this day in history
Camlawnman
Survivors of 1906 Quake Gather
SAN FRANCISCO - The dwindling group of those who lived through the 1906 quake
met before daybreak today to commemorate the 92nd anniversary of the tragedy.
On April 18, 1906, an earthquake measuring magnitude 7.8 devastated San
Francisco. Hundreds were killed and it took months to rebuild the city. Among
the group were several ``earthquake babies'' conceived in the difficult days
following the disaster. ``They lost everything in the earthquake. They stayed
in a tent in Golden Gate Park. And I'm the result,'' said Norma Norwood, 91.
it is also the 75 birthday of yankee stadium opened april 18 1923
Cam "98""A Room Without Books Is Like A Body Without A Soul"Cicero
st...@ix.netcom.com
Do you live in San Francisco? (Is this a no-no to ask?)
Stefa.
Camlawnman
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>Do you live in San Francisco? (Is this a no-no to ask?)
>
>Stefa.
no i live in michigan but when i find interesting tid bits i like to post them
so others can share in my knowledge
sunf...@coolnet.net
Also on this day in 1892 the last formal Ghost Dance was held. Another would not
be held until Second Wounded Knee.
OWL36
"Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere
On the eighteenth of April in '75
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year."
Henry Wadsworth Longfell-Owl
(hey, I memorized it in grade school... can I help it if it stuck?)
Camlawnman
Terry
OWL36 wrote in message <199804182307...@ladder03.news.aol.com>...
>"Listen my children and you shall hear
>Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere
>On the eighteenth of April in '75
>Hardly a man is now alive
>Who remembers that famous day and year."
>
>Henry Wadsworth Longfell-Owl
>(hey, I memorized it in grade school... can I help it if it stuck?)
"One if by land and two if by sea,
And I on the opposite shore shall be..."
Owl,
Did you go to school with me?
Terry
Bigg Guyyy
>From: ow...@aol.com (OWL36)<BR>
>Date: 4/18/98 7:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time<BR>
>hey, I memorized it in grade school... can I help it if it stuck?)<BR>
><BR>
Funny thing, my kids (21 and 17) had to memorize hardly anything in school--as
a matter of nothing that I can recall. (That sounds funny when I read it back
:-)
We had to memorize all kinds of stuff. The kids are amzed that I can still
name all the presidents in sequence, the Preamble to the Consititution, the
Gettysburg Address, "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe, and a good portion of the
Declaration of Independence after some 35 years. And probably a lot of other
poems, etc. that are still lurking back there and just need to be triggered to
set me off.
Big--God, it must be getting crowded in there!--Guy
MdwstGrl1
>From: sunf...@coolnet.net
>Also on this day in 1892 the last formal Ghost Dance was held. Another would
>not be held until Second Wounded Knee.
Hey, Sun, what's a Ghost Dance? Sounds kind of interesting.
Leah
OWL36
>Owl,
> Did you go to school with me?
>Terry
Nope, not unless you grew up in a small Wisconsin farm town in the 50s....
>From: bigg...@aol.com
>We had to memorize all kinds of stuff.
We did too... but "Paul Revere" wasn't one of them... I actually came across
that one on my own and liked it so much I memorized it my ownself... amazing
what the ol' mental Velcro picks up, eh?
Camlawnman
on this date in 1987 the simpsons first appeared on tv in the tracy ullman show
wouldnt be till january 1990 they got there own show,also in 1993 a whacko in
waco texas burned down his house altough some say the goverment did it we will
never know and last 168 people died in okalahoma when a bomb destoryed the
fedral building only good thing out of all this is the simpsons rest is too sad
Camlawnman
>l
>never know and last 168 people died in okalahoma when a bomb destoryed the
>fedral building only good thing out of all this is the simpsons rest is too
>sad
>Cam "98""A Room Without Books Is Like A Body Without A Soul"Cicero
that was 1995 forgot the year
Sunfavor
MdwstGrl1 wrote:
In response to the radical changes in Indian societies, a number of what are known
as millennial religious movements sprang up in various places around the U.S. The
Handsome Lake religion of the Iroquois, the Shaker Church in the Pacific
Northwest, the Mountain Dreamers of the Southeast Woodlands, and so on (the
Handsome Lake and Shaker movements are still going strong). The Ghost Dance of
the late 1800's was the most widespread and well known of these religious
movements, encompassing many of the Plains and Southwestern tribes.
