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Chicago Haymarket Riot:

http://www.chicagohistory.org/dramas/prologue/prologue.htm

The Pony Express:

http://www.americanwest.com/trails/pages/ponyexp1.htm

http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/pxpress.html

Old Faithful Geyser during an eruption
Old Faithful Geyser during an eruption

Old Faithful Geyser webcam:

http://www.nps.gov/archive/yell/oldfaithfulcam.htm

 

Tin Pan Alley:

http://www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/zaire/721/history/tin.htm

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe:

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hbstowe.htm

Mayday !

Beside CQD, SOS and other QRRR, another distress call is used since World War I, the famous "mayday" of aviators. The "Mayday" distress signal was devised by Frederick Stanley Mockford, born in 1897 in the East Sussex village of Selmeston. While he was senior radio officer at Croydon airport in 1923, he was asked to think up a word that would indicate distress and would easily be understood by all pilots and ground staff in an emergency. As much of the traffic at the time was between Croydon and Le Bourget (Paris) he proposed the word "Mayday" from the French "m'aidez" (to help me). It was this acknowledgement of a French word that also sounded like an English word that proved acceptable to both the French and English authorities.

 

Coined phrases: Pursuit of the almighty dollar, The pen is mightier than the sword, It was a dark and stormy night...

Edward Bulwer-Lytton:

http://www.mith.demon.co.uk/Bulwer.htm

Kate Douglas Wiggin
 
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
 
Kate Douglas Wiggin:
 
http://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/mss/kdwg.shtml

Sound Bite:

Runaway (Del Shannon)

LISTENRunaway

 


Pearl Buck, 1932

The Good Earth

Pearl S. Buck:

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1938/buck-bio.html

Faust

Johann Goethe:

http://www.online-literature.com/goethe/

Mariner's Museum online exhibits:

http://www.mariner.org/educationalad/onlineexhib/index.php

Bliss, Garden Party

"You know that I have long since looked upon all of us without exception as people who have suffered shipwreck and have been cast upon an uninhabited island, but who do not yet know of it. But these people here know it. The others, there, in life, still think that a steamer will come for them tomorrow and that everything will go on in the old way. These [people] already know that there will be no more of the old way. I am so glad that I can be here."

Katherine Mansfield at the Gurdjieff School:

http://www.gurdjieff-bibliography.com/Current/katherinemansfield.htm

Cape Cod Canal cameras:

http://www.telecamsystems.com/capecodcanal/

from the film Stage Door Canteen (1943)
 
King of Swing
 
Benny Goodman:
 
http://www.bennygoodman.com/about/biography.html
 

Columbia River Gorge Oregon Overlook

Columbia River Gorge webcam:

http://www.fsvisimages.com/cori1/cori1.html

United States Eastern State Penitentiary virtual tour:

http://www.easternstate.org/tour/

CIA Museum Tour:

https://www.cia.gov/about-cia/cia-museum/cia-museum-tour/index.html

Music Video:

Hey Jude (Beatles)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD3ovfZXO5Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewNt8NQKjKA&feature=related

Handmade Mother's Day Card 

 

Founder of Mother's Day in the United States

Anna Marie Jarvis:

http://www.mothersdayshrine.com/history.php

 

http://pop.youtube.com/watch?v=r7ZK0My3-yw&feature=related

Sound Bite:

Hanky Panky (Tommy James & The Shondells)

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The only known photograph of Chief Seattle, taken in the 1860s
The only known photograph of Chief Seattle, taken in the 1860s

  "When the buffalo are all slaughtered, the wild horses all tamed, the secret corners of the forest heavy with the scent of many men, and the view of the ripe hills blotted by talking wires, where is the thicket? Where is the eagle? Gone."

Chief Seattle: http://www.chiefseattle.com/history/chiefseattle/chief.htm