Ostensibly exploring the practice of law before the internet. Heck, before good highways for that matter.
Monday, October 2, 2017
Artillery Hill, Camp Wheeler, Macon, Georgia. October 2, 1917.
Sunday, August 20, 2017
The Big Picture: Medical Officer Training Corps, Camp Greenleaf (M.O.T.C.), Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga., Aug. 20, 1917
Saturday, March 25, 2017
Georgian Orthodox Church declares its resumed autocephaly.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Thursday, August 12, 1909. The father of a mass murderer dies.
Briggs & Stratton started manufacturing engines.
Georgian Besarion Ivanes dze Jughashvili, father of Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili, know to history as Joseph Stalin, died of cirrhosis of the liver.
He was a cobbler by trade, and had hoped his son would be as well.
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Tuesday, August 10, 1909. Drilling bit.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Wednesday, March 31, 1909. Common Cup.
The Kansas State Board of Health banned the "common drinking cup" on trains and in public schools.
Common drinking cups were very common and it would take years to really fully prohibit their use. Their elimination gave rise to the water fountain, which had no cup, and to disposable cups.
Georgian ended its "convict lease system" with 1,200 convicted felons thereby returned from private stockades to county jails.
The Serbian ambassador to Austro Hungaria presented his government's formal acceptance of the Austrian annexation of Bosnia.
Hull No. 401, the keel of the RMS Titanic, was laid at the Harland and Wolff shipyards in Belfast.
The company still exists and still has a shipyard in Belfast. Founded in 1861, it was nationalized in 1977, and then privatized again in 1989.
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Tuesday, March 30, 1909. The Army abandons Ft. Washakie.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Thursday, March 18, 1909. Tragedies.
In Denmark, Einar Dessau spoke over the radio to a government post six miles distant, becoming the first person to speak over the radio.
Friday, March 13, 2009
Saturday, March 13, 1909. Sulphur Springs Florida and Augusta Georgia.
Friday, June 23, 2000
Saturday, June 23, 1900. Rescued Hoover.
Foreigners at Tianjin were rescued by invading Western armies. Included in those who were saved was 26 year old Herbert Hoover.
Chinese troops set fire to the Hanlin Academy in Beijing, but its important library was not affected.
The worst rail disaster in Georgia's history occurred when the Southern Railway’s No. 7 train came across a washed-out bridge at the Camp Creek trestle, just south of Atlanta and plummeted xisty feet into a flooded creek and burst into flames. Thirty-five of the forty-five people on board were killed.
Old Number 7 Train Wreck: Information Gathered 1998 From 1900 Train Wreck: "The last accident at Camp Creek on June 22 , 1900." The railroad bridge over Camp Creek washed out as the train was crossing. T...
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