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.. David Blight, a Yale history professor, points to May 1, 1865, when as many as 10,000 people, many of them Black, held a parade, heard speeches and dedicated the graves of Union dead in Charleston, South Carolina.
A total of 267 Union troops had died at a Confederate prison and were buried in a mass grave. After the war, members of Black churches buried them in individual graves.

"What happened in Charleston does have the right to claim to be first, if that matters," Blight told The Associated Press in 2011.

In 2021, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel cited the story in a Memorial Day speech in Hudson, Ohio. The ceremony’s organizers turned off his microphone because they said it wasn’t relevant to honoring the city’s veterans. The event’s organizers later resigned.
 
^ I had known about that parade (not that it was ever mentioned in South Carolina history class when I was a kid), but I hadn't known about the Memorial-Day aspect of it, honoring Union soldiers. Yet another reason, no doubt, that white Charlestonians were quite perturbed about the whole thing.

I'm trying to figure out where exactly that photo was taken, since it doesn't appear to be near downtown. I'll see what I can find out.

And I see that Hudson, Ohio was the first place that John Brown publicly announced his determination to wipe out slavery.
 
Well, I was mistaken. I hadn't known anything at all about that Memorial Day parade and ceremony.
(And it was on the site of the Washington Race Course and Jockey Club, which was used as a military prison during the war and is now the site of Hampton Park.)

What I had known about was this parade, described beautifully in an April 4, 1865, report from the New York Daily Tribune.

What really surprises me and embarrasses me is that there is a pretty much unbroken tradition of Emancipation Day parades in Charleston on New Year's Day.
I had known nothing whatsoever of this until this evening. I presumably would have known something about it if we had lived downtown instead of across one of the rivers. I never heard anything about it in school -- not just, I expect, because of the general reluctance to discuss slavery and emancipation, but because school was out and people were busy with the holidays.
 
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The longest road in the world to walk, is from Cape Town (South Africa) to Magadan (Russia). No need for planes or boats, there are bridges. It's a 22,387 kilometers (13911 miles) and it takes 4,492 hours to travel. It would be 187 days walking nonstop, or 561 days walking 8 hours a day. Along the route, you pass through 17 countries, six time zones and all seasons of the year.

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During humankind's existence on Earth, the Milky Way galaxy had completed only 1 tenth of 1 percent of its orbit.
 
In the 60s Batman television show, Gotham City was modelled after St. Louis. The map of Gotham is virtually identical to St. Louis' street plan.
 
gsdx said:
During humankind's existence on Earth, the Milky Way galaxy had completed only 1 tenth of 1 percent of its orbit.
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What is the point of reference? The Milky Way galaxy does not rotate as a solid disc would. In fact, the portions near the center rotate much faster than the outer reaches of the galaxy, and complete their revolutions in much less time.
 
^ Take the time it takes to complete 1 revolution and divide it by the time mankind has been on the Earth. Could you do the maths please? The batteries in my abacus are dead.
 
Starts at a distance that the earth is from the centre (about 30 000 light years) take around 200 million years to orbit once.

 
pigface said:
Starts at a distance that the earth is from the centre (about 30 000 light years) take around 200 million years to orbit once.

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Thank you for clarifying that the earth is the point of reference. Perhaps that is what gsdx meant. But he didn't state that he was referring to the time it took for the earth to make one orbit around the center, but the Milky Way galaxy. The problem with that is that all points in the Milky Way revolve at different rates and take different amounts of time to complete their revolutions. Without being given that the earth is the point of reference, you are in fact talking about a length of time which is variable, depending on the specific location in the galaxy.
 
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