The Okie Legacy: Refactoring OkieLegacy Journal Duchess Spring Domain Apollo 13 To Moon Thirteen Colonies Victorian Era (1837-1901) Plymouth Rock (1620) Double O Grocery Townsend Act (1765) The Real sons of Liberty & Boston Tea Party 1773 Boston Tea Party Ship & Museum Eye Witness To History (1773) 1875 - Baseball Glove Come To Baseball College Football - 1884 United States Declares War On Spain (1898) Theodore Rooseelt (1912) My Thoughts

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Volume 12 , Issue 16

2010

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Duchess Spring Domain

Spring, afternoon rains began late Friday afternoon and through the evening here in southwest Colorado and is continuing today as we labor to get this week's OkieLegacy ezine published. forgot to put out my rain gauge, though. My humans have been busy packing for a move at the end of April 2010.

Goldbug & Alva Murals

Steve N. sent us this link for the Alva Mural Society's webpage. It is really getting quite a collection of outstanding murals in Alva, Oklahoma today. Want to see something nice? Go to alvamurals.org to see Class of '60 gift to the high school in 2000.

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Apollo 13 To Moon

What were you doing 40 years ago, April 11, 1970, 13:13 CST? Where did you watch the Apollo 13 To the Moon when a near disaster struck and had a miraculous landing four days later?

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Refactoring OkieLegacy Journal

Your eZine and tabloid journal by Okie gets a facelift.

The upgrades are a bit subtle and some may never notice. Let me direct your attention to the following tools:

  1. Shout Out to a Friend
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Thirteen Colonies

The British empire settled its first permanent colony in the Americas at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607. This was the but the first of 13 colonies in North America. The 13 colonies can be divided into three regions: New England (New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island), Middle (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware), and Southern (Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia) Colonies.

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Victorian Era (1837-1901)

Wikipedia says, "Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria German: Alexandrina Viktoria; 24 May 1819 � 22 January 1901) was the Queen regnant of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837, and the first Empress of India of the British Raj from 1 May 1876, until her death.

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Plymouth Rock (1620)

Wikipedia states, "Plymouth Rock is the traditional site of disembarkation of William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony in 1620. It is an important symbol in American history."

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Double O Grocery

The following comment was response to the following "DoubleO Sims Grocery, Vol. 7, Iss. 45, OkieLegacy ezine and "Remember When."

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Townsend Act (1765)

The Townsend Acts passed by Parliament in 1767 and imposing duties on various products imported into the British colonies had raised such a storm of colonial protest and noncompliance that they were repealed in 1770, saving the duty on tea, which was retained by Parliament to demonstrate (June 15-July 2, 1767), in U [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe


The Real sons of Liberty & Boston Tea Party 1773

In 1771, a group of colonists dressed, disguised as Mohican Indians, protested thirteen years of increasing British oppression, by attacking merchant ships in Boston Harbor. In retaliation, the British close the port, and inflict even harsher penalties. The History Channel - Sons of Liberty & Boston Tea Party

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Boston Tea Party Ship & Museum

It was on May 10, 1773, the British parliament authorized the East India Company, which faced bankruptcy due to corruption and mismanagement, to export a half a million pounds of tea to the American colonies for the purpose of selling it without imposing upon the company the usual duties and tariffs.

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Eye Witness To History (1773)

According to www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/ -- The colonies refused to pay the levies required by the Townsend Acts claiming they had no obligation to pay taxes imposed by a Parliament in which they had no representation.

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1875 - Baseball Glove Come To Baseball

Did you know that baseball developed before the Civil War, but did not achieve professional status until the 1870s?

As for the very first professional team in 1869, that would be the Cincinnati Red Stockings, but their life as some say, "Their life was brief and the team went bankrupt within a year of its founding."

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College Football - 1884

Unlike baseball, football started after the Civil War when students at a few eastern colleges combined elements form rugby and soccer to make a new game they called football.

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United States Declares War On Spain (1898)

It was 1898 that America had a short war with Spain and was the nation's first step on the parkway to becoming a world power.

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Theodore Rooseelt (1912)

Did you ever hear the saying where Theodore Roosevelt was concerned, "He was fit as a bull moose?"

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My Thoughts

If you could use a time machine to go back in time and witness ANY historical event (without being able to change the future), what would it be and why?

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