Brendan I. Koerner Quotes

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• Though President Grover Cleveland declared Labor Day a national holiday in 1894, the occasion was first observed on Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City. City
• In 1887, Oregon became the first state to make Labor Day an official holiday, with Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York quickly following suit. Became
• The most spectacular anti-lava effort in history occurred on the Icelandic island of Heimaey in 1973. Anti
• A surprising number of American skyjackers were not yet old enough to drink or sometimes even drive. These adolescents were generally inept at planning their… Adolescent
• Most of the American skyjackers who fled abroad eventually elected to return to the United States, having tired of life on the lam. These homecomings… Abroad
• Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War… Accused
• Monorail tracks are prefabricated and can be erected relatively quickly: Simply dig a hole every 120 feet or so, plop down a column, and lift… Automated
• The goal of mass transit is to convince people to abandon their cars, which feature such enticing accessories as CD players and elbow room. Abandon
• Monorails have their own fan club, which claims more than 2,500 members who swap monorail toys and trinkets. Modern light rail can claim no such… Base
• Mystical groups such as the Theosophical Society and the Rosicrucians turned tarot into an American fad during the early 1900s. Many American tarot practitioners use… American
• Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate - once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a happy ending were slim. After… Abysmal
• Sea-Monkeys are hybrid brine shrimp and the brainchild of the mail-order entrepreneur Harold von Braunhut in 1957. When their crystallized eggs are submerged in water,… Brainchild

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