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Website Title: TIME Page Title: A Brief History of Mickey Mouse Website Address: http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1859935,00.html Author: Claire Suddath Date Published: November 18, 2008 When Mickey was first created it started with a rabbit. Walt Disney created a character called Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. With a round, white face, big button nose and floppy black ears, OswaldContinue reading “Mickey Mouse”

Prohibition went into full effect January 16th, 1920. 33 states already enacted their own prohibition legislation. Because of prohibition, bootlegging, gambling, gang violence, and prostitution new heights in the 1920’s. In Chicago 1929, men dressed as police men shot and killed men in a rival gang.

The stock market crash happened in November of 1929. It is known as Black Thursday. The stocks were down 12.6%. Many people sold their liberty bonds and mortgaged their homes to put all their money into the stock market. In 1929, around 300 million shares of stock were being carried by margins.

The price of cotton began to peak (to 46 cents a pound) in the 1920’s which made farmers plant more of it. With that came overproduction which caused prices to plummet to 10 cents a pound. This made farmers get in debt from loans.

The first time you could stay home and listen to your favorite team play was 1921. Later that year the World Series was read by an announcer from a play play sent by telegraph wire. Only home games could be played on a radio until 1939.

Aviation: The flying or operating of aircraft. The Wright brothers were the inventors of the first plane. On December 17th, 1903 their first experiment was successful. After this, with the booming economy of the 1920’s, military and civilian companies rushed to produce plane and plane parts. During this time the designs managed to go fromContinue reading “Aviation”

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right. You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click theContinue reading “Introduce Yourself (Example Post)”