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1. VIRGINIA: Revolutionary War - Pensions [1]
Virginia Rev. War Pensions - Basic Search http://ajax.lva.lib.va.us/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b-clas62&local_base=CL AS62 [might be 2-line URL] or Short Version: http://shorl.com/bikugejepahy
2. Today in History .. 6 August [1]
1945 ~~ Atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima On this day in 1945, at 8:16 a.m. Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, drops the world's first atom bomb, over the city of Hiroshima. Approximately 80,000 people are killed as a direct result of the blast, and another 35,000 are injured. At least another 60,000 would be dead by the end of the year from the effects of the fallout. U.S. President Harry S. Truman, discouraged by the Japanese response to the Potsdam Conference's demand for uncon
3. Today in History .. 5 August [1]
1858 ~~ First transatlantic telegraph cable completed ... After several unsuccessful attempts, the first telegraph line across the Atlantic Ocean is completed, a feat accomplished largely through the efforts of American merchant Cyrus West Field. The telegraph was first developed by Samuel F. B. Morse, an artist-turned-inventor who conceived of the idea of the electric telegraph in 1832. Several European inventors had proposed such a device, but Morse worked independently and by the mid 1830s had built a
4. COTTENHAM WAR MEMORIAL [1]
In Grateful and Honoured Memory OF THE MEN OF COTTENHAM WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918 THEIRS THE IMMORTALITY, OURS THE MEMORY On the back panel of the stone are the lines: THEIR LOT THE GLORIOUS PRICE TO PAY, OURS TO RECORD WITH GRATEFUL PRIDE THAT FREEDOM LIVES WITH US TODAY BECAUSE THEY DIED. Example: Henry CUNDELL Private, 36540, 6th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales), died of wounds at Le Treport Hospital, France October 18 1917, age 34. He was
5. The Fall Of The Alamo [1]
by Captain R. M. Potter Date of Event: 1836 Written in 1860, Subsequently Revised by Author Captain R.M. Potter lived near the Alamo at the time it fell, and was in a good position to learn many of the details of what happened there. He wrote the first draft of this narrative for the San Antonio Herald in 1860, and later revised it, after communications with Colonel Juan Seguin, USA, who was an officer of the Alamo garrison up to within six days of the assault. Due to great interest in the subject of th
6. The Colony At Roanoke by Ralph Lane, 1586 [1]
The first English Colony of Roanoke, originally consisting of 100 householders, was founded in 1585, 22 years before Jamestown and 37 years before the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts, under the ultimate authority of Sir Walter Raleigh. In 1584 Raleigh had been granted a patent by Queen Elizabeth I to colonize America. This Colony was run by Ralph Lane after Sir Richard Grenville, who had transported the colonists to Virginia, returned to Britain for supplies. These colonists were ill-prepared and not pa
7. PERSIA: 1871 & 1872 Persian Famine Donation Lists (Jewish) [1]
"The Persian Famine donation lists, which were printed in the Hebrew newspaper HaMagid in 1871 and 1872, provide a resource of names of over 40,000 Jews from the Pale of Settlement, including over 5,000 Lithuanian Jewish heads of families." HaMagid Persian Famine Donation Lists www.jewishgen.org/databases/Lithuania/Magid72.htm
8. Castle Garden Website now online [1]
CastleGarden.org offers free access to a database of information on 10 million immigrants from 1830 through 1892, the year Ellis Island opened . The Battery Conservancy at http://www.thebattery.org/ has launched CastleGarden.org at: http://www.castlegarden.org/ and it is up and running. Researchers might also find Castle Garden Ships Passenger Lists 1855-1890 at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/castle-garden.htm helpful. More names of passengers on Ships to New York for other years can be viewe
9. The Kentucky Long Rifle [1]
From a friend on the Candyman Mailing List. Sally 623 974-0195 "I've learned that I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy it." sallypavia2001@yahoo.com ________________________________ The Kentucky (or Pennsylvania) Long Rifle was the most accurate long-range gun for several decades. The first documented appearance of rifling was in Germany around 1460. The flintlock was developed in the early 1600's. By the late 1600's gunsmiths were experimenting with longer barrels than the forerunner Yaeger. But it to
10. ENGLAND: Bedfordshire, Arlesey - Roll of Honour [1]
From the Candyman Mailing List. ARLESEY - Roll of Honour Lest We Forget World War 1 & 2 - Roll of Honour with detailed information Roll of Honour - Bedfordshire - Arlesey http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Bedfordshire/ArleseyRollofHonour.html Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES "All incoming and outgoing email checked by Norton Anti-Virus"
11. ENGLAND: Anglo-Saxon England - Prosopography [1]
From a friend on the Candyman Mailing List. [You'll be able to spend hours on this site. ~~ Sally] "The key aim of the PASE Project is to record information about Anglo-Saxon persons, or persons important in the Anglo-Saxon world, as presented in contemporary source materials." Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England: Home http://www.pase.ac.uk/ Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/G
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