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Pelted by sleet and icy water, the crew felt the shudder as their ship was split in two. Miraculously, Captain R.F. Humble and fifteen of his crewmen made it through the night huddling around a bonfire built of the captain’s furniture, and lived to tell about the storm. The tragedy, however, lay in the stern of the freighter, where nine men had either frozen to death or were drowned. In the heyday of the iron ore industry—between 1890 and 1920—such drama at sea was a way of life. Without radar, electronic communications, or even the equipment to accurately forecast weather, freighter crews were at the mercy of shipping schedules and the moody Great Lakes. More than fifty ships were lost on Lake Superior in the 1890s. Between 1900 and 1910, 350 ships had major accidents, at least 84 ships were destroyed, and 250 sailors lost their lives. The frequency of shipping disasters paralleled the explosion in the shipping industry. Standing as sentries to one of the world’s best harbors, Duluth and its neighbor, Superior, Wisconsin, grew from sleepy logging towns into thriving cities and reigned over the vast inland resources of lumber, iron ore, and grain. Transcontinental railroads and local mining railroads made beelines for the DuluthSuperior docks. Shipping ore through the Great Lakes was the cheapest and most efficient means of getting the raw material to Eastern mills. A Great Lakes freighter could cover 800 miles with a shipment of ore for about 70 cents a ton, while shipping ore the same distance by railroad could cost up to $5 a ton. The savings were unresistable. While Mesabi Range ore was being gobbled up by eastern steel mills, the same Eastern states—particularly Pennsylvania—were flush with coal needed in Minnesota and points west to fire the turn-of-the-century industrial boom. Lake Superior became a twoway shipping street, and by the mid-1880s more than 2 million tons of coal were hauled to Duluth, much of it used to power the steam shovels digging ore on the Mesabi Range. Hand in hand, the coal and iron ore industries grew together. By 1913, Duluth had twenty-four coal docks. Duluth-Superior became one of the leading ports in the United States; it even outranked New York City for a short time. In addition to iron ore, ships leaving carried more than 1 million barrels of flour a year to the East Coast, where it was exported to Great Britain, the West Indies, Brazil, and Germany. Special freighters, called lumber hookers, carried Minnesota pine. When the North Shore lumber industry was at its peak, more than 150 carloads of lumber arrived daily at Duluth docks. In 1902, Duluth mills sawed a record one billion board feet of lumber. But the pine would soon disappear and by 1925 only one sawmill remained. Minnesota’s logging empire came to an end A similar boom-and-bust story can be told of Duluth’s commercial fishing industry. In the early part of the 1880’s, nearly half a million pounds of whitefish were salted and shipped in barrels. Refrigeration made it possible to send even more fresh frozen fish by rail to the West and South, and by ship to the East. First it was whitefish, and when they were played out, fishermen turned to lake trout and then to herring. It eventually came to where more fish were being taken out of the lake faster than nature could replace, and although in 1910 a fish hatchery was built by the federal government to replenish the waters, it was too little too late. Sport fishing is the main sustenance today. What’s left for Duluth? Principal industries still include manufacturing and food processing plants along with wool, lumber and paper mills, cold storage plants, fisheries, grain elevators, and oil refineries also still exist. 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� On Aug. 21, 1920, Daphne Milne, wife of English writer A.A. Milne, gives birth to a son, Christopher Robin Milne. When Christopher Robin received a stuffed bear as a present, his father began writing a series of stories about the bear. Christopher Robin was immortalized in A.A. Milne’s books “Winnie-the-Pooh� and “The House at Pooh Corner.� � On Aug. 16, 1948, baseball legend George Herman “Babe� Ruth dies from cancer in New York City. For two days, tens of thousands of fans stood in line to pay their last respects. Ruth hit a record 60 home runs in the 1927 season and led the Yankees to seven pennants. � On Aug. 19, 1960, in the USSR, captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for his confessed espionage. Only 18 months into his sentence, the Soviets released him in exchange for Rudolf Abel, a senior KGB spy who was caught and convicted in the United States five years earlier. � On Aug. 20, 1989, Lyle and Erik Menendez shoot their parents, Jose and Kitty, to death in the den of the family’s Beverly Hills, Calif., home. Police were finally tipped off to the brothers by the girlfriend of Erik’s psychotherapist, who’d taped Erik’s confession in counseling sessions.
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London on her 67th birthday. Bergman was best known for her role as Ilsa Lund in “Casablanca.� � On Sept. 1, 1836, Narcissa Whitman, a missionary, arrives in Walla Walla, Wash., becoming one of the first Anglo women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains. In 1847, a measles epidemic killed many of the Cayuse Indians. In retaliation, a band of Cayuse killed 14 people, including Narcissa and her husband. � On Sept. 4, 1886, Geronimo, the wiliest and most dangerous Apache warrior of his time, finally surrenders in Skeleton Canyon, Ariz. Geronimo never learned to use a gun, yet he armed his men with the best modern rifles he could obtain and even used field glasses to aid reconnaissance during his campaigns. � On Sept. 2, 1923, aftershocks and out-of-control fires rock Tokyo, Japan, and the surrounding area following an 8.3-magnitude earthquake. In total, 143,000 people died in the disaster. The Imperial Hotel, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, sank 2 feet into the ground but still managed to stand. � On Sept. 3, 1939, Britain and France declare war on Germany. The first casualty of that declaration was the British ocean liner Athenia, which
was sunk that evening by a German submarine. � On Aug. 31, 1955, William G. Cobb of the General Motors Corp. demonstrates his 15-inch-long “Sunmobile,� the world’s first solar-powered automobile. When sunlight hit 12 photoelectric cells made of selenium (a nonmetal substance with conducting properties) built into the Sunmobile, an electric current was produced that in turn powered a tiny motor. � On Aug. 30, 1963, a “hot line� between Moscow and Washington goes into effect to speed communication between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union and help prevent the possibility of an accidental war. The hot line was never really necessary to prevent war, but it did provide a useful prop for movies about nuclear disaster, such as “Fail Safe� and “Dr. Strangelove.� � On Aug. 29, 1982, the Swedish-born actress and three-time Academy Award winner Ingrid Bergman dies of cancer in London on her 67th birthday. Bergman was best known for her role as Ilsa Lund in “Casablanca.� (c) 2011 King Features Synd., Inc.
