History Brief: Daily Life in the 1930s

  

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1930s USA - 38 Photos of the Great Depression in America (Colorized)

 

• The Great Depression was a global economic crisis that lasted from 1929 to 1939. It was triggered by the stock market crash of 1929 and resulted in widespread unemployment, poverty, and social unrest12

John Lennon ~ So this is Christmas.

General Hospital, took top Daytime Emmy

 That’s right, General Hospital won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series last night, along with four other awards. It was the 15th time that the ABC soap opera won the top prize, making it the most awarded series in Daytime Emmy history1 Congratulations to the cast and crew of General Hospital for their achievement!

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Israel's new grid maps add to confusion and anger in Gaza

 Israel has paired its attack on the southern Gaza Strip with an online map that divides the enclave into hundreds of zones in response to growing pressure to alleviate the suffering of Palestinian civilians. The map, according to Israel, will send Palestinians to safe places away from its conflict with Hamas.

Nonetheless, Gazans and foreign relief organizations have mocked this grid-based map. They claim that because of the sporadic internet and energy service, many people inside the densely populated strip will not be able to access the complicated system.

Furthermore, nowhere in this brutally bombed and besieged area is safe, according to Palestinians and foreign observers of Israel's aerial and ground assault. This is true even in the absence of a map. "The communications are so poor that the map cannot be used," "There is no safe place."

But some of these international organizations have disagreed. The U.N. Palestinian relief agency's director of communications, Juliette Touma, flatly rejected the premise of Israel's map when asked if it could be useful.

"Everywhere in the Gaza Strip is unsafe, even in the south," she sent an email to NBC News. "No civilian infrastructure or facility, including hospitals, medical facilities, schools, and U.N. shelters, has been spared during this war."

The so-called safe zones... are not scientific, they are not rational, they are not possible, and I think the authorities are aware of this," stated UNICEF spokesman James Elder, another senior U.N. official, during a news briefing via video link on Tuesday. 

Medical Aid for Palestinians, a London-based nonprofit, shared content on social media that the map had “left people guessing which square will save their lives.”

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