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Bertha Mears 1899 - 1978

Bertha Mears of Philipsburg, Centre County, PA was born on December 17, 1899, and died at age 78 years old in August 1978.

Bertha Mears

Philipsburg, Centre County, PA 16866

December 17, 1899

August 1978

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December 17, 1899

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August 1978

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In 1899, in the year that Bertha Mears was born, the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.

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In 1914, by the time she was just 15 years old, in August, the Panama Canal opened to traffic. Begun by the French in the 1880's and abandoned, the United States undertook further construction in 1904. After 10 years, and the elimination of malaria carrying mosquitoes (which caused immense delays for the French and the Americans), the 48 mile long artificial waterway - a series of locks - created a shortcut for ships traveling between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

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