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Annie Oakley » HistoryNet - 0 views

  • She was the first white woman hired by a Wild West outfit to fill a traditionally male role.
  • She was, hands down, the finest woman sharpshooting entertainer of all time. And, at one time, she may have been the most famous woman in the American West or the American East. She was, of course, Annie Oakley — her name nearly as well recognized to this day as that of the bigger-than-life figure who hired her, Buffalo Bill.
  • Annie, born Phoebe Ann Moses in Ohio's Darke County on August 13, 1860, got her gun at an early age but didn't shoot her way to everlasting fame until after William 'Buffalo Bill' Cody put her on the payroll in 1885. In the process, the little woman (5 feet tall, about 110 pounds) gave Cody's Wild West a shot in the arm.
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  • She believed that women needed to learn to be proficient with firearms to defend themselves and that they could even help fight for their country.
  • If nothing else, Annie Oakley helped expand the career options of American women.
  • Annie rose to stardom from humble roots. In the mid-1860s her father, Jacob, died, and her mother, Susan, had a devil of a time trying to make ends meet with seven children age 15 or younger on her hands.
  • Her life took a turn for the better when she met Irishman Frank ('Jimmie') Butler of the Butler and Baughman shooting act.
  • A courtship ensued — between Annie and Frank, that is — and the couple was married within the year…or so the legend has it.
  • They told everyone that they were married about a year after they met, and their only known marriage certificate says they tied the knot on June 20, 1882, in Windsor, Canada, when Annie was 21.
  • She filled in admirably and became an instant hit. She chose 'Oakley' as her stage name for some unknown reason and began to tour with Frank.
  • they met Buffalo Bill Cody, but he didn't hire her until after she and her manager-husband had come to Louisville, Ky., early in 1885 for a three-day tryout. After an agreement was struck, Buffalo Bill brought her to the mess tent to introduce her to the members of his Wild West, which had been inaugurated in 1883.
  • Annie Oakley and Frank Butler toured with the Wild West for some 16 seasons, and the only contract they had with Cody was verbal.
  • The Oakley act was spectacular
  • Dexter Fellows, a sometimes press agent for the Wild West, wrote in his autobiographical book This Way to the Big Show that Annie 'was a consummate actress, with a personality that made itself felt as soon as she entered the arena.
  • Frank Butler also got into the act, releasing clay pigeons for his wife. She would jump over her gun table and shoot the clay bird before it hit the ground.
  • Charlatan shooters preferred to shoot ashes from cigars (with the help of a wire embedded in the cigar and twisted by the assistant's tongue at the proper moment), so Annie insisted on shooting only whole cigarettes. Her act often included hitting targets while riding a bicycle with no hands.
  • At Annie's command, he dropped a tin plate. Annie turned, fired and hit it square, all within about half a second.
  • Annie Oakley had a theatrical flair and the quickness and agility of an athlete. But none of it would have meant too much had she not been such a top hand with all kinds of firearms
  • The famous Sioux (Lakota) spiritual leader and medicine man Sitting Bull toured with the Wild West during the 1885 season. Annie had actually met him the previous year in a St. Paul, Minn., theater, when Sitting Bull, then a resident of the Standing Rock
  • They were happily reunited the next year as employees of Cody's Wild West. Whenever Sitting Bull got peevish that season, Cody would send for Little Sure Shot, who would talk to the Lakota leader for a while and then do her jig before leaving his quarters.
  • Annie Oakley had not been born in the West, and she had not lived there. But for many years she had certainly looked likea cowgirl, and she had ridden a horse and shot better than most any Westerner, of either sex, while performing in Wild West shows. To call her, then, a 'Western legend' does not miss the mark…even if she was too good, and too good a shot, to shoot anyone.
  • After giving her last performance with Young Buffalo Wild West on October 4, 1913, Annie and Frank retired to a new home in Cambridge, Md., and also spent a lot of their time at resorts in Pinehurst, N.C., and Leesburg, Fla. Hunting and shooting remained a big part of their lives.
  • Biographer Shirl Kasper, however, argues that Annie was not badly hurt in the wreck (the Charlotte Observer reported that nobody from the Wild West was injured) and that while Annie's hair did turn white rather fast, it wasn't because of the train wreck. Two newspaper articles in Annie's scrapbooks at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center say that her hair turned white
  • Buffalo Bill's Wild West played in more than 130 towns in both 1895 and 1896.
  • When reporters reminded Li'l Missie that she had shot a cigarette out of the mouth of the kaiser (Wilhelm II) during the 1890-91 tour, she remarked that she wished that she had missed that particular shot.
  • At first, the French apparently thought Buffalo Bill's whole spectacle, including the shooting, was a fake, but when they saw Annie Oakley perform, they became convinced that she was the real thing.
  • That same year, Lillian Smith left the show, and Annie had no competition from any other female sharpshooter in France.
  • While Annie was touring with Pastor, Frank Butler also arranged frequent shooting matches and exhibitions for his wife. In one match for $50 she broke all 50 clay birds, and in another, featuring 50 live pigeons, she defeated Miles Johnson, champion of New Jersey.
  • But there was room for both of them, and the Wild West continued to be a big hit when it moved into Madison Square Garden that winter.
  • In 1887, the two women sharpshooters and the rest of Buffalo Bill's Wild West sailed to London as part of the U.S. delegation to Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee.
  • On May 11, it was Queen Victoria's turn to have a command performance. It was held at the exhibition grounds after her courtiers convinced her that they couldn't fit Cody's outfit into Windsor Castle.
  • Oakley's rising fame may have gone to her head, or to
  • the head of her husband, and a rift developed between them and Cody.
    • Taylor Sm
       
