Jessica Mcclure

Jessica Mcclure, (AP) – 1890: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States, was born in Denison, Texas.

1912: Theodore Roosevelt, campaigning for the presidency, was shot in the chest in Milwaukee. Despite the injury, he goes ahead with a planned speech.

1930: Ethel Merman made her Broadway debut in the musical “Girl Crazy” with songs by George and Ira Gershwin.

1944: German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commits suicide rather than execution for allegedly conspiring against Adolf Hitler’s face.

1947: Air Force test pilot Charles E. (“Chuck”) Yeager broke the sound barrier as he flies the experimental Bell XS-1 (later X-1) rocket plane over Muroc Dry Lake in California.

1960: The idea of a Peace Corps is suggested by the Democratic candidate John F. Kennedy to an audience of students at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

1987: A 58-hour drama began in Midland, Texas, that the 18-month-old Jessica McClure slides 22 feet in an abandoned well at a private daycare center, she is saved on October 16.

1990: Composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein died in New York at age 72.

Vindicator FILES

1985: A 52-page “Economic Development Strategy” for Youngstown is compiled under the direction of Dr. H. Robert Dodge of the YSU School of Business and offers clean the Mahoning River for boating and recreation, the construction of a retail condominium project near YSU and a sports hall of fame.

A fire destroyed a power plant in 98-years in Kensington. Scott Mercer, chief of the Hanover Township Fire Department, estimated the loss at $ 250,000.

1970: Mahoning County Prosecutor Vincent E. Gilmartin told sheriff Ray T. Davis that his office can not represent the sheriff in his fight with county commissioners on the budget and advised him to hire a lawyer on the outside.

The Senate confirms David S. Dennison Jr., a former Republican congressman from Warren, for a term of 7 years at the Federal Trade Commission.

1960: Harry D. Rhodehouse Youngstown participates in the inauguration of the new science room at Theil College, Greenville, Pa., who is appointed Rhodehouse Memorial Science Building in honor of his family.

Vindicator reporters who interviewed residents of the Youngstown area in person and by phone after the debate between presidential candidates John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon find that many do not watch the televised debate and that those who did, few had changed their minds by what has been seen or heard.

1935: the Indian summer weather puts mass Sunday drivers in Trumbull and Mahoning counties, resulting in accidents in which five people were killed and 28 injured.

A total of 1268 elderly people in need in Mahoning County received average old-age pensions and 16.48 in August, reports Henry J. Berrodin, Head of the Ohio Division of aid for the elderly.

CNN

CNN Live, According to the index Akamai Net Access News, the ranks of Chile mine rescue in the top 5 events news from Akamai began tracking news related to web traffic in 2005. Other upcoming events in the Chilean mine rescue include several new events surrounding the World Cup, the longest match ever at Wimbledon in June and the victory of Barack Obama in the presidential election in 2008. Web traffic to the United States peaked at midnight on Wednesday morning, shortly after the first minor surface, with 2.7 million page views per minute according to Akamai.

If you’re one of the many people who can not make you tear this story of courage and survival, here is a list of some places you can find the live stream, blogs and updates Twitter according to your needs.

Keep in mind your streaming experience may vary depending on your bandwidth and ISP. Try some of these sites to find the flow, which works best in your area.

Streaming Sites

CNN offers a live stream, which runs in a separate window. The cable channel also has a 24 hours clock indicating the time of the rescue mission and how many minors are left underground. CNN news site also features a live blog and a special page featuring the latest CNN coverage of the operation.

Live stream from the BBC includes video alongside a live blog of the mission that updates automatically without having to refresh the page. The live blog is also relevant tweets in the mix in its coverage.

The Huffington Post has built courtesy of UStream live stream and live blogging coverage of the rescue.

There is several other video streaming on Ustream, including the flow of user dosmados Chilean news channel broadcasts a Chilean.

CBS News also has a live video stream on Ustream.

MSNBC also has a live stream that appears in a separate window.

USA Today has a live video stream on Livestream and Reuters has a live blog with another food Livestream.

Text heavy

If you do not have the bandwidth for video, the Guardian has a live blog, which includes links to other relevant news sources.

The New York Times is continually updating its front-page story on the mine rescue in real time as well as photos.

Anonymous hordes on Wikipedia are hard at work updating the online encyclopedia with real-time news and information on the rescue. Wikipedia also has a table with all the names, ages, nationalities and that surfaces every time the trapped miners.

If you simply update Twitter CNNBRK then, in CNN News, is live all the tweets rescue. You can also follow the tweets of others on the operation by looking for the hashtags # fuerzamineros.

Chile Flag

Chile Flag, Voting by mail in Atascosa County, Texas, there was an error made recently quite remarkable. A voter named Troy Knudson was the first person to notice an error made by the County on the ballot.

Instead of what was supposed to be the flag of Texas, was a flag of Chile. The Chilean flag and the flag of Texas do not look much alike, but one would think that county employees should at least know what the state flag looks like.

Atascosa County is a small county in Texas that was founded in 1856. Currently, the population throughout the county is close to 40,000.

As you can see by the pictures below, the Texas flag differ from the flag of Chile. In the Texas version, the blue on the left side cuts off the red stripe on the bottom. In the Chilean version, the red stripe goes throughout the entire lower part of the flag.

Map Of Chile

Map Of Chile, Ferdinand Magellan was the first European explorer to visit Chile, foot by 21 October 1520.

In the late 15th century the Incas extended their empire to the south, attempting to conquer Chile, they have succeeded in the north, but their influence (central and south) has been limited because they face the fierce resistance of people Indigenous Araucanian.

