Whitney Plantation museum confronts painful history of slavery
The first museum in America dedicated entirely to slavery opened a few months ago in Wallace, Louisiana. Michelle Miller visits the museum and found a surprising history, not only about the plantation, but her own family.
USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) burns and emits heavy black smoke off the Japanese coast. HD Stock Footage
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USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) burns and emits heavy black smoke off the Japanese coast.
A US F-6F lands on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Bataan (CLV-29) underway off the Japanese coast. USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) burns and emits heavy black smoke. Antiaircraft flak guns fired at Japanese Kamikaze (suicide dive bomber). Kamikaze crashes in water after being hit. Another Japanese aircraft under heavy flak fire. It gets hit and crashes in water. Location: Japan. Date: 1945.
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Plane Crashes, USS Bunker Hill (CV-17); Refueling USS Bullard (DD-660) 1944 (full)
Freely downloadable at the Internet Archive, where I first uploaded it. United States Naval Photographic Center film #1428 National Archives description LS DD coming alongside the BUNKER HILL; SBDs on the flight deck of the carrier.HA MS Overlooking bow of DD; men on the bow of the DD; superstructure of the carrier.HA MS Group of men on the boat deck of the DD pulling on line attached to fuel line.HA MS Looking down between the USS BULLARD (DD-660) & the BUNKER HILL; fuel lines rigged.HA MS Line is released from the focsle of the BULLARD & hauled in aboard the carrier.MLS Port-quarter view of the BULLARD pulling away (OX).MS PAN F4U comes in for landing; strikes barricades and noses over; island in the BG (slow-motion).MS F4U lands, hits barricades and noses over; nearly falls over on its back, but rights itself; smoke pouring from plane (slow-motion); men run up on deck from catwalks.MLS F4U hits deck, hits barricades and n over; men in catwalks run out onto deck.QUALITY GOOD TO FAIR HA MS TBF in water, partially submerged; pilot and gunner scramble out of plane and the plane sinks.MS F4U hits deck, crashes into barricades; comes into CU as it strikes barricades in the FG and noses over (very good); men up on 40mm mounts on the island.MS F4U hits deck, strikes barricades, noses over; crewmen run out to plane.MCU SECNAV KNOX shaking hands with several VIPs and gets inside coach.MCU KNOX & Naval officers standing in front of automobiles.CU ADM HAROLD STARK & KNOX shaking hands.LA CU KNOX entering transport plane; PAN to MS to STARK, WILLIAMS, & VINING waving goodby.MS Port-quarter view of transport taxiing down runway; women members of services in FG. National Archives Identifier: 75992
Southern United States | Wikipedia audio article
The Southern United States, also known as the American South, Dixie, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a region of the United States of America. It is located between the Atlantic Ocean and the Western United States, with the Midwestern United States and Northeastern United States to its north and the Gulf of Mexico and Mexico to its south.
The South does not fully match the geographic south of the United States but is commonly defined as including the states that fought for the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. The Deep South is fully located in the southeastern corner. Arizona and New Mexico, which are geographically in the southern part of the country, are rarely considered part, while West Virginia, which separated from Virginia in 1863, commonly is. Some scholars have proposed definitions of the South that do not coincide neatly with state boundaries. While the states of Delaware and Maryland, as well as the District of Columbia, permitted slavery prior to the start of the Civil War, they remained with the Union. Since the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, they became more culturally, economically, and politically aligned with the industrial Northern states, and are often identified as part of the Mid-Atlantic or Northeast by many residents, businesses, public institutions, and private organizations,but the United States Census Bureau puts them in the South.
