Accused of conspiring to commit murder among other charges, she refused to recognize the legitimacy of her court-martial. Martial law in the area was declared and rescinded twice before Jones was arrested on 13 February 1913 and brought before a military court. In 1903, to protest the lax enforcement of the child labor laws in the Pennsylvania mines and silk mills, she organized a children's march from Philadelphia to the home of President Theodore Roosevelt in New York.ĭuring the Paint Creek-Cabin Creek strike of 1912 in West Virginia, Mary Jones arrived in June 1912, speaking and organizing despite a shooting war between United Mine Workers members and the private army of the mine owners. In 1902, she was called "the most dangerous woman in America" for her success in organizing mine workers and their families against the mine owners. From 1897, at about 60 years of age, she was known as Mother Jones. Jones worked as a teacher and dressmaker, but after her husband and four children all died of yellow fever in 1867 and her dress shop was destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, she began working as an organizer for the Knights of Labor and the United Mine Workers union. She helped coordinate major strikes and cofounded the Industrial Workers of the World. Harris Jones (baptized 1837 died 1930), known as Mother Jones, was an Irish-born American schoolteacher and dressmaker who became a prominent organized labor representative and community organizer.
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Herostratus burned it down in 356 BC in an attempt to achieve lasting fame. * Temple of Artemis at Ephesus built 550 BC and dedicated to the Greek goddess Artemis. Destroyed by post-1st century BC Earthquake. Herodotus claimed that the outer walls were 56 miles in length, 80 feet thick and 320 feet high. Beginning with Greece and then Persia, de Selincourt follows Herodotus down the path of history, war, and contention, leading to the epic and climactic clash of Greek and Persian. * The Hanging Gardens of Babylon built around 600 BC. Herodotus described Persian civilization not with the contempt and condescension of a Greek enemy, but, surprisingly, with sympathy, humanity, and even admiration. * The Great Pyramid of Giza, built around 2650-2500 BC as the tomb of fourth dynasty Egyptian pharaoh Khufu, and is still standing. The list came mostly from ancient Greek writings, so only sites that would have been known and visited by the ancient Greeks were included. The list that we know today was compiled in the Middle Ages - by which time many of the sites were no longer in existence. 425 BC), and the scholar Callimachus of Cyrene (ca 305-240 BC) at the Museum of Alexandria, made early lists of “seven wonders” but their writings did not survive, except as references. Widely considered one of the first serious works of history, Histories written in the 5th century BCE by the Greek scholar Herodotusis a highly influential account of the Greco-Persian wars. |