Topic: The Years 1648-1650
1648: (England) Eng. Civil War: Cromwell demands end of allegiance to the king; Parliamentary "Declaration" on Charles I's misdeeds; Scots begin Second Civil War, and are defeated at Preston; the king offers some concessions to Parliament, which are rejected; Parliament votes to bring Charles I to trial.
1648: (North America) New Amsterdam Governor Peter Stuyvesant appointed four fire wardens to patrol the area between the streets, inspect chimneys to be sure they had been swept properly, and to enforce the ban on wooden chimneys. Fire fighting and city politics have been intertwined ever since Stuyvesant shrewdly split these warden appointments between two Dutchmen and twoEnglishmen.
1648: (North America) Organized fire fighting began in New York in 1648 when the first Fire Ordinance was adopted by the Dutch Settlement of New Amsterdam. Fines levied for dirty chimneys provided funds for the maintenance of buckets, hooks and ladders. It also established a fire watch of eight Wardens and required that each male citizen stand his turn on watch.
1649: (England) Cromwell invades Ireland, sacking Drogheda and Wexford. England declared a Commonwealth. Charles I beheaded (Jan. 30); Prince of Wales, in exile at the Hague, takes title Charles II and is proclaimed king by the Scots in Edinburgh.
1649: (England) In Great Britain, English becomes language of all legal documents in place of Latin.
1649: (England) Free enterprise in England receives state s upport. According to official inventories, King Charles I had stud of 139 horses with 37 brood mares.
1649: (North America) The first extended reference to the shipbuilding timber of New Netherlands is found in a Holland document of 1649, referring to the soil of the province: "It produces several kinds of timber suitable for the construction of houses and ships, be they large or small, consisting of various sorts of oak, to wit: Post oak, smooth white bark, gray bark, black bark, and still another sort, which byreason of its softness is called butter oak. Various sorts of nut timber, hickory, large and small. This timber is very abundant here, and much used as firewood also, for which it is right well adapted. Chestnuts, three sort beeches, axe handle wood, ash, birch,pine, lathwood, alder, willow, thorn, with divers other species adapted to many purposes, but their names are unknown to us."
1650: (England) Dutch and English agree about respective frontiers of their N. Amer. colonies. John Churchill, future Duke of Marlborough, b. (d. 1722).
1650: (England) Opening of first coffee house in England, at Oxford. Tea first drunk in England. Sir Richard Weston (1591-1652), Eng. agriculturalist, advocates cultivation of turnips.
1650: (North America) In 1650 the Town of Hempstead passed resolutions that residents should attend public worship unless a reasonable excuse was offered, or suffer a fine of five guilders for the first offense and twenty guilders for the third offense. After the third offense the culprit was liable to corporal punishment or banishment.
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Monday, July 6, 2009
El Rincón Español
Estoy extendiendo "El Rincón En Español" a su propia página en thehistorybox.com, de la cual soy la administradora. Esta sección será dedicada a los artículos de interés histórico, poesías, pensamientos positivo, la música y otra información diversa. Esto será una obra a continuación. Separé una parte de la página para las Obras de José Martí. Se oirá la música de diferente países en el " Rincón En Español".
La Música es una forma de expresión artística, y permite a los participantes seleccionar la música basada en sus gustos, evocando emociones positivas. Se dice que "Escuchar música puede beneficiar a las personas que sufren de estrés. La música Latina forma parte de la cultura y la herencia del artista quien lo interpreta y para quienes las escuchan la música Latina despierta en la sangre el movimiento de bailar. Aqui hay algunos ejemplos .
Juan Luis Guerra de la Republica Dominicana
Chucumite: La Bamba
Joseito Fernandez-Guantanamera
El Rincón Español
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La Música es una forma de expresión artística, y permite a los participantes seleccionar la música basada en sus gustos, evocando emociones positivas. Se dice que "Escuchar música puede beneficiar a las personas que sufren de estrés. La música Latina forma parte de la cultura y la herencia del artista quien lo interpreta y para quienes las escuchan la música Latina despierta en la sangre el movimiento de bailar. Aqui hay algunos ejemplos .