Usually, the South is defined as including the southeastern and south-central United States. The region is known for its culture and history, having developed its own customs, musical styles, and cuisines, which have distinguished it in some ways from the rest of the United States. The Southern ethnic heritage is diverse and includes strong European (mostly English, Scottish, Scotch-Irish, Irish, German, French, and Spanish American), African, and some Native American components.Some other aspects of the historical and cultural development of the South have been influenced by the institution of slave labor on plantations in the Deep South to an extent seen nowhere else in the United States; the presence of a large proportion of African Americans in the population; support for the doctrine of states' rights, and the legacy of racial tension magnified by the Civil War and Reconstruction Era, as seen in thousands of lynchings (mostly from 1880 to 1930), the segregated system of separate schools and public facilities known as Jim Crow laws, that lasted until the 1960s, and the widespread use of poll taxes and other methods to frequently deny black people of the right to vote or hold office until the 1960s. Since the late 1960s, black people have held many offices in Southern states, especially in the coastal states of Virginia and South Carolina. Many black people have also been elected or appointed as mayors and police chiefs in the metropolises of Charlotte, Birmingham, Richmond, Columbia, Memphis, Houston, Atlanta, Jacksonville, and New Orleans, and serve in both the U.S. Congress and state legislatures.Historically, the South relied heavily on agriculture, and was highly rural until after 1945. It has since become more industrialized and urban and has attracted national and international migrants. The American South is now among the fastest-growing areas in the United States. Houston is the largest city in the Southern United States. Sociological research indicates that Southern collective identity stems from political, demographic, and cultural distinctiveness from the rest of the United States. The region contains almost all of the Bible Belt, an area of high Protestant church attendance (especially evangelical churches such as the Southern Baptist Convention) and predominantly conservative, religion-influenced politics. Indeed, studies have shown that Southerners are more conservative than non-Southerners in several areas, including religion, morality, international relations, and race relations. This is evident in both the region's religious attendance figures and in the region's usually strong support for the Republican Party in political elections since the 1960s, and especially since the 1990s.Apart from its climate, the living experience in the South increasingly resembles the rest of the nation. The arrival of millions of Northerners (especially in major metropolitan areas and coastal areas) and millions of Hispanics has meant the introduction of cultural values and social norms not rooted in Southern traditions. Observers conclude that collective identity and Southern distinctiveness are thus declining, particularly when defined against an earlier South that was somehow more authentic, real, more unified and distinct. The process has worked both ways, however, with aspects of Southern culture spreading throughout a greater portion of the rest of the United States in a process termed Southernization.
Damage and destruction due to drought Dust bowl in the mid-western states of th...HD Stock Footage
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Drought hits the mid-western United States. Barren and damaged fields due to drought. Cattle in a farm. Dead bodies of cattle, who died due to starvation lying on a field during the dust bowl. Location: United States. Date: 1934.
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American Indian Wars | Wikipedia audio article
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The American Indian Wars (or Indian Wars) is the collective name for the various armed conflicts fought by European governments and colonists, and later the United States government and American settlers, against various American Indian tribes. These conflicts occurred within the United States and Canada from the time of the earliest colonial settlements in the 17th century until the 1920s. The various Indian Wars resulted from a wide variety of sources, including cultural clashes, land disputes, and criminal acts committed on both sides. European powers and the colonies also enlisted Indian tribes to help them conduct warfare against one another's colonial settlements.
After the American Revolution, many conflicts were local to specific states or regions and frequently involved disputes over land use; some entailed cycles of violent reprisal. The British Royal Proclamation of 1763 included in the Constitution of Canada prohibited white settlers from taking the lands of indigenous peoples in Canada without signing a treaty with them. It continues to be the law in Canada today, and 11 Numbered Treaties covering most of the First Nations lands limited the number of such conflicts.
As white settlers spread westward after 1780, the size, duration, and intensity of armed conflicts increased between settlers and Indians. The climax came in the War of 1812, which resulted in the defeat of major Indian coalitions in the Midwest and the South, and conflict with settlers became much less common. Conflicts were resolved by treaty, often through sale or exchange of territory between the federal government and specific tribes. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 authorized the US government to enforce the Indian removal east of the Mississippi River to the other side of the sparsely populated American frontier. The policy of removal was eventually refined to relocate Indian tribes to specially designated and federally protected reservations.
