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Offseason Diversion. For all its violence, lacrosse has had a persistent appeal. Maryland tourists brought it home to Baltimore in the 1880s, and with evangelical fervor made their city the lacrosse capital of the nation. For years, the rosters of All-America teams have read like pages from the Baltimore phone book...
...more than 200 years, science had accepted Newton's laws of motion as unalterable. In easily parsed schoolboy terms, they seemed to explain everything, from the behavior of gases to the nature of heat. But in the 1880s, more sensitive instruments were uncovering awkward phenomena, particularly in the physics of light. These phenomena operated in open violation of Newton's laws. To make Newton's physics work, scientists presumed the existence of a substance called ether, which they thought was necessary to carry light waves through space. But experiments soon proved that ether does not exist. Scientists...
After the Sunday morning service at Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, the boys of the congregation would escape from their parents, if they could, and play as boisterously as was possible on a Presbyterian Sunday in the 1880s. But one of them had his own kind of Sunday game. Over a set of kitchen steps he would drape one of his mother's shawls. Then he would mount his make-believe pulpit and preach...
...Salisbury got an eyewitness view of how little Russia has actually changed in a 12,000-mile trip that he made through the Soviet North and eastern Siberia. "It was," says Salisbury, "probably the most extensive survey of this . . . region by an American since the 1880s." That part of Russia, said he, is "an empire-within-an-empire, the slave state of prison labor and forced-residence workers" that extends thousands of miles and is ruled by the MVD. "All life in those regions is incredibly harsh and grim." Salisbury saw hundreds of labor gangs of men and women going...
...1880s a series of bloody pogroms in the Russia of Czar Alexander III set off another great wave of Jewish immigration -2,000,000 came to the U.S. between 1881 and 1914. mostly from Russia and Poland. These Eastern Jews brought with them orthodoxy, Zionism, the Yiddish language and a tighter grip on their Jewish traditions than the Germans had shown...