The acute pneumonia called Legionnaires’ disease is caused by a bacterium of the genus Legionella.
The disease made headlines (and got its name) when it killed 29 people at an American Legion convention in Philadelphia, July 21-24, 1976.
The causative agent was found a year later.
Both Tin Lizzie and The Flivver were nicknames for the Model T, introduced by Henry Ford in 1908.
According to a study by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, the top ten religious denominations in the United States are (with number of members in millions): Roman Catholic 53.4 Southern Baptist Convention 18.9 United Methodist 11.1 Black Baptist 8.7 Jewish 6.0 Evangelical Lutheran Church in America 5.2 Presbyterian 3.6 Church of Jesus…
The famous shootout on October 26, 1881, happened in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, at a photographer’s studio just to the east of the O.K. Corral, Camillus Fly’s studio. The Earp brothers, Wyatt, Virgil, Morgan, and friend Doc Holliday shot Billy Clanton and neighbors Tom and Frank McLaury. Although there was bad blood between the Earps, the…
Originally called a frankfurter (for its origin in Frankfurt, Germany) or a dachshund sausage (for its shape), the hot dog is said to have been first served on a bun in the U.S. in the 1880s. German food vendors Antoine Feuchtwanger in St. Louis, Missouri, and Charles Feltman in Coney Island, Brooklyn, have both been…
Pope, a Pueblo medicine man, planned the Indian revolt against the Spanish in New Mexico in 1680. The Pueblos and Apaches took over Santa Fe, drove out or killed Spanish settlers, and forced the Spanish to abandon New Mexico. The Spanish recaptured Santa Fe in 1693; the revolt was not entirely crushed until 1698.
The Molly Maguires were a secret militant organization of Irish miners working in the Pennsylvania anthracite coal mines in the 19th century. They organized in 1854 to fight the mine operators. In 1875, a Pinkerton spy working for the owners infiltrated the group. That led to the conviction and hanging of 20 Molly Maguires on…