Fact Friday
Fact Friday 245 - Stuart Cramer & His Air Condi...
Happy Friday! On May 7, 1907, the US Patent Office granted the first patent for “Air Conditioning” to Charlotte textile engineer Stuart Cramer. While Cramer’s patent was not the first...
Fact Friday 245 - Stuart Cramer & His Air Condi...
Happy Friday! On May 7, 1907, the US Patent Office granted the first patent for “Air Conditioning” to Charlotte textile engineer Stuart Cramer. While Cramer’s patent was not the first...
Fact Friday 244 - The School That Miss Bonnie B...
Happy Friday! Yesterday, UNC Charlotte honored the memory of students Riley Howell and Reed Parlier who lost their lives in a tragic campus shooting last year on April 30. An...
Fact Friday 244 - The School That Miss Bonnie B...
Happy Friday! Yesterday, UNC Charlotte honored the memory of students Riley Howell and Reed Parlier who lost their lives in a tragic campus shooting last year on April 30. An...
Fact Friday 243 - The First Black Public Health...
Happy Friday! Thereasea Delerine Elder was the first African American public health nurse in Charlotte, North Carolina. Elder was born in 1927 in Lancaster, South Carolina. She was raised...
Fact Friday 243 - The First Black Public Health...
Happy Friday! Thereasea Delerine Elder was the first African American public health nurse in Charlotte, North Carolina. Elder was born in 1927 in Lancaster, South Carolina. She was raised...
Fact Friday 242 - Charlotte Deaths Under-report...
I hope all have settled into their new normals on the end of this 3rd week since the Mecklenburg County 'Stay-at-Home' order was implemented on March 26. As you read...
Fact Friday 242 - Charlotte Deaths Under-report...
I hope all have settled into their new normals on the end of this 3rd week since the Mecklenburg County 'Stay-at-Home' order was implemented on March 26. As you read...
Fact Friday 240 - The Spanish Flu of 1918 in Me...
Happy Friday! Thoughts on the Spanish Flu of 1918-19 in Mecklenburg County c/o local historian John Blythe: “According to long-standing custom the illness was named after the place it first...
Fact Friday 240 - The Spanish Flu of 1918 in Me...
Happy Friday! Thoughts on the Spanish Flu of 1918-19 in Mecklenburg County c/o local historian John Blythe: “According to long-standing custom the illness was named after the place it first...
Fact Friday 241 - Influenza Outbreak of 1918-19...
Happy Friday! From the Spring of 1918 through early 1919, as nations experienced the upheaval of World War One, an influenza pandemic ran through North Carolina. In April 1919,...
Fact Friday 241 - Influenza Outbreak of 1918-19...
Happy Friday! From the Spring of 1918 through early 1919, as nations experienced the upheaval of World War One, an influenza pandemic ran through North Carolina. In April 1919,...