The Day That Will live in Infamy – A personal view
When the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred, the USS California was two ships away from the USS Arizona.
Around the World – in *How* many days?!
Many people have heard of Jules Verne’s book, Around the World in Eighty Days. At the time it was written, without air travel, the idea of traveling around the world in two and a half months seemed preposterous. The book, … Continued
All aboard – Railroads – the Chinese contribution
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In the fall of 1868, Charles Crocker estimated that 10,000 Chinese, 1,000 whites, and “any number” of Native Americans worked for the Central Pacific Railroad.
Kindness – the impact of a janitor
“Who’s Annie?” the doctor asked. Annie was a young girl brought in here because she was incorrigible—nobody could do anything with her. She’d bite and scream and throw her food at people. The doctors and nurses couldn’t even examine her or anything. I’d see them trying with her spitting and scratching at them. “I was only a few years younger than her myself, and I used to think, ‘I sure would hate to be locked up in a cage-like that.’ I wanted to help her, but I didn’t have any idea what I could do. I mean, if the doctors and nurses couldn’t help her, what could someone like me do?
A love is torn apart
Georgeanna Woolsey was a nurse that served in the Sanitary Commission for the Union during the Civil War. On a visit to Charleston, S.C. just before the war, she witnessed a huge slave auction that forever confirmed her opposition to … Continued
We will never forget? But have we? Could 9/11 happen again?
9/11 – do we remember? Or will history repeat?
The value of an infant
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
Did you know… The Powder Alarm?
Most Americans have heard of the battles of Lexington and Concord, and “The Shot Heard Round The World”. But the American revolution, or the American rebellion as the British would say, wasn’t something that happened all at once. There were … Continued
The Fall of the Ming Dynasty – April 24, 1644
I think if you were to ask people in the West to name one Chinese dynasty, the one they would likely come up with would be the Ming.