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The Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial was unveiled in France on grounds where the Battle of the Somme had been fought.
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Showing posts with label 1925. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1925. Show all posts
Saturday, June 7, 2025
Friday, June 6, 2025
Saturday, June 6, 1925. The Great Syrian Revolt.
Walter P. Chrysler incorporated the company that bears his name.
The Great Syrian Revolt against the French started when representatives of the Jabal Druze State were treated poorly by the French administrator. Syrian rejection of French rule, however, had been smouldering since the end of World War One.
Indeed, this ties right into the events we've been otherwise cataloging regarding France at the end of World War One. Syria and Lebanon had been granted near independence during the war, which France tried to renege on as soon as the Germans were defeated. Only British intervention, which nearly resulted in fighting between the French and British, stopped that from occurring and assured rapid Syrian and Lebanese independence. French insistence on occupying the same territory at the end of the Great War nearly resulted in fighting between the same two European powers then and France had never been welcome by most of the regions inhabitants.
French attachment to the region is hard to really explain, but it is in part cultural and goes all the way back to the Kingdom of Jerusalem,1099–1187, 1192-1291, the long running "Crusader Kingdom" in the same region. Lasting almost two hundred years, the kingdom, which was mostly governed by French Crusaders, formed a strong cultural attachment to the region with the French.
The Saturday magazines hit the stands.
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Wednesday,. June 3, 1925. Blimps and Stormy Weather.
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Monday, June 2, 2025
Tuesday, June 2, 1925. A headache becomes history, Marines in Shanghai, and Amundsen lost
Marines in Shanghai and Amundsen lost.
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Monday, June 1, 1925. Lou Gehrig's Streak Begins
Sunday, June 1, 2025
Friday, May 30, 2025
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Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Wednesday, May 27, 1925. Finding the right girl.
Friday, May 23, 2025
Saturday, May 23, 1925. Memorial Day Weekend.
An advertisement from The Times of London.
"World" police chiefs at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
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Monday, May 19, 2025
Tuesday, May 19, 1925. Birthdays and a last game.
This is the birthday of Malcolm Little, known to history as Malcolm X.
I've discussed him to some extent here on this blog before, but I had neglected to enter him as a topic category until today. An extremely intelligent man and the son of a Baptist lay minister, he had undergone a continuing religious evolution and was a Muslim at the time of his murder. I suspect that, had he lived, he would have returned to Christianity.
It is also the birthday of Pol Pot
Pol Pot has featured on this blog a lot recently. Born Saloth Sâr the Cambodian Communist leader would go down in history as one of the greatest mass murderers of all time. Quite well educated, he became a Communist while studying in France after World War Two. He died in exile in 1998.
Casey Stengel played his last major league game.
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Sunday, May 17, 1925. The canonization of Thérèse of Lisieux
Saturday, May 17, 2025
Sunday, May 17, 1925. The canonization of Thérèse of Lisieux
Thérèse of Lisieux was canonized. She had died in 1897, making her canonization remarkably quick.
Tris Speaker of the Cleveland Indians became the fifth baseball player to accomplish the feat of making 3,000 hits in his career.
Baseball pitcher Buster Ross of the Boston Red Sox set a still standing record, of committing four errors in a single game.
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Saturday, May 16, 1925.
Friday, May 16, 2025
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Friday, May 15, 1925. Coolidge decides the Navy isn't a police force.
President Coolidge rejected prohibitionist Wayne Wheeler's plan to use the U.S. Navy to enforce the Volstead Act.
Coolidge believed the Navy was for national defense, not police duty.
Japanese editorials decried American plans to strengthen the naval base at Pearl Harbor.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles, famous for his role in the Indian Wars, and whose name was given to Miles City, Montana, died at age 85.
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Tuesday, May 12, 1925. President Hindenburg and Prosecutor Bryan.
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Monday, May 12, 2025
Tuesday, May 12, 1925. President Hindenburg and Prosecutor Bryan.
Paul von Hindenburg was sworn in for a seven-year term as President of Germany.
William Jennings Bryan agreed to participate in the prosecution of John Scopes.
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Monday, May 11, 1925. The Tables are turned. (The Palm Beach Post, May 11, 1925).
Sunday, May 11, 2025
Friday, May 9, 2025
Monday, May 5, 2025
Friday, May 2, 2025
The Aerodrome: This Day In Aviation, May 2, 1925. The Douglas C-1
The Aerodrome: This Day In Aviation, May 2, 1925. The Douglas C-1: This Day In Aviation, May 2, 1925.
Friday, April 25, 2025
Blog Mirror: 1925 Description of Electric Stoves
Really interesting. I hadn't given much thought to when electric stoves really entered the scene, but I would not have guessed it was this early.
The conversation that follows is really interesting too, especially the item noting that electricity wasn't common for rural homes until the 1930s when rural electrification came in as a Depression Era project.
1925 Description of Electric Stoves
Saturday, April 25, 1925.
Germany was turning to an ancient leader. . . what could go wrong?
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