The “Peggy Stewart Tea Party” took place in a colony in Maryland.
The burning of the tea ship Peggy Stewart was inspired by the Boston Tea Party of December 16, 1773.
Like its more famous counterpart, this act of destruction was committed to protest British duties on tea and the monopoly of the British East India Company.
It has appeared on most American coins since about 1864. During the Civil War, rising popular religious sentiment prompted Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase to put the country’s faith where its money was. Other slogans suggested were God Our Trust and God and Our Country. The motto is not required by law.
Born in upstate New York, Matthew Brady (c. 1823-96) worked in New York City as a clerk in the A. T. Stewart department store and as a manufacturer of jewelry cases. He opened his first daguerreotype portrait studio at the corner of Broadway and Fulton Street in 1844. He later became famous for the pictures…
The Elizabethan Age ran for the 45 years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England, from 1558 to 1603.
The Allied leaders who forced Germany to accept the Versailles Treaty of 1919 at the end of World War I were: Woodrow Wilson (U.S.) Georges Clemenceau (France) David Lloyd George (Great Britain) Vittorio Orlando (Italy)
Mary Quant, co-owner (with her husband Alexander Plunket Greene) of the boutique Bazaar in Chelsea, London, is credited with inventing the miniskirt. Quant, “the mother of the miniskirt,” premiered the new fashion item at Bazaar in 1965.
The company IBM, now known as International Business Machines was originally founded as the Computing Tabulating Recording Company in 1911.