What was happening in your country in the year 1899, /pol/? What was your family doing back then?>US>President William McKinley declares total Aryan victory in the Spanish-American war>Henry Ford starts his first auto manufacturing facility in Detroit (his first product was a small motorized delivery truck)>An intact Diplodocus skeleton is discovered in Wyoming and causes a public sensation after it is put on display in Pittsburgh>A US victory in the battle of Padre Canyon in a remote region of northern Arizona marks the end of western conflict with the Navajo tribe, which began under the Spanish empire in 1582>The US's formal borders expand dramatically with the acquisition of Cuba, Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico, Wake Island, part of Samoa, and other lands>Popular Vice President Garret Hobart suddenly dies of a heart attack at the age of 55, taking the nation by surprise>The Delaware and Hudson Canal shuts down, marking the symbolic end of the river transit era in favor of the railroad era>Labor disputes at mines in northern Idaho led to riots and a deployment of US troops in May>A shootout between lawmen and ranchers at the Wilson Ranch near Tombstone, Arizona leaves 7 dead>A violent stagecoach robbery in southern Arizona becomes notorious after one of the robbers is revealed as Pearl Hart, a petite young woman>Notorious outlaw Butch Cassidy and his 'wild bunch' stage one of their most audacious crimes, robbing a train in rural Wyoming and stealing nearly $40,000 in cash and bonds in a complex ambush involving the destruction of a bridge with dynamite>The US Navy sends its first ship-to-shore wireless radio transmission, a milestone in radio technologyI have no real idea what my own family was doing. Presumably they were peasants in central Mexico, so, nothing too exciting.
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My country was white and strong. My great grandfather was an Arkansas lumberjack at the time.
