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Festus Thompson 1899 - 1974

Festus Thompson of Norfolk, Norfolk City County, Virginia was born on July 29, 1899, and died at age 74 years old in January 1974.
Festus Thompson
Norfolk, Norfolk City County, Virginia 23503
July 29, 1899
January 1974
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    1899

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    July 29, 1899
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    1974

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    January 1974
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    Festus Thompson lived 2 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 74.
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In 1899, in the year that Festus Thompson 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 1922, by the time he was 23 years old, on June 22, coal miners in Herrin Illinois, were on strike (coal miners had been on strike nationally since April 1). The striking miners were outraged at the strikebreakers (scabs) that the company had brought in and laid siege to the mine. Three union workers were killed when gunfire was exchanged. The next day, union miners killed 23 strikebreakers and mine guards. No one, on either side, ever faced jail time.
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