Sand-Lot Incident
(noun)
A riot in San Francisco in 1877, incited by anti-Chinese agitators.
Examples of Sand-Lot Incident in the following topics:
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The Sand-Lot Incident
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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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Fossil Formation
- 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.
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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. "