1942 – The completion of the Alaska Highway (also known as the Alcan Highway) is celebrated (however, the highway is not usable by general vehicles until 1943).
The Alaska Highway (also known as the Alaskan Highway, Alaska-Canadian Highway, or ALCAN Highway) was constructed during World War II for the purpose of connecting the contiguous United States to Alaska across Canada. It begins at the junction with several Canadian highways in Dawson Creek, British Columbia, and runs to Delta Junction, Alaska, via Whitehorse, Yukon. Completed in 1942 at a length of approximately 1,700 miles (2,700 km), as of 2012 it is 1,387 mi (2,232 km) long. The difference in distance is due to constant reconstruction of the highway, which has rerouted and straightened out numerous sections. The highway was opened to the public in 1948.[1] Legendary over many decades for being a rough, challenging drive, the highway is now paved over its entire length.[2] Its component highways are British Columbia Highway 97, Yukon Highway 1 and Alaska Route 2.
An informal system of historic mileposts developed over the years to denote major stopping points; Delta Junction, at the end of the highway, makes reference to its location at “Historic Milepost 1422.”[2] It is at this point that the Alaska Highway meets the Richardson Highway, which continues 96 mi (155 km) to the city of Fairbanks. This is often regarded, though unofficially, as the northern portion of the Alaska Highway, with Fairbanks at Historic Milepost 1520.[2] Mileposts on this stretch of highway are measured from Valdez, rather than the Alaska Highway. The Alaska Highway is popularly (but unofficially) considered part of the Pan-American Highway, which extends south (despite its discontinuity in Panama) to Argentina.[3]
1897 – Mollie Steimer, Russian-American activist (d. 1980)
Mollie (or Molly) Stimer (Russian: Молли Штеймер; November 21, 1897 – July 23, 1980) was born as Marthe Alperine in Tsarist Russia. She immigrated to the United States with her family at the age of 15. She became an anarchist and activist who fought as a trade unionist, an anti-war activist and a free-speech campaigner.
Arrested in 1918 for printing and distributing leaflets denouncing the U.S. military action in Russia opposing the Bolshevik revolution, she was convicted under the Sedition Act and sentenced to 15 years in prison. She was deported to her native Russia in 1921, where she met anarchist Senya Fleshin who would become her lifelong partner. After protesting Bolshevik persecutions of anarchists in Russia, the two were deported to Germany in 1923. When Hitler came to power in Germany they fled to France and eventually made their way to Mexico where they spent the rest of their lives together.
Activism
Standing just 4’9″ (1.42 m), Stimer went to work in the garment factories of New York’s Lower East Side. She soon became involved in trade union activities, and became interested in anarchism. She was influenced by works such as August Bebel’s Women and Socialism, Mikhail Bakunin’s Statehood and Anarchy, Peter Kropotkin’s Memoirs of a Revolutionist and Emma Goldman’s Anarchism and Other Essays. She later became a friend of Emma Goldman’s. Goldman described Steimer as a hardened anarchist militant, completely devoted to armed struggle, with “an iron will” and a “tender heart”.
In 1917, aged 19, Stimer helped form a clandestine collective called Der Shturm (“The Storm”) with other Jewish anarchists. Several of the members, including Stimer, shared a six-room apartment at 5 East 104th Street in Harlem where they held meetings. After reconciling their internal conflicts they renamed themselves Frayhayt (“Freedom”). With the aid of a hand-operated printing press, they published a journal of the same name out of the 104th St. apartment.
Frayhayt was distributed in secret, because it had been outlawed by the federal government for its opposition to the American war effort. The masthead read “The only just war is social revolution.” The motto was a Henry David Thoreau quote: “That government is best which governs not at all” (in Yiddish: “Yene regirung iz di beste, velke regirt in gantsn nit”). Copies of the paper were tightly folded and stuffed into mailboxes around the city after dark. Between January 1918 and May 1918 the group published five issues with cartoons by Robert Minor and articles by Maria Goldsmith and Georg Brandes among others.
Federal authorities were aware of the group and their publication but were unable to discover who the members were and track them down.[citation needed]
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ISIIVE stands for:
Insight
//Understanding the problem at hand
Saturation
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Incubation
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Verification
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