Viral Plumber Who Dove Into Sewer to Fix Pipe Gets Free Jeans For a Year
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A photo of a hard-working plumber who went above and beyond the call of duty to fix a broken pipe is going viral. A homeowner snapped this shot of Jimmie Cox diving into murky water to try and fix the problem. Inside Edition connected Cox with Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs, who commended the plumber for his dedication to his dirty job. A photo of a hard-working plumber who went above and beyond the call of duty to fix a broken pipe is going viral. A homeowner snapped this shot of Jimmie Cox diving into murky water to try and fix the problem. Inside Edition connected Cox with Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs, who commended the plumber for his dedication to his dirty job. Cox was photographed with only his legs still dry and wearing Wrangler jeans, so the company is also giving him a year's supply of pants
Toys 'R' Us makes a comeback | GMA
After bankruptcy forced the company to close all of its stores last year, the beloved brand opened a new location in New Jersey.
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Adams County, Pennsylvania
Adams County is a county in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the population was 101,407. Its county seat is Gettysburg. The county was created on January 22, 1800, from part of York County and named in honor of the second President of the United States, John Adams. On 1-3 July 1863, Gettysburg and its vicinity was the site of the pivotal battle of the American Civil War, and as a result is a center for Civil War tourism.
Adams County comprises the Gettysburg, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Harrisburg-York-Lebanon, PA Combined Statistical Area.
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Suicide plane attacks USS Intrepid (CV-11) - 25 November 1944
The Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Intrepid (CV-11) is hit by kamikaze pilot.
White Lake Country Club
OWNER RETIRING / DEBT FREE ASSET
AUCTION
White Lake Country Club, 3 Rental Houses on 3.91+/- Acres & 28 Residential Undeveloped Lots
Marquette County – Montello, Wisconsin
SELLING ONLINE ONLY
AUCTION BID DEADLINE: Friday, November 18th @ 11 AM CDT
PROPERTY DESCRIPTION: The auction will consist of 3 separate offerings. The offerings are described as follows:
1. White Lake Country Club – The property consists of a fully equipped 18 hole golf course on approximately 146+/- acres. The 48 ft. x 30 ft. wood frame two story clubhouse has a large L shaped deck and basement for storage. The main level of the clubhouse has a 16 stool rectangular bar, kitchen, 2 bathrooms, pro shop area and dining area. Upstairs contains an office and apartment area with full bath. The maintenance area consists of a 60 ft. x 60 ft. building with 200 amp service, (4) 14 ft. roll up doors and exhaust fan. In addtion, there is a 40 ft. x 60 ft. building with 220 electric and enclosed service area. The pump house is a 24 ft. x 36 ft. building with three phase 460 electric, large wet well, irrigation controls, service and garage door. There is an 8 ft. x 6 ft. wood frame shed for storage and another same size shed for chemicals. For a complete list of all equipment and other related personal property that will be conveyed with the property, please click the “Documents” tab.
2. 3 Residential Rentals on 3.91+/- Acres – This offering will consists of three separate residential houses on a 3.91+/- acre tract. Please click the “Documents” tab for a survey. The houses consist of a 3 BR / 2 BTH w/ full basement, 1 BR / 1 BTH w/ 2 car garage & 2 BR / 1 BTH w/ 1 car garage. Rental rates can be found on WhiteLakeGolf.com.
3. 28 Residential Undeveloped Lots – This offering will consists of 28 residential undeveloped lots, please click “Documents” tab for list of lots by Marquette County Parcel Number and Recorded Covenants.
IMPORTANT AUCTIONEER NOTES: On October 16th, White Lake Country Club closed for the winter. The Club typically operates from April 1st – November 1st. Seller has agreed with Midstate Amusements to provide (5) video poker machines, (1) internet jukebox and (1) ATM. The Seller receives no compensation for the ATM but, splits income on a 60/40 split on video poker machines and jukebox. The Purchaser will be under no obligation to continue this relationship. There are 2 highway directional signs that promote White Lake Country Club and White Lake Beach Resort. The annual cost of the lease for White Lake Country Club is $300.00, plus 1/2 the cost of any necessary maintenance. WhiteLakeGolf.com will be conveyed with the sale of White Lake Country Club. An easement exists to allow White Lake Beach Resort to their septic tank on the property being sold. Please click “Documents” tab for copy of easement.
DUE DILIGENCE INFORMATION: To access recent course financial information, please contact Auctioneer for a confidentiality agreement.
INSPECTION: Wednesday, November 9th from 10am – 2pm or call Auctioneer to schedule an appointment.
