1912

According to Dictionary.com, the Gilded Age is defined as “the period in U.S. c1870-98, characterized by a greatly expanded economy and the emergence of plutocratic influences in government and society.” During this “Gilded Age” political machines used both legal and illegal methods to influence government politics. They would stuff ballot boxes with votes and even pay voters to vote for certain candidates. Reformers called “Progressives” worked to solve problems caused by rapid industrial and…

Diabetes insipidus (DI) is an uncommon disease that has the characteristic feature that an individual’s kidneys are passing an irregular volume of dilute urine that is insipid (without flavor). In 1794, Johann Peter Frank described the abnormal production of urine that was neither sweet nor linked to kidney disease (J.P. Frank et al., 1842). The discovery by Frank clarified the difference between diabetes insipidus and diabetes mellitus (high levels of sugar in the blood and urine), which at…

Strite invented the pop-up toaster. In 1912, Clarence Crane invented the Lifesaver candy. He invented it because he wanted a candy that wouldn’t melt in the warm temperatures. In 1913, Gideon Sundback and Whitecomb Judson invented the zipper. They were inspired by a man named Elias Howe…

The ineffectiveness and impotence of Madero to rule Mexico was highlighted. Later, a covenant made in 1912 in Chihuahua stated that all the latifundistas will be compensated and the lands will return to their previous owners. The real intention was to obtain the support of landlords and powerful families. During 1911 and 1912, Zapata faces with Madero’s army; Felix Diaz organized a revolt but it failed and was sent to prison. Madero seeking to stop the armed rebellions…

After few years ago, the African National Congress (ANC) starts the Defiance Campaign. The African National Congress is one of the anti-apartheid organizations that formed in 1912 in the way of improving the living conditions of the black majority in South Africa. The African National Congress’s main goal is to establish black people as full citizens of South Africa which means can share the same rights and fair condition to them among white people. Volunteers begin a peaceful resistance to…

Instead, tourists ride along for what amounts to a $20 history lesson” (qtd. in “In Charleston, S.C., Resistance to Cruise Ships”). Well duh, this is not 1912. One you get past all of the nonsense, only one good logical point remains, that out of the “4.5 million people a year [who] visit Charleston. Only 175,000 of them arrive or sail on a cruise ship” (qtd. in “In Charleston, S.C., Resistance to Cruise…

Emile Durkheim was an influential figure in the French school of Sociology. In his piece “The Elementary Forms of Religious life” (1912), Durkheim examines religion not exclusively as pertaining to church, but instead as an important societal function (Appelrouth and Edles 2016). “He sought to explain why the moral realm focused so much on religion” (Appelrouth and Edles 2016). In his book, Emile Durkheim uses concepts such as social facts, the moral code, symbols, and the distinction between…

During the first few decades of the twentieth century there was an upsurge in African American mobility in the United States. Scholars refer to this demographic shift as the “Great Migration” of African Americans, in which African Americans moved out of southern states to northern cities, and to a lesser extent to the west coast, between 1910 and 1970. According to studies on the Great Migration, the mass exodus of blacks from the South was propelled by Jim Crow policies that exacerbated the…

China's royal court and spread through the lower classes rampantly by the 12th century. By the rise of the Qing Dynasty, all young women were expected to have their feet bound if they wished to marry. The strange practice was eventually outlawed in 1912, but by then over 3 billion young Chinese girls had irreversibly deformed their feet (McManus). The practice itself began around the 10th century in the Five Dynasties and Ten States Period (Schiavenza). Many stories exist over where foot…

The origins of the First World War have become a recurring topic amongst modern historians; it is both a fascinating and complex debate. The central question discussed is the issue of which European nation is to blame for the origins of world war one. It is seemingly a difficult question to answer without merely blaming one nation over the other for causing this major European crisis in August of 1914.However, most historians appear to point their fingers at Germany due to its desire to…