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Red Ensign flies for Merchant Navy Day (Orkney Islands Council)
Edit Public Technologies 05 Sep 2016
(Source. Orkney Islands Council). The Red Ensign flag will fly this Saturday 3 September over the Town Hall in Kirkwall as Orkney Islands Council joins UK-wide events in recognition of the nation's merchant seafarers ... 'Otaki'. Captain Bisset Smith died on 10 March 1917 when in command of the vessel which sunk in the North Atlantic after battling with the heavily armed German Imperial Army raider 'Moewe' ... He said ... (noodl. 35219317) ....
The Student’s Guide to Workers, Labor, and the Left in History Vault (ProQuest LLC)
Edit Public Technologies 05 Sep 2016
- Papers of the President's Mediation Commission, covering labor struggles by Arizona and Montana copper miners, the infamous deportation of Industrial Workers of the World-affiliated miners in Arizona in July 1917, and the tumultuous situation among workers in the Chicago meat-packing industry....
Marriage tale spices reporter's dispatches
Edit Arkansas Online 05 Sep 2016
From the fingers of fast typists taxing typos tumble. I have been thrilling myself, as anyone who read last week's Old News now knows, with the thought that a simple Google search had miraculously identified for me an unnamed Arkansas Gazette "Staff Correspondent" who in 1916 accompanied the Arkansas National Guard to its deployment at Deming, N.M ... Aug ... ... March 7, 1917, the Gazette reported the president had approved Rigdon's sentence....
The messy history of the po-boy
Edit The Times Picayune 04 Sep 2016
According to an account on the website of the Oak Street Po-Boy Festival, Benny Martin once said ... ******* A 1917 advertisement for a fried oyster sandwich, served on French bread with a pickle ... Bechet moved north in 1917, years before Benny and Clovis Martin had even arrived in the city ... In 1917, for example, the Comus Soda Fountain on Common Street and St ... But even in 1917, the sandwich that would be king was not new to New Orleans ... A ... ....
Today in History
Edit San Francisco Chronicle 04 Sep 2016
In 1888, George Eastman received a patent for his roll-film box camera, and registered his trademark. "Kodak." In 1917, the American Expeditionary Forces in France suffered their first fatalities during World War I when a German plane attacked a British-run base hospital. In 1972, U.S ... Turner and the New Democrats headed by Ed Broadbent ... ....
North Little Rock notebook
Edit Arkansas Online 04 Sep 2016
Firefighters to test fitness in face-off. The firefighters union will host a firefighters competition Sept. 16-17 in the Riverfront Park. The Scott Firefighter Combat Challenge, a rigorous fitness competition held in more than two dozen locations nationally and internationally, is expected to attract firefighters from across the nation, according to a city newsletter ... 12 ... 4. Admission is free ... The name reverted to North Little Rock in 1917....
More things to do, 9/5/16
Edit Austin American Statesman 04 Sep 2016
Dining. Labor Day Pignic at Salty Sow. No, that’s not a typo — the last holiday of summer offers us the perfect chance to pig out, which this Manor Road restaurant is letting us do with an entire pig slow-roasted in the Salty Sow’s new outdoor Pig Pen pit. It’ll be served with all the fixings for build-your-own tacos ... 5 to 8 p.m. Monday. Free. 1917 Manor Road. saltysow.com. Labor Day Ice Cream Sundae Party at Counter Culture ... 4 to 7 p.m ... Free ... ....
The 100-Year-Old Carve-Up Bleeding the Middle East Today
Edit The Daily Beast 04 Sep 2016
Certain images will indelibly mark memories of this year and one will be the gut-wrenching video of a five-year-old pulled from rubble in Aleppo with the frozen stare of trauma, his face streaked with soot and blood. “Cease fires” come and go. Hell, it seems, has a special purchase on Syria. When, for heaven’s sake, can it end? No one can answer ... By December 1917 the British had taken Jerusalem and the Ottoman Empire was collapsing ... 1 ... ....
Labor Day Gives US Workers Little to Celebrate
Edit WhoWhatWhy 04 Sep 2016
As Americans celebrate Labor Day, expect little meaningful talk about labor itself. Or about the great equalizer in the everyday engagement of labor and capital. the union movement — and its decades-long decline ... That’s the biggest slice of the wage pie the upper crust has seen since 1917, the earliest date for which the EPI analysts could find reliable data ... ” ... Photo credit. The All-Nite Images / Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) ... ... Photo credit ... ... ... ... ... ....
When We Loved Mussolini
Edit The New York Review of Books 04 Sep 2016
New York Times Co./Getty Images. Benito Mussolini and US Secretary of State Henry Stimson, Rome, July 1931 ... Whereas before 1914, visionary industrialists like Giuseppe Volpi looked to Germany to assist in the development of modern industries in Italy, such as hydropower, from 1917 onward, Italy’s economy came to rely on loans from Britain and the US, which by 1919 amounted to $2 billion and $1.65 billion respectively ... Morgan ... Why?....
The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End, 1917-1923 review
Edit The Irish Times 03 Sep 2016
The Vanquished. Why the First World War Failed to End, 1917-1923. By Robert Gerwarth. Allen Lane ‘A storytelling genius’ – Irish writers on what Roald Dahl means to them Women, as written by Roald Dahl Offering The day Roald Dahl came to Galway. 443pp £25 ... But more important was the way the war had ended ... Instead, events were changed radically by the return of the Bolshevik leader VI Lenin from exile in April 1917 ... ....
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