      this is a great site but really long only read highlights
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    good annie oakley site
Zach Ber

Should Professional Athletes Be Role Models? - 0 views

  • Now, does that mean they will be a good role model? Of course not, there are also bad role models! But yes, they are role models, it is just one of those things that come with their job.
  • Most athletes do try to conduct themselves in a positive manner when in public view but there are those who just don't care what anyone thinks of them. The minds of those that say "athletics are not role models" are doing some wishful thinking; really they should not be role models but they are and that's a fact that no one can change.
  • The fact that so many kids look up to all these baseball players, basketball players and football players simply makes them role models. Here is an example, when you become a parent you automatically become a role model whether you like it or not. You can not simply say I am a parent and not a role model. The old saying "Do as I say, not as I do" does not work. Because you are a role model in that childs eyes! Kids look up to parents. Not only parents but also to big brothers and other family members, teachers, doctors, police man and the list goes on.
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  • "Should professional athletics be role models
  • THEY ARE ROLE MODELS!
  • THEY ARE ROLE MODELS!
  • Should professional athletics be role models
  • Should professional athletics be role models
  • THEY ARE ROLE MODELS
  • THEY ARE ROLE MODELS!
  • Should professional athletics be role models
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    are professional athletes the people you think they are
Jess H

Laura Ingalls Wilder - 0 views

  • Her father called himself a pioneer man and dreamed of going West to explore and settled on unknown territory.
  • Laura was four when she first started school
  • The name of the school was the Barry Corner School in Pepin, Wisconsin
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  • Laura was 65 when she published
  • 16 but she never graduated
  • Laura married Almanzo Wilder on August 25, 1885. They moved several times but then settled on a small farm in Mansfield Missouri.
  • Rose kept asking her mother for stories of her pioneer days. This is how Laura got started writing.
  • book entitled Little House In The Big Woods.
  • When Laura was 13 her family settled in De Smet and she went to school on a regular basis.
  • Little House series
  • A weekly television series, Little House on the Prairie, began in 1974 and ran for many seasons.
  • Laura Ingalls Wilder died February 10, 1957 in Mansfield of stroke. Laura was important because with her books she brought life on the frontier into the homes of millions of children
  • of stroke. Laura was important because with her books she brought life on the frontier into the homes of millions of
  • People who did not read the books but who saw the television series were able to see what frontier life was like
  • For instance, people had to wash cloths in the lakes, they had to gather wood for the fireplace, and they had to warm the water over the fireplace before they put it in the tub to get washed.
  • If Laura didn't live we wouldn't know how people lived on the frontier. Learning about Laura Ingalls Wilder made me understand how much easier living and learning is today
Abigayle C

