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July 24 - Let's discuss what happened on that day

LindaOH @LindaOHio (222806) • United States 24 Jul 19

National Tequila Day National Tell an Old Joke Day 1935 - The Dust Bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109 degrees Fahrenheit (43 degrees Celsius) in Chicago and 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius)...

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#6 Word For Today: December 6, 2017

Alice Henry @IreneVincent (15960) • United States 6 Dec 17

This morning, I was reading some information about the background story of the famous novel, “The Grapes of Wrath.” The movie, I saw years ago, starring Henry Fonda. When the prairie states became a huge Dust Bowl, the...

grapes of wrath

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About Merle Haggard

marcyaz @Marcyaz (35316) • United States 11 May 16

He was 79 when he passed away. Merle's life began during the Dust Bowl years when Oklahoma was covered with nothing but dirt during the Great Depression. His parents along with many others moved to California to find a better...

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Oh good grief! Yet another disaster associated with me.

mentalward @mentalward (14690) • United States 21 Jul 10

Well, not me, specifically, but my birthday. I'm watching a History Channel special about the dust bowl in the midwest US. On April 14th in 1935, a huge black dust storm hit and engulfed everything in it's path....

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have you heard of the black blizzard better know as the (dust bowl)?

annjilena @annjilena (5618) • United States 18 Oct 08

during 1930-1936 the people was face with something called the dust bowl it was a man made disaster caused by severve dought coupled with decades of extensive farming without crop rotation or other technigues tp prevent erosion.it...

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Do you know any true stories or facts from The Great Depression?

Geminigirl @Geminigirl (1909) • United States 10 Feb 07

Did you have any family members who went through the Great Depression? Do you know any stories or have any interesting facts about this period of time?

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