History with Descriptions - A through Z

[JKendallDane]

Mound Cemetery

Mound Cemetery in Marietta, Ohio is a historic cemetery developed around the base of a prehistoric Adena burial mound known as the Great Mound or Conus. The city founders preserved the Great Mound from destruction by establishing the city cemetery around it in 1801. The cemetery has the highest number of graves of American Revolutionary War officers in the country.

http://www.moretimetotravel.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Mound-CemeteryDaisy-Starks-headstone-Como-Cemetery-Como-photo-Steve-Collins.jpg

The conical Great Mound at the center is part of an Ohio Hopewell culture mound complex known as the Marietta Earthworks. Archaeologists estimate that it was built between 100 BC and 500 AD

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[Hard_Rom]

Ninsun

In Sumerian mythology, Ninsun or Ninsuna ("lady wild cow") is a goddess, best known as the mother of the legendary hero Gilgamesh, and as the tutelary goddess of Gudea of Lagash. Her parents are the deities Anu and Uras.

In the Epic of Gilgamesh, Ninsun is depicted as a human queen who lives in Uruk with her son as king. Since the father of Gilgamesh was former king Lugalbanda, it stands to reason that Ninsun procreated with Lugalbanda to give birth.

 

[MatthewVett]

O for Ordinances of Secession. These are the documents that some of the southern states produced in order to justify their secession during the civil war. They make no attempt to hide that slavery is their driving factor. Mississippi's even states "Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world." As for states' rights, they complain that the northern states don't return their escaped slaves. Interesting reading.

http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/primarysources/declarationofcauses.html

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Pontiac's War(started 1763) Pontiac united the Indian Nations of the Eastern Woodlands into a loose confederation to drive out the English. He led the assault and unsuccessful siege of Fort Detroit. Eight other forts were taken and held by the confederation, but lacking expected help from France, as well as the participation of Nations west of the Mississippi, the war came to an end.

 

[JKendallDane]

The Dionne Quintuplets

The Dionne Quintuplets are the first quintuplets known to have survived their infancy. The identical sisters were born in Canada, just outside Callander, Ontario, near the village of Corbeil.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Dionne_quintuplets1937.3.jpg

They were born two months premature on May 28,1934 and all five survived to adulthood. Two are still currently living.

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[EmpressJosephine]

The Dionne Quintuplets

Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783)

Also known as the American War of Independence, it was the armed conflict between Great Britain and thirteen of its North American colonies that led to the eventual emergence of the United States of America.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Davy Crockett

Born on a mountaintop in Tennessee (Greenest state in the land of the free.)
Raised in the woods, so he knew every tree.
Killed him a ba'ar when he was only three.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

S--Shiloh

The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee. A Union army under Major General Ulysses S. Grant had moved via the Tennessee River deep into Tennessee and was encamped principally at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee on the west bank of the river, where Confederate forces under Generals Albert Sidney Johnston and Pierre G. T. Beauregard launched a surprise attack on Grant's army. Johnston was killed in action during the fighting; Beauregard, who thus succeeded to command of the army, decided against pressing the attack late in the evening. Overnight Grant was reinforced by one of his own divisions stationed further north and was joined by three divisions from another Union army under Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell. This allowed them to launch an unexpected counterattack the next morning which completely reversed the Confederate gains of the previous day.

The two-day battle of Shiloh, the costliest in American history up to that time, resulted in the defeat of the Confederate army and frustration of Johnston's plans to prevent the two Union armies in Tennessee from joining together. Union casualties were 13,047 (1,754 killed, 8,408 wounded, and 2,885 missing); Confederate casualties were 10,699 (1,728 killed, 8,012 wounded, and 959 missing or captured).[108] The dead included the Confederate army's commander, Albert Sidney Johnston; the highest ranking Union general killed was W. H. L. Wallace.

Both sides were shocked at the carnage

 

[Hard_Rom]

Tecumseh

Tecumseh (March 1768 – October 5, 1813) was a Native American leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacy (known as Tecumseh's Confederacy) which opposed the United States during Tecumseh's War and became an ally of Britain in the War of 1812.

