If you are a regular visitor to this website, you'll know that every so often I repost a blog I had removed. Here's another such reposted blog.
Worth Noting
How you view 1903 is worth noting. Here, according to historyorb.com, are some events that occurred in 1903:
January: Houdini shows he can escape from an Amsterdam prison.
President Roosevelt closes Indianola, Mississippi's post office when it won’t accept its appointed postmistress
because she is African-American
February: Bruckner’s Ninth Symfonie plays in Vienna.
Temperature drops to -59 degrees Fahrenheit in Minnesota.
The White Star Line launches the RMS Republic.
March: Niagara Falls suffers a drought.
The French government dissolves the Catholic religious orders.
Ottawa beats Montreal in 2 Stanley Cup games.
April: The Kishinev pogrom begins in Bessarabia, causing many Jews to migrate.
Dr. Plotz discovers a typhoid vaccine.
May: King Edward VII signs an agreement to normalize Anglo-French relations.
June: Pepsi Cola forms.
Henry Ford starts his corporation.
July: Dr. Jackson completes the first automobile transit of the USA.
August: Joe Pulitzer inaugurates the prizes named after him.
New Zealand’s All Blacks play their first Rugby Test Match and win.
September: The Boston Pilgrims win the American League championship.
October: Emmeline Pankhurst forms The Women’s Social and Political Union.
November: Panama separates from Colombia as rebels declare independence.
FDR and Eleanor get engaged.
December: The Wright brothers make their famous first flight.
In Chicago, 602 people die in a theater fire.
Marie Curie wins the Nobel Prize for physics.
Of course, more than those events occurred in 1903, but I chose a group to make a point. If you look over the major events of the year, some will seem to be more important to you because of your own predisposition. You have a set of values and priorities. The May launch of the RMS Republic, for example, might not seem worth noting. If I gave the list for 1912, however, you would note well the launching of another White Star Line ship, the Titanic. Yet, the Republic, a ship that catered to the rich, was also lost at sea just a half dozen years after its launch. Why didn’t the ship’s launching catch your eye? During its sinking the radio operator used a Marconi wireless to send its SOS, the first such use of the wireless radio, and one that saved lives on the “Millionaires’ Ship.”
So, what on the list caught your eye? Whatever caught your eye says something about your interests, your knowledge, your empathy, and your teachers, including those who imbued you with biases and told you “what is important.” Reread the list. What does your reading tell you about yourself?
Worth Noting
How you view 1903 is worth noting. Here, according to historyorb.com, are some events that occurred in 1903:
January: Houdini shows he can escape from an Amsterdam prison.
President Roosevelt closes Indianola, Mississippi's post office when it won’t accept its appointed postmistress
because she is African-American
February: Bruckner’s Ninth Symfonie plays in Vienna.
Temperature drops to -59 degrees Fahrenheit in Minnesota.
The White Star Line launches the RMS Republic.
March: Niagara Falls suffers a drought.
The French government dissolves the Catholic religious orders.
Ottawa beats Montreal in 2 Stanley Cup games.
April: The Kishinev pogrom begins in Bessarabia, causing many Jews to migrate.
Dr. Plotz discovers a typhoid vaccine.
May: King Edward VII signs an agreement to normalize Anglo-French relations.
June: Pepsi Cola forms.
Henry Ford starts his corporation.
July: Dr. Jackson completes the first automobile transit of the USA.
August: Joe Pulitzer inaugurates the prizes named after him.
New Zealand’s All Blacks play their first Rugby Test Match and win.
September: The Boston Pilgrims win the American League championship.
October: Emmeline Pankhurst forms The Women’s Social and Political Union.
November: Panama separates from Colombia as rebels declare independence.
FDR and Eleanor get engaged.
December: The Wright brothers make their famous first flight.
In Chicago, 602 people die in a theater fire.
Marie Curie wins the Nobel Prize for physics.
Of course, more than those events occurred in 1903, but I chose a group to make a point. If you look over the major events of the year, some will seem to be more important to you because of your own predisposition. You have a set of values and priorities. The May launch of the RMS Republic, for example, might not seem worth noting. If I gave the list for 1912, however, you would note well the launching of another White Star Line ship, the Titanic. Yet, the Republic, a ship that catered to the rich, was also lost at sea just a half dozen years after its launch. Why didn’t the ship’s launching catch your eye? During its sinking the radio operator used a Marconi wireless to send its SOS, the first such use of the wireless radio, and one that saved lives on the “Millionaires’ Ship.”
So, what on the list caught your eye? Whatever caught your eye says something about your interests, your knowledge, your empathy, and your teachers, including those who imbued you with biases and told you “what is important.” Reread the list. What does your reading tell you about yourself?
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