January 15, 2025
Tag: Lake Okeechobee
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The Worst Hurricane You Never Heard Of
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The South Florida Hurricane happened in September 1928. Calvin Coolidge was the occupant of the Oval Office. The weather bureau had been working at forecasting dangerous storms for more than fifty years, but their most useful tools were that of educated observation and data comparison to the statistics of past events. “Accurate” was hardly part…
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August 3, 2023 8 Comments
Hy Mariampolski honors the passing of a friend with this article illustrated with cards she collected. The Russian restaurants and tea-rooms of Manhattan helped eastern European immigrants of the 1900s through the 1920s feel at home without the political machinations of Old World tyrants, thugs, and miscreants.