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Monday, March 8, 2010
Friday, March 5, 2010
Saturday, March 5, 1910. Культура, Kultur, and Ramen noodles.
The Queen of Spades, by Tchaikovsky, was performed at the New York Metropolitan Opera, in German.
Momofuku Ando (Japanese: 安藤 百福, Hepburn: Andō Momofuku) born Go Pek-Hok, Chinese: 吳百福; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Gô͘ Pek-hok) in Taiwan. He invented ramen noodles in 1958.
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Thursday, March 3, 1910. Economic exploitation of lesser powers.
Labels: 1910, 1910s, 2020s, 2025, Capitalism, Casablanca, Colonialism, Dallas Texas, Diplomacy, France, French Empire, Morocco, Racism, Red Summer of 1919, Spain, Texas (Dallas), Ukraine, United States
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Thursday, March 3, 1910. Economic exploitation of lesser powers.
Morocco signed an accord with France, which they no doubt regretted, allowing the French to occupy Casablanca and Quijada in return for military training. It was part of a loan deal. Morocco would ultimately end up being bent over by France, and Spain.
This is similar to the current proposal, in a way, to bend Ukraine over and take its minerals, proposed by Donny Trump. It's another bad idea that Ukraine probably would like to give the US the middle finger salute for, but Donny is too dense to understand that life isn't transactional, the pathetic bloated twit.
Well, if nothing else, it gave us a great movie in the end. . .
Stock in Sears began trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
I miss Sears being what it once was.
Allen Brooks, a black man in his 50s or 60s and accused of raping a young white girl of about 2 years old was lynched in Dallas, Texas.
Was he guilty?
Well, without knowing more, and I don't, it seems awfully unlikely. And that's the point. He was deprived of a fair trial and murdered.
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Thursday, March 1, 1900. Samoa
Labels: 1900, 1900s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1954, Colonialism, German Empire, German Resistance Movements, Germany, Heroes, Nazi Germany, Samoa
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Wednesday, March 2, 1910. First US military pilot.
1st Lt. Benjamin Foulois became the first US military pilot after making a solo flight on a Wright Flyer.
He'd go on to serve a long, but not uncontroversial career. As a result, he retried unceremoniously under a cloud in 1935. He thereafter warned of the dangers of resurgent German airpower, and he offered to return to service, with a combat command, during World War TWo, but was not taken up on the offer. He died in 1967 at age 87.
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Tuesday, March 1, 1910. The Wellington Washington AvalanchLabels: 1910, 1910s, Brazil, Disaster, Washington, Weathere.
Monday, March 1, 2010
Tuesday, March 1, 1910. The Wellington Washington Avalanche.
An avalanche in Washington killed 96 people, mostly passengers of a stranded passenger train.
A thunderstorm triggered the tragic event at Wellington, Washington. It's the deadliest avalanche in U.S. history.
General Hermes Rodrigues da Fonseca was elected President of Brazil.
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Monday, February 28, 1910. Last Bare Knuckle.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Monday, February 28, 1910. Last Bare Knuckle.
The last bare knuckle boxing match in the US took place in Passaic, New Jersey, between boxers Leo Baker and Dave Smith. They fought 32 rounds without gloves, with the match ending in a draw.
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Friday, February 25, 1910. Dealing with monopolists.
Labels: 1910, 1910s, Capitalism, Crime, Economics, Food, law, New Jersey, New York, Progressive Era, Progressivism, Railroads
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Friday, February 25, 1910. Dealing with monopolists.
A grand jury in Newark, New Jersey indicted the National Packing Company and its subsidiaries, Armour, Swift, Morris, and G.H. Hammond of conspiracy to monopolize the nation's meatpacking industry. Executives were also indicted.
Funny. . . it's every bit as monopolized now. . .
The early 20th Century, of course, saw a dedicated effort to deal with the excesses of capitalism. Those efforts were, to a large degree, successful.
And forgotten.
Thomas Edison's electric street car was demonstrated in New York.
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Friday, February 18, 1910. Morocco held hostage by its own tariffs.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Friday, February 18, 1910. Morocco held hostage by its own tariffs.
France gave Morocco 48 hours to ratify an agreement to replay $12,000,000 owed as indemnities or face tariff forfeitures. Morocco, depending upon the tariffs, agreed.