War is on as Governor David Paterson demands taxes on Indian cigs - 0 views

  • but are supposed to collect taxes on tobacco products sold to non-Indians.
  • the collection of the taxes, but they were ignored after violent protests in 1997.
  • The new law will prohibit manufacturers from selling tobacco without a state tax stamp to any wholesaler who won't promise the cigarettes won't be resold tax-free by New York tribes.
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  • Lawmakers say the law could mean hundreds of millions of dollars a year going to the cash-strapped state. Paterson said it could be closer to $62 million. The state excise tax is $2.75 a pack.
  • "The issue here is not cigarettes, but the protection of the Nation's treaty rights. We will do what it takes at the right time to protect those rights."
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    another dispute example
Sadie H

Justin Bieber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 2 views

    • Sadie H
       
      Some people really like Justin, but others don't. Some think its because of the success at a very young age. Most of the people that don't like him and his music are males, but alot of females don't like him either.
    • Melissa Pietricola
       
      Do you think it just comes down to jealousy? How weird to be him, though. To go from just a kid to someone people either LOVE or HATE.
Nolan M

Angel Island Immigration Station Poetry - 0 views

  • America has power, but not justice.In prison, we were victimized as if we were guilty.Given no opportunity to explain, it was really brutal.I bow my head in reflection but there isnothing I can do.
Demi D

Lotta Crabtree - 0 views

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  • The tiny, red-haired, six-year-old jigged and danced to their clapping hands, while they showered her with nuggets and coins which her mother hastily collected in her apron
  • Lotta was exposed early to the life of the theater and it's inhabitants in San Francisco when her father left New York in 1851, looking for gold.
  • Mary Ann involved them in a circle of actors which included the Chapmans
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  • Just two doors down from their boarding house, the infamous actress and Countess of Landsfeldt, Lola Montez herself had set up housekeeping. Mary Ann became acquainted with her and soon little Lotta, who adored Lola, became her protégé and was allowed to play in her costumes and dance to her German music box.
  • moved again to Rabbit Creek (La Porte) forty miles to the north and once again set up a boarding house
  • Lola Montez wanted to take Lotta on a tour of Australia with her, but of course Mary Ann wouldn't see it.
    • Demi D
       
      For people who are doing Lotta Crabtree, this is a very good site for details!
  • traveling to all of the mining camps performing ballads and dancing for the miners
  • moved back to San Francisco where Lotta toured the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys, added the banjo to her repertoire and became frequently in demand in the city's variety halls and amusement parks
  • 1859 she had become "Miss Lotta, the San Francisco Favorite"
  • Considering all of the valuables they carried around, it is amazing they were never robbed
  • 1864, they left for the East where Lotta toured and performed in New York, Chicago, Boston and the Midwest
  • greatest success in Little Nell and the Marchioness which was written for her by John Brougham from Dicken's Old Curiosity Shop
  • 1869, she opened in Philadelphia in Heart's Ease
  • 20 years, Lotta was highly popular on the American stage
  • 1870, she then toured with her own company rather than using local stock companies, which was then customary
  • Mary Ann continued to manage Lotta's affairs, booking plays, locations and organizing troupes of actors
  • 1884). When Mary Ann's steamer trunk became to heavy on their tours, she would invest Lotta's earnings in local real estate, bonds and other endeavors
  • 1875, Lotta commissioned the famous "Lotta's Fountain" at Market and Kearney Streets in San Francisco
  • Mary Ann and her brothers where she studied French, visited museums and took up the hobby of painting which she pursued until her death
  • Although she has been linked with many gentleman, Lotta never married
  • If Lotta were to marry, it would surely have put a damper on her career of playing children and young parts, which she played until the end of her career.
  • Lotta retired from the theater in 1892 at the age of 45
  • Lotta had talent and she soon sought more singing and dancing lessons for her.
  • made her first professional appearance at a tavern owned by Matt Taylor.
  • She and her mother retreated to a summer cottage on Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey which she named "Attol Tryst" (Lotta spelled backwards) where she drove horses, threw parties and pursued her painting
  • her trademark black cigars prevented her from becoming a member of the prominent ladies social group, Sorosis, much to the disappointment of her mother
  • When Mary Ann died in 1905, Lotta became more reclusive.
  • final public appearance in 1915 for "Lotta Crabtree Day" in San Francisco at the Panama-Pacific Exposition, where the city turned out to remember their beloved Lotta
  • purchased the Brewster Hotel in Boston, where she lived until her death in 1924 at the age of 77.
  • buried next to her mother in Woodlawn Cemetery, New York City
  • bulk of her estate, estimated at $4,000,000 to veterans, aging actors and animals.
  • long court battle ensued over rightful heirs but her will was finally settled and a large trust remains for humane and educational purposes of the young.
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    They moved in with friends and soon Mary Ann involved them in a circle of actors which included the Chapmans, child actress Sue Robinson and many other popular actors of the 19th century. It was then that Lotta was first enrolled in dancing classes
Melissa Pietricola

