Posts tagged american history
Unnecessary Ligatures
When æ just isn't enough
What to call the Space Shuttle?
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ON THIS DAY: 1845 – The first issue of the popular science magazine Scientific American was published, currently the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States.
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Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, sometime between 1932 and 1934, when their exploits in Arkansas included murder, robbery, and kidnapping.
During the Depression bankers became so unpopular that bank robbers, such as Bonnie and Clyde, became folk heroes.
The Pony Express begins its first delivery of mail between St. Joseph, Missouri and Sacramento, California, April 3, 1860
The Pony Express was a fast mail service crossing the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the High Sierra from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, from April 3, 1860 to October 1861. It became the west’s most direct means of east-west communication before the telegraph and was vital for tying California closely with the Union just before the American Civil War.
The last page of the 1783 Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other. The other combatant nations, France, Spain and the Dutch Republic had separate agreements; for details of these, and the negotiations which produced all four treaties, see Peace of Paris (1783). It is most famous for being “exceedingly generous” to the United States in terms of enlarged boundaries.
