1. American fashion designs: 1900, 1904, 1940 and 1957.
2. US troops play sports during WWI.
3. The Rhone Glacier, Swiss Alps: c. 1870 and 2021.
The glacier has lost about 1300 meters of ice during the period reflected in these pictures. UV-resistant white blankets are now kept on 5 acres of the retreating glacier during warm periods, which has slowed its melting.
4. Remembering Nap Lajoie, legendary second-baseman.
Napoleon “Nap” Lajoie played second base in major league baseball for the Philadelphia Phillies, the Philadelphia Athletics and the Cleveland Naps [which took his nickname] between 1896 and 1916, and, for a few years, also served as the Naps’ player-manager. He was a strong hitter whose batting statistics made him Ty Cobb’s chief rival during the early 20th century. Lajoie was among the second group of players elected to the Hall of Fame [1937] and has been ranked among the 100 best baseball players of all time.
This plywood wall map, constructed in secret by a British jigsaw puzzle manufacturer, was used by Gen. Eisenhower, Gen. Montgomery and Admiral Ramsay in D-Day planning at their 1944 headqaurters in Southwick House, a manor house near England’s south-central coast. The red lines on the map show initial travel routes for assault vessels leaving English ports. The little ships depict either individual vessels or convoys. The red circle, called “Piccadilly Circus” because of the heavy traffic, was a navigation checkpoint. The green lines show paths to the beaches that minesweepers had cleared of German mines. It is said that Eisenhower made his decision to delay the Normandy invasion by twenty-four hours, due to poor weather, in the Southwick House library.
6. On this date in 1861.
Abraham Lincoln speaks at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall in an early morning ceremony to honor Washington's…
