(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reporting from Cincinnati)  In the 1850s Hiram Sibley bought up telegraph lines & used railroad rights-of-way to create what became this company
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Hiram Sibley - Wikipedia  Hiram Sibley (February 6, 1807  July 12, 1888), was an American industrialist, entrepreneur, ... Sibley later served as first president of Western Union Telegraph Company. ... In conjunction with Perry Collins, Sibley later hoped to build a telegraph line ... By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
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Baker County "The Way It Was" 1976 - RootsWeb - Ancestry.com  He died there in 1881, and was buried in Old City Cemetery in Jacksonville. ... The few inhabitants between Trail Ridge and the Columbia County line had little part in the .... The schedule for the Florida Railway and Navigation Company did not list ..... Mary Crews, born in 1820 in Georgia, brought her three children, Charity,...
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History of the U.S. Telegraph Industry - EH.net  By transmitting information quickly over long distances, the telegraph facilitated the growth in the railroads, consolidated financial and commodity markets, and...
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Full text of "History of Placer and Nevada Counties California : with ...  35)  Agreement on the Placer-Nevada line in 1907  Sheridan and Riego .... Slow growth of the city, and early efforts to build up enterprises  "Dog days" (p. ... County 238 Justice in the early days  First trial held in Auburn, in 1850 (p. 239). ... Gas & Electric Company's system an outgrowth of the early hydraulic-mining...
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US History - Wikimedia Commons  Mar 13, 2013 ... 18.5 The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 . ..... became known as the Holy Roman Empire due to its close .... grew too fast and could not keep up with sanitation.7 Sanitation was a ..... united to create an impressive trade system that allowed each ..... Founded in 1607 with a charter from the Virginia Company of...
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Wireless Telegraphy! (1901) - United States Early Radio History  The True History of the Yacht Races, 1901, Shows the Great Superiority ... On September 19, 1900, under the supervision of Professor Shoemaker, this company sent ... Company to report the yacht races of 1899, of which the following is a copy: ... of Paterson, N. J. It is understood the New York Herald was also interested.
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jeopardy/3066_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  SCHOOL SUPPLIES | (Cheryl of the Clue Crew drawing on the chalkboard) I can draw rings around you with this instrument | compass .... Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Greenfield Village in Dearborn, MI.) With money earned from his stock ticker, this inventor built his Menlo Park laboratory in 1876 | Thomas Edison.
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jeopardy/1099_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  ... Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a vineyard.) The first Biblical man who plants a specific crop, in Genesis he planted a vineyard & promptly drank too much wine | Noah ... SEANs, SHAWNs & SHAUNs | He's Fox News Channel's conservative counterpart to the more ... Sarah of the Clue Crew holds up a world map.
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Sample Jeo Notes Flashcards - Cram.com  (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from under the boughs of a riverside willow in England.) Holy Trinity ...... (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from outside the Old South Meeting House.) Here at Old South Meeting House on December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams gave a coded signal that began this protest event. the Boston Tea...
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RussianAmerican Telegraph - Wikipedia  The RussianAmerican Telegraph, also known as the Western Union Telegraph Expedition ... By 1861 the Western Union Telegraph Company had linked the eastern ... The task of exploring Russian America went to the Smithsonian naturalist .... its national boundaries and may have precipitated the US purchase of Alaska.
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Western Union - Wikipedia  The Western Union Company is an American financial services and communications company. ... In 1851, the New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company ... The next year, 1871, the company introduced its money transfer service, ... In 1958, it began offering Telex service to customers in New York City.
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History of Las Vegas - LucyVegas.com  The Las Vegas Valley was discovered in 1829 by a trade caravan of 60 men ... The SP,LA & SL RR was started by U.S. Senator William Andrews Clark who was also the majority owner. ... In 1905, both auctioned lots on their land. ... Although William Clark sold the remains of the company to the Union Pacific Railroad,...
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J! Archive - Show #4493, aired 2004-03-03  Chris Parsons, an undergraduate student from Wabasso, Florida ... John Davies, a graduate student from Wilmington, Delaware (whose 1-day ... (Cheryl of the Clue Crew) It's the alliterative name for this stretch of .... Starting out in 1865, this man famous for his cowboy hats became the leading hatmaker in...
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Morse Code & the Telegraph - Inventions - HISTORY.com  It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. In addition to helping invent the telegraph, Samuel Morse developed a code ... In 1844, Morse sent his first telegraph message, from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, ... In 1843, Morse and Vail received funding from the U.S. Congress to set up and...
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jeopardy/2889_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  Number: 30. CHRISTMAS | (Jimmy of the Clue Crew) He began creating his own Christmas ornaments in the 1980s, & now sells over 1,200 designs like this one...
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STAKING THEIR NAMES ON IT : Many well-known local firms have ...  Oct 2, 1989 ... John Simon Fluor (1867-1944), a Swiss immigrant who, in the 1890s, worked ... Culver City-based defense and electronics firm, now a unit of General Motors. ... formed an aircraft division of his Houston-based Hughes Tool Co. ... James Irvine (1867-1947), son of a San Francisco merchant-turned-Orange...
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Jeopary Questions page 772 - ON A MAP, SOMEWHERE ...  NAME THAT "P"OET: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew standing in front of the Colosseum in Rome) Not a European poet, but this ... REMEMBER THE '80s: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew at the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit) On March 30, 1981 outside the Washington Hilton, this man was shoved into this 1972 Lincoln limousine.
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My Sisters Telegraphic: Women in the Telegraph Office ... - Monoskop  The American Telegraph Company Building, 145 Broadway,. 1866. 83 .... note to her earlier work as women's rights advocate and founder of the. Lowell Female Labor ... Erie and Michigan Telegraph line, wrote to Ezra Cornell, one of Morse's ...... dot or dash; male telegraphers frequently accused women of clipping.14.
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American Experience | Chicago: City of the Century | Transcript - PBS  The menu featured beef and pork from Swift and Armour, Chicago's famous ... No matter what the "wonders" of the fair, he alerted his readers, Chicago .... The prospect of the canal had created Chicago, luring investors like William Butler Ogden. .... But in the 19th century the grain elevator was a revolutionary technology that...
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jeopardy/327_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  HISTORICAL TRICK OR TREAT | (<http://www.j-archive.com/media/2001-10-31_DJ_09.jpg> Ding dong! Jimmy of the Clue Crew is back for more! Does he want candy or bread and circuses?) Hail, Caesar! I'm a commander in the Roman army where a hundred men form a century and 60 centuries form this group | a legion.
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James W. Marshall - Wikipedia  James Wilson Marshall (October 8, 1810  August 10, 1885) was an American carpenter and sawmill operator, who reported the finding of gold at Coloma on the American River in California on January 24, 1848, the impetus for the California Gold Rush. ... The mill property was owned by Johan (John) Sutter who employed Marshall...