Tecumseh grew up in the Ohio Country during the American Revolutionary War and the Northwest Indian War, where he was constantly exposed to warfare. With Americans continuing to move west after the British ceded the Ohio Valley to the new United States in 1783, the Shawnee moved farther northwest. In 1808, they settled Prophetstown in present-day Indiana. With a vision of establishing an independent Native American nation east of the Mississippi under British protection, Tecumseh worked to recruit additional tribes to the confederacy from the southern United States.

During the War of 1812, Tecumseh's confederacy allied with the British and helped in the capture of Fort Detroit. Prior to the raid, Chief Tecumseh delivered a powerful speech upon a rock that is preserved to this day at Fort Malden. After the U.S. Navy took control of Lake Erie in 1813, the Native Americans and British retreated. American forces caught them at the Battle of the Thames, and killed Tecumseh in October 1813. With his death, his confederation disintegrated, and the Native Americans had to move west again, yet Tecumseh became an iconic folk hero in American, Aboriginal and Canadian history.

 

[PrincepsCyberius]

Tecumseh

Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States. As Commanding General of the United States Army, Grant worked closely with President Abraham Lincoln to lead the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War.

On a personal note, I would recommend to anyone interested in American history to read his memoirs. They give you a lot of insight into Grant and his contemporaries.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Apparently we like U.S. Grant on this thread

Still can't figure out how to add color and pics: I don't see ANY row of icons for bold or anything!!! What am I missing??

Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States. As Commanding General of the United States Army, Grant worked closely with President Abraham Lincoln to lead the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War.

On a personal note, I would recommend to anyone interested in American history to read his memoirs. They give you a lot of insight into Grant and his contemporaries.

 

[JKendallDane]

Apparently we like U.S. Grant on this thread

Still can't figure out how to add color and pics: I don't see ANY row of icons for bold or anything!!! What am I missing??

They are in the bottom row of the two at the top of the message reply box that appears when you use the quote function or the "advanced" option.

B= Bold, I= Italics, U= Underline, etc. Skip past the next ten and that little post-card-looking thing is for inserting photos.

If you just use the quick reply, it's the same icon at the top of that message box.

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[JKendallDane]

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Considered one of America’s richest men in the second half of the 19th century. He started in business when he was 16 years old — he borrowed money, bought a boat and started as a ferryman between Staten Island and New York City. He went on to make his fortune in the steamship business — earning the nickname “Commodore” — and got rich off opportunities such as the War of 1812, the California Gold Rush of 1849 and the Crimean War (1853-56). When he was nearly 70 years old he sold his ships and got into the railroad financing business. A self-made multimillionaire, he was known for his crude manners and cutthroat approach to business.

Unlike the next generation of American industrialists — John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie — Vanderbilt was not known for philanthropy, although he did give the money to found Nashville’s Vanderbilt University.

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[Carnal_Flower]

Success!! I was losing my mind with this. I click on the Reply and there is nothing but an option for "Icons" to add. I had to go flick through my User CP. Found a drop down list for "Standard Reply Text Box" vs. "Advanced". Lol. Thank you JKD

 

[MatthewVett]

W for Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island. He wrote the first English-Native American dictionary. He was banished from Massachusetts for his objections to the church’s attempts to interfere in the secular lives of the colonists and force them to conform to a single religion. He believed that the church should only concern itself with those things that dealt with God, while the state should deal with affairs between human beings. Roger Williams promoted a free and open society in Providence, Rhode Island. He did not attempt to silence his enemies, but let them speak freely, believing that sincere disagreement was better than hypocritical conformity.

Roger Williams, at the age of 70, rowed himself from Providence to Newport, a distance of about 30 miles. He did so in order to hold a religious debate with George Fox, leader of the Quakers in Newport. The debate took place, but Fox was not present. Williams claimed that God helped his old bones row the distance.

