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THE GAZETTE. GIVE THE GIFT OF LEARNING. OUR HISTORY IS THE BEGINNING.© Hola Amigos! soy Dick Poe SOUTHWEST CHRONICLE EDU© At Dick Poe, we offer a friendly atmosphere with an excellent selection of products. Due to our high volume sales, low overhead, and professionally trained staff, we can proudly state that the “Dick Poe Family of Dealerships Saves You Money!” LENNON 1980 EL ASESINATO We would like to say “Thank You” to our customers for helping us maintain an excellent rating for outstanding service in Sales, Service, Parts and Collision Repair. The Poe family of dealerships has been selling cars to four generations of customers, with some families having bought more than 20 cars from us. That kind of trust and repeat business speaks for itself. We appreciate your interest in our website and we look forward to serving you! ■ The Southwest Chronicle EDU© : Home The Gazette Topics John Lennon Asesinato mada Mary. Fue ella John Lennon Liverpool, Reino Unido December 08, 1980 primeros acordes en un -(Liverpool, 1940 - Nue- viejo banjo del abuelo DUST BOWL : A DISASTER 1930s ■ The Southwest Chronicle EDU© : Home The Dust Bowl 1930s -Was the name given to the Great Plains region devastated by drought in 1930s depressionridden America. The 150,000-square-mile area, encompassing the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles and neighboring sections of Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico, has little rainfall, light soil, and high winds, a potentially destructive combination. When drought struck from 1934 to 1937, the The Gazette Topics Dust Bowl Ecological Disaster 1930s early twentieth centuries, driven by the American agricultural ethos of expansion and a sense of autonomy from nature, aggressively exploited the land and set up the region for ecological disaster. Most early settlers used the land for livestock grazing until agricultural mechanization combined with high grain prices during World War I enticed farmers to ies, especially in the Far plow up millions of acres West. Ranchers and farm- of natural grass cover to ers in the nineteenth and plant wheat. In response, soil lacked the stronger root system of grass as an anchor, so the winds easily picked up the loose topsoil and swirled it into dense dust clouds, called “black blizzards.” Recurrent dust storms wreaked havoc, choking cattle and pasture lands and driving 60 percent of the population from the region. Most of these “exodusters” went to agricultural the federal government mobilized several New Deal agencies, principally the Soil Conservation Service formed in 1935, to promote farm rehabilitation. Working on the local level, the government instructed farmers to plant trees and grass to anchor the soil, to plow and terrace in contour patterns to hold rainwater, and to allow portions of farmland to lie fallow so the soil could regenerate. Errors repeated during War II. y músico británico, fun- las 10:50 pm del 8 de diciembre de 1980, poco The Beatles, un cuarteto y Ono volvieran al Dakota, el dad de Liverapartamento pool junto a de Nueva Paul McYork Cartney, donde George Mark son y David Ringo ChapStarr man, y que a se ha quien conLenv e r non tido en una refautografiaerencia indo una copia discutible de del álbum Double la historia de la música moderna. John Fantasy, y quien esperaba en el lobby junto en Liverpool el 9 de oc- al portero de reemplazo tubre de 1940, mientras los aviones nazis bombardeaban la ciudad. Su por la espalda cinco vecpadre, llamado Alfred, era un marino que visitaba poco el hogar, hasta completo. Luego fue su Fue llevado a la sala de madre, Julia Stanley, la emergencia del cercano do el niño al cuidado de declarado muerto a su una hermana suya lla llegada a las 11:20 pm. PRESIDENT ABE LINCOLN IS SHOT DEAD! 1865 EL ASESINATO ABE LINCOLN 14 DE ABRIL 1865 “The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” ■ The Southwest Chronicle EDU©TTPMMP El Asesinato de Abraham Lincoln 14 de Abril de 1865 -Alrededor de las 22:25 en Washington D. C., cuando la Guerra civil esinicialmente al disparo, las heridas recibidas eran Norte, Robert E. Lee, rindiera sus tropas al general coln fue el primer presidente de Estados Unidos en ser asesinado,1 ya que treinta años antes, en 1835, Jackson. El atentado fue planeado y llevado a cabo por el actor y simpatizante de la causa confederada John mayor destinada a reunir las tropas confederadas restantes para que siguieran luchando. Booth dente Andrew Johnson. Con este triple asesinato, Booth esperaba crear el caos y derrocar el gobierno 34 ■ The Southwest Chronicle EDU©TTPMMP The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln April 14, 1865 -Abraham Lincoln was shot on Good Friday, April 14, 1865, while attending the play, Our American Cousin, at Ford’s Theatre as the American Civil War was drawing to a close. The assassination occurred and Lincoln had himself been the subject of an earlier assassination attempt by an unknown assailant in August 1864. The assassination of Lincoln was planned and carried out by the well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth, as part of a larger conspiracy in a bid to revive the Confederate mander of the Confeder- cause. Booth’s three coconspirators were Lewis ginia, General Robert E. Lee, surrendered to Lieu- old, who were assigned tenant General Ulysses to kill Secretary of State S. Grant and the Union Army of the Potomac. George Atzerodt who was American president to be assassinated. An unsuccessful attempt had been made on Andrew Jackson 30 years before in 1835, - DÉ EL REGALO DEL APRENDIZAJE. NUESTRA HISTORIA ES EL INICIO.© hoped to sever the continuity of the United States government. Lincoln was shot while watching the play Our American Cousdent Andrew Johnson. By in with his wife Mary simultaneously eliminat- Todd Lincoln at Ford’s ing the top three people in Theatre in Washington, the administration, Booth and his co-conspirators - next morning. The rest of the conspirators’ plot failed; Powell only managed to wound Seward, while Atzerodt, Johnson’s would-be assassin, lost The funeral and burial of Abraham Lincoln was a period of national mourning and profound change.

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