Tag: history
group name: famiilyhistory
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April 07, 2006 05:44 AM EDT --
Lunch counter sit-ins at Woolworths
JFK elected President
Peace Corp program announced
Yuri Gargarin, first man in space
Bay of Pigs
Alan Shepard, first American in space
16,000 U.S. advisors sent to Vietnam . . . more
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March 15, 2006 07:56 PM EST --
This article was written in response to the Two Words Group Weekly Challenge "Night's Revenge."
I am by nature, a caretaker of books. They line our shelves, stand in what I can only hope . . . more
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May 06, 2006 06:28 PM EDT --
Joseph Smith, Jr. was born in 1805 in Sharon, Vermont, now Royalton, off Route 89, in a family of 10 children. His family was extremely poor, even by the rough standards of the time. His family . . . more
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May 29, 2007 10:33 AM EDT --
The first African slaves arrived in Virginia in 1619.
Kunte Kinte, his daughter Kizzy, and her son George noticed that every time the whites "massas" became frightened--most likely by the threat . . . more
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May 17, 2006 12:09 PM EDT --
As a condition of applying for statehood, the Mormon Church in the territory of Utah had to formally renounce the practice of polygamy. Polygamy, or bigamy, as the law is known, was illegal in all states . . . more
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May 12, 2006 01:31 AM EDT --
By all accounts, Joseph Smith was charismatic. He was an uncommonly handsome man, six feet tall with dark hair and blue eyes. He charmed the ladies and he was a public speaker without equal: he possessed . . . more
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March 17, 2006 03:13 PM EST --
The arrival of the Sisters every June was better than a circus coming to town. Maybe even it was better than riding the blue and . . . more
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March 14, 2006 05:51 PM EST --
I have almost no family. I was an only, no sisters or brothers, of unusual birth circumstances.
Three years ago I moved my then 81 year old mother from the family homestead 450 miles . . . more
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June 21, 2006 06:26 PM EDT --
As you look down from the hillside onto the apparent perfection of Malta's Blue Lagoon, you struggle to imagine it in any other condition. Land embraces lagoon like a protective parent. Water shines . . . more
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February 13, 2007 02:19 AM EST --
Link: Cyndi's List - U.S. - Vital Records. On this list you will find vital records by state, as well as associated records. Hope this helps with someone's genealogy research. If you haven't . . . more
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September 13, 2006 12:49 AM EDT --
Tonight during my teevee hour with the dawg I watched a "LEGENDS:" show on the comedy Channel.
"RODNEY DANGERFIELD" was the subject.
My poor skills do not do justice to begin to . . . more
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August 05, 2006 05:53 PM EDT --
Many Canadian men won the Medal of Honor during the Civil War.
Charles Asten
Charles was born in Nova Scotia in 1834. He served as Quarter Gunner on the USS Signal. As the Signal patrolled the Red River . . . more
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June 27, 2006 06:47 PM EDT --
In 1793, the Upper Canada Act Against Slavery was passed. The Act was inspired by Governor J. G. Simcoe and made Upper Canada (now Ontario) the first British Colony to legislate against slavery.
Slavery . . . more
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April 04, 2006 12:13 PM EDT --
Pensacola, Florida is known for quite a few things. It is called the City of Five Flags, because of its many and varied custodians: Spain, England, France, The Confederate States of America, and the United . . . more
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December 03, 2006 10:08 PM EST --
Today was my sister's annual open house; friends, family and business connections all come. A few years back my sister came in contact with our mother's cousin, who lives here in the San Fernando . . . more
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May 12, 2006 07:54 PM EDT --
The mothers sit on the other side of the screen, their faces hidden. They tell the talk show host what they do to babies born with serious imperfections:
"We smother them, quietly and gently, but . . . more
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December 06, 2006 08:39 PM EST --
Flaggie’s Letter to His Mother After the Great Chicago Fire Oct. 8, 1871
(edited and reposted)
While rummaging in boxes for pictures, I ran across a copy of a letter written in 1871 by . . . more
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December 06, 2006 12:33 AM EST --
(This is a repeat posting of an article I deleted.)
I was born in 1922 and my family had a farm in Bethel, Connecticut by the time of the ‘Crash of ‘29’. Some of my father’s . . . more
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June 26, 2006 10:32 AM EDT --
(more or less...),
During World War II always referred to as "THE WAR" no matter how many had come and gone or were going on.
He set type at a Linotype machine for newspapers, made . . . more
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August 09, 2006 10:35 PM EDT --
Ella Cora Hind was born on September 18, 1861 in Toronto, Ontario. She was the youngest of three children, her older siblings being two brothers. Cora's mother died when she was two. Her father died . . . more
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