#tikas

[elladastinkardiamou]

Louis Tikas (born 1886 as Elias Spantidakis in Loutra, Crete) was a Greek-American immigrant, coal miner and unionist who lost his life fighting for labor rights in early 20th century America. He was the main labor union organizer at the Ludlow camp during the 14-month coal strike in southern Colorado, a major labor uprising, also known as the Colorado Coalfield War. He was shot and killed during the Ludlow Massacre, the bloodiest event of the strike, on April 20, 1914.

In 1906, Tikas aged 20, immigrated from Crete to the U.S., like hundreds of thousands of Greeks did in the early 1900s. For many, the only work they could get in the U.S. was in the dangerous coal mines around the West. Most of the Greeks in southern Colorado were working in coal mines owned by the huge Colorado Fuel and Iron company. The mines were notoriously dangerous and the miners lived in extreme poverty. The situation in the mines was medieval; from 1910-1913, 618 miners were killed in accidents.

[elladastinkardiamou]

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, coal miners used candles to make their way deep underground through the mines, a dangerous practice because of the highly explosive nature of coal dust.

The 1929 funeral of Chris Melonakis’ grandfather, who died from an infection 10 days after unsanitary dental work. He worked in the mine until the day before he died.

The strike eventually blew up into one of the the most violent times in labor history. In 1914, women and children suffocated when company-backed militiamen burned the union tent camp at Ludlow, Colorado. The Ludlow Massacre ignited 10 days of violence known as the Colorado Coal Field War.

Hundreds of thousands of Greeks immigrated to the U.S. in the early 1900s. For many the only work they could get was in the dangerous coal mines around the West. Most of the Greeks in southern Colorado were working in coal mines owned by the huge Colorado Fuel and Iron company, known as CF&I. The mines were notoriously dangerous and the miners lived in extreme poverty.

[jing0307]

#tikas (at Empacho)

[petite-dayung]

So what for lunch? 😳 I know, it's 10am. I'm always thinking of what I'll eat later😂 these things was easily found along the roadside at our kampong, few years back. But due to some development and modernization, their natural habitat (can I call them habitat?) are demolished. So sad isn't it? This is the real midin. Other than these, they are another type of fern. Edible fern. How to differentiate it? It has reddish-brown leaves. Which slowly turn deep green (which actually I see as green only. Dark n some other green hue. I have a mild color blindness on these tones 😂) #tikas #rambai #midin #lemiding

[tikastrangers-blog]

#5

i know that T.C. is deathly afraid of sharks.

i also know that, one time, when he was wanking, the phone rang. just as he finished into his hand, his sister brought him the phone because it was his mom. 

he answered the phone with his...used...hand and held a normal conversation, handing the (now contaminated) phone back to his sister. 

ew.

-anonymous

[tikastrangers-blog]

#4

I know this girl who didn’t know what Netflix and Chill meant so when she went to introduce herself at university she would say “I like to watch Netflix and chill” and everyone gave her weird looks

-anonymous

[tikastrangers-blog]

#3

B.R. is deadmau5′s cousin.

-anonymous

[tikastrangers-blog]

#2

i know that D.L finished on his little sister’s pillow after getting a blowjob from A.F.

i know that his sister didn’t know about it.

i also know that he let her put it back on her bed afterwards. it didn’t get washed for two days after the...incident.

-anonymous