DAVENPORT, IA – Following his earlier guilty plea on February 25, 2011, Terrence Deshawn Dunn, age 36, formerly of Lincoln, Nebraska, was sentenced on May 24, 2011, to 60 months of imprisonment for one count of threats against the President, and 96 months of imprisonment for one count of making a threat to unlawfully damage […]
Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Leonard Boswell will urge his colleagues to vote for his amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act which would commission a study on the incidence of breast cancer in members of the Armed Forces and veterans, and analyze contributing factors. The amendment will be considered by the House this afternoon. […]
Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Leonard Boswell submitted an amendment to the House Rules Committee for the National Defense Authorization Act that would commission a study on the incidence of breast cancer in members of the Armed Forces and veterans, and analyze contributing factors. The Rules Committee will consider the amendment tonight. “There is significant […]
Death of Martha Washington “I am fond of only what comes from the heart.” -Martha Washington On May 22, 1802, the first of first ladies, Martha Dandridge Custis Washington died of a severe fever. When she married George Washington in January 1759, she was twenty-seven years old and a widowed mother of two. She was […]
Reverdy Johnson On May 21, 1796, attorney and statesman Reverdy Johnson was born in Annapolis, Maryland. Johnson represented Maryland, a slaveholding state south of the Mason-Dixon line, as a Whig, in the U.S. Senate from 1845-49 and again following the Civil War as a Democrat from 1863-68. Under President Zachary Taylor, he served as attorney […]
Oz As Allegory Is the Wonderful Wizard of Oz a political allegory of the turbulent 1890s? In a 1964 American Quarterly article, Henry M. Littlefield suggested this wonderful American fairy tale spoke to the political and economic climate that produced the Populist movement. “Wizard of Oz: Parable On Populism” noted Baum’s years as a journalist […]
The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office announced today that the remains of a serviceman, missing in action from the Korean War, have been identified and are being returned to his family for burial with full military honors. Army Cpl. Primo C. Carnabuci of Old Saybrook, Conn., will be buried May 12 in his hometown. […]
Jamestown On May 14, 1607, English settlers arriving under the authority of the Virginia Company of London chartered by King James I established the first permanent British settlement in North America at a place they named Jamestown, Virginia.”We landed all our men,” George Percy wrote in his account of the event, “which were set to […]
Coca-Cola Dr. John S. Pemberton, a pharmacist and inventor of patent medicines, sold the first Coca-Cola on May 8, 1886, at Jacob’s Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia. Pemberton’s bookkeeper, Frank Robinson, coined the name and it is his handwriting we recognize as the Coca-Cola trademark. Originally marketed as a tonic, the drink contained extracts of coca […]
Lusitania Lost! On May 7, 1915, the German U-20 (submarine) sank the British ocean liner Lusitania. Approximately 1,200 civilians died; more than 100 were U.S. citizens. In reply to President Woodrow Wilson’s protest, Germany justified the attack on grounds that the British government intended to arm merchant ships. Prior to the Lusitania’s departure, the German […]
