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Wednesday, March 23, 2005

 
i sort of started to peruse the clara barton history of the red cross. i skipped the beginnings and went straight to the disasters listed. texas famine? boring. florida yellow fever breakout? boring. OOH! here's a disaster i know about, the johnstown flood. now there's a disaster.
and like the WTC disaster, the country pulled to help and sheboygan, wi sent furniture and enameled ironware! of course i have only just begun.
dammit. i still have that new issue of the washington monthly to read!

oh, and i forgot about one entry in my EB. i believe his name was abel. he was a young matmatician genius and he died in his 20's. for him to be remembered,(ok, he had been pretty recent back nin 1891), he must have been very good.

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That would have been the flood of 1889. When I left PA in '92, the price of liquor still included an 18% emergency tax to help pay for the recovery from the 1936 Johnstown flood.

dale
 
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