In March 1900, he began working for the local post office. Law enforcement[edit] In 1904, he won fame as a local hero after he leapt onto a runaway railroad freight car on Shattuck Avenue in downtown Berkeley and applied its brakes, preventing a disastrous collision with a passenger coach loaded with commuters at the Berkeley Station. This event led to his election as town marshal on April 10, 1905. In 1907, Vollmer was re-elected town marshal. He was also elected president of the California Association of Police Chiefs, even though, by title, he was not yet a police chief himself.
In late summer 1944, through negotiations and bribes from his war profits, Schindler secured permission from German army and SS officers to move his workers and other endangered Jews to Bruennlitz, near his hometown of Zwittau. Each of these Jews was placed on “Schindler’s List.” Schindler and his workforce set up a bogus munitions factory, which sustained them in relative safety until the war ended. After attending a series of trade schools in
Researchers say they know how the Hindenburg airship came to its fiery end: static electricity. Seventy-six years ago, the German dirigible was promoted as the future of trans-Atlantic flight, but instead it became the notorious poster child of air disasters. As the hydrogen-filled blimp was landing in Lakehurst, N.J., on May 6, 1937, it suddenly burst into flames and crashed in front of shocked bystanders, killing 35 of the 100 passengers and crew on board—and putting an end to the short-lived air travel program. Now scientists who have been studying the circumstances that led to the Hindenburg’s end say they know what happened. The Independent, in an article about a documentary on the Hindenburg airing on Britain's Channel 4 on Thursday, explains that Jem Stansfield, a British aeronautical engineer who led a team of researchers at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas, blew up and set fire to models of the dirigible to rule out possibilities including a bomb and exploding paint.
Lee 1 Black Boy, an autobiography of Richard Wright, contains twenty chapters with two parts, was divided by him arriving in Chicago, described his miserable childhood and life in Memphis from chapter 1 to chapter 14, recording his early adulthood in Chicago from chapter 15 to chapter 20. He composed his own life experiences in this book in chronological order, starting the story with the fire he set accidentally when he was merely four then ended with him being a communist writer getting kicked out of the Communist Party though he was not defeated and still remained strong will. The author used many foreshadowing techniques in this novel, and gave the readers further explanations of consequences of his major early life events. An example was his
2007 : Heavily modified train set of France's TGV had beaten its original world record when it travelled from Metz- Reims at a speed of 574.8 kilometers per hour (357.2 mph). 2007 : Excel Energy agrees to pay $71,940 to Union Pacific Railroad in order to transfer ownership of the former West Wisconsin Railway Bridge over the Chippewa River to the city of Eau Claire. The transaction is to ensure that the bridge is maintained so that Excel's gas line, also carried by the bridge, will continue to have a reliable and stable river crossing. 2008 : Massive flooding occurs following rain storms throughout Wisconsin. All rail activity on several mainlines, including BNSF's line along the Mississippi River and CP's mainline through Wisconsin is suspended until flood waters recede.
Still’s original name as William Steel but his father changed it to protect his wife. Unfortunately the Steel family was unable to escape slavery together. After his escape from the life of slavery, William moved to Philadelphia where he learned to read. He then started to assist fugitive black slaves when being paid to work as a janitor at Pennsylvania’s Society for the Abolition of Slavery. While helping the escapees he wound up disentangling his long lost brother from slavery.
My Grandmothers father was a tailor and owned two businesses in the town, one of which had an apartment above it, and that is where my Grandmother lived up to the start of the war. Being that my Great-grandfather was in the British Army in a Calvary unit in WWI when the war broke out he understood the Germans. Because he was nervous for the safety of his family he purchased a house outside of town. This was an excellent move because in one nights bombing he lost both businesses. Each night around six o’clock the air raid siren would go off and they would have to go out to a dug out shelter at the end of the garden that her father had built.
The writer will also describe what Phineas Gage’s accident revealed about how brain areas support cognitive function. Phineas Gage was a 25 year old bright, promising foreman working for the Rutland and Burlington railroad in Cavendish, Vermont. It was the practice of the times, tamping powder was used to blast drill holes for the preparation of laying track. Gage was using a tamping rod to compress the powder in the holes before explosion when unexpectedly a quick explosion pushed the rod, which was 1.1 meters long, 6 millimeters thick, and weighing 6 kilograms, through his left cheek and brain, exiting out the vault of his skull (Jeanty, 2011). Gage remained conscious on the way to the doctor.
He was in Manchester when he heard about the success Richard Arkwright was having at a textile factory in Cromford. At age just nineteen, Owen borrowed £100 and set up his own business spinning mules with an engineer called John Jones. The partnership with Jones came to an end in 1792 and Owen found work as a manager of Peter Drinkwater’s spinning factory. As the manager, Owen met a lot of businessmen involved in the textile industry. David Dale, owner of Chorton Twist Company in Scotland met with Robert Owen and the two became great friends.
In early June Hemingway traveled to Milan and upon his arrival he was quickly initiated into his job when a munitions factory exploded and left many dismembered bodies for Hemingway to transport to a morgue. On July 8, 1918, only a few weeks after arriving, Hemingway was seriously wounded by fragments from an Austrian mortar shell which had landed just a few feet away" (Lost Generation). Though he was badly injured he managed drag an Italian solider out of the fire and was given a badge of honor and courage for his act in duty. Though getting his badge of honor from the government, the injury humbled him