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Timeline of Closed Captioning Development
1971: Preview of captioning at the First National Conference on Television for the Hearing Impaired in Nashville, Tennessee 1972: During a test at Gallaudet University, ABC and the National Bureau o… more →
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Timeline of Closed Captioning Development
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fookembug wrote 1 month ago: 1971: Preview of captioning at the First National Conference on Television for the Hearing Impaired … more →
Luther 'Dummy' Taylor failed to pitch in a World Series
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fookembug wrote 1 month ago: Luther Haden ‘Dummy’ Taylor (September 21, 1875 – August 22, 1958) was a deaf Amer … more →
ISD's Oldest Surviving Football Team
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fookembug wrote 4 months ago: By Fookem Summary: I found the article from Signews that fascinated me to read. It talked about ISD … more →
The Importance of Deaf History Part 1
hands2motion wrote 4 months ago: Being Deaf, it is apart of who I am as a person and as an individual. I’ll never forget when I firs … more →
Deaf Richard "Dick" Sipek played for Cincinnati Reds
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fookembug wrote 4 months ago: Richard “Dick” Sipek (Jan. 16, 1923 – Jul. 17, 2005) was a Major League baseball o … more →
Faithful Deaf Negro Servant
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fookembug wrote 5 months ago: I found the article in Silent Worker, vol. 26 no. 9, June 1914, p.172. The story about former deaf s … more →
Leroy Colombo, Galveston’s best-known lifeguard
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fookembug wrote 6 months ago: LeRoy Colombo (December 23, 1905—July 12, 1974) of Galveston, Texas, was a champion long-distance an … more →
Timeline of New Zealand Sign Language
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fookembug wrote 7 months ago: TIMELINE OF NEW ZEALAND SIGN LANGUAGE 340 BC Socrates is reported to have said to his students, … more →
Deaf Football Player Invented the American Football Huddle
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fookembug wrote 10 months ago: By Bug About 100 million Americans will watch Super Bowl XLIII today. How many of them know the hist … more →
See What I'm Saying: The Deaf Entertainers Documentary
fookembug wrote 11 months ago: Deaf people can do anything but hear. But an all deaf rock band? An international deaf comic famous … more →
Jean Stewart of Scotland, Countess of Morton, was Deaf
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fookembug wrote 1 year ago: King James I and Queen Joan Beaufort of Scotland’s daughter Princess Jean a.k.a Joan (1428 – 1 … more →
Baghchehban, first teacher of deaf in Iran
fookembug wrote 1 year ago: Iran-Baghchehban-Commemoration November 24 marks the 42nd death anniversary of the ‘father of … more →
John McCain was a chair of the Gallaudet University board of trustees
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fookembug wrote 1 year ago: By Bug John McCain is the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republician candidat … more →
Self-Taught Deaf Artist Spoke Volumes Through Art
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fookembug wrote 1 year ago: Shown is ‘Wheelbarrow’ by self-taught artist James Castle at the Philadelphia Museum of … more →
17th-century Deaf Dutch painter
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fookembug wrote 1 year ago: Ice Landscape Oil on canvas Staatliches Museum, Schwerin Hendrick Avercamp (1585-1634), one of the f … more →
Loud Noises Help The Deaf
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fookembug wrote 1 year ago: From Popular Science Magazine Issue: September 1933 … more →
Who first taught a boy born deaf to speak?
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fookembug wrote 1 year ago: Find could end 350-year science dispute By Jane Elliott Health reporter, BBC News Alexander was the … more →
For Every Deaf Kenyan, A Better World
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fookembug wrote 1 year ago: Written by Bug Most travelers dream about seeing the lions and wild animals roam the beautiful Afric … more →
Former 'Little Rascals' star was Deaf
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fookembug wrote 1 year ago: “Darla” in the “Little Rascals” film Written by Bug If anyone remembers Alfa … more →
