9th or 10th Cavalry.
9th or 10th Cavalry.
President's reviewing stand and light tanks.
Monday, May 26, 2014
Recalling Memorial Day.
1937 Memorial Day poster, recalling veterans of the Civil War. At this time, remaining veterans would have been in their 80s and up.
1917 Memorial Day poster, noting the ongoing First World War and recalling the Civil War.
Tuesday, May 26, 1914. Equipping Assassins.
Grabež, Ciganović and Princip in Kalemegdan Park, May 1914
Bosnian Serbs' Gavrilo Princip, Trifko Grabež, and Nedeljko Čabrinović were supplied weapons and training by Serbian Major Vojislav Tankosić. Tankosić was a member of the Black Hand Serbian military society, and the goal was to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, who was scheduled to inspect military maneuvers in Sarajevo in June.
Suffragist Maude Kate Smith damaged the painting Primavera by artist George Clausen at the Roycal Academy Summer Exhibition, as somehow that was supposed to advance the cause of women.
How isn't clear.
Theodore Roosevelt spoke to the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C. about the "River of Doubt" expedition.
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Monday, May 25, 1914. Home Rule
Sunday, May 25, 2014
Monday, May 25, 1914. Home Rule
The British House of Commons passed the Irish Home Rule bill. It would not take effect due to postponements caused by World War One, thereby creating a tragedy.
But for the Great War, Ireland would have been a self-governing portion of the United Kingdom in this time frame, and very likely still would be today.
The Jungle, based on the Upton Sinclair novel, was released:
Well suited for the melodrama's fot he time, it's never been made into a film since, which is quite surprising. This may be because of its highly left wing orientation, but then the terrible film Reds was made, so who knows.
In the film, Lithuanian immigrant, Jurgis Rudkus gains a job in the stockyards and meets and marries Ona. They have a child, but Rudus loses his job and Ona resorts to prostituting herself to her husband's former foreman, Connor. Rudkus kills Connor by throwing him into a cattle pen. While he's in prison, Ona dies. Upon release, he becomes an advocate for women in the Socialist Party.
Pope Pius X created 25 new cardinals.
4th Field Artillery & Engineers Camp, Texas City, Texas, 1914
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Labels: 1910s, 1914, Alaska (Nome), Belgium, Canadian Arctic Expedition, Catholic, Heroes, Politics, religion
Saturday, May 24, 2014
Graduating on Memorial Day Weekend
The Natrona County High School Class of 2014 graduates today, May 24, 2014.
It is, of course, also Memorial Day weekend..
It's been interesting for a variety of reasons. It would be interesting any way, as I'm a graduate of NCHS, my wife is a graduate of NCHS, my father in law, mother in law, two brothers in law, two uncles, three aunts, and my father graduated from NCHS; and my son attends NCHS.
And NC is undergoing major renovation. It's 80 year old swimming pool, which is where I practiced when a swim team member, and where my son has also practiced for the same reason, will be torn down in that project in a couple of weeks, with no replacement pool in the offering as the local voters refused to pass the bond that would have funded that and other projects. We were involved in the effort to pass the bond, which was narrowly defeated. All of that would have made that interesting.
But it's also interesting as the choice of Memorial Day has caused a minor flap on the party of some who are upset on the basis that they conceive of a graduation over Memorial Day weekend (but not on the day tiself) as disrespectful to veterans in general and war dead in particular.
Well, while I say honor the day, my view on that is that the critics of the graduation should relax, reconsider and frankly reflect on this.. Dates for high school graduations are pretty strictly controlled around here and they had little other choice. Beyond that, two of the young men that I've grown to know over the years are going to be leaving shortly after they graduate for Navy basic training. And it occurs to me that a lot of our war dead weren't much older when they died than those young men entering the service. Indeed, a couple of the World War Two veterans I've known, including one who attended NCHS, left high school for the army. Anyhow, it occurs to me that those young men probably would have preferred to be at a high school graduation rather than in some mud hole in Italy, some freezing pit in Belgium, or some sandy foxhole on Iwo Jima, so maybe a high school graduation is honoring them in a way that they might like to be honored.
It's been interesting for a variety of reasons. It would be interesting any way, as I'm a graduate of NCHS, my wife is a graduate of NCHS, my father in law, mother in law, two brothers in law, two uncles, three aunts, and my father graduated from NCHS; and my son attends NCHS.
