Timelines of History

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Timelines of History
http://timelines.ws
Newsletter #60
May 1, 2004

"Entry of the Week"
1929 Apr 22, Harold E. Jones, director of research at the Univ. of Cal. Institute of child Welfare reported that children doing poor schoolwork and those most often exhibiting objectionable traits were found to be those who attend motion picture shows frequently.
(SFC, 4/16/04, p.F5)
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Special thanks also to Dennis Myers for his ongoing corrections to numerous items in the Timelines.
Special thanks also to Larry, a rock shop owner in Missouri, for his ongoing corrections and supplements to numerous items in the Timelines.
Thanks also to Michael O'Brien of Texas for his suggested corrections.
And a big thankyou to Colonel Michael Kelley of Texas for clarification on the 1862 Confederate win at Fort Pillow.
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New files include: 2004 March, Romans,
Updated files include 300-599, 1300-1399, 1600-1625, 1661-1699, 1700-1724, 1725-1749, 1750-1770, 1780-1789, 1790-1799, 180-1810, 1841-1849, 1850-1854, 1862-1863, 1864-1866, 1867-1870, 1898-1899, 1914-1915, 1918-1919, 1922-1923, 1931, 1969, 1989, 2000 (Jan-Feb), 2003 (Nov)
Countries: Littles, Burma, Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Bangladesh, Bavaria, Belgium, Colombia, France (1650-1795)(1870-1920), Germany (1821-1916), Gt. Britain (to 1799)(1800-1859), India (thru 1990), Scotland, Slovenia, Switzerland, Uzbekistan, Wales.
Cities: Chicago, NYC (1900-1949)
States: California (1860-1922), New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia
Subjects: Black History, Labor, Nobel Prizes, Technology
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No Hair Today!
My star reporter Starla (aka *la) is off on assignment.

So in lieu of "Hair Today" let me present to you the following short essay:

The Eve Dilemna: Apple, Oranges or Chocolate!

Have you ever wondered how the world might have turned out if Eve had rejected Satan's 1st temptation.
c4000BCE Apples (Malus Sieversii) similar to modern day varieties began to appear around Almaty, Kazakhstan. These ultimately produced the Red Delicious and Golden Delicious in America. The Red Delicious was hybridized into the Fuji and the Empire. The Golden Delicious was hybridized into the Gala, the Jonagold, the Mutsu, Pink Lady and Elstar.
(WSJ, 7/3/03, p.A1)
Do you suppose that had Eve said no, Satan would have just said ok, see you later. Or might he have come back and made a 2nd offer, say: How about this lovely orange?
1744 May 11, In Britain Elizabeth Robinson of Middlesex and 2 other women were tried and convicted at the Old Bailey on charges of stealing 104 imported China oranges from a grocer’s warehouse with the intent to sell them. She was sentenced to transport for a term of 7 years. She was pregnant and gave birth on ship.
(SFEC, 10/27/96, p.T9)
Now had Eve reached this point would her courage continue? Would she take the orange and change the course of history, or would she again just say no and change the course of this essay? Do you suppose that Eve at this point had any inkling of how the whole future of humankind might develop based on her simple decision for lunch? Of course Eve was no Nostrodama and she could not foresee how poor Hypatia would be treated a few millennia later:
415 Archbishop Cyril of Alexandria sent a mob of religious police to stop Hypatia, an eccentric pagan ascetic and scholar. The mob kidnapped her, dragged her to a church, stripped and tortured her with broken shards of pottery. Her body parts were then butchered, put on public display and burnt to a crisp. In 2004 Jonathan Kirsch authored "God Against the Gods: The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism."
(SSFC, 3/21/04, p.M1)
Let us suppose for the sake of this essay that Eve was gaining strength of character from "just saying no." Satan, being the devil he was, would certainly have upped the ante. Though not as omniscient as god, he would certainly have known about chocolate.
1893 At the Chicago Exposition Milton Hershey was impressed with an exhibition featuring chocolate-making machinery from Germany and commented to his cousin, Frank Snavely, "Caramels are only a fad. Chocolate is a permanent thing." With that, Hershey decided to go into the chocolate business, purchasing the German-made machinery and installing it at his Lancaster Caramel Company in Pennsylvania. With the help of expert chocolate makers, Hershey was soon producing chocolate-covered caramels, called "novelties." In 1900, Hershey sold the Lancaster Caramel Company for $1 million, but retained the chocolate-making machinery. Soon thereafter, he launched the Hershey Chocolate Company and built a town around it, Hershey, Pennsylvania.
(HNQ, 10/31/00)
Poor Eve. No to apples, no to oranges and now confronted with chocolate. What in god's name should she do. If there was only a good woman's magazine to consult. But forsooth that was ages away.
1693 Jun 27, The 1st woman's magazine "The Ladies' Mercury" was published in London.
(SC, 6/27/02)
Of course she might have resorted to consulting the stars, a technique later made popular by the wife of a famous US president.
1988 May 3, The White House acknowledged that first lady Nancy Reagan had used astrological advice to help schedule her husband's activities. The unflattering revelations surfaced in a yet-to-be published memoir by former chief of staff Donald Regan.
(AP, 5/3/98)
Perhaps she might consider at this point to consult with that pain in the rib husband of hers, that ne'er do well Adam. They were after all in this together. Thought I suspect that by this time their initial afterglow had waned a bit and that she was more of a mind in tune with that famous plate-maker, Francesco Urbini.
c1531-1537 Ceramicist Francesco Urbini was later believed to have created a plate that shows a male head made up entirely of phalluses. In 2003 a British museum paid $317,000 for it. The head is framed by a garland carrying the inscription: "Ogni homo me guarda come fosse una testa de cazi" (Every man looks at me as if I were a dickhead).
(Reuters, 9/18/03)
Refuse chocolate? Hey, the devil made me do it!
Eve! We shout. Stand firm. Wait for the whole 9 yards. Hell, call for the 50-yard line. Use your cell phone. Call god. Better yet read:
2003 Leonard Shlain authored "Sex, Time & Power: How women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution."
(SSFC, 8/17/03, p.M1)
Alas poor Eve, one bite of a lousy apple and she was banished.
"Cruel and Unusual" I do believe. Definitely a case for the Supreme Court here.
1992 Feb 25, The Supreme Court ruled prison guards who use unnecessary force against inmates may be violating the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment even if they inflict no serious injuries.
(AP, 2/25/02)

Best Regards to all,
Algis Ratnikas
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