Today in History Jack the Ripper claims first victim. (2011). The History Channel website. Retrieved 8:43, August 31, 2011, from…
Month: August 2011
Hurricane Irene: Ghosts (technically, video) of hurricanes past
August 26, 2011 http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/ Looking for something hurricane-ish to watch — but perhaps something that doesn’t suggest actual threat to…
Jobs’s Legacy: Changing How We Live
By WALT MOSSBERG The Wall Street Journal Thursday, August 25, 2011 As of 12:00 AM Steve Jobs’s resignation as Chief Executive…
Mobile Phones Then and Now
By Miral Sattar Monday, Nov. 29, 2010 Then: In 1983, Motorola’s DynaTAC (Dynamic Adaptive Total Area Coverage) 8000X was the world’s first commercially-released…
The Suffrage Movement
By Megan Gibson Friday, Aug. 12, 2011 Timing is everything, especially when it comes to a rally. One of the largest protests…
What happened to America’s economic growth after big ten-day falls in the Dow?
US stockmarket crashes and GDP After the crash (part 2) Aug 17th 2011, 12:54 by The Economist online What happened…
Aug 16, 1896: Gold discovered in the Yukon
Gold discovered in the Yukon. (2011). The History Channel website. Retrieved 9:48, August 16, 2011, from http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/gold-discovered-in-the-yukon. While salmon fishing near…
50 years ago, the Berlin Wall arose to divide
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44060292/ns/travel-news/ A city divided The Berlin Wall was erected to separate East and West Berlin following the wider partition of…
History of the Pilgrims: “Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony: 1620”
Source url http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mosmd/#part1 Part I. Pilgrim Background THE BIBLE FROM LATIN TO ENGLISH Until the latter part of the sixteenth century,…
Belatedly Recognizing Heroes of the Holocaust
August 6, 2011 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/world/middleeast/07israel.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=world By ISABEL KERSHNER HORASHIM, Israel — When 20 people gathered for a modest ceremony in the…
