This is the grave of John L. O'Sullivan. Born in 1813 while his father, a diplomat, and his mother were traveling on a British warship (this seems weird to me as it was in the middle of the War of 1812) O'Sullivan grew up wealthy....
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Music news is never very intense the week before Christmas--most artists are off the road, if you are seeing live music, it might be the worst band in existence--Trans-Siberian Orchestra--and.
It's not cookies and milk that Santa wants tonight.
This is a real site and this list is ridiculously stupid. pic.twitter.com/jA4LIzLCa9 — italians mad at food (@ItalianComments) December 23, 2022 American cuisine is just flat out not very good. Now, yes, as I discussed with the infamous sandwich thread, you can get amazing food...
I've been linking to archeological discoveries because everything is horrible so at least there's something to latch onto that is fun. Like this: A team of researchers affiliated with multiple.
This is the grave of Mississippi Fred McDowell. Born in 1904 in Rossville, Tennessee, McDowell grew up in the sharecropping world of Jim Crow. His family picked cotton. His parents.
One of the great Black communist freedom fighters of American history has died. Mitchell deserves a lot more fame and credit than she gets. In the 1960s, she founded an all-Black chapter in Los Angeles called the Che-Lumumba Club, which quickly became one of the...
Joseph Kossuth Dixon staged photograph of Native Americans riding into the sunset, 1913 Larger version of this image at the Library of Congress website. No info though on which tribe.
Somewhere in this section of this columbarium lies the unmarked grave of Walter Bradford Cannon. Born in 1871 in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, Cannon came from an old French-Canadian family.
This is the grave of Sylvester Graham. Born in 1794 in Suffield, Connecticut, Graham grew up in a tough household. For one, the family had 17 children. For another, his.
Time to start a new LGM series: Images from American history. Just an image a day, a way to spark conversation about the past and present. The Head Start Program.