Friday, July 18, 2014
The Big Speech: Henry Fairlie's The Idiocy of Urban Life or The Cow's Revenge
The late Henry Fairlie was a British born essayist who wrote in the
New Republic. A man of biting wit, he wrote the following essay, which
is one of my favorites:
The Idiocy of Urban Life Or The Cow's Revenge.
Interesting reading, and a lot of interesting commentary in the article.
The Idiocy of Urban Life Or The Cow's Revenge.
Interesting reading, and a lot of interesting commentary in the article.
Saturday, July 18, 1914. The sort of birth of the Air Force.
Congress created the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps, effectively creating what would become the Air Force.
Serbian Prime Minister Nikola Pašić stated that he would not accept any measures that compromised Serbian sovereignty in reaction to rumors about an Austro Hungarian ultimatum.
King George inspected the fleet at Spithead.
Joe Hill, labor activist memorialized in a famous folk song, was sentenced o death under questionable circumstances in Utah.
Last edition:
Wednesday, July 15, 1914. Huerta resigns.
Labels: 1910s, 1914, 1920s, 1922, 1930s, 1932, Grigori Rasputin, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Personalities, Russia, Vera Cruz Mexico, Victoriano Huerta
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
Wednesday, July 15, 1914. Huerta resigns.
Victoriano Huerta resigned as president of Mexico and left for Vera Cruz and exile. Francisco S. Carvajal became interim president.
Carvajal
Carvajal was a lawyer and government official whose position was merely transitional. After completing it, which took a month, he left for the United States where he married. He returned to Mexico in 1922, resuming his prior occupation of lawyer, and died in 1932 at age 61.
Rasputin was declared out of danger. He had, as readers will be recalled, been stabbed by a female assailant earlier in 1914.
Last edition:
Tuesday, July 14, 1914. Bastille Day.
Labels: 1910s, 1914, Austro Hungaria, Bastille Day, France, Germany, Holidays, Hungary, Ireland, July Crisis, Northern Ireland, Serbia, Ulster, United Kingdom, World War One
Monday, July 14, 2014
Seriously, Stop Refrigerating These Foods - Reviewed.com Refrigerators
Seriously, Stop Refrigerating These Foods - Reviewed.com Refrigerators
Okay, well off our typical subjects. . .
Or maybe not. There are a fair number of things that need not be refrigerated, but people do anyway, reflecting a change in habits over time. Interesting how refrigeration has affected our diets, and habits.
Okay, well off our typical subjects. . .
Or maybe not. There are a fair number of things that need not be refrigerated, but people do anyway, reflecting a change in habits over time. Interesting how refrigeration has affected our diets, and habits.
Tuesday, July 14, 1914. Bastille Day.
The Government of Ireland Bill passed the House of Lord, allowing Ulster counties to vote on whether they wished to participate in Home Rule from Dublin.
Hungarian Prime Minister István Tisza, who had opposed going to war with Serbia, changed his view out of fear that if Austro Hungaria did not do so it would result in a breach of the alliance with Germany.
It was Bastille Day.
Last edition:
Monday, July 13, 1914. Austrians conclude no Serbian involvement.
Labels: 1910s, 1914, Austro Hungaria, Canadian Arctic Expedition, Education, July Crisis, Ohio, Serbia, Weather, World War One
The Big Picture: Labor Party Convention, November 22, 1919
First national Labor Party convention, November 22, 1919. This photos is illustrative of the rise of socialist parties in the United States in the early 20th Century.
Sunday, July 13, 2014
Monday, July 13, 1914. Austrians conclude no Serbian involvement.
An Austrian investigation into the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand concluded that there was little evidence to support Serbian government involvement in his murder.
Captain Robert Bartlett departed from Alaska on the Bear for Wrangle Island to rescue the Canadian Arctic Expedition. Only fourteen survivors then existed.
Kent State Normal School, summer session, 1914.
Last edition:
Sunday, July 12, 1914. Mehmedbašić arrested.
Labels: 1910s, 1914, Albania, Arkansas, Crime, July Crisis, Labor unrest, Personalities, Serbia, World War One
Saturday, July 12, 2014
Sunday, July 12, 1914. Mehmedbašić arrested.
