While you still can, find out what she wants in her obituary: Wounded Knee or Benjamin Harrison.
Who?
Nitpick: The Holland Tunnel is named not for the region of the Netherlands but for its designer, Clifford Holland.
It is?
Drat. I wanted to buy it.
So why do you hate Holland?
And like, you probably expect us to believe that the Dutch treat was named after Dutch Schultz.
Like Robinson Ca-ru-soe, primitive as can be.
I still haven’t had my heath bar.
Well, better get your ass over to Wounded Knee then.
Remember to bring a shovel.
It won’t, unless perhaps you live to be 120. As about 15 people have said, it’s just for context. Weird choice of events, but it doesn’t bother me. It does add some color for reasons other people gave. Although I don’t know why they had to use the passive voice. “Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, a former needlework teacher, was born in 1890, the year the U.S. military massacred Sioux Indians at the Battle of Wounded Knee” has a little more zip.
Bashing? You think citation of fact is bashing?
You want bashing, surround yourself with 230 women and children, and 120 old men, and squat in a hole while fragmentation shells from 4 Hotchkiss guns and rifle fire from 500 cavalry soldiers rain down on you in a chaotic hailstorm of shrapnel and bullets. When that happens to you, you can say you’ve been bashed.
I agree with Liberal! How can you attack someone with the truth?
One reason that Wounded Knee is more familiar to some of us older folks is that the previously mentioned book – Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee was a best seller in the early 1970’s.
I don’t think that it’s inappropriate at all. It’s not unusual to mark the passage of time with references to wars and battles – Post-War, Pre-War, Antebellum, War Babies, etc.
I’d have thought so too, but you should hear the names I (and Snopes.com) got called at another site for debunking the patriotic “The Pride They Paid” e-mail at another site. :smack:
Very good book.
Sad as a two legged puppy… but a very good book.
I can’t google that without getting a lot of white supremacist sites. What is “The Pride they Paid”?
Given that it’s from Reuters (i.e. British) there wouldn’t exactly be much point in saying “was born when Benjamin Harrison was in office”. First, any Brit not up on American history probably wouldn’t know that he was a US president, and secondly I’m sure most Brits wouldn’t have the faintest idea when he was a US president (I certaintly didn’t prior to this thread and I’m a lot closer to you dudes than Britain is!).
Hell, I’m willing to bet that a large chunk of Americans wouldn’t know when Harrison served in office. I’ll give most credit and assume they’d recognise the name, but the dates (even just the general decade)? Nah, probably not.
It’s price, not pride.
And they have the faintest idea when the Battle of Wounded Knee was?
Ah. And here I thought it was a play on word on “the price they paid”. Thanks.
You’d be surprised. It’s certainly far more than would know Benjamin Harrison - and only one of the two gets a mention in high school history lessons. And Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee is fairly well known here.
In any case, this is an irrelevance - Reuters may be British, but they supply and target an international market.
OK. Well. I guess my history is just patchy then. I could place Harrison, but not Wounded Knee. In fact, I don’t think I ever heard of Wounded Knee before this. I hang my head in shame.
I suspect they’re much more likely to have heard of Wounded Knee than some president named Harrison (sorry guys - the names and tenures of your presidents are not important outside the US). And, as others have mentioned, the statistic gives a “flavour” of what the times were like when she was born.