HeyJaredA Stitch in Time--Random Often Historical Musings
You never know what I might share with you. Some history, probably. Thoughts about life, also possible. A photograph, an idea... something that just caught my fancy.
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An Unlikely Hero (opens the original)
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Her name was Annie Kopchopsky.At age twenty-three, she was the mother of three children, all under the age of five. She was 5 feet 3 inches tall and weighed about 100 pounds.And she had never ridden a bicycle.Yet in June 1894, Annie set out from Boston with the intention of bicycling around the world in fifteen months.History remembers her as Annie Londonderry. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!b2Fo!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep
Kilroy was Here (opens the original)
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My first teaching job was in a school for girls that went from kindergarten through grade twelve. I taught seventh and eighth graders.Seventh grade was a time when many new students were added to a group of girls who had been together since they first started school. As the history teacher, I started the year with a simple roster of names of those in my classes.One year, the list included a girl whose given name was Elizabeth. Elizabeth could have been Liz, Lizzie, Eliza, Beth—or simply Elizabet
A Beer Tsunami (opens the original)
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Imagine a 15-foot wall of beer smashing through homes and filling the streets.It sounds like the plot of a particularly strange dream—or perhaps the result of someone having one pint too many.But on October 17, 1814, the people living in one of the poorest sections of London didn’t have to imagine it.They lived it. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jIGx!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws
The Year without a Summer (opens the original)
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Has the weather seemed a little strange this summer?One day it’s brutally hot. The next, we’re watching storms roll through, checking the forecast and wondering what happened to the weather we thought we could count on.At least we have a forecast.Imagine living through a summer when the weather became so strange that crops died, snow fell in June, and nobody had the slightest idea why.That happened in 1816—the Year Without a Summer.Europe entered 1816 with Napoleon defeated and exiled to the rem
Getting to the Feet of the Matter (opens the original)
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Fashionistas strolling down Fifth Avenue in expensive high-heeled shoes may have no idea that they are paying homage to one of the more fashion-conscious kings in history.<img alt="Are Louboutins Appropriate For the Office?" class="sizing-normal" height="204" src="https://substackcd
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