Heat Wave: Pointing Fingers By Nelson Gord University of Illinois at Chicago Professor Perry Duis History 255 November 19, 2003 The summer is usually a time for people to go outside and enjoy the fresh air and bright sun. ... These extremes are equally significant during the summer months, however, and most people, including those that can facilitate safety from it, fail to recognize its quiet, slow, and blistering danger. ... An event of such magnitude that it doubled the number who died in the great Ch...

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She died in Boston, Massachusetts as a result of childbirth in December 1784. ... When Mason died in 1891, she was buried in an unmarked grave at Evergreen Cemetery in Boyle Heights. ... Just invited Young to work with him during the summers at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, starting in 1927. ... She eventually returned to Howard to teach and continued working at Woods Hole in the summers, but her relationship with Just cooled considerably. ...

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Root died before the project was completed, but Burnham continued as chief of construction. ... He died on April 14, 1924, in Chicago. ... Frank, during the summer while he was a teenager, had to get a summer job every summer to help with the family. ...

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In the summer of 1884 the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions began talking about creating a national strike for an eight hour work day. ... He died in 1884 and his plant that year had grown to cover 12 acres of land. ...

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Upton Sinclair's novel the Jungle illustrates how greed and ruthless competition has made turn of the century America into a brutal jungle.Take or be taken? was the guiding rule, and everyone was someone else's prey. Those at the bottom of the economic ladder - wage earners and their families were a...

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