...telegram stopped everything Louise Boldt died suddenly in Manhattan in January 1904. Boldt sent a telegram to Heart Island and ordered all work to stop. Around...
...wooden planks. Shutterstock A Telegram Named It "66" The highway almost had a different number. The route from Chicago to Los Angeles was originally going to...
...it. Wikimedia Commons Springfield sent the telegram that named the highway On April 30, 1926, two men sat down in Springfield’s Colonial Hotel and sent a...
...filthy stations while buying their own bullets. Riots broke out as mobs looted stores downtown. Governor Calvin Coolidge, a quiet man from Vermont, at first did...
...the baby, Gow checked with Mrs. Lindbergh, who had just finished bathing. When Anne said she didn’t have him, Gow rushed to alert Colonel Lindbergh. “The...
...brand-new title. Most of the action kicks off in a Missouri city you might not expect, and the reason why goes back to a single telegram....
...to Navy Secretary John D. Long that simply said: “Maine blown up in Havana Harbor at nine-forty tonight and destroyed.” Rescue teams found bodies for days...
...Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters union, Randolph knew how to mobilize large groups. He asked his friend Bayard Rustin to turn his idea into reality. They...
...Mary had come from Shanghai in 1868, learned English from Protestant missionaries, and married Joseph in a Christian ceremony. They dressed in Western clothes, spoke fluent...
...down the spot, Omar got the chance. Wikimedia Commons The Telegram That Turned a Railroad Worker Into a Cadet On July 27, 1911, Omar got a...
Wikimedia Commons/David Francis Barry Theodore Roosevelt’s Double Tragedy That Changed America The Elkhorn Ranch Unit in Theodore Roosevelt National Park marks where America’s future president rebuilt...
...to college, spoke many languages, and loved ideas and culture like Wright did. Frank felt closer to Mamah than to his own wife Catherine. Their talks...