Stuff You Missed in History Class - Download free podcast episodes by HowStuffWorks.com on iTunes. The morning of 9/11, before they realized the world had changed. From WikiLeaks December 1, 2009 By Matt Gurney (National Post)[1] Last week, the website WikiLeaks released half a million pager messages that were sent on Sept. 11, 2001. These messages provide a fascinating glimpse back at how people responded in real-time to the terrifying events of that Tuesday morning. While many of the messages are either unrelated to the attacks or simply the incomprehensible techno-babble of automated telecommunications, many others capture the raw emotional flavour of the chaos following the tragedy. People reach out to family and friends to see if they're safe, exchange "I love you" s, inform others who may not have heard about the terrorist acts and express -- often in colourful terms -- their shock and outrage.
The texts make for fascinating reading, and provoke some good discussions of the cliched, "Where were you when it happened? " The footage also has a whiff of surreal absurdity about it, something that would be darkly funny were it not so horrid. The 10 Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts. S/1302/Rev.1 of 3 April 1949. Statue-liberty.jpg from georgakopoulos.org - StumbleUpon. The Origins of Columbus Day - Top 10 Things You Should Know About Columbus. Columbus Day was the brainchild of New York state senator Timothy Sullivan, an archetypal Tammany Hall man who greased the wheels of New York City's notoriously corrupt political machine during the late 19th century and early 20th century.
His bill to set Columbus Day aside passed by a vote of 86 to 35 in 1909, and the initial reaction from those hardworking Americans of yore wasn't great. People labeled it superfluous and called for its repeal. A New York Times editorial from 1913 shows that sentiment lingering. Sullivan "forced it on reluctant New York and other lawmakers forced it, in turn, on other States," the objector wrote of the day. "Its occurrence interferes sadly with the conduct of business in the season which should be the busiest, but once we have a holiday we must keep it.
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