Czar Nicholas II expanded the Pale of Settlement, that area within the Russian Empire in which Jews could reside.
The Pale of Settlement in 1884.
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Wednesday, October 26, 1910
New York City, October 26, 1910.
Ponca City, Oklahoma, October 26, 1910. One of my high school friends is from Ponca City.
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Tuesday, October 18, 1910. Radio Rescue and Hurricane hits Florida.
The 1910 Cuba Hurricane hit south Florida.
The British ocean liner Trent rescued the crew of the dirigible America.
The three day later rescue was made possible by the fact that the America had been equipped with a radio.
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Wednesday, October 17, 1910. The 1910 Cuba Hurricane,
Labels: 1910 Cuba Hurricane, 1910s, Animals, Blog Mirror, Cats, Cuba, Weather, Whatever It Is I'm against it
Friday, October 15, 2010
Saturday, October 15, 1910. Episcopal concept.
American Episcopalians nearly changed the name of the Episcopal Church from the "Protestant Episcopal Church" to the "Holy Catholic Episcopal Church" during a conference in Cinncinnatti. A resolution to do the same failed by one vote. The motion passed 42–25 by the clergy, but declined 31–32 by the laymen.
This vote is actually quite significant as it showed the lingering impact of The Oxford Movement from the mid 19th Century. The Oxford Movement sought to prove that the Anglican Church was in fact part of the Apostolic Churches, like the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, and it advanced High Church Anglicanism as a result. As can be seen by this vote, the clergy was very much of the view that the Episcopal Church was not a Protestant one, but a Catholic one. The movement also had rippled effects in the Lutheran churches via students who had studied during the Oxford era in the United Kingdom. The lasting impacts are very much in evidence today as the Anglican Church struggles to stay together over issues originally raised, to some degree, during the Oxford era.
Presently the church uses two names, The "Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America" (PECUSA) and "The Episcopal Church" (TEC).
Interestingly, the more common global name, Anglican, comes from the Magna Carta's statement that "in Anglicana ecclesia libera sit", meaning that in England the church shall be free of government control. That actually doesn't reflect at all how the Anglican Communion came about. The term itself was not used, however, until the late 19th Century as in England it was simply "the Established Church". While it would be speculating, in the late 19th Century parliament began to loosen up on restrictions on Catholicism, and thereafter some identifying term was likely needed for common conversation.
Episcopal, in contrast, derives from the Greek word for Bishop and was always a direct claim of Apostolic succession. The use of the term in the United States dates back to a crisis in the Anglican Church brought about by the American Revolution, as clergymen had been required to take an oath to the Crown and the overwhelming majority of northern clergymen retained loyalty to the Crown as a result. The American church had to find a way to work around this, which ironically to some degree put them where clergymen loyal to the Catholic Church found themselves during the Reformation.
The American Episcopal Church was, for many years, including in 1910, the preeminent Protestant denomination in the U.S. It was not a dissenting church. It's fortunes have declined enormously in the late 20th and 21st Centuries.
It occurs to me that I've known, somewhat, two Episcopal clergymen who reflect the concepts noted above. One was the brother of a friend of mine, which is interesting in that the family was Lutheran. He converted to the Episcopal Church and became an Episcopal Church, and later left the Episcopal Church to become an Anglican of the Anglican Church of North America branch, which I believe he still is. He openly could not remain in the Episcopal Church due to its liberal drift.
The other was a lawyer who was on what seemed to be a continual religious drift. She was a Methodist when I first knew here, converted to Catholicism to marry, and then divorced and became an Episcopalians and then an Episcopal priest. While an Episcopal priest she remarried, which is interesting in that the Episcopal Church does not actually recognize divorce. I don't know if she still serves in that capacity or not, but it's interesting in that it reflects something about the modern nature of the church in which it can become sort of a weak tea version both of its former self and Catholicism.
France lifted an 1875 ban on American potatoes, a measure that had been introduced to combat potato blight.
The first attempt to cross the Atlantic by flight, in this case a dirigible, was commenced. It'd only lasted three days before it went down.
Japan launched the battleship Kawachi. A magazine explosion would sink the ship in 1918.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Thursday, October 13, 1910. TR in Indianapolis on tariffs.
President Theodore Roosevelt spoke to a huge crowd from the balcony of the English Hotel in Indianapolis. He was in the city to support a bill introduced by Senator Albert Beveridge for a tariff commission.
My, have we fallen. TR, a New Yorker who was the advocate of the Strenuous Life was of course a Republican, and young. Now we have a demented octogenarian supposed Republican who believes that exercise is bad for you destroying the country and imposing tariffs right and left.
Sic transit.
The Interstate Commerce Commission issued the first regulations requiring ladders, sill steps and hand brakes on all railroad cars in the United States.
Darned government bureaucrats and their outrageous regulations.
As an aside, you may have noted that the Administration's official talking point for those that their laying off is that they are bureaucrats, in the hopes that populsts Americans, no matter how utterly pointless their own jobs may be, will like bureaucrats getting laid off.
Divide et impera.
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Tuesday, October 11, 1910. TR takes a flight.
Labels: 1910, 1910s, 1911, Aircraft, Blog Mirror, China, Chinese 1911 Revolution, Qing Dynasty, Sun Yat-sen, Theodore Roosevelt
Monday, October 11, 2010
Tuesday, October 11, 1910. TR takes a flight.
This Day in History: Teddy Roosevelt, first President to fly
Sun Yat-sen convened a meeting of the Tongmenghui in the city of Georgetown capital of the British colony of Penang. They set March 29, 1911 to begin an uprising against the Imperial government.
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Friday, October 7, 1910. The Baudette Fire.
