Margaret Nicholson (1878 - 1949)

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Kelly Patrick Nicholson

Margaret Daucuan Nicholson

Margaret Nicholson

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Kelly Patrick Nicholson

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Lois Michele Nicholson

William Redfield and Jack Nicholson

Mary Luvilla (Nicholson) Lampman

Henry Nicholson

David and Mary Nicholson

Tommy Nutter, Joker suit

Vester Neal Nicholson gravesite

Walter Marshall Nicholson gravesite

Marvin L Nicholson

James Charles Nicholson

James Charles Nicholson

Robert B Nicholson

Robert & Grace Nicholson

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In 1878, in the year that Margaret Nicholson was born, on June 15th, photographer Eadweard Muybridge - at the request of Leland Stanford - produced the first sequence of stop-motion still photographs. Stanford contended that a galloping horse had all four feet off the ground. Only photos of a horse at a gallop would settle the question and, using 12 cameras and a series of photos, Muybridge settled the question: Stanford was right. Muybridge's use of several cameras and stills led to motion pictures.

In 1880, by the time she was just 2 years old, on February 4th, five members of one family in Ontario, Canada were killed and their farm was burned by a mob. Called the Black Donnelly Massacre, the Irish family had been feuding with other citizens of the town. No one was ever convicted.

In 1891, Margaret was just 13 years old when from March 9th through the 12th, a blizzard hit the south and west of England. Called the Great Blizzard of 1891, it led to snow drifts of up to 15 feet and killed 200 people and 6,000 animals. Fourteen ships sank.

In 1920, at the age of 42 years old, Margaret was alive when speakeasies replaced saloons as the center of social activity. After the 18th Amendment was ratified and selling alcohol became illegal, saloons closed and speakeasies took their place. Speakeasies, also called a blind pig or blind tiger, were "so called because of the practice of speaking quietly about such a place in public, or when inside it, so as not to alert the police or neighbors". There were a lot of them and they were very popular. And where saloons often prohibited women, they were encouraged at speakeasies because of the added profits.

In 1949, in the year of Margaret Nicholson's passing, comedian Milton Berle hosted the first telethon show. It raised $1,100,000 for cancer research and lasted 16 hours. The next day, newspapers, in writing about the event, first used the word "telethon."