Each movement was initiated by a Prophet, the Ghost Dance by a Paiute named
Wovoka, who claimed that if all Indians would perform the Ghost Dance the land
would be reborn, the buffalo would reappear, and whites would disappear. As I
mentioned, the Ghost Dance became quite widespread, which started a small panic in
the Indian Department and prompted a policy of violently suppressing any dances
which could be located. The more dramatic results of this policy were the
so-called Cibecue uprising (22 Apaches killed), the Wounded Knee Massacre (nearly
300 Lakota killed - exact figure unknown), and the murder of Sitting Bull.
One of the best things I've ever heard was from a well known Lakota Holy Man named
Black Elk, who was at the Wounded Knee massacre as a boy. He said:
"I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill
of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and
scattered all along the crooked gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still
young. And I can see that something else died there in the bloody mud, and was
buried in the blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a beautiful dream."
Sunfavor
On this day (April 21) in 1869, Donehogawa (Ely Parker) was appointed by
President Grant as the first actual Indian to be Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
A Seneca Indian, Donehogawa was a lawyer, engineer, and General in the U.S.
Army. He served as one of Grant's aides during the Civil War, and drew up the
instrument of surrender signed by Grant and Lee at Appomattox.
OKCJRL
On April 22, 1889, my grandmother, her parents and siblings, set forth from the
Kansas line in a covered wagon to homestead a square mile of prairie just north
of what would become the territorial capital of Oklahoma Territory, Guthrie.
The land remains in my family. My grandmother lived from those covered wagon
days until 1969, when she died at the age of 91, entirely unimpressed that man
had just landed on the moon. After all, she had seen a whole world change, the
invention of electric lights, telephones, automobiles, skyscrapers, airplanes,
IBM "thinking machines", et cetera.
I'll be celebrating at Oklahoma City's Arts Festival if you can't reach me.
Johnny
MGris60003
>From: okc...@aol.com (OKCJRL)
>I'll be celebrating at Oklahoma City's Arts Festival if you can't reach me.
Darn it Johnny, you didn't even invite me! <g> Have fun, I usually do at the
the Arts Festivals I attend.
Mandy.........Insatiable Sultry One
*Angel (With A Crooked Halo)*
SoHoSu
> My grandmother lived from those covered wagon
>days until 1969, when she died at the age of 91,
>Johnny
You know. I almost made a fool of myself (again)....but I put those little ole
glasses on and viola! Johnny's grandmother passed in 1969...not 1989! Boy.
HopeDiamond<g>
Sunfavor
OKCJRL wrote:
On April 22, 1889, my grandmother, her parents and siblings, set forth from the
Kansas line in a covered wagon to homestead a square mile of prairie just north
of what would become the territorial capital of Oklahoma Territory, Guthrie.
The land remains in my family. My grandmother lived from those covered wagon
days until 1969, when she died at the age of 91, entirely unimpressed that man
had just landed on the moon. After all, she had seen a whole world change, the
invention of electric lights, telephones, automobiles, skyscrapers, airplanes,
IBM "thinking machines", et cetera.
I'll be celebrating at Oklahoma City's Arts Festival if you can't reach me.
Johnny
The West Hey kids, follow the link (if you dare hehehe), scroll down to 1887, where you'll find an article on the Dawes Allotment Act, and follow the links at the end of this and subsequent articles. Interactive learning, will wonders never cease?