Labels: 1910, 1910s, Baudette fire of 1910, Disaster, Minnesota, Ngô Đình Diệm, South Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam (Huế)
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Friday, October 7, 1910. The Baudette Fire.
Forest fires in Lake of the Woods County, Minnesota, destroyed sever towns and killed over 400 people.
Ngô Đình Nhu, South Vietnamese political figure, archivist and brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem, was born in Huế. From a Catholic Vietnamese family, he adopted the ideology of personalism to create the Person Dignity Theory. He went from being a bookish intellectual to a key figure in his brother's rise, and was executed along with him in 1963.
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Wednesday, October 5, 1910. Madero begins his escape.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Wednesday, October 5, 1910. Madero begins his escape.
Francisco I. Madero started his escape to Texas, resting in this day in San Luis Potosi, which would later be the name of the plan he developed for Mexico, the Plan de San Luis Potosí.
The plan in fact wasn't finished on this date.
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Monday, October 3, 1910. The Prince Regent.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Monday, October 3, 1910. The Prince Regent.
The Chinese Imperial Senate, the Tsucheng-yuan, convened for the first time. It had 202 members, of which 100 were elected by provincial assemblies, and the others were appointed by the regent.
The Prince Regent at the time was Zaifeng, who would be the last Chinese figure to hold that title. He accepted the rise of democracy following the Xinhai Revolution in 1911 and voluntarily stepped down when the time came, leading him to be a rare figure who was respected by the Nationalist and Communists, which certainly wasn't the case with his son, who became China's last emperor. He died in 1951 at age 68.
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Saturday, October 1, 1910. The Los Angeles Times bombed.
Friday, October 1, 2010
Saturday, October 1, 1910. The Los Angeles Times bombed.
A large bomb exploded outside the offices of the Los Angeles Times, killing 21 employees.
It was, of course, a Saturday.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Tuesday, September 27, 1910. The Mexican Chamber of Deputies certified the re-election of Porfirio Díaz as President, and of Ramón Corral as Vice-President.
The Mexican Chamber of Deputies certified the re-election of Porfirio Díaz as President, and of Ramón Corral as Vice-President.
"Catherine Celaberta, 766 [or 756?] S. Darian St., Philadelphia, Pa. 6 years old. Been picking this summer at Theodore Budd's Bog at Turkeytown near Pemberton, N.J. This is the fourth week of school in Philadelphia and people will stay here two weeks more. Sept. 27, 1910. Witness, E.F. Brown. Location: Pemberton, New Jersey"
Louisiana Rice Fields, September 27, 1910.
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Saturday, September 17, 1910. Speed ball.
The Mobile Sea Gulls defeated the Atlanta Crackers in a baseball game lasing 32 minutes, the fastest professional baseball game of all time. They were in the Southern Association.
The Southern Association had been formed in 1901, and ceased to exist in 1961.
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Thursday, September 16, 1910. The Centennial of Mexican Independence.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Thursday, September 16, 1910. The Centennial of Mexican Independence.
Mexico marked the centennial of its independence from Spain, and started a thirty day period of celebration. . . what could go wrong?
Ole Evinrude filed a patent application for the first outboard motor.
Bessica Medlar Raiche made the first accredited solo airplane flight by a woman in the United States. Blanche Stuart Scott's had made an "accidental" solo flight two weeks prior.
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Thursday, September 15, 1910. Wilson nominated for Governor.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Thursday, September 15, 1910. Wilson nominated for Governor.
President of Princeton University Woodrow Wilson was nominated for Governor of New Jersey by the Democratic Party of that state.
Two cavalrymen who made off with a safe from Pole Mountain were captured.
As the story alludes to, the 9th Cavalry was an all black regiment in the segregated Army.
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Saturday, September 10, 1910. Taft on Conservatism.
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Thursday, September 8, 1910. Racist in the Texas legislature and heroes on board the USS North Dakota.
The Texas House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a resolution encouraging U.S. senators and congressmen to repeal the Fourteenth Amendment granting citizenship to Black people born in the U.S.
Assholes.
Three coal passers were killed in a steam accident aboard the battleship USS North Dakota (BB-29). Six crewmen would receive the Medal of Honor, which was not restricted to wartime heroism at the time.
They included
August Holz:
On board the U.S.S. North Dakota, for extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession during the fire on board that vessel, 8 September 1910.
Holz left the Navy in 1911 and died at age 67 in 1938.
Thomas Stanton.
For extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession during the fire on board the U.S.S. North Dakota, 8 September 1910.
Stanton was born in Ireland and died in 1950 at age 80.
Patrick Reid:
For extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession during the fire on board the U.S.S. North Dakota where Reid was serving, 8 September 1910.
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Reid was born in Ireland and died in 1924 at age 49.
Harry Lipscomb:
On board the U.S.S. North Dakota, for extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession during the fire on board that vessel, 8 September 1910.
He died in 1926 at age 48.
Charles Church Roberts
For extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession while serving on board the U.S.S. NORTH DAKOTA ; during the fire on board that vessel, 8 September 1910.
He retired from the Navy after having been commissioned a reserve office during World War One and died 1957 at age 75.
Karl Westa.
On board the U.S.S. North Dakota, for extraordinary heroism in the line of his profession during the fire on board that vessel, 8 September 1910.
Westa was born in Norway and had been in the U.S. a mere five years. He died in 1949 at age 73 and is buried at Arlington.
Mirassol, Brazil, was incorporated as São Pedo da Mata Una.
Manhattan and Long Island were linked by subway as the East River Tunnels opened at 00:10.
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Wednesday, September 7, 1910. End of the Cod Wars.
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