Quo Fuit places 4 dated presences for H. L. Mencken across 2 places, from 1880 to 1943.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place H. L. Mencken is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where H. L. Mencken was documented, and when
12 September 1880exact date
Baltimoreattested“Mencken was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on September 12, 1880.”source: Wikipedia: H. L. Mencken
27 August 1930exact date
Baltimoreattested“On August 27, 1930, Mencken married Sara Haardt, a German American professor of English at Goucher College in Baltimore and an author eighteen years his junior.”source: Wikipedia: H. L. Mencken
27 August 1930exact date
Goucher Collegeattested“On August 27, 1930, Mencken married Sara Haardt, a German American professor of English at Goucher College in Baltimore and an author eighteen years his junior.”source: Wikipedia: H. L. Mencken
September 1943month
Baltimoreattested“When that member died, Mencken said, "There is no other Jew in Baltimore who seems suitable." The diary also quoted him as saying of his black maid, in September 1943, that "it is impossible to talk anything resembling discretion or judg…”source: Wikipedia: H. L. Mencken
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In each of these, a source puts H. L. Mencken and the place in the same dated sentence without stating
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June 1896month
Baltimorementioned“At 15, in June 1896, he graduated as valedictorian from the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, at the time a males-only mathematics, technical and science-oriented public high school.”source: Wikipedia: H. L. Mencken
1903 to 1914period
United Statesmentioned“There was "no reason whatsoever for believing it would be impossible to absorb them, or even difficult." Mencken pointed out that "Almost as many Jews as that came into the United States during every year from 1903 to 1914, and yet the r…”source: Wikipedia: H. L. Mencken
1923year
Gouchermentioned“The two met in 1923, after Mencken delivered a lecture at Goucher; a seven-year courtship ensued.”source: Wikipedia: H. L. Mencken
1925year
Daytonmentioned“In the summer of 1925 he attended the famous Scopes "Monkey Trial" in Dayton, Tennessee, and wrote scathing columns for the Baltimore Sun (these widely syndicated) and American Mercury mocking the anti-evolution fundamentalists (especial…”source: Wikipedia: H. L. Mencken
1926year
Bostonmentioned“In 1926, he deliberately had himself arrested for selling an issue of The American Mercury, which was banned in Boston by the Comstock laws.”source: Wikipedia: H. L. Mencken
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