Roger Williams’s tolerance of other religious brought hordes of travelers to the colony, hoping for religious freedom. The first Baptist church in America was founded by Roger Williams in 1638. The oldest synagogue in the Western Hemisphere is in Newport, Rhode Island. Quakers arrived in Newport in 1657, and Huguenots, French Calvinists, settled in Rhode Island in 1686. Antinomians founded Portsmouth in 1638, led by Anne Hutchinson. In no other colony was such a diversity of religious opinion tolerated.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Xanadu

The lament of Toghon Temur Khan (the "Ukhaant Khan" or "Sage Khan"), concerning the loss of Daidu (Beijing) and Heibun Shanduu (Kaiping Xanadu) in 1368, is recorded in many Mongolian historical chronicles. The Altan Tobchi version is translated as follows:


"My Daidu, straight and wonderfully made of various jewels of different kinds
My Yellow Steppe of Xanadu, the summer residence of ancient Khans.
My cool and pleasant Kaiping Xanadu
My dear Daidu that I've lost on the year of the bald red rabbit
Your pleasant mist when on early mornings I ascended to the heights!
Lagan and Ibagu made it known to me, the Sage Khan.
In full knowledge I let go of dear Daidu
Nobles born foolish cared not for their state
I was left alone weeping
I became like a calf left behind on its native pastures
My eight-sided white stupa made of various precious objects
My City of Daidu made of the nine jewels
Where I sat holding the reputation of the Great Nation
My great square City of Daidu with four gates
Where I sat holding the reputation of the Forty Tumen Mongols
My dear City of Daidu, the iron stair has been broken.
My reputation!
My precious Daidu, from where I surveyed and observed
The Mongols of every place.
My city with no winter residence to spend the winter
My summer residence of Kaiping Xanadu
My pleasant Yellow Steppe
My deadly mistake of not heeding the words of Lagan and Ibagu!
The Cane Palace had been established in sanctity
Kublai the Wise Khan spent his summers there!
I have lost Kaiping Xanadu entirely – to China.
An impure bad name has come upon the Sage Khan.
They besieged and took precious Daidu
I have lost the whole of it – to China.
A conflicting bad name has come upon the Sage Khan.
Jewel Daidu was built with many an adornment
In Kaiping Xanadu, I spent the summers in peaceful relaxation
By a hapless error they have been lost – to China.
A circling bad name has come upon the Sage Khan.
The awe-inspiring reputation carried by the Lord Khan
The dear Daidu built by the extraordinary Wise Khan (Kublai)
The bejeweled Hearth City, the revered sanctuary of the entire nation
Dear Daidu
I have lost it all – to China.
The Sage Khan, the reincarnation of all bodhisattvas,
By the destiny willed by Khan Tengri (King Heaven) has lost dear Daidu,
Lost the Golden Palace of the Wise Khan (Kublai), who is the reincarnation of all the gods,
Who is the golden seed of Genghis Khan the son of Khan Tengri (King Heaven).
I hid the Jade Seal of the Lord Khan in my sleeve and left (the city)
Fighting through a multitude of enemies, I broke through and left.
From the fighters may Buqa-Temur Chinsan for ten thousand generations
Become a Khan in the golden line of the Lord Khan.
Caught unaware I have lost dear Daidu.
When I left home, it was then that the jewel of religion and doctrine was left behind.
In the future may wise and enlightened bodhisattvas take heed and understand.
May it go around and establish itself
On the Golden Lineage of Genghis Khan."

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Madame X

Painting by John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent (/ˈsɑːrdʒənt/; January 12, 1856 – April 14, 1925) was an American artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian era luxury. During his career, he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings.

It is his most famous painting today, but it was a flop when it was first shown in Paris in 1884.

https://www.google.com/search?q=mad...hVF54MKHWOfBskQ_AUICCgB#imgrc=gTXJaWs4hBWmcM:

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ23LZ78yM9iqU3feQ_gFF5eGqPUR1GAnl0FTvLBNZ055HQ6Tq8

 

[Hard_Rom]

Go one click further to view image.

http://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ap/web-large/DT91.jpg

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Thanks

Go one click further to view image.

http://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ap/web-large/DT91.jpg

 

[Handley_Page]

Rembrandt van Rijn: It's known as "the Night Watch", but it's original title was "the militia of Cpt. Franz Banning Coch".
With considerable care, this huge painting (in the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum) was taken down for cleaning & restoration. The painting was discovered to have been cut up and reduced in size. The later pictures of this masterpiece show colour hitherto undreamt.