Fable of the Porcupine It was the coldest winter ever. Many animals died because of the cold. The porcupines, realizing the situation, decided to group together to keep warm. This way they covered and protected themselves; but the quills of each one wounded their closest companions. After awhile, they decided to distance themselves one from the other and they began to die, alone and frozen. So they had to make a choice: either accept the quills of their companions or disappear from the Earth. Wisely, they decided to go back to being together. They learned to live with the little wounds caused by the close relationship with their companions in order to receive the heat that came from the others. This way they were able to survive. The best relationship is not the one that brings together perfect people, but when each individual learns to live with the imperfections of others and can admire the other person's good qualities. The moral of the story is: Learn to live with the pricks in your life!
LAWSUITS (continued): � In 2006, Allen Heckard sued Michael Jordan and Nike founder Phil Knight for $832 million. In the suit he claimed to suffer defamation, permanent injury and emotional pain and suffering because he was often mistaken for Michael Jordan. He said that continual public harassment because of the alleged resemblance "has troubled his nerves." Heckard dropped the lawsuit later that year. � After eating Cap'n Crunch with Crunch Berries over a period of four years, Janine Sugawara realized that the “Crunch Berries� in the cereal were not real fruit. She filed a classaction suit against Quaker's parent company PepsiCo in 2009 for fraud and breech of warranty, seeking full restitution of all money gained through misleading labeling and a court order forcing Quaker to disclose to the public the true composition of Crunch Berries. The case was dismissed. � In 1910, Olaf Olverson was desperate for cash, so he sold his body to the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, for medical research after his death. A year later, he inherited a fortune. He tried to “buy himself back� from the institute, but they wouldn't cooperate. When Olverson refused to donate his body, the institute sued him for breach of contract. Olverson lost the case. The judge ruled that he not only owed his body to the Institute, he owed them money for the two teeth he had removed without the Institute's permission, saying Olverson had illegally tampered with their property. � Bobby Mackey's Music World in Wilder, Kentucky, was sued by J.R. Costigan in 1993. He claimed a ghost “punched and kicked him� while he was using the bar's restroom one night. He sued the bar for $1,000 in damages and demanded that a warning sign of the ghost's presence be put up in the restroom. The club's lawyer filed a motion to dismiss the case, citing the difficulty of getting the ghost into court to testify for the defense. The case was dismissed. � In 1976, at the University of California Los Angeles Medical Center, doctors removed John Moore's spleen in a successful effort to cure his cancer. Doctors later found that the spleen possessed unique cancer-fighting cells. Experiments with the cells led to a new discovery worth an estimated $3 billion. Moore tried to sue the University of California, claiming his spleen was pirated. The spleen had belonged to him so he should share in the commercial value. He sued for part of the profits, but in 1990, 14 years after the operation, Moore lost the case.
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â—? Computer designers at Apple codenamed a new computer model Sagan in 1993. Traditionally, this is an honor. “You pick a name of someone you respect,â€? an employee explained, “and the code is only used while the computer is being developed. It never makes it out of the company.â€? This didn't matter to Carl Sagan; his lawyers complained that the code was “an illegal usurpation of his name for commercial purposesâ€? and demanded that it be changed. The designers changed it to BHA, which stood for “Butt-Head Astronomer.â€? Sagan sued again, contending “Butt-Headâ€? is “defamatory on its face.â€? Apple won. â—? Chicago lawyer Frank Zaffere sued his ex-fiancĂŠ Maria Dillon when she broke off their engagement in 1992. Zaffere filed a suit for $40,310.48 to cover his “lost courting expenses.â€? He did send a letter along with court papers to his ex stating: “I am still willing to marry you on the conditions herein below set forth: 1) We proceed with our marriage within 45 days of the date of this letter; 2) You confirm [that you] . . . will forever be faithful to me; 3) You promise . . . that you will never lie to me again about anything.â€? He closed with: “Please feel free to call me if you have any questions or would like to discuss any of the matters discussed herein. Sincerely, Frank.â€? The case was dismissed and so was the wedding. â—? Andrea Pizzo, a former student of the University of Maine, sued her alma mater for failing to protect her from a cow with a "dangerous disposition." While taking a class in livestock management, a 400-plus-pound Bovine head-butted her into the wall of its pen. Pizzo suffered knee and wrist injuries, so she sued the college for an unspecified amount. In her suit she claims the school “should have known that the heifer had a personality problem.â€? Verdict unknown. â—? Cynthia Economou was sued by Karl Lambert in Florida court; he claimed that Economou stole his foot. Lambert's foot was severed in a car accident, and Economu, the paramedic on site, took his mangled limb to help in the training of her body recovery dog. In her defense, Economu said, "It was an unrecognizable mass of flesh ... It wasn't a clean cut. You couldn't even recognize it as a foot ... If I had thought it was somehow re-attachable and usable, I would have gone to my commander." She was charged with second-degree petty theft and received six months of probation.
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