Managing the Platform: Higher Education and the Logic of Wikinomics (EDUCAUSE Review) |... - 0 views

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      This is my hope that the projects my students develop will be a result of peer editing, additions based on our own rules.
  • The wiki-ized university will probably not displace the traditional university but will likely exist alongside it, albeit in direct competition.
Melissa Pietricola

Google - 0 views

shared by Melissa Pietricola on 24 Sep 10 - Cached
    • Mike F
       
      i love diigo!
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      jk
    • Melissa Pietricola
       
      Me, I really do!
    • Jess H
       
      haha i love diigo it is soo coool!!!
    • Tysen T
       
      Its kind of wierd
    • Katie H
       
      Diigo is really cool !!!!
    • Abigayle C
       
      Haha Its sorta cool idk if i'll be able to figure it out tho :D
    • Anna R
       
      I've got nooooo idea what I am doing but hey I'm trying.
    • Anna R
       
      oooo i highlighted in pink...weird
    • JP D
       
      Using Diigo is going to be so much fun!!!!!
    • Jasmine M
       
      sweet diigo is totaly awsomical
    • Andreas K
       
      diigo
    • Jess H
       
      haha i like the birthday cake on google.... it is perfect becouse it is alex flynns birthday..hahah...HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALEX!!!
    • AJ B
       
      diigo not that awesome you guys are totaly freaking out
    • Megan C
       
      Diigo is cool AJ!
    • dante pa
       
      Diigo is cool!
    • AJ B
       
      no its really not
    • Katie H
       
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    • Jess H
       
      diigo is so coool
    • Abby S
       
      This is comfusing!
    • Emma M
       
      LOL!!! I love Diigo!!! It's totally radical.... weird.
    • Melissa Pietricola
       
      Watch the video on Diigo.com; it will make it really easy!
    • AJ B
       
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    • Jasmine M
       
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    • Katie H
       
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    • Kyle B
       
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    • dante pa
       
      hi everbody!
    • Chris C
       
      hi this is awesomea
    • Taylor Sm
       
      oh yeah
    • Abigayle C
       
      how do you put up a sticky note i cant do it D:
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    • Aryanna A
       
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    • Katie H
       
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    • Jessika C
       
      google:)
    • Bryanna P
       
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      cool
    • Jess H
       
      hola!
    • Abigayle C
       
      yayy! i got this to work finally! :D
    • Jess H
       
      heyyyy this is google
    • Melissa Pietricola
       
      I hope your web building is going well! I'm excited to see what everyone comes up with!!
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Tad R

Colorado Women's Hall of Fame - Justina Ford - 0 views

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  • 1871-1952
  • Dr. Ford took her practice on the road where she served Spanish, American Indian, Chinese, Greek, Japanese, “plain whites” and “plain colored” patients.
  • After she had been in practice 33 years, she was finally able to become a member of the faculty at Denver General but not practice there. She was never granted membership in the American Medical Association. She was finally admitted to the Denver and Colorado Medical Societies in 1950, two years before she died.
Savannah P

The Ultimate Luxury Pet Environment: Your home becomes your dog's castle with an Elite ... - 0 views