Juan Luis Guerra de la Republica Dominicana
Chucumite: La Bamba
Joseito Fernandez-Guantanamera
El Rincón Español
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Jewish Knowledge (11)
Topic: Jewish Tid-Bits-Manhattan #4
Lower Manhattan (Area of Battery; and Whitehall District)
At the corner of Pearl and Broad Sts. is Fraunces Tavern, one of Manhattan's most cherished landmarks and a notable restoration of early Georgian Colonial work. Built in 1719 as a residence by Etienne de Lancey, a wealthy Huguenot, it later was the home of Phila Franks, who lived there after her marriage to de Lancey's grandson, Oliver, Phila was the daughter of Jacob Franks and the sister of David. Oliver's firm__DeLancey. Robinson and Company turned the structure into a store and warehouse in 1757, and in the 1760s it became a tavern. In 1783, Washington bade farewell to his officers in the tavern's Long Room, which was faithfully restored in 1907 by the Sons of the Revolution (not to be confused with the Sons of the American Revolution). A museum, exhibiting Revolutionary relics, is on the third floor, and on the fourth is a small historical library.
On South William St. (then Mill St.) is the site of the first synagogue in North America. In 1728, the Jewish community of New York purchased a lot for L100, one loaf sugar, and one pound of Bohea tea. On this lot a small synagogue was erected and dedicated on the seventh day of Passover, April 8, 1730. Its size 35 feet square and 21 feet high__gives an idea of the small number of Jews who dwelt in the tranquil little town of New York in the days when Newport was a more important harbor for sea-borne commerce. The thoroughfare was referred to as "Jews' Alley" or "Jews' Street" because of the neighborhood and this, the first, house of worship of Congregation Shearith Israel.
The Standard Oil Bldg., at 26 Broadway, has on the left side of the corridor a large bust of the first John D. Rockefeller by the Jewish sculptor, Jo Davidson.
Somewhere along the Battery is the spot where, on a day early in September 1654, the bark St. Charles dropped anchor, and 23 Jews the Jewish "pilgrims" of American Jewish history stepped ashore.
From the western shore of the Battery the visitor may view the world-famous Statue of Liberty (approached by ferry), whose base bears the poem. The New Colossus, by the Jewish poetess Emma Lazarus. One of the devices used to raise funds for the statue's pedestal was a Pedestal Art Loan Exhibition. Artists and writers were invited to contribute a work which would be auctioned off for the benefit of the fund. While a number of big names among them Walt Whitman, Bret Harte, and Mark Twain contributed original manuscripts, only two authors wrote something special for the occasion, and Emma Lazarus, 34 year old New York poetess, was one of these. Her sonnet, The New Colossus, was a tribute to liberty and to America as the haven of the oppressed. At the auction the poem brought $1,500.
Emma was born in New York City on July 22, 1849. Her father was a wealthy sugar merchant and art patron. Among her kinsmen were the Reverend Gershom Mendes Seixas, hazzan of Congregation Shearith Israel and Revolutionary patriot; Maud Nathan, pioneer suffragette; Annie Nathan Meyer, a founder of Barnard College; Robert Nathan, poet and novelist; and Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo.
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Lower Manhattan (Area of Battery; and Whitehall District)
At the corner of Pearl and Broad Sts. is Fraunces Tavern, one of Manhattan's most cherished landmarks and a notable restoration of early Georgian Colonial work. Built in 1719 as a residence by Etienne de Lancey, a wealthy Huguenot, it later was the home of Phila Franks, who lived there after her marriage to de Lancey's grandson, Oliver, Phila was the daughter of Jacob Franks and the sister of David. Oliver's firm__DeLancey. Robinson and Company turned the structure into a store and warehouse in 1757, and in the 1760s it became a tavern. In 1783, Washington bade farewell to his officers in the tavern's Long Room, which was faithfully restored in 1907 by the Sons of the Revolution (not to be confused with the Sons of the American Revolution). A museum, exhibiting Revolutionary relics, is on the third floor, and on the fourth is a small historical library.
