On December 10, 1906 the president of the United States was awarded the Nobel Prize prize for peace. It was a controversial award. The award represents the unique time in history, the complex legacy of the nations twenty-sixth president, and the persistent disagreement over an award for peace given in a world where reality makes peace uncommon at best.
The appeal of one strange object, which achieved dizzying popularity in my lifetime, and today lives on mostly for nostalgia, is not so difficult to explain. All you need to do is turn one on and wait.
During the civil war, the manufacture of powder and explosives was often handled by the most vulnerable, young women and children, whose labor was needed when so many men had been sent off to war. On March 13, 1863, the confederacy experienced a munitions disaster, in the confederate capitol of Richmond.