TERMS: 10% initial earnest money deposit and closing to occur within 30 days of contract acceptance. Please click “Documents” tab for more information.
BUYER’S PREMIUM: A 10% buyer’s premium will be added to the high bid. Example: For a high bid of $1,000,000, a 10% buyer’s premium of $100,000 will be added making the purchase price $1,100,000.
AUCTION CONDUCTED BY: Bryce Hansen, Hansen & Young, Inc., 1264 5th Avenue, Prairie Farm, WI 54762, Phone: 715-837-1015, info@hansenandyoung.com. Wisconsin Lic #225-52
IN CONJUNCTION WITH: Hilda W. Allen Real Estate, Inc., 212 Old Quitman Annex Road, Adel, GA 31620, Phone: 888-324-5020 Fax: 229-896-1180. Bullseye Auction & Appraisal, LLC, 500 Pike Park Drive, Suite F, Lawrenceville, GA 30046, Phone: 770-544-7479 Fax: 888-544-7479.
Dale Bumpers and David Pryor: Pope County Democratic Party Banquet
On October 8, 2009, Olin Cook, a representative to the state Democratic Committee and past chair of the Pope County Democrats introduced Senators Dale Bumpers and David Pryor as the guests of honor at a Democratic Party banquet at Arkansas Tech University in Russellville. Both Pryor and Bumpers shared stories about their political careers with the attendees. Dubbed the Arkansas version of The Antique Roadshow by Senator Pryor, they entertained the audience with anecdotes about Orval Faubus, J.W. Fulbright, Robert Byrd, Bill Clinton, and others.
Street prostitutes
The prostitutes on Zurich's sex mile serve around six men a night, some even up to 30. They often work around 70 hours a week. Most woman are Hungarian Roma. A new study by the city of Zurich reveals how hard the situation for the women really is. (SF/swissinfo.ch)
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Russellville, Mo 2.5 Diesel Truck Pull
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African-American civil rights movement (1896–1954) | Wikipedia audio article
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The African-American civil rights movement (1896–1954) was a long, primarily nonviolent series of events to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans. The era has had a lasting impact on United States society, in its tactics, the increased social and legal acceptance of civil rights, and in its exposure of the prevalence and cost of racism.
Two United States Supreme Court decisions—Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), which upheld separate but equal racial segregation as constitutional doctrine, and Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) which overturned Plessy—serve as milestones. This was an era of new beginnings, in which some movements, such as Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association, were very successful but left little lasting legacy, while others, such as the NAACP's painstaking legal assault on state-sponsored segregation, achieved modest results in its early years but made steady progress on voter rights and gradually built to a key victory in Brown v. Board of Education (1954).
After the Civil War, the US expanded the legal rights of African Americans. Congress passed, and enough states ratified, an amendment ending slavery in 1865—the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution. This amendment only outlawed slavery; it provided neither citizenship nor equal rights. In 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified by the states, granting African Americans citizenship. All persons born in the US were extended equal protection under the laws of the Constitution. The 15th Amendment (ratified in 1870) stated that race could not be used as a condition to deprive men of the ability to vote. During Reconstruction (1865–1877), Northern troops occupied the South. Together with the Freedmen's Bureau, they tried to administer and enforce the new constitutional amendments. Many black leaders were elected to local and state offices, and many others organized community groups, especially to support education.
Reconstruction ended following the Compromise of 1877 between Northern and Southern white elites. In exchange for deciding the contentious Presidential election in favor of Rutherford B. Hayes, supported by Northern states, over his opponent, Samuel J. Tilden, the compromise called for the withdrawal of Northern troops from the South. This followed violence and fraud in southern elections from 1868 to 1876, which had reduced black voter turnout and enabled Southern white Democrats to regain power in state legislatures across the South. The compromise and withdrawal of Federal troops meant that white Democrats had more freedom to impose and enforce discriminatory practices. Many African Americans responded to the withdrawal of federal troops by leaving the South in what is known as the Kansas Exodus of 1879.
The Radical Republicans, who spearheaded Reconstruction, had attempted to eliminate both governmental and private discrimination by legislation. That effort was largely ended by the Supreme Court's decision in the Civil Rights Cases, 109 U.S. 3 (1883), in which the Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment did not give Congress power to outlaw racial discrimination by private individuals or businesses.
