this day in Herstory
Posted 3/18/2012 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
Part of New Jersey is sold off and American Express opens for business. The Greatest Show on Earth opens in the original Madison Square Garden and the Paris Commune revolts. The first Ham Radio Transmission takes place and Schick creates the dry electric razor. . . . .
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this day in Herstory
Posted 3/17/2012 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
Happy St. Pats Day. The rubber band is patented, Vanguard I goes into orbit, the Dalai Llama flees Tibet, The Bay of Pigs is a fiasco and the Camp Fire Girls are organized. Saint Patrick dies in Gaul and Patti Boyd, the muse to George and Eric is born. . . . .
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this day in Herstory
Posted 3/16/2012 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
Around the world with Magellan, Aldo Moro, RFK, Scotland Yard, The Mai Lai Massacre, the FTC and Red Cross. Throw in Hillary Clinton, Ruth Bader Ginsberg and The Scarlet Letter and we have a well rounded day. . . . .
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this day in Herstory
Posted 3/15/2012 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
Beware the Ides of March . Remember the morning Show with Walter Cronkite? The first Blood Bank opens in Chicago and Britain joins the Nuclear Club. LBJ calls for a War on Poverty and the American Legion . . . .
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this day in Herstory
Posted 3/14/2012 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
How humans and culture evolve according to Darwin and Marx and how it doesn’t according to flat earth skeptics. Of course we can’t forget Mr. Einstein, the FBI certainly didn’t. We also look at what happened to the Gold Standard, the concrete boat, and the basics of heredity. . . . .
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this day in Herstory
Posted 3/13/2012 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
The Uncle Sam cartoon figure debuts and Charles Erwin Wilson explains how General Motors is good for the country and visa versa. Meanwhile, Ford has a problem with exploding Pinto’s. It can’t be a coincidence that Dennis the Menace appears for the first time, Susan B. . . . .
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this day in Herstory
Posted 3/12/2012 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
The first naturalization act is passed in the colonies and the US Post office is established. The first University for women was established and FDR conducted his first fireside chat and the US voting age was lowered from 21 to 18. . . . .
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this day in Herstory
Posted 3/11/2012 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
Today in Herstory: A theme of media ownership and degregulation takes shape from 1702 to The Wall Street Journal. Then there’s the British occupying Mesopotamia in 1917 and today’s Surge. It’s also the day that was to be Romeo and Juliet's wedding according to Shakespeare. . . . .
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this day in Herstory
Posted 3/10/2012 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
The Dollar isn’t worth much these days but in 1862 was when it all began with the legal Tender Act. Harriet Tubman dies after rescuing 300 slaves via the underground Railroad. Mr. Watson answers Mr. . . . .
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this day in Herstory
Posted 3/9/2012 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
Napoleon marries Josephine. The Eugenics movement legalizes involuntary sterilization. The first Ford Mustang rolls off the assembly line and Barbie hits the runway as a fashion model. And the first female Cadet enters West Point. And Grace's husband Nathan Birnbaum dies at 100. . . . .
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