FYI September 10, 2018

On This Day

 
 
1897 – Lattimer massacre: A sheriff’s posse kills 19 unarmed striking immigrant miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania, United States.
The Lattimer massacre was the violent deaths of at least 19 unarmed striking immigrant anthracite coal miners at the Lattimer mine near Hazleton, Pennsylvania, on September 10, 1897.[1][2] The miners, mostly of Polish, Slovak, Lithuanian and German ethnicity, were shot and killed by a Luzerne County sheriff’s posse. Scores more workers were wounded.[3] The massacre was a turning point in the history of the United Mine Workers (UMW).[4]

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Born On This Day

 
 
1839 – Isaac K. Funk, American minister and publisher, co-founded Funk & Wagnalls (d. 1912)
Isaac Kaufmann Funk (September 10, 1839 – April 4, 1912) was an American Lutheran minister, editor, lexicographer, publisher, and spelling reformer.[1] He was the co-founder of Funk & Wagnalls Company, the father of author Wilfred J. Funk (who founded his own publishing company “Wilfred Funk, Inc.”, and wrote the “Word Power” feature in Reader’s Digest from 1945 to 1962), and the grandfather of author Peter Funk, who continued his father’s authorship of “Word Power” until 2003.[2] Funk & Wagnalls Company published The Literary Digest, The Standard Dictionary of the English Language, and Funk & Wagnalls Standard Encyclopedia.

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1852 – Alice Brown Davis, American tribal chief (d. 1935)
Alice Brown Davis (September 10, 1852 – June 21, 1935) was the first female Principal Chief of the Seminole Tribe of Oklahoma, and served from 1922–1935, appointed by President Warren G. Harding.[1] She was of Seminole (Tiger Clan) and Scots descent. Her older brother John Frippo Brown had served as chief of the tribe and their brother Andrew Jackson Brown as treasurer.

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FYI

 
 
By Chris Eger: Sitka, KUIU founder Jason Hairston dead at 47
Jason Hairston, CEO of Dixon-based KUIU, started the company in 2010 as a result of a life-long passion for hunting after playing professional football with the San Francisco 49ers and Denver Broncos. The company announced this week that he took his own life after years of struggling with Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease often found in those with repetitive brain trauma.
 
 
 
 
By Ben Halder: Lonely? Say It in Chinese This four-character idiom is poetic, precise and expresses a universal feeling.
 
 
 
 
By Alex McLevy: An obscure but enduring science fiction author finally gets his due
 
 
 
 
Chuck Wendig Terrible Minds: Macro Monday Has A Very Cool Thing To Show You
 
 
 
 
By Nick Firchau: How to Be a Good Dad Even if You Never Had One
 
 
 
 
By Chris Eger: The guns of late, great Burt Reynolds (PHOTOS)
 
 
 
 
By Chris Eger: Chasing away the riff raff via rock salt
 
 

 
 
 
 
By Don Summers: Exploring how to arm Texas teachers, schools (VIDEO)
 
 

 
 
Delancey Place: Today’s selection — from The Presidency of Richard Nixon by Melvin Small. The controversial ending of the Vietnam War:
 
 
 
 
Atlas Obscura: How one Pan Am fan recreated the golden age of air travel, Kellogg’s ‘Travel Log’ Charles Kellogg, the vaudeville entertainer who could mimic birds, turned a California redwood into a mobile van and more ->
 
 
 
 
Life of a Conficted Teacher: Friday Thoughts: Don’t Tell Me What You Can’t Do……
 
 

 
 
 
 
By MessyNessy: 13 Things I Found on the Internet Today (Vol. CCCXIV): Where Rivers Join, A 4000-Year-Old Desert Cemetery in China and more ->
 
 
 
 
By Savannah Tanbusch: Blog Profiles: Zoo Blogs
 
 
 
 
By Heather Chapman: OxyContin makers own a second opioid company, and have patented an antidote for withdrawal symptoms
 
 
By Heather Chapman: Judge rules that West Virginia county can’t block gas pipeline compressor station with local zoning laws
 
 
By Heather Chapman: Unstable river bank could collapse, putting more than 600 million gallons of toxic coal ash into Wabash tributary
 
 
 
 
By Ayun Halliday: The New York Public Library Lets Patrons Check Out Ties, Briefcases & Handbags for Job Interviews
 
 
 
 
By John Baldoni: How to find gold in losing
 
 

 
 
 
 

Ideas

 
 

Celebrate & Decorate (Chloe Crabtree) Hometalker Kissimmee, FL: Make a Man-Eating Plant for Halloween!
 
 
 
 
By Hometalk Highlights: The 15 Coolest Ways to Reuse Pipes in Your Home Decor We know they’re useful for plumping, but did you know they also make great decor?
 
 


 
 

 
 

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