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A Tribute to
Rickwood Field
August 18, 1910 - Birmingham, Alabama, United States
The oldest professional ballpark still standing in the United States. It opened on August 18, 1910 — two years before Fenway Park, four year...
A Tribute to
The Elaine Massacre
1919 - Elaine, Arkansas, United States
On the night of 30 September 1919 about a hundred Black farmers met in a church at Hoop Spur, three miles north of Elaine, Arkansas, to talk...
A Tribute to
The Great Molasses Flood
January 15, 1919 - Boston, Massachusetts, United States
The company said anarchists had blown up the tank. The auditor spent years on it and found the tank had simply been built badly. Just after...
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The Great Reunion of 1913
June 29, 1913 - July 4, 1913 - Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Fifty years after the battle, both armies came back and camped on the same field. The encampment ran from the twenty-ninth of June to the f...
A Tribute to
The Hello Girls
1918 - 1979 - United States
They took the Army oath, wore the Army uniform and the Army identity disc, and could be court-martialled under the Army code. When the war e...
A Tribute to
The Homestead Grays
1912 - May 1951 - Homestead, Pennsylvania, United States
Between 1937 and 1948 the Homestead Grays finished first in ten seasons out of twelve. Most people have never heard of them. The team start...
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The Honeymoon Express to Elkton
1913 - 1938 - Elkton, Maryland, United States
For twenty-five years, a town of three thousand people married the whole Northeast. Around 1913 the northern states began requiring couples...
A Tribute to
The Ludlow Tent Colony
1913 - April 20, 1914 - Las Animas County, Colorado, United States
They were living in tents because they had gone on strike, and the houses belonged to the company. The southern Colorado coal strike began ...
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The Osage Reign of Terror
1918 - 1931 - Pawhuska, Oklahoma, United States
In 1923 the Osage took in more than thirty million dollars from the oil under their own land, and most of them could not spend a dollar of i...
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The Radium Girls
1917 - 1938 - Orange, New Jersey, United States
They were told the paint was harmless. Some of them were told to put the brush in their mouths. The United States Radium Corporation ran a ...

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