Let me just say I can’t find the quote anywhere so I can’t give credit where credit is due. I have found it applies to my writing lately and it goes something like this: When working with clay, the sculptor starts small and makes the shape bigger. With stone, the sculptor starts large and takes […]
Seth Bullock and Teddy Roosevelt first met each other in 1884 when the future president spent time in North Dakota. After the candidate Roosevelt wanted elected by the Republican party failed to be nominated he abandoned politics and headed out west. This first meeting was the start of a friendship that would last decades. Bullock […]
It's called the Casimir Effect and, even though this simplified explanation works, the effect still isn’t fully understood. The key word here is “uncharged.” If the plates were charged it wouldn’t be a surprise for them to attract or repel each other. The reason the two plates attract each other has to do with the […]
In 1907, while the Panama Canal was under construction, President Roosevelt ordered the newly built ships to travel around the tip of South America to their first stop in San Francisco. Part of the exercise was to show Japan that American ships were able to defend her Western cities even though the navy was stationed […]
Known as the Knickerbocker Crisis, the financial panic took place over a three week period during Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency. After United Copper Shares plummeted The New York Stock Exchange fell to half of it’s peak from the year before. These events led to the creation of a centralized monetary system able to inject money into […]
The incident occurred in Brownsville, Texas. The white townspeople resented the fact that the regiment was allowed to be stationed in Fort Brown. Even though the commanding officers could attest to the fact that the regiment was in the barracks all night they were all dishonorably discharged by President Roosevelt. The townspeople were able to […]
Su Hui (Fourth Century China) wove the first example of a palindrome poem. At a time when females weren’t respected for their intelletual abilities, this woman created a poem that can be read horizontally, vertically, side-to-side, backwards, diagonally, and within color-coded grids. Not only did she write it, she took the time to weave it […]
George White, a black man, was lynched in Wilmington, Delaware in 1903. Most people associate lynchings with south of the Mason-Dixon Line and, while this is true for the most part, black men weren’t necessarily safe in the North (the last lynching above the Mason-Dixon occurred in 1930). In 1903, George White was arrested for […]
There were two Venezuelan crises at the end of the 1800’s and beginning of the 1900’s that pitted the United States against the European Powers. The first, the occuring in 1895, saw the extension of the Monroe Doctrine by President Grover Cleveland to include all foreign activity in the Western Hemisphere. The Monroe Doctrine, named […]
The winter of 1886-1887 changed the face of American cattle ranching forever. Up until this point herds were allowed to roam free and the ranchers assumed they would be able to collect the cattle in the spring. The winter was preceded by a hot, dry summer which reduced the amount of available grass on the […]
