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Woody Guthrie’s Only Novel Published Posthumously
Though primarily a song writer and essayist, Oklahoma’s folk hero Woody Guthrie also managed to write a work of fiction about the historic Dust Bowl. The book “House of Earth” was released Febuary 5, 2013, decades after Woody’s death on October 3, 1967. According to Guthrie’s daughter, Nora Guthrie, “He always wrote to be heard.” The historian Douglas Brinkley and actor Johnny Depp are helping to make his wish “to be heard” an even greater reality than already seen through his songs and essays. Brinkley, while working on a biography of Bob Dylan, came across the unpublished novel in his research and made the decision to pursue bringing the work to life from…
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Pacific Ring of Fire a Volatile Place
These are the 15 countries included in the Ring of Fire: Indonesia, New Zealand, Papa New Guinea, Philippines, Japan, United States, Chile, Canada, Guatemala, Russia, Peru, Solomon Islands, Mexico and Antarctica. The Aleutian island chain, Andes mountains of South America and the Micronesia tropics make up the geographical region known as the “Ring of Fire.” Plates underlying these areas on the Earth are made up of subduction zones. These are zones where oceanic tectonic plate go under a continental plate or another oceanic plate. This results in the increased volcanic and earthquake activity we have seen throughout history in this aptly named “Pacific Ring of Fire”. The Solomon Islands are a part of this geographically volitile…
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Super Earthquakes in History
1. Chile 1960 05 22 9.5 -38.29 -73.05 Kanamori, 1977 2. Prince William Sound, Alaska 1964 03 28 9.2 61.02 -147.65 Kanamori, 1977 3. Off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra 2004 12 26 9.1 3.30 95.78 Park et al., 2005 4. Near the East Coast of Honshu, Japan 2011 03 11 9.0 38.322 142.369 PDE 5. Kamchatka 1952 11 04 9.0 52.76 160.06 Kanamori, 1977 6. Offshore Maule, Chile 2010 02 27 8.8 -35.846 -72.719 PDE 7. Off the Coast of Ecuador 1906 01 31 8.8 1.0 -81.5 Kanamori, 1977 8. Rat Islands, Alaska 1965 02 04 8.7 51.21 178.50 Kanamori, 1977 9. Northern Sumatra, Indonesia 2005 03 28…
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A List of the Fieriest Mountains
Mount Vesuvius Krakatoa Mount St. Helens Mount Tambora Mauna Loa Eyjafjallajokull Mount Pelée Thera Nevado del Ruiz Mount Pinatubo Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,2014572,00.html #ixzz2K7pFiLu5
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Mahatma Gandhi Killed
On January 30, 1948 Gandhi was assasinated by Nathura Vinayak Godse. The assassin was a 36 year old Hindu of the Mahratta tribes in Poona. The tribes were known for possessing a core group of some who opposed Gandhi’s teachings. Three shots sounded out in the Biria House gardens. The gardens were sacred, the place where Gandhi, as he was that evening, gave a daily prayer meeting message.Within 25 minutes of being shot his heart stopped forever. In his 78 years of life he had become India’s “Mahatma” (Great Teacher) known as a peacemaker espousing a nonviolent lifestyle and belief sytem even in the face of oppression by those advocating violence. India, which had a population…
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Panama Canal Workers
Fall 2007, Vol. 39, No. 3 Looking for an Ancestor in the Panama Canal Zone, 1904–1914 By Robert Ellis The Panama Canal, ca. 1900–1914. The canal was 10 miles wide and about 50 miles long. (106-RC-129) In 10 years, between 1904 and 1914, the United States mounted and completed one of the most massive construction projects in history—the building of the Panama Canal. To create this ribbon of water between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, the Isthmus Canal Commission excavated 232 million cubic feet of soil. Manpower was the key to success. It wasn’t long before the area that became known as the Panama Canal Zone—10 miles wide and about 50…
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I Have a Dream
Martin Luther King’s Speech: ‘I Have a Dream’ – The Full Text By The Rev. MARTIN LUTHER KING Jr. Aug. 28, 1963— abcnews.go.com The Full Text of the Famous Speech by America’s Greatest Civil Rights Icon I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a…
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The Eve of a Public Holiday Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.
Patti Smith, in her award winning book Just Kids, wrote on page 66 “That spring, only days before Palm Sunday, Martin Luther King was gunned down at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis.” I read that sentence, just now, and remembered that tomorrow will be Martin Luther King Day. The coincidence struck me as sufficient enough, that I should stop reading and instead write about why we honor this man so many years after his execution on April 4, 1968 ; he was only 39 years old when he died. There are many reasons why we honor this heroic African American. I will choose one instance as an example of his heroism and influence.…
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Bigfoot DNA
The Big Foot “Sasquatch” legend has been around forever. Tales of large, hairy, half human and half ape figures lurking about in places from Canada to the Allegheny National Forest. One claim of a Big Foot encounter was purported to have taken place back in 1924 by a Canadian prospector named Albert Ostman. At the time of Albert’s encounter he was in pursuit of a lost gold mine by Powell River in British Columbia, Canada. The public did not get to hear of his amazing story until 24 years later. Albert kept his story a secret to avoid the label of “crazy”. He said in his interview, In the most…