In 1540, Spanish explorer Pedro de Valdivia arrived, and later founded the city of Santiago in 1541. He managed to control the local Indians, forcing them to work hard, but in the south, Araucans not budge.

Many Spanish settlements were built in central Chile, and their population base eventually exceeded one million. These early settlers suffered repeated attacks (often brutal) by Araucanian, and remained a serious problem (difficult to control) in the 19th century.

Colonies secretly hated the military regime in Spain, but he remained loyal to the crown of Spain for nearly three centuries. When the King of Spain was overthrown in the early 19th century, Chileans began to consider the independence and self-government.

And speaking of freedom, José de San Martin and Bernardo O’Higgins, and their armies to start and chased the Spaniards won independence from Spain in 1818. Bernardo O’Higgins, who later became first president of Chile.

Chile defeated Bolivia and Peru into a regional war (1879-1883) for the control areas of the Atacama Desert. During the war Chile won more land to the north and Bolivia lost its outlet on the open sea; prove disaster (today) for its economy.

Starting in 1891, and over the next 80 years, Chile was governed by selfish parliamentary systems, the military regime, the left wing, right-wing parties (including communists) and a long line of democratically elected presidents.

All remnants of democracy were set aside when the repressive military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet began in 1973 and finally ending in 1989 when democratic elections were held again

Today, the underdeveloped countries with a landscape shaped is primed for the 21st century, where it controls a large part of the world’s most spectacular scenery, and countless natural resources and wealth.

Learn more about Chile’s history here!

Facts and Figures

Name Chile

(Long form) Republic of Chile

Population 15,980,912

Population Density & (all countries) here

Capital Santiago (6.3 million metro area)

Currency Chilean Peso (CLP)

Currency converter here

Languages Spanish

Flag here

September 18 National Day

Religions Catholic (89%), Protestant (11%)

Geographic Coordinates

Latitude / Longitude (Capital)
33 º 27 ‘S, 70 º 40’ W

Relative situation in Chile is located in the western and southern hemispheres. It is located on the west coast and southwestern South America and bordered by Argentina, Bolivia and Peru and the Pacific Ocean.

Statistics Land

Littoral 3.998 miles (6.435 km)

Land

(Land) 289,113 square miles (748,800 km ²)

(Water) 3147 square miles (8150 km ²)

(TOTAL) 292,261 sq miles (756,950 km ²)

Land (all countries) here

Relief With a coastline of nearly 4,000 miles toothy, pencil-sized Chile is wedged between the Pacific Ocean and the rugged Andes, the longest mountain range. This land of incredible contrasts and unusual home to many beaches, fjords, deep-sea channels, glaciers and icebergs – and the Atacama Desert – a nearly rainless plateau made up of salt basins and lava flows.

Mountains cover most of the interior. The Andes snow cover almost its entire eastern border, generally weaker, non-Andean ranges dissect Chile (north to south) with the largest being the Cordillera de la Costa in the extreme south.

Located along the Ring of Fire, the Andes are geologically young mountain range that includes more than 600 volcanoes (Chile only), many of them active, and nearly 10% broke (at least once) during the last century.

Throughout the deep valleys and high country plateaus to the mountains, most of liquidation is to the west; the Central Valley (and pampas) operates at the shore of the Pacific Ocean.

Lake area to the south is a group of mostly small blue lakes, cold clear water, in this area, waterfalls is common.

In the far south, a group of almost incalculable mountainous islands (archipelagos forming various) before the coast, forming a series of winding channels and fjords. Cape Horn, south of the island of Tierra del Fuego is the southernmost in the world, next to the Antarctic.

Mixed in the beautiful landscapes are the northern and southern Patagonia ice fields that make up the largest mass of ice in the world outside Greenland and Antarctica.

Hundreds of glaciers off the ice fields of industry, many extend down to the sea water from melting glaciers come together in lakes such as Carrera general – the second largest lake in America South.

And as for rivers…. tens place in the headwaters of the Andes, and the outflow is in the Pacific Ocean, or east through neighboring Argentina.

Highest Pt Nevado Ojos Del Salado – 22,572 m
(6,880 m), the second highest mountain on the South American continent.

Lowest Pt Pacific Ocean – 0 m (0 m)

Land Divisions 13 regions, including: Aisen del General Carlos Ibanez del Campo, Antofagasta, Araucania, Atacama, Bio-Bio, Coquimbo, Libertador General Bernardo O’Higgins Los Lagos Magallanes y Antartica Chilena of, Maule, Region Metropolitana (Santiago), Tarapaca and Valparaiso.

Texas Flag

Texas Flag, A ballot in Atascosa County, Texas, has accidentally flown the flag instead of the Chilean national flag of the Lone Star State.

Both flags are surprisingly similar. They both have red and white horizontal stripes and a vertical band of blue with a white star. However, as shown below, it is an essential difference between the amount of blue and placement of the star on flags. Election staff, however, has not recognized this feature.

The Statesman reports that Texas students studying in Japan first noticed the error and it has attracted the attention of officials. In e-mail to the Statesman he shared his reaction to the error.

I guess it’s funny in some way, but my first reaction was disbelief more than anyone had noticed.

The administrator of elections in Atascosa County, Janice Ruple said that the error was the responsibility of his predecessor. According Ruple the woman who held his job before it “took liberties” with the ballots, adding elements to his own will. Ruple was not sure how long the Chilean flag was ballet unnoticed.

As to how the flag of Chile has managed to last on a ballot in Texas, Ruple said simply:

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