On this day in 1897, the Lattimer Massacre occurred near Hazelton, Pennsylvania when a Sheriff's posse fired into a crowd of unarmed, striking miners, killing 19. Miners, mostly Eastern European immigrants, had been protesting for better pay and union recognition.
A week prior, over 3,000 miners had gone on strike, demanding better pay and an end to the forced use of the company store. On the morning of September 10th, approximately 400 miners peacefully marched to a newly opened coal mine in Lattimer to support a new United Mine Workers (UMW) union there.
After refusing an order to disperse by a Luzerne County sheriff's posse, the posse fired into the crowd. Nineteen miners were killed and several dozen were wounded.
Despite the fact that sheriffs had been overhead joking about how many strikers they would kill that morning, as well as medical evidence that demonstrated miners were mostly shot in the back, the sheriff and seventy-three deputies were acquitted at trial, insisting that they were charged by the crowd.
The massacre was a turning point in the history of the United Mine Workers (UMW), who received more than 10,000 new members in the aftermath of the massacre.
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A monk agrees to show a visitor around the monastery. After a walk through the courtyard, they sit down for dinner with all of the monks. It's relatively quiet, until one monk shouts out "15!" — and all burst into laughter. The visitor is confused and asks why they found that humorous -"15, that's not particularly funny right?".
The monk explains that they've been together for so long they don't tell each other jokes anymore — rather, they've enumerated them all. Another monk at the table goes "56!"— this receives laughter, though less than the previous one. The visitor asks why that one didn't get as many laughs, and the monk replies "the 56 one just isn't as funny."
The visitor says he understands, and wants to give it a go himself; he yells "126!". The entire hall erupts, there's people crying from laughter, and only after ten minutes have the monks calmed down.
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The visitor turns to the monk and goes "I must've told a really good one!". "No", replies the monk, "we've actually just never heard that one before!"This only its in prison and nobody laughs "some people just cant tell a joke"
Okay.
If you're actually reading Hegel as per your other comment, I'd think you'd have liked this joke