Archive for September, 2010
On This Date In History: Daniel Boone died on this date in 1820. He didn’t get attacked by Indians, he didn’t get eaten by a bear and he didn’t die in Kentucky. He simply died quietly at the age of 86. The cause? He reportedly died of eating too many sweet potatoes and died of indigestion. I never [...]
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On This Date In History: This date in 1861 was not a good day for flying. At 3:30 AM on April 20, 1861 Thaddeus S C Lowe decided it was a good time to test his new 20,000 cubic foot balloon called Enterprise. I’m not sure if the balloon was shown in the Star Trek [...]
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Dow Jones Since 1900 On This Date in History In 1906, San Francisco had a great earthquake. The effects of that quake led to a financial trouble spot that turned into a full-blown economic crisis. At that time, there was no central bank or Federal Reserve. With the system stretched by the stress of the [...]
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On This Date in History: According to Wernher Von Braun, he was forced to join the Nazi Party in 1937. Some sources claim he joined as early as 1932. But, Von Braun said that “ My refusal to join the party would have meant that I would have to abandon the work of my life. Therefore, [...]
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On This Date in History: Mexico City has an interesting history. It is built on the ancient Aztec City of Tenochtitilan which was built as a water based society really on top of Lake Texcoco through the use of chinampas or water gardens. When the Spanish showed up in the early 16th century, they eventually conquored the Aztecs and [...]
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The people in Taiwan are anticipating the arrival of Typhoon Finapi. Among other things, it is disrupting the fishing season that just started at the beginning of the month. Perhaps more importantly, the Typhoon is packing winds that will cause concern for damage and a potentially devastaing surge. However, the actual surge is determined by [...]
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On this Date in History: I read an article from the Wall Street Journal from January of 2008. It read that oil prices were around $90 a barrel and were expected to remain around that level. It had a quote from a learned man who said, at that time, that he expected the price of oil [...]
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On This Date in History: In the mid to late 15th century, the Scots used covered war carts when they did battle with the English. Leonardo da Vinci sketched a design for what became known as a tank in the 1480′s and in later centuries, various attempts at creating wind powered or steam powered “landships” [...]
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On This Date In History: It’s just an odd coincidence that former presidential press secretary Jody Powell died a year ago today some 33 years after a rather interesting footnote to history that revolves around his old boss. Remember during the 1976 Presidential election how Jimmy Carter used his stellar integrity as a campaign club? Remember the famous [...]
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On This Date In History: On This date, Samuel Wilson of Troy, New York was basking in the limelight shown by Congress….or he would have been had he been alive in the 20th century. He was born in on September 13, 1766 in Massachusetts. He moved to Troy and was such a kindly man, that [...]
Posted in American History, Bob Symon, Culture, History, Louisville Forecast, Louisville Weather, Opinion, Politics, Science, This Date In History, US History, Weather | Tagged: atmospheric heat capacity, Dan Rice, Dwight D Eisenhower Military Industrial Complex Warning Speech, Early pack mentality journalism, Ebenezer Anderson, Elbert Anderson, Heat capacitance, James Montgomery Flagg, journalism history, Montgomery Flagg, Samuel Wilson, Uncle Sam, Uncle Sam Origin, Uncle Sam Wilson | 1 Comment »