Muhamed Mehmedbašić, whom is generally forgotten, was apprehended for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. He was one of the principal planner of the killing plot. A Muslim, he lived a complicated life supporting Serbian independence.
Mehmedbašić in 1943.
He escaped from prison two days later in circumstances that remain suspicious, remained involved, perhaps, in various movements, and was killed by the Ustaše in 1943, showing perhaps that he remained a significant figure in some ways.
Albanian rebels captured Berat.
Shots were fired at the homes of striking miners in Hartford, Arkansas, causing them to riot thereafter.
Last edition:
Saturday, July 11, 1914. Babe Ruth premiers, as does the USS Nevada.
Labels: 1910s, 1914, 1940s, 1941, 1944, 1945, 1948, Anarchy, baseball, boats and ships, Diplomacy, Germany, Iwo Jima, July Crisis, Okinawa, Operation Dragoon, Serbia, U.S. Navy, World War One, World War Two
Friday, July 11, 2014
Friday, July 11, 1914. Babe Ruth premiers, as does the USS Nevada.
Babe Ruth made his major league debut with the Boston Red Sox.
July 11, 1914: Babe Ruth makes his major-league debut with Red Sox
The German foreign office sent a letter to King Peter of Serbia congratulating him on his birthday.
The USS Nevada was launched.
It was classified as a "super dreadnaught", which would really place it in the brief category of "battleship", in a period of rapid naval evolution. The launch was attended by Governor Oddie, Governor David I. Walsh of Massachusetts, Senator Key Pittman of Nevada, Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt.
She'd serve in World War One.
She was at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, sunk and refloated in 1942. She served thereafter in Operation Dragoon, the invasion of southern France, as well as the landings at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. She was sunk as a target in 1948.
On the same day, 5,000 people attended an Anti Militarist League rally to commemorate the anarchist killed in the July 4, Lexington Avenue Explosion.
Last edition:
Friday, July 10, 1914. Loyalties.
Labels: 1910s, 1914, Austro Hungaria, July Crisis, panoramic, Russia, Serbia, Ulster, United Kingdom, Virginia
Thursday, July 10, 2014
Friday, July 10, 1914. Loyalties.
The Provisional Government of Ulster met for the first time in the Ulster Hall. It pledged to keep Ulster in trust for the King and British constitution.
Georgian born Nicholas Hartwig, the unlikely named Russian Minister to Serbia, died of a massive heart attack while visiting Austro Hungarian minister Baron Wladimir Giesl von Gieslingen in Belgrade. He was an ardent pan Slav, who was said to be more Serbian than the Serbs.
Mountain Lake, Virginia. July 10, 1914.
Last edition:
Thursday, July 9, 1914. Huerta defeated.
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Thursday, July 9, 1914. Huerta defeated.
Obregón took Guadalajara.
It was the effective end of Victoriano Huerta's regime.
Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph was advised his council was working on an ultimatum containing demands that were designed to be rejected by Serbia.
As the recent posts have demonstrated, the "war guilt" clauses imposed on the Central Powers after World War One were not without merit.
Miss Norma Phillips.
Last edition:Wednesday, July 8, 1914. Rebels and Emperors.
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Wednesday, July 8, 1914. Rebels and Emperors.
Mexican rebels under Álvaro Obregón defeated a Federal force numbering 6,000 sent out from Guadalajara to arrest his advance.
Exiled Chinese revolutionary figure Sun Yat-sen reorganized the Kuomintang party under the new name Chinese Revolutionary Party after Yuan Shikai, self-proclaimed emperor of China, outlawed the political party.
The Austro Hungarian Council of Ministers gave its recommendations to the Emperor, with the first bieng a surprise attack on Serbia being the preferred option, and the second place one being to place demands on Serbia before mobilization to provide a proper "juridical basis for a declaration of war".
Last edition:
Tuesday, July 7, 1914. Pondering war.
Labels: 1910s, 1914, Austro Hungaria, Germany, Hungary, July Crisis, Personalities, Serbia, World War One
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