One Bloomington Man Survives 1933 Long Beach Quake
Bryan Carlock of Bloomington Illinois recalls the March 10 1933 Long Beach California quake. He and his sister with her army officer husband fled a collapsing building after clocks stopped at 5 55 PM. A nail in his leg and ongoing tremors followed as they sought shelter and aid arriving at Lennox near Los Angeles.
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Bryan Carlock
Bloomington
Bryan
Long Beach
Calif
Chester Linton
Sis
Chester
Broadway and
Linden
Lintons
City Hall Park
Lennox
Los Angeles
France
Slowest Written Works Acta Sanctorum Noted by Collier’s
Collier’s Weekly highlights the Acta Sanctorum as one of history’s slowest projects. Belgian Jesuits began around 1600 and aim to complete about 35 000 biographies by roughly 1975 despite two interruptions. The piece also recalls Lee and Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley and Civil War actions there.
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Collier's Weekly
Wepe
London Docks and Thames Trade Legacy Across Centuries
A National Geographic summary of London's riverfront commerce describes the Thames as the world’s busiest port system. It details the Port of London Authority’s 1909 creation, giant docks like St. Katharine and Tilbury, vast cargo handling, and famed goods from sugar and rum to tea and ebony.
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National Geographic Society
Washington, D. C
WNU
London
Schelde
Rhine
Elbe
Drake
England
Frobisher
Northwest
Hawkins
Puerto Rico
Vera Cruz
Lancaster
Portugal
British East India Company
Raleigh
Orinoco
Sebastian Cabot
Russia Company
Americas
Australia
New Zealand
China
India
Africa
Bayswater
Thames
Yukon
Patagonia
West India
Port of London Authority
Royal Commission
London Docks
London Mammoth
Stock Exchange
Zoo
Tower
St. Katharine
East and
Millwall
Victoria and Albert
King George V
Tilbury
Surrey
Kingdom
St. Katharine Docks
Isle of Dogs
London, Midland and Scottish Railway
PLA
Butler Street
Havana
United States
Asia
Mincing Lane
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Adventurers’ Club
Floyd Gibbons
Guglielmo Marconi
Radio
Italy
Secretary of Treasury
Henry Morgenthau
Arthur DeSousa Costa
Cordell Hull
Brazil
Gustav
King Gustav of
Sweden
Gothenburg
Senate
Alben Barkley
Kentucky
Joseph T. Robinson
Arkansas
Pat Harrison
Navy
Jean Piccard
Lansing
Iowa
Rochester
Minn
Daniel Gonzales
Port Arthur
Texas
Robert Lee
Estella Alice
Trotters
Goshen
N. Y
Freckles
Mr. Watts
Gunar
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