The U.S. Navy Ship USS Maine exploded in Havana Harbor, Cuba, sparking the Spanish-American war.
260 American sailors were killed and Spain had been acting cruel towards the Cuban natives so war was inevitable.
Turns out it was likely an accident that one of our biggest warships blew up in not so friendly waters but anyway the U.S. wiped the floor with Spain and gained some useful territory🇺🇸💥🦅
I’m really enjoying these posts, Shogun. 👍
shareI’m a history teacher and a nerd, I love this stuff.
Thanks Amigo.
I'm also a history buff.
shareI worked for a newspaper for a number of years. A favorite weekly feature was where they would go back up to 100 years in their archives to post articles from back then. Fascinating stuff! I once discovered that I live roughly a mile from where my town was founded.
shareI love this stuff, I read it and teach it every work day. My final project for the seventh grade second report card will be NYC Revolutionary War sites, many of which still exist!
I will set my classes up into groups, they’ll do research, make posters, give a presentation. It should be fun if a bit challenging, behavior and effort are sometimes issues in the Southwest Bronx😄
"...teach them well..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYzlVDlE72w 👍
shareWe get, but their families often don’t listen.
We’ve had murder victims, pregnant little girls, kids arrested for armed robbery…
The Bronx is a flaming mess.
"A favorite weekly feature was where they would go back up to 100 years"
I wish papers would do that nowadays, it's much more interesting than most current news. Once I was looking for an old American murder case and came across an article from the early 20th century about an upper class woman who had vanished while going on a road trip with her husband. Later it was revealed that she had left behind her family before to live the life of wood nymph. Weeks later she was found starved and dehydrated in some cabin in the woods, I believe. It was quite fascinating. It started out as possibly a murder case, but it turned into a sad story of mental illness.
Another story I discovered was that the infamous couple, Bonnie & Clyde, stopped here to refuel while trying to evade the law. The cops realized too late who they were. The gas station attendant had described Bonnie as, "...a hard looking woman." 😁
shareLol, great compliment.😁
Talking about infamous killers, I didn't know until last year Lee Harvey Oswald actually stayed at a pension here in Rotterdam for two nights before boarding a ship back to the US. I decided to check it out on an evening stroll last summer. Nothing special, but it's a part of history, you know.🤷♀️
Timothy McVeigh, the guy who did the Oklahoma City bombing, stayed at a motel about a mile from where I used to live. I used to fish at the lake where he constructed the bomb. I went to school with the son of the guy who he rented the truck from. Too close to home. 🤔 There's more I don't want reveal because it would compromise my online anonymity.
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USS Maine blueprints on Pawn Stars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EngfLXCvBgE
Those warship designs would look totally cool framed and hung in the living room.
share1907 - Cesar Romero, TV's Joker, is born
2023 - Raquel Welch dies at 82
1965 - Singer-songwriter Nat King Cole died from lung cancer at just 45 years old.
shareHis version of The Christmas Song is the best
shareI agree! So many of his songs are his and his alone. Meaning, whenever hear a cover, I think only of him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpF1J9FnD4E
He was one of those crooners in my household as a kid, much like this guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-2_OstpR5c
shareI listen to Dino a lot. One of my top favorite crooners. I love the band arrangement in this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ERI1GoZ4NA
I used to really enjoy these as well. 😁 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcFspeiApQA
shareI remember watching those. They were funny!
🤣
Imagine a war breaking out because of an accident.
shareI think we were looking for a reason to crush the Spaniards and send them limping off with their tail between their legs and that’s just what happened.
The lurid yellow journalism of the time pretty much convinced the public that the Spanish empire deserved a beating.
"You provide the prose poems, I'll provide the war" -- Charles Foster Kane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmWqTGU6MUc
Best sled movie ever.
shareFebruary 15, 1965 Red Maple Leaf Flag becomes the official flag of Canada.
Also if you are a fan of hockey
1980 NHL Oilers Wayne Gretzky assists on NHL-record-tying 7 goals, in 8-2 victory over Washington at Northlands Coliseum, Edmonton.
I read about this today. Tragic, but not Cuba's or Spain's fault.
share399 BC - Socrates was sentenced to death by the city of Athens for corrupting the minds of the youth of the city and for impiety. Sentenced to death by hemlock poisoning, he refused to accept the offer to escape and chose to respect the wishes of the state and willingly drank the hemlock.
shareAnd this had a profound influence on both Classical and Western civilizations.
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