The 1921 site houses the Cyclorama of the Battle of Atlanta, a depiction of the Civil War battle for control of the Georgia railroad on July 22, 1864.
The 1885-86 artwork blends an enormous circular painting with a three-dimensional model of the action.
The painting is 358 feet in circumference and 42 feet tall. It is visited by about 300,000 people each year.
According to scholars, the Trojan War took place during the thirteenth century B.C. The Iliad, Homer’s epic account of the war, is thought to have been written in the ninth century B.C.
Franklin Roosevelt first used it in his acceptance speech for the presidential nomination at the 1932 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
New York City was named the capital of America in 1788 and remained so until 1800, when Washington, D.C. was so named.
1876 Centennial Exposition—Philadelphia 1901—Pan-American Exposition—Buffalo, New York 1905—Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition—Portland, Oregon 1926—Sesquicentennial Exposition—Philadelphia 1933-34–Century of Progress International Exposition—Chicago 1935 California Pacific International Exposition—San Di- ego 1939-40—New York World’s Fair—New York City 1939-40—Golden Gate International Exposition—Treasure Island, San Francisco 1962—Century 21 Exposition—Seattle 1964-65—New York World’s Fair—New York City 1974—Expo ’74—Spokane, Washington 1982—World’s Fair—Knoxville, Tennessee…
The practice of ceasing to work but occupying the workplace first occurred on a mass scale in the rubber factories of Akron, Ohio, in 1936. Sit-down strikes in Flint, Michigan, and Cleveland, Ohio, followed. In 1939, the Supreme Court ruled sit-down strikes illegal.
The first American land visited by Columbus was an island in the Bahamas that he named San Salvador. Historians have disagreed which island this really was. Wading Island and Samana Cay have both been suggested as possibilities. The landfall was first spotted on October 12, 1492, at about 2 A.M. by Rodrigo de Triana, the…