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I remember getting all excited as a boy, hoping that if I said Shazam I too would have these powers. Still trying. This was a staple of the Saturday morning Cinema kids club at my local Odeon. How the floor boards ever stood up to 200 screaming and stomping kids, I'll never know.
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Tom
Tyler
Frank
Coghlan
Jr
Aka
Billy
Batson
Shazam
Added: 1st January 2008
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It is one of boxing's most talked about incidents. In 1926, boxing master Gene Tunney outpointed slugger Jack Dempsey in Philadelphia to win the world heavyweight crown. Their rematch a year later in Chicago produced the famous 'long count.' Watch as Dempsey floors Tunney but forgets to go to a neutral corner as required by the new rule. Tunney takes a nine count but stays on the canvas for 14 seconds because of Dempsey's gaffe.
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Dempsey
Gene
Tunney
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count
Added: 7th May 2008
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On March 25, 1911, 146 employees of the Triangle Shrtwaist Company in New York City--mostly female Jewish immigrants--perished when fire engulfed their factory. Death came in many hideous ways: Some workers were trampled to death in the panic. Others suffocated on the smoke-filled ninth floor. More than 50 chose to jump to their deaths rather than burn once they discovered the emergency doors had been locked by their employer to keep them from leaving work early. Though nearly forgotten today, the Triangle Shirtwaist fire was responsible for many fire safety regulations and labor laws that exist today.
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Shirtwaist
Factory
Fire
Added: 2nd March 2008
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I really think Joan did this song in the 60's. This video was from 1975 so I put it in the 70's Saw a concert with her and Bob Dylan about this time. Got to sit on the floor about six steps from Bob and her. They were amazing...
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Joan
Baez
diamonds
rust
Added: 16th July 2008
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This 1997 investigative report deals with the famous murder case in which a 30-year-old Cleveland, Ohio doctor, Sam Sheppard, was convicted of murdering his 31-year-old wife, Marilyn, on the Fourth of July weekend in 1954. Marilyn was bludgeoned to death in her bed while her husband was supposedly napping in front of the TV one floor below. Sheppard claimed he was roused by shouts coming from the upstairs bedroom and was twice knocked out by a bushy-haired intruder. Sheppard was quickly accused by the media. He was found guilty by a jury, served a decade in prison, and then had his conviction overturned in a new trial in 1966. He died a broken man in 1970. Was Sam Sheppard guilty? Suffice to say his original conviction has been hotly debated by crime buffs ever since.
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case
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Sheppard
Added: 9th September 2008
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It was the worst factory fire in the history of New York City occurred on March 25, 1911, in the Asch building, where the Triangle Shirtwaist Company occupied the top three of ten floors. Five hundred women, mostly Jewish immigrants between thirteen and twenty-three years old, were employed there. The owners had locked the doors leading to the exits to keep the women at their sewing machines. In less than fifteen minutes, 146 women died. The event galvanized support for additional efforts to be made to increase safety in the workplace. It also garnered support for labor unions in the garment district, and in particular for the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.
Much material was provided by several websites, among them are;
Photos:
Brown Brothers
Franklin D.Roosevelt Library
Corbis Bettmann
The Kheel Center, Catherwood Library, ILR School at Cornell University.
Authentic History Center
Shorpy.com
The Office Museum
The Library of COngress
Audio
National Public Radio
Authentic History Center
The Kheel Center, Catherwood Library, ILR School at Cornell University
However, two of the above mentioned in particular, I want to call attention, the first for an overall exceptionally presented look back at this tragedy and a stunning presentation of the labor movement. Truly a brilliant multi-media presentation.
The Triangle Factory Fire -- Presented by The Kheel Center, Catherwood Library, ILR School at Cornell University.
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/
and National Public Radio ...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/st...
I can not recommend those two sites too highly. They are top notch.
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Triangle
Shirtwaist
Fire
1911
Unions
Women
Immigrant
Labor
New
York
City
American
History
Added: 25th September 2008
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he Face of the Great Depression
Part Two: Dust Bowl Refugees
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The Library of Congress -
from the Dorothea Lange Collection
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hard time killing floor blues
Chris Thomas King
presbyterian guitar
Soggy Bottom Boys
can't find my way home
down to the river to pray
Alison Krause
this land is your land
Woody Guthrie
conceived and produced by
Dale Caruso
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Depression
Dust
Bowl
1930s
Dorothea
Lange
Migrants
Added: 25th September 2008
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Watch for an obvious clue that this was a lip syncing effort when Neil Young drops a drumstick on the drummers floor tom, and it bounces off with no audible sound. Great clip though.
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buffalo
springfield
neil
young
stephen
stills
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1967
Added: 18th November 2008
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Other pop, dancefloor and adult contemporary hits from Branigan's Self Control album include "The Lucky One" (which won her a Tokyo Music Festival prize). (from wikipedia.org)
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branigan
lucky
one
Added: 29th July 2009
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During the 1920s and 1930s, dance marathons were a popular diversion in the United States. It is estimated that at their pinnacle, dance marathons were the main source of livelihood for 20,000 frequent competitors, officials, promoters, and musicians. Rules varied from place to place, but generally a couple stayed in the running for cash prizes as long as they kept moving on the dance floor. Only short respites were allowed every few hours for meals and rests. One event in New York City in 1937 lasted 481 hours--slightly more than 20 days! By the late 1930s, several cities and states had outlawed dance marathons because of the health dangers that accompanied sleep deprivation. This colorized photo from 1925 shows a typically exhausted couple.
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marathons
Added: 16th August 2009
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