On South William St. (then Mill St.) is the site of the first synagogue in North America. In 1728, the Jewish community of New York purchased a lot for L100, one loaf sugar, and one pound of Bohea tea. On this lot a small synagogue was erected and dedicated on the seventh day of Passover, April 8, 1730. Its size 35 feet square and 21 feet high__gives an idea of the small number of Jews who dwelt in the tranquil little town of New York in the days when Newport was a more important harbor for sea-borne commerce. The thoroughfare was referred to as "Jews' Alley" or "Jews' Street" because of the neighborhood and this, the first, house of worship of Congregation Shearith Israel.
The Standard Oil Bldg., at 26 Broadway, has on the left side of the corridor a large bust of the first John D. Rockefeller by the Jewish sculptor, Jo Davidson.
Somewhere along the Battery is the spot where, on a day early in September 1654, the bark St. Charles dropped anchor, and 23 Jews the Jewish "pilgrims" of American Jewish history stepped ashore.
From the western shore of the Battery the visitor may view the world-famous Statue of Liberty (approached by ferry), whose base bears the poem. The New Colossus, by the Jewish poetess Emma Lazarus. One of the devices used to raise funds for the statue's pedestal was a Pedestal Art Loan Exhibition. Artists and writers were invited to contribute a work which would be auctioned off for the benefit of the fund. While a number of big names among them Walt Whitman, Bret Harte, and Mark Twain contributed original manuscripts, only two authors wrote something special for the occasion, and Emma Lazarus, 34 year old New York poetess, was one of these. Her sonnet, The New Colossus, was a tribute to liberty and to America as the haven of the oppressed. At the auction the poem brought $1,500.
Emma was born in New York City on July 22, 1849. Her father was a wealthy sugar merchant and art patron. Among her kinsmen were the Reverend Gershom Mendes Seixas, hazzan of Congregation Shearith Israel and Revolutionary patriot; Maud Nathan, pioneer suffragette; Annie Nathan Meyer, a founder of Barnard College; Robert Nathan, poet and novelist; and Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo.
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Jewish Knowledge(10)
Topic: Jewish Tid-Bits-Brooklyn #4
During the '80s and '90s, large numbers of East European Jews crossed the East River to Williamsburg, where they established their own synagogues and other institutions even before the older communities started to move on to the Bedford, Greenpoint and Stuyvesant Heights sections.
The arrival of hundreds of thousands of additional Jews from Russia. Poland and Rumania after 1900 and the razing of whole blocks of East Side tenements to make way for the Williamsburg Bridge caused another great surge of Jewish migration to Brooklyn, which became part of New York City in 1898.
Newly-built elevated lines and the opening of the Williamsburg and Manhattan Bridges in the early 1900s, extension of the subway to more distant Brooklyn areas after World War I and the availability of inexpensive one and two-family houses and modern apartment houses within easy reach of New York factories gave impetus to new waves of Jewish migration to Brooklyn as well as to movement within the borough.
From Williamsburg, the Jewish population spilled over into Eastern Parkway and Crown Heights, and then to Borough Park, Bensonhurst, Coney Island, Manhattan Beach, Brighton Beach, Flatbush, Fort Hamilton and Bay Ridge. Each population shift created new communities as the newcomers organized their own institutions while the older synagogues followed their congregants to the newer neighborhoods.
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During the '80s and '90s, large numbers of East European Jews crossed the East River to Williamsburg, where they established their own synagogues and other institutions even before the older communities started to move on to the Bedford, Greenpoint and Stuyvesant Heights sections.
The arrival of hundreds of thousands of additional Jews from Russia. Poland and Rumania after 1900 and the razing of whole blocks of East Side tenements to make way for the Williamsburg Bridge caused another great surge of Jewish migration to Brooklyn, which became part of New York City in 1898.
Newly-built elevated lines and the opening of the Williamsburg and Manhattan Bridges in the early 1900s, extension of the subway to more distant Brooklyn areas after World War I and the availability of inexpensive one and two-family houses and modern apartment houses within easy reach of New York factories gave impetus to new waves of Jewish migration to Brooklyn as well as to movement within the borough.
From Williamsburg, the Jewish population spilled over into Eastern Parkway and Crown Heights, and then to Borough Park, Bensonhurst, Coney Island, Manhattan Beach, Brighton Beach, Flatbush, Fort Hamilton and Bay Ridge. Each population shift created new communities as the newcomers organized their own institutions while the older synagogues followed their congregants to the newer neighborhoods.
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