Paleontological Toyota?

 

Friday, July 13, 1923. Doubling down.

 

France, undeterred by criticism and results, determined to into German deeper.

And there was an attempted jail break at the Natrona County jail.

What became the famous Hollywood sign, which originally said Hollywoodland, was dedicated.  It promoted a housing development.   The sign would read in that fashion until 1949 when it was shortened.

Paleontologist lead by U.S. expeditionist Roy Chapman found fossilized dinosaur eggs in Mongolia, the first people to do so and realize what they were.

Hermann Ehrhardt, being held by Germany on high treason for his role in the Kapp Putsch, escaped.

Ehrhardt, back left of car, during putsch.

Ehrhardt, an Imperial German naval officer, lead the Marine Brigade Ehrhardt during the attempt to overthrow the government.  Ehrhardt fled to Switzerland, but returned in September.  This would establish a pattern for the rest of his active life, as the German government later sought to arrest him again, and then finally he feld to escape the Night of the Long Knives. As that would indicate, while he was in the far right, and anti Semitic, he was also opposed to the Nazis.

23,000 year old human footprints found in New Mexico.

And that's a big deal.

It's a big deal, as it pushes the human presence in North America way back beyond what had been previously suspected in a spectacular example of Holscher's First Law of History.

And if humans were in New Mexico 23,000 years ago, so far back that the Ice Age land bridge isn't a very good explanation for how humans got here from Asia, it means they arrived at least some time prior to that. After all, you can't walk from Point Barrow to New Mexico in a day.

March 19, 1921. Wars and echoes from wars.

The Country Gentleman warned of a "slacker invasion" in its issue that hit the stands on this day in 1921.

The IRA fought its way out of a near encirclement in a two hour battle at Crossbarry.  The engagement was remarkable for being one of the largest engagements of the Anglo Irish War.  It's also remarkable in that while it was hard fought, casualties on both sides were remarkably low.

The IRA force was commanded by Tom Barry who went on to a long career in the Irish Republican Army before ending up in the Irish defense ministry.  He'd been a British soldier during World War One.

Casualties of that war were visited by President Harding at Walter Reed hospital.

At the National Museum, a juvenile Triceratops' fossil was being prepared.