History Dispatches

At the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Adolph Hitler hoped to demonstrate to the world the power, majesty and superiority of the resurgent German nation. That, however, would be foiled by a 22-year old African American track and field athlete - who would put on one of the greatest displays in Olympic history. This is the story of Jesse Owens and the 1936 Olympic Games.

Sources

https://jesseowens.com

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/owens/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Owens

Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jesse_Owens_1936.jpg

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Wars can drag on for years. Others might last only a few months, a couple of weeks, or even a handful of days. And then there was the Anglo-Zanzibar war - a conflict that lasted a record setting 38 minutes.

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Zanzibar_War

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/The-Shortest-War-in-History/

Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marines_in_zanzibar.jpg

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Do you ever sit at your computer and look at the keyboard and wonder - how did we get here? Why are the letters laid out in such a jumbled mess? Why is the J easier to type than the E? That’s just one of many questions we tackle as we look at the history of what today we call the QWERTY keyboard.

Sources

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFkC3F0lmjA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-qwerty-keyboard-will-never-die-where-did-the-150-year-old-design-come-from-49863249/

Image: By Martin Howard: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Remington_2_typewriter_keyboard.jpg

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Today, the most famous statue that overlooks a harbor is probably the Statue of Liberty. However, over 2,000 years ago a statue almost as large was built in the Greek city of Rhodes. The Colossus of Rhodes so impressive it became one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

Sources

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Colossus-of-Rhodes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_of_Rhodes

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In 2014, the financially troubled city of Flint, Michigan, began drawing their water from the Flint River - instead of Lake Huron. The move would be a disaster. Over the next decade the city would grapple with water contamination, lead poisoning, Legionnaires disease, and deaths - costing Flint and the State of Michigan more than a billion dollars.

Sources

https://www.cdc.gov/casper/php/publications-links/flint-water-crisis.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flint_water_crisis

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