Milwaukee | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:25 1 History
00:02:35 1.1 Name
00:03:17 1.2 Native American Milwaukee
00:05:36 1.3 Milwaukee since European settlement
00:20:43 1.4 Historic neighborhoods
00:24:05 2 Geography
00:25:48 2.1 Cityscape
00:27:56 2.2 Climate
00:31:56 2.3 Water
00:33:14 3 Demographics
00:34:41 3.1 2010 Census
00:37:39 3.2 Ethnic groups
00:41:32 3.3 Religion
00:44:09 4 Economy
00:44:18 4.1 Early economy
00:47:43 4.2 Brewing
00:51:31 4.3 Milwaukee's economy today
00:54:43 5 Culture
00:55:29 5.1 Museums
00:55:38 5.1.1 Art
00:57:09 5.1.2 Science and natural history
01:00:18 5.1.3 Social and cultural history
01:04:02 5.2 Arenas and performing arts
01:04:38 5.3 Public art and monuments
01:04:59 5.4 City of Festivals
01:06:49 5.5 Cuisine
01:07:47 5.6 Music
01:11:47 5.7 Municipal wireless
01:12:39 6 Sports
01:14:22 7 Parks and recreation
01:15:26 7.1 Parks and nature centers
01:16:04 7.2 Milwaukee County public markets
01:17:13 8 Government and politics
01:21:18 8.1 Crime
01:22:25 8.2 Poverty
01:23:00 9 Education
01:23:10 9.1 Primary and secondary education
01:24:46 9.2 Higher education
01:24:59 10 Media
01:28:08 11 Infrastructure
01:28:18 11.1 Health care
01:29:53 11.2 Transportation
01:30:03 11.2.1 Airports
01:31:35 11.2.2 Intercity rail and bus
01:33:05 11.2.3 Transit
01:34:35 11.2.4 Highways
01:39:51 11.2.5 Water
01:40:28 11.2.6 Bicycle
01:43:44 11.2.7 Walkability
01:44:32 11.2.8 Modal characteristics
01:45:42 11.3 City development
01:47:46 12 Notable people
01:47:55 13 Sister cities
01:48:12 13.1 Friendship cities
01:48:33 14 See also
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Milwaukee (, locally ) is the largest city in the state of Wisconsin and the fifth-largest city in the Midwestern United States. The seat of the eponymous county, it is on Lake Michigan's western shore. Ranked by its estimated 2014 population, Milwaukee was the 31st largest city in the United States. The city's estimated population in 2017 was 595,351. Milwaukee is the main cultural and economic center of the Milwaukee metropolitan area which had a population of 2,043,904 in the 2014 census estimate. It is the third-most densely populated metropolitan area in the Midwest, surpassed only by Chicago and Detroit, respectively .Milwaukee is considered a Gamma global city as categorized by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network with a regional GDP of over $105 billion.
The first Europeans to pass through the area were French Catholic Jesuit missionaries, who were ministering to Native Americans, and fur traders. In 1818, the French Canadian explorer Solomon Juneau settled in the area, and in 1846, Juneau's town combined with two neighboring towns to incorporate as the city of Milwaukee. Large numbers of German immigrants arrived during the late 1840s, after the German revolutions, with Poles and other eastern European immigrants arriving in the following decades. Milwaukee is known for its brewing traditions, begun with the German immigrants.
Beginning in the early 21st century, the city has been undergoing its largest construction boom since the 1960s. Major new additions to the city in the past two decades include the Milwaukee Riverwalk, the Wisconsin Center, Miller Park, The Hop (streetcar system), an expansion to the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, and Pier Wisconsin, as well as major renovations to the UW–Milwaukee Panther Arena. The Fiserv Forum opened in late 2018.
Hillsborough, NC: Among America's Coolest Small Towns
Hillsborough, N.C., is among America's coolest small towns! The town was a semi-finalist in Budget Travel magazine's 2015 contest, amassing the most nominations in Fall 2014 and placing third when the final round of voting ended in March. Check out what makes Hillsborough a cool small town.