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Melissa Pietricola

Voices of Civil Rights (A Library of Congress Exhibition) - 1 views

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civil rights primary sources

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    during the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. This exhibition draws from the thousands of personal stories, oral histories, and photographs collected by the "Voices of Civil Rights" project, a collaborative effort of AARP, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), and the Library of Congress, and marks the arrival of these materials in the Library's collection
Nolan M

Boston Red Sox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • Red Sox
  • Red Sox are a professional baseball team
  • From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search "Red Sox" redirects here. For the New Zealand football (soccer) club, see Red Sox Manawatu For current information on this topic, see 2010 Boston Red Sox season. Boston Red Sox Established 1901 Team logo Cap Insignia Major league affiliations American League (1901–present) East Division (1969–present) Current uniform Retired numbers 1, 4, 6, 8, 9, 14, 27, 42 Colors Red, midnight navy, white                Name Boston Red Sox (1908–present) Boston Americans (1901–1907)[1] Other nicknames The Sox, The BoSox, The Olde Towne Team Ballpark Fenway Park (1912–present) Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds (1901–1911) Major league titles World Series titles (7) 2007 • 2004 • 1918 • 1916 • 1915 • 1912 • 1903 AL Pennants (12) 2007 • 2004 • 1986 • 1975 • 1967 • 1946 • 1918 • 1916 • http://en.wikipedia
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  • based in Boston, Massachusetts
  • Red Sox's home ballpark has been Fenway Park since 1912. The "Red Sox" name was chosen by the team owner, John I. Taylor, around 1908, following previous Boston teams that had been known as the "Red Stockings".
  • in the first World Series in 1903
  • championship droughts in baseball history, called by some the "Curse of the Bambino" after its alleged beginning with the Red Sox's sale of Babe Ruth to the rival Yankees in 1918, an 86-year wait before the team's sixth World Championship in 2004.
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    redsox
Abigayle C

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

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  • 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
Griffin C

Bill Buckner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 1 views

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  • fielding error during Game
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      Melissa Pietricola on 24 Sep 10
       
      I love bill buckner
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      Melissa Pietricola on 24 Sep 10
       
      Oh Me too!!
  • a play that has since been prominently entrenched into American sports lore.[1]
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      right through his legs
  • Boston was leading the heavily favored New York Mets three games to two in the 1986 World Series when game six of the series went into extra innings.
  • New York came back to tie the game with three straight two out singles off Calvin Schiraldi and a wild pitch by Bob Stanley. Mookie Wilson fouled off several pitches before hitting a slow roller to Buckner at first base. Aware of Wilson's speed, Buckner tried to rush the play, and the ball rolled under his glove, through his legs and into right field, allowing Ray Knight to score the winning run.[6]
  • reer hits in his tw
  • Melissa Pietricola on 24 Sep 10
     
    Bill Buckner page, awesome!
Anna R

parks for AA rights - 0 views

www.nps.gov/...parks.htm

civil rights history

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    i'll see if this helps at all
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.
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      Demi D on 11 Oct 10
       
      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

Teachers' Domain: Melba Pattillo Beals - 0 views

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civil rights Brown v. Board integration

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    One of the Little Rock 9 documents her experience; audio file
Taylor Sm

Utah History Encyclopedia - 0 views

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      yo whats up
  • report news of the Mormon Women's Relief Society, which she served as general secretary for twenty-two years before becoming general president in 1910 at the age of 82. Appointed by Brigham Young in 1876 to head a grain-saving program, she received personal commendation in 1919 from President Woodrow Wilson for selling the wheat to the government during World War
  • in 1852, bearing three more daughters. Her marital experiences taught her the need to be self-reliant and she became an early advocate of women's rights, writing under the nom de plume, Blanche Beechwood, for the Woman's Exponent, a semi-monthly periodical established in 1872 for Mormon women. "I believe in women, especially thinking women," she wrote
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  • effort to include woman suffrage in the state constitution. She wrote numerous short stories and poems, most published in the Woman's Exponent, later compiling her poetry, her favorite literary medium, into a single volume, Musings and Memories. In 1912 she became the first Utah woman to receive an honorary degree, awarded her by Brigham Young University. Known for her executive talents, her superb memory, and her indefatigable energy
  • Utah women of all faiths and
  • Emmeline Blanche Woodward (Harris Whitney) Wells was born Emmeline Blanche Woodward in 1828 in Petersham, Massachusetts. A precocious child, she acquired an exceptional education for her time and place, graduating at age fourteen from the New Salem Academy and teaching school briefly thereafter. Converting to the Mormon Church in 1842, she married James Harris the next year, and in 1844 they migrated to Nauvoo, Illinois, then Church headquarters. After the death of her son Eugene Henri and the desertion of her husband, she married Newel K. Whitney
  • as a plural wife, traveling to Utah with the Whitney family in 1848. Whitney's death in 1850 left her with two young daughters whom she supported by teaching school. Emmeline became the seventh wife of Daniel H. Wells
  • and dedicated her energies to working in their behalf. Becoming editor of the Exponent in 1877, she used the publication for the next thirty-seven years to support woman suffrage and educational and economic opportunities for women as well as to
  • A strong supporter of polygamy, Emmeline defended the practice before numerous congressional committees and in audiences with three United States Presidents. For nearly thirty years she represented Utah women in the National Woman's Suffrage Association and the National and International Councils of Women, while spearheading the successfu
  • On her hundredth
Melissa Pietricola

N.Y. Soccer Central - 2 views

www.nysoccercentral.com

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      Tysen T on 26 Sep 10
       
      This is the website for my soccer team
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      Melissa Pietricola on 26 Sep 10
       
      Nice. I didn't realize you played on two teams. You play for FM, too, right?
Jess H

Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Home & Museum - 0 views

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  • In 1885, Laura Elizabeth Ingalls and Almanzo James Wilder were married August 25 in Dakota Territory by the Reverend E. Brown of the Congregational Church.
  • daughter Rose
  • Rocky Ridge Farm near Mansfield, Missouri
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  • successful farm, built their own home and settled down permanently in the Ozark hills
  • Rose grew up and moved away, and became the well-known author, journalist and world traveler Rose Wilder Lane
  • In 1932, Laura Ingalls Wilder published the first of her beloved "Little House" books, which described the pioneering of the Ingalls and Wilder families during the 1870's - 1890's. All of the nine manuscripts for these famous books were penned right here on Rocky Ridge Farm. Their publication made the Wilders well-known international literary characters
  • Jess H on 30 Sep 10
     
    In 1885, Laura Elizabeth Ingalls and Almanzo James Wilder were married August 25 in Dakota Territory by the Reverend E. Brown of the Congregational Church.
Demi D

Diigolet | Diigo - 0 views

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      Demi D on 30 Sep 10
       
      Hello! Demi hear! Hope we can have fun this year!
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      Demi D on 30 Sep 10
       
      XD
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    Hello! Demi hear!
Anna R

museum for fourteenth amendment - 2 views

www.dusablemuseum.org/...self-guided-tour

civil rights history

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    good site for me!
Anna R

Old Court House - 0 views

www.oldcourthouse.org

civil rights history

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    I don't know if this helps anything....if not its something....sigh
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