It's almost like you shouldn't make your finances the captive of foreign nations. . . .
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Thursday, February 17, 1910. John Browning applies for a safety patent.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Sunday, February 13, 1910. Protesting an oligarchy.
Largescale working class protests occurred in Berlin over the Prussian three class franchise which gave the wealthiest 1/5th of German voters 2/3s of the seats in the German parliament. Bayonets were used on protestors, but nobody was killed.
This was part of the system which lead to the German revolution of 1918 which brought down the monarchy and lead to the end of World War One, something that our current political overlords may wish to remember, given the current oligarchic nature of the United States.
The name of San Pedro Bay was changed to Los Angeles Harbor.
I hate these geographic name changes.
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Tuesday, February 8, 1910. Boy Scouts of America founded.
Labels: 1900s, 1910, 1960s, Boy Scouts, children, Christianity, Muscular Christianity, Protestant, Sic transit Gloria Mundi, Strauss, Teenagers, Youth Organizations
Monday, February 8, 2010
Tuesday, February 8, 1910. Boy Scouts of America founded.
The Boy Scouts of America was founded.
Founded on the British example, which was spreading like wildfire, Chicago publisher William D. Boyce brought the organization to the United States. It grew at an enormous rate early on, and was a real powerhouse for much of the pre 1960s era, bringing in a youth movement based on the outdoors and muscular Christianity.
The organization, looking back, began to to take a hit into the 1960s, which was perhaps inevitable. Grounded strictly in manly virtues, the 1960s introduced a growing feminization in western males, something that the Strauss-Howe Generational Theory notes to be a reoccurring phenomenon. At the same time, the protestant churches began their decline, although it was not obvious at the time, and muscular Christianity declined with them. The organization attempted to adapt, but the trend was pretty set in.
Today the damaged organization still includes 1,000,000 youth, of which 176,000 are unfortunately female. 130,000,000 mostly male Americans have participated in its programs since 1910, including me, albeit only briefly, and not including my father or grandfather, although one of my cousins was an Eagle Scout.
There's a lot on this website about the BSA, which is probably odd for a website run by somebody whose has a thin association with them at best. But they were a major movement in American, and indeed Western, culture, and their demise is also telling.
Related threads:
Boy Scouts no more.
Youth organizations. Their Rise and (near) Fall, or is that a myth? And, did you join?
Blog Mirror: What Scouting Has Lost
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Monday, January 31, 1910. Disaster at Primero, Colorado.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Monday, January 31, 1910. Disaster at Primero, Colorado.
An explosion at Colorado Fuel and Iron's mine at Primero, Colorado, killed 75 miners.
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Saturday, January 29, 1910. Skates.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Wednesday January 26, 1910 and Thursday, January 27, 1910. The Mann Act, Nation's last saloon assault, a famous name.
January 26:
The Hague Convention of 1907 governing naval warfare went into effect.
The Mann Act went into effect. The act famously addresses taking a woman across state lines for illegal or immoral purposes.
Glenn Curtis tested the first seaplane.
Carrie Nation attacked a saloon, in Butte Montana, for the last time. It was a failure.
January 27.
Wollert Konow became Prime Minister of Norway.
Thomas Crapper, toilet manufacturer, died at age 73.
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Monday, January 24, 1910. Setting the season.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Monday, January 24, 1910. Setting the season.
The major leagues held their annual meeting in Pittsburgh. The National League approved a resolution to add 14 games to each teams schedule, brining the total up to 168 games. The American Leauge delined so the season remained at 154 games.
The American League went to the current 162 in 1961, the National League in 1962, so we never made it to 168.
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Saturday, January 15, 1910. Work completed on the Buffalo Bill Dam.
Friday, January 15, 2010
Saturday, January 15, 1910. Work completed on the Buffalo Bill Dam.
Today In Wyoming's History: January 15: 1910 Work completed on the Buffalo Bill Dam.
Buffao Bill Dam
It was 325 feet tall when first build, and dammed the Shoshone River near Cody. It was the tallest dam in the world at the time.
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Labels: 1910, 1910s, A Mystery, Court, Jimmy Akin, law, Lighter than air aircraft, Monarchy, Native Americans, Personalities, Podcast Mirror, Spain, Women
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