And NC is undergoing major renovation. It's 80 year old swimming pool, which is where I practiced when a swim team member, and where my son has also practiced for the same reason, will be torn down in that project in a couple of weeks, with no replacement pool in the offering as the local voters refused to pass the bond that would have funded that and other projects. We were involved in the effort to pass the bond, which was narrowly defeated. All of that would have made that interesting.
But it's also interesting as the choice of Memorial Day has caused a minor flap on the party of some who are upset on the basis that they conceive of a graduation over Memorial Day weekend (but not on the day tiself) as disrespectful to veterans in general and war dead in particular.
Well, while I say honor the day, my view on that is that the critics of the graduation should relax, reconsider and frankly reflect on this.. Dates for high school graduations are pretty strictly controlled around here and they had little other choice. Beyond that, two of the young men that I've grown to know over the years are going to be leaving shortly after they graduate for Navy basic training. And it occurs to me that a lot of our war dead weren't much older when they died than those young men entering the service. Indeed, a couple of the World War Two veterans I've known, including one who attended NCHS, left high school for the army. Anyhow, it occurs to me that those young men probably would have preferred to be at a high school graduation rather than in some mud hole in Italy, some freezing pit in Belgium, or some sandy foxhole on Iwo Jima, so maybe a high school graduation is honoring them in a way that they might like to be honored.
My service, as I have noted here before, was in the National Guard, although because of the length of training during the time during which I was receiving it, I have an Honorable Discharge from the U.S. Army (that is, we were in the active duty Army during training, and for such a long period that we qualify as veterans). That may make my prospective a bit different, but if it does, I suspect that my point is all the more valid. All of us in the Guard in that period were of course volunteers, with quite a few being men who had served in the Vietnam War. It seemed to me that in our conversations, while we all had an interest in the service, we talked more about routine matters, or matters that concerned us in our daily lives. For those men who served in 1860-1865, or 1917-1918, or 1940-1945, or what have you, who often served without a real choice, and who tended to be young men, my guess is that is all the more the case. I"m sure that on the plaque honoring NCHS's war dead from World War Two, which is in the school lobby, and past which hundreds of students pass each day, are the names of many young men whose souls would look back out on those familiar halls where they had walked and, if they were to speak, would say "I wish I could be there tonight".
Painted Bricks: Platte County Steam Laundry, Wheatland Wyoming
Painted Bricks: Platte County Steam Laundry, Wheatland Wyoming: This small building is still in use, and has updated windows today. A newer sign above the door says "Coin Operated Laundry", ...
Sunday, May 24, 1914. Trying to put in at Nome.
Robert Bartlett arrived in Nome on the whaler Herman in his epic effort to provide relief to the Canadian Arctic Expedition. Ice prevented the ship from putting in, however. It turned towards St. Michael, where three days later Bartlett was able to radio the dire news to Ottawa.
The Belgian Catholic Party won 41 out of 88 seats of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives.
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Sunday, May 17, 1914. Trouble on Wrangel.
Labels: 1910s, 1914, Albania, Canada, Canadian Arctic Expedition, Catholic, Christianity, Railroads, religion, Washington DC, Wrangel Island
Friday, May 23, 2014
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Monday, May 19, 2014
Sunday, May 18, 2014
1870 to 1918 | From empire to cataclysm
1870 to 1918 | From empire to cataclysm
I've been waiting for this blog to appear, and somehow failed to notice that it had!
Anyhow, the author of this blog has had some excellent posts on her other blog on historical topics, including the Second Boer War, and I'm glad to note that this blog has appeared!
I've been waiting for this blog to appear, and somehow failed to notice that it had!
Anyhow, the author of this blog has had some excellent posts on her other blog on historical topics, including the Second Boer War, and I'm glad to note that this blog has appeared!
Saturday, May 17, 2014
Old Man and the Plow
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I'm not sure if some days I feel like this old timer, or wish I did.
I'm not sure if some days I feel like this old timer, or wish I did.
Sunday, May 17, 1914. Trouble on Wrangel.
Geologist George Malloch of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, stranded on Wrangel Island, died from nephritis after eating bad pemmican. Bjarne Mamen was stricken with the same disease and was too ill to bury him.
This would not be addressed for several days, as Cpt. Robert Bartlett had ordered the men to spread their camps out to increase their hunting odds while stranded.
Albania recognized tiny Northern Epirus as a self-governing region under the Principality of Albania.
Meanwhile, rebels surrounded Shijak, Albania.
The Canadian Northern Railway acquired the Canadian Northern Ontario Railway.
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Saturday, May 16, 1914. Álvaro Obregón's takes Tepic.
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