 

[JKendallDane]

The famous Y Bridge is a historic Y-shaped three-way bridge that spans the confluence of the Licking and Muskingum Rivers in downtown Zanesville, Ohio. It carries the traffic of U.S. Route 40 (Main Street and West Main Street), as well as Linden Avenue.

http://www.muskingumcounty.org/images/ybridge2.jpg

The first Zanesville Y-Bridge was constructed in 1814. Several iterations (some of them wooden covered bridges) were washed away by serious floods before the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers constructed a series of dams and locks that now regulate the flow of the two rivers.

When being given directions, visitors are often surprised by the statement "Drive to the MIDDLE of the bridge and turn left or right."

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[Carnal_Flower]

Z

The Lost City of Z is the name given by Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett, a British surveyor, to a city that he thought existed in the jungle of the Mato Grosso region of Brazil. Another mysterious city is referenced in a document known as Manuscript 512, housed at the National Library of Rio de Janeiro, believed to be by Portuguese bandeirante João da Silva Guimarães (pt) who wrote that he'd visited the city in 1753. The city is described in great detail without providing a specific location. Fawcett allegedly heard about this city in the early 1900s and went to Rio de Janeiro to learn more, and came across the earlier report. He was about to go in search of the city when World War I intervened. In 1925, Fawcett, his son Jack, and Raleigh Rimell disappeared in the Mato Grosso while searching for Z with the final destination the 1753 city in the province of Bahia.

Although the search for the lost city of Z was made in the Mato Grosso, the secondary goal was the 1753 city in Bahia province Manuscript 512 was written after explorations made in the sertão of the province of Bahia, see Fawcett's own book "Exploration Fawcett".

David Grann's New Yorker article "The Lost City of Z" (2005) was expanded into a book The Lost City of Z (2009). A film based on the book is set to be released in 2016.

 

[JKendallDane]

Ansel Adams

Adams was a prolific American photographer and environmentalist. In 1916, just barely into his teens, his father gave him his first camera on a visit to Yosemite National Park and so began a lifelong career. His stunning black-and-white landscape photographs of the American West have been widely reproduced on calendars, posters, and books.

http://www.beckyaiken.net/reclaiming/images/lg/Ansel001_lg.jpg

His original photographs and glass negatives are highly collectible and have reached values as high as $700,000 at public auction.

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[Carnal_Flower]

Bachelor's Grove Cemetery, Chicago

Considered one of the most haunted places in the U.S.

The cemetery is well known as a place where unusual sights and sounds are experienced. More than 100 tales of glowing balls of light, apparitions, and unexplained noises have been reported.

One of the strangest and mysterious sightings is that of a “phantom white farmhouse that appears and disappears along the gravel trail leading to the cemetery. Many people have seen this old farmhouse in several different places along the trail and it has been seen during the day and also at night”. Also seen, is a monk dressed in a long robe, a man with a yellowish glow, and a ghost known as the “White Lady”. Many believe she is the ghost of a young woman that is buried close to her infant son. These ghosts have been photographed by several different people.

Strange noises, such as horses, crackling sounds, growls, creaking metal gates, and human voices are reported frequently at Bachelor’s Grove. Mysterious lights, very strange mists and dramatic shifts in temperature have also been reported.

Legend has it that the gravestones in Bachelor’s Grove “move on their own”. The cemetery has been frequently desecrated and some of the gravestones have been stolen. What it is not certain is how the robbers were able to remove the grave markers and what is just as uncertain is how the markers manage to get back to the graveyard, but they somehow do.

http://www.angelsghosts.com/uploads/bachelors-grove-infrared-photo-122013e-xl.jpg

http://www.bachelors-grove.com/

 

[Hard_Rom]

Chrysler Farm

The Battle of Crysler's Farm, also known as the Battle of Crysler's Field, was fought on 11 November 1813, during the Anglo-American War of 1812 (the name Chrysler's Farm is sometimes used for the engagement, but Crysler is the proper spelling). A British and Canadian force won a victory over a US force which greatly outnumbered them. 900 British and Canadian troops against 2500-4000 US. The US defeat prompted them to abandon the St. Lawrence Campaign, their major strategic effort in the autumn of 1813.

The battle site was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1920. The area of Crysler's Farm was permanently submerged in 1958 as a result of the construction of the Moses-Saunders Power Dam for the St. Lawrence Seaway. A monument (erected in 1895) commemorating the battle was moved from Crysler's Farm to Upper Canada Village in Morrisburg.