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Elsa looks him up on Google
Elsa gets off the phone and decides to do some googling to learn more about this man. She remembers hearing the story of how he fell asleep for a long time but can’t remember all the details. She finds a good article and begins to read it. ‘In a village near the Catskill Mountains in New York lives a man named Rip Van…
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Rip is deep in thought
Bright and early the next morning Tiffi wakes up and gets dressed. As she is eating breakfast she calls Elsa to arrange a time for them to meet at Bamboo Forest. She is hoping that Rip is still there because if he’s really that old then he must have a lot of stories to tell us. She calls Elsa and they arrange a time to…
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Elsa & Tiffi volunteer to help
Wow! He remembers history from the early 1200s. Then he has to be 1000 years old. He shows the girls what he has written so far. The girls are impressed and quite surprised that for an old wise man that he can remember as much as he has. He tells Tiffi to turn the page so she can read more of what he wrote. ‘1610 - Galileo…
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Tiffi does some googling
“Are you going to write a story about him?” ask Tiffi. “How many have you written so far?” Elsa tells her that she has 103 stories so if she does this it will be #104. Tiffi can’t wait to get home to do some googling. She tells Elsa that she will call her later. No sooner does Tiffi walk inside her house she heads on over…
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Elsa does some googling
At the other side of town Elsa is also searching for history. ‘Sept. 1, 1923: Great Kanto Earthquake (Tokyo, Yokohama, Japan) - The Great Kanto earthquake, also known as the Tokyo-Yokohama earthquake, strikes the Japanese mainland at noon on Sept. 1, 1923, with a magnitude of 7.9 on the Richter scale. The death toll is…
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Tiffi finds some really good information
‘Oct. 24-29, 1929: Wall Street Crashes (New York City) - The "Roaring Twenties" come to a halt on Black Tuesday in October 1929, when stocks take a nosedive, contributing to the Great Depression. Reasons for the worst economic downturn in American history include over-lending by weakly regulated banks, excessive stock…
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Elsa can’t believe that there is so much history
‘Feb. 11, 1937: UAW Changes Car Industry (Flint, Michigan) - Nearly two years after the establishment of the United Automobile Workers (UAW), the union scores a major victory in Flint, Michigan. Workers at the General Motors Fisher Body Plant Number One lay down their tools and occupy the factory, demanding union…
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Back at Tiffi’s house
‘Dec. 7, 1941: Pearl Harbor (Oahu, Hawaii) - Knowing the U.S. is gearing up to engage them in the Pacific Ocean theater of World War II, Japan deploys a massive air attack on U.S. Navy ships parked at Pearl Harbor. The surprise assault by 353 Japanese aircraft leads to the deaths of 2,403 people, including 1,177 sailors…
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Wow there is some information on Baby Boomers!
‘Jan. 1, 1946: Baby Boom Starts (U.S.) - More American babies are born – 3.4 million – in 1946 than in any year in U.S. history up to then. The number of births grows to 4 million per year from 1954 to 1964, the last year of the baby boomer generation, the biggest generation at that point in history. Aug. 15, 1947: India…
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That’s enough history for now
Tiffi is amazed at all the history posted online. She can’t wait to share it with Elsa and Rip. ‘Nov. 1, 1952: First Hydrogen Bomb Test (Marshall Islands) - The United States successfully detonates its first hydrogen bomb, a second generation thermonuclear device, in the Marshall Islands as part of Operation Ivy, one of a…
