Sand-Lot Incident

(noun)

A riot in San Francisco in 1877, incited by anti-Chinese agitators.

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Examples of Sand-Lot Incident in the following topics:

  • The Sand-Lot Incident

  • The Nativist Response to Immigration

    • The San Francisco riot of 1877, also called the "Sand-Lot Incident," was a two day pogrom waged against Chinese immigrants in San Francisco, California, by the city's majority white population from the evening of July 23 through the night of July 24, 1877.
    • Nearly 8,000 people turned up for the socialist meeting at the so-called "sand-lots" in front of City Hall.
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    • The preservation of an intact skeleton with the bones in the relative positions they had in life requires a remarkable circumstances, such as burial in volcanic ash, burial in aeolian sand due to the sudden slumping of a sand dune, burial in a mudslide, burial by a turbidity current, and so forth.
    • A lot of insects have been found to be perfectly maintained in this ancient tree sap.
  • Two Spices for the Business Kitchen

    • Lots of business functions can be outsourced or automated.
    • Pink's book, incidentally, is subtitled "From the Information Age to the Conceptual Age. "
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