50 years ago today, the Great Lakes freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald [1], sank with the loss of all on board. The ship is pictured in 1971.
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On November 10, 1619, René Descartes [2] had a dream that inspired him to write his “Meditations on First Philosophy”.
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November 10, 1911: The Chinese Imperial army recaptured Nanking, during the 1911 Republican Revolution. The Xinhai Revolution (or Hsinhai) Revolution, ended China’s last imperial Qing dynasty under the Manchus. They had been in power for 268 years.
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November 10, 1933: The “Black Blizzard” snowstorm-duststorm began in South Dakota. “The size of the ominous black clouds reached biblical proportions as dust from the storm reached all the way to Albany, N.Y.” In the 1930s, these storms were called black blizzards or black rollers.
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November 10th is also remembered in the United States as the “birthday” of the U.S. Marine Corps.
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Today’s feature article is by SurvivalBlog staff member Tom Christianson.
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We need entries for Round 121 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest [3]. More than $970,000 worth of prizes have been awarded since we started running this contest. Round 121 ends on November 30th, so get busy writing and e-mail [4] us your entry. Remember that there is a 1,500-word minimum, and that articles on practical “how-to” skills for survival have an advantage in the judging. In 2023, we polled blog readers, asking for suggested article topics [5]. Please refer to that poll if you haven’t yet chosen an article topic.