their country ...
- 1258: Frederic Douglass
- ... raids. After notified of the implementations Douglass decided to flee to Canada knowing that he stood little chance of a fair trial if he were captured and sent to Virginia. While in Canada, Douglass wrote letters in his own defense, justifying both his flight and his refusal to help Brown. Still fear of being arrested kept Douglass away. In November 1859, Douglass sailed to England again. He began a trip he ...
- 1259: Frank Lloyd Wright Innovator I
- ... States. Mamah officially moved into Taliesin in 1913. On August 15th, 1914 Wright received a call in his office at Midway Garden's sight. Taliesin was burning and Mamah had been murdered. Wright received many letters of condolence as his love and his home lay in ashes. One letter he received was of particular importance. Maude (Miriam) Noel had written Frank around Christmas of 1914 offering sympathy for his disaster by ...
- 1260: Donner Party
- ... Stewart wrote Ordeal by Hunger the most popular book. Recently, another version, Winter of Entrapment was published by Joseph King. A special documentary was produced in 1993 by PBS, featuring actors reading from diaries and letters of members of the party. The McGlashan book attempts to present the facts of the journey without making moral judgement. The Stewart book presents a dramatized version, showing the weaknesses and strengths of the various ...
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