  • Elite Pet Havens are opulent indoor environments for dogs and other companion animals. They simulate outdoor settings in which your dog can joyfully romp. Each Haven is custom-conceived and executed; they are truly unlimited in potential
  • Company CEO K. Michael Berry had his initial inspiration for the enterprise while sitting one day in Greenwich Village's Washington Square Park. Lined by Greek Revival town houses and graced with a monumental marble arch modeled on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, Washington Square Park boasts of a dog run around which grow Catalpa trees, red roses and lavender bushes. Lovely as the park may be during la belle saison, however, during the harsher days of New York City winters it can seem less than ideal for dogs and their humans. Why, thought Mr. Berry to himself, should it not be possible for these cosmopolites and their dogs to enjoy a more al fresco style K-9/human bonding inside their dwelling places all year long?
    • Savannah P
       
      this is insane!!! an ll season play ground/training area for you and your dog! mind blowing. But still i know my dogs kove snow, so why dont you just grab your snow pants and go play? I think this is a little bit to much pampering for a dog.. i mean, wheres the fresh air?
Tad R

Ford, Dr. Justina (1871-1952) | The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed - 0 views

  • with her practice in their Illinois neighborhood. 
  • Justina accompanied her mother on her neighborhood rounds and from an early age aspired to become a doctor.
  • On graduating in 1899, Justina set up practice in Chicago, but her husband was called to Denver’s Zion Baptist Church in 1900 and Justina followed him in 1902.  
Mikayla W

Biography of Maria Martinez and San Ildefonso Pottery - 1 views

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      This is a good sight for info but mainly photos
  • would watch her aunt making pots
  • Inexpensive Spanish tinware and
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  • Anglo enamelware had replaced traditional containers and cooking pots.
  • Maria was asked to replicate some pre-historic pottery styles that had been discovered in an archaeological excavation of an ancient pueblo site near San Ildefonso
  • Maria and Julian refined their pottery techniques and were asked to demonstrate their craft at several expositions, including the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, the 1914 Panama-California Exposition in San Diego, and the 1934 Chicago World's Fair. Part of their success came from their innovations in the style of black-on-black ware.
  • Maria's interest and willingness to experiment with techniques prevented this from occurring.
Kayleigh G

Clothing Style - Effect on Social and Cultural Identity - Associated Content - associat... - 0 views

  • choice of clothing that we wear
  • provide a visu
  • but this visual is not always concrete
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  • negative opinions that some clothing styles may generate
  • from the public
  • public to open up
  • about their prejudices towards certain groups
  • To agree that everyone who wears a certain style of clothing have a similar lifestyle is to agree that stereotyping is fair and just.
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    for essay
Ricky H

CYCLING IS GOOD FOR YOU :: Bike For All >> The essential resource for everyone who cycl... - 1 views

  • But you don’t have to be as super-fit as this to enjoy cycling. All it takes is a few gentle rides of about five miles, ridden at a moderate pace, and you’ll soon be strong enough to tackle ten mile jaunts with ease, or even long distance charity rides.
    • Ricky H
       
      Biking Can be done by fit and not so fit people.
    • Melissa Pietricola
       
      I think I count as "not so fit" and I like to bike!
Nolan M

Immigration and U.S. History - 1 views

  • before it achieved independence and afterward, relied on the flow of newcomers from abroad to people its relatively open and unsettled lands. It shared this historical reality with Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Argentina, among other nations.
  • These immigrants, usually referred to as settlers, opted in the main for farming, with the promise of cheap land a major draw for relatively impoverished northern and western Europeans who found themselves unable to take advantage of the modernization of their home economies. One group of immigrants deserves some special attention because their experience sheds much light on the forces impelling migration. In this era, considerable numbers of women and men came as indentured
  • servants. They entered into contracts with employers who specified the time and conditions of labor in exchange for passage to the New World. While they endured harsh conditions during their time of service, as a result of their labors, they acquired ownership of small pieces of land that they could then work as independent yeoman farmers.
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  • The first, and longest, era stretched from the 17th century through the early 19th century. Immigrants came from a range of places, including the German-speaking area of the Palatinate, France (Protestant Huguenots), and the Netherlands. Other immigrants were Jews, also from the Netherlands and from Poland, but most immigrants of this era tended to hail from the British Isles, with English, Scottish, Welsh, and Ulster Irish gravitating toward different colonies (later states) and regions.
  • The numbers who came during this era were relatively small
  • changed, however, by the 1820s.
  • first era of mass migration
  • decade through the 1880s, about 15 million
  • immigrants made their way to the United States
Josh D

republican party and the 14th amendment - 1 views

shared by Josh D on 25 Oct 10 - No Cached
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    This might be too much with the republican party but it has some info on the 14th amendment.
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