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Category Archives: History
Exploring Seattle pedestrian tunnels
Thanks to Mary M. David B. Williams is the son of Skyline resident Jackie Williams. Open in app or online A weekly newsletter by David B. Williams, www.geologywriter.com. Human Habitrails Seattle’s Pedestrian Tunnels DAVID B. WILLIAMS JAN 12 SAVE ▷ LISTEN … Continue reading
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Camp Lewis 91st Division football team plays the Mare Island Marines in the Rose Bowl on January 1, 1918.
Thanks to Bob P. This article was published on History Link by Duane Colt Denfeld, Ph.D. On January 1, 1918, two armed-services football teams, composed largely of former star college players now on active duty, meet in the 1918 Rose … Continue reading
The Old Man & a Bucket of Shrimp
Great true story🎄 Thanks to Sybil-Ann You will be glad that you read it, especially those who know Key Biscayne, Florida. I hope you’ll pass it on. It happened every Friday evening, almost without fail, when the sun resembled a … Continue reading
WHY THE PAST 10 YEARS OF AMERICAN LIFE HAVE BEEN UNIQUELY STUPID
It’s not just a phase.By Jonathan Haidt in The Atlantic What would it have been like to live in Babel in the days after its destruction? In the Book of Genesis, we are told that the descendants of Noah built a great … Continue reading
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“Jazz Intoxication” bill is introduced in Washington State Legislature on December 22, 1933.
Thanks to Bob P. Ed note: I suspect that looking back 90 years from now, our current legislators may look as silly, but hopefully not as racist as those of1933. From HistoryLink: On December 22, 1933, amid growing fears over … Continue reading
Confrontation at the Selma Bridge
Thanks to Ann M. for this reminder and for the Art of the Month on-going project Residents will remember our Art of the Month display, “Confrontation at the Selma Bridge,” painted by Jacob Lawrence in 1975. A signed print of … Continue reading
U.S. Postal Service honors the late civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis with a stamp
Thanks to Pam P. Civil rights giant and former U.S. Rep. John Lewis, who spent decades fighting for racial justice, will be honored with a postage stamp next year. In a Tuesday announcement, the U.S. Postal Service said the stamp … Continue reading
Remembering a day in infamy
From historian Heather Cox Richardson
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Veteran’s day history – Heather Cox Richardson
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Holocaust survivor Francine Christophe shares her story
Thanks to Pam P. In this video interview with Francine Christophe, a Holocaust survivor, you will learn about her experience as an eight-year-old Jewish girl at Bergen-Belsen camp. You’ll be amazed to learn about her selfless act, and the great reward that she … Continue reading
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A remarkable historian comments on the present
Heather Cox Richardson is a Professor at Boston College who teaches nineteenth-century American history at both the undergraduate and the graduate level. Her PhD is from Harvard where she studied under David Herbert Donald and William Gienapp. Her early work … Continue reading
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A historic speech and a challenge to a duel
A history lesson from Heather Cox Richardson
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That wake up call!
Thanks to Pam P. Remembering the ‘Knocker-Ups’ Hired to Wake Workers With Pea Shooters THE MODERN WORKER ROLLS OUT of bed, groans, and turns off an alarm clock. But industrial-era British and Irish workers relied on a different method for rising … Continue reading
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Scrolling research with a 300 year old table
Thanks to Mary M.
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The future of Social Security – in perspective
by Heather Cox Richardson
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Amazing old photos
Thanks to Rosemary W. Ed note: It is doesn’t “load,” try to open in a new tab
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Making ‘scents’ of how Seattle smelled a century ago
Thanks to Mary M. BY FELIKS BANELReporting live from Seattle’s past With the arrival of 90+ degree heat this week, downtown Seattle is getting that summer-in-the-city smell once again – part seaweed, part exhaust, with maybe a pinch of rotting garbage … Continue reading
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Explore The Atlantic
Thanks to Mary M. SUPPORTING SPONSOR For the first time, subscribers can read every story published in The Atlantic from 1857 to today. Below is a note from our editor in chief about preserving the … Continue reading
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An inventor promised flights from San Francisco to New York. He created an air disaster instead.
Thanks to Bob P. Katie Dowd, SFGATE July 10, 2022 Updated: July 10, 2022 6:59 a.m. J.A. Morrell felt very good about his sausage-shaped airship. In February 1908, the inventor boasted it could “take a businessman to New York from San Francisco … Continue reading
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The rise of reactionaries in the wake of the 1918 flu pandemic
Emergent movements, including a resurgence of the KKK, led to more anti-immigration policy, eugenics laws, religious fundamentalism and conservative leadership. by Knute Berger (thanks to Pam P for sending) Three unidentified Washington Klan members, covered in robes and hoods, are interviewed … Continue reading
If Clarence Thomas were consistent, he’d oppose Loving v. Virginia
Thanks to Pam P. Ed note: My wife and I were married in Pennsylvania in 1964. This would have been illegal in Virginia at that time. The Loving v. Virginia case of went to the Supreme Court in 1967, giving … Continue reading
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The new Alito-Cavanaugh-Barrett Line
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A quiet hero
Thanks to Pam P. From Wiki: Sir Nicholas George Winton MBE (born Wertheim; 19 May 1909 – 1 July 2015) was a British humanitarian who helped to rescue children who were at risk of oppression by Nazi Germany. Born to German-Jewish parents who had emigrated to Britain at … Continue reading
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Amazing remembrances in pictures
Thanks to Sybil-Ann
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The Good Old Days
Thanks to Sybil-Ann (and fact checking by Ed M’s son and others–see below) The year is 1922, One hundred years ago. What a difference a century makes! Here are some statistics for Year 1922. The average life expectancy for men … Continue reading
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