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The Rock Springs massacre occurred in 1885 in the present-day United States city of Rock Springs, Wyoming. The riot, and resulting massacre of immigrant Chinese miners by white immigrant miners, was the result of racial prejudice toward the Chinese miners, who were perceived to be taking jobs from the white miners. The Union Pacific Coal Department found it economically beneficial to give preference in hiring to Chinese miners, who were willing to work for lower wages than their white counterparts, angering the white miners. When the rioting ended, at least 28 Chinese miners were dead and 15 were injured. Rioters burned 78 Chinese homes, resulting in approximately $150,000 in property damage (equal to $5.09 million in 2020 terms). The massacre in Rock Springs touched off a wave of anti-Chinese violence, especially in the Puget Sound area of Washington Territory.
View of the globe in the North Cape, Norway. The popular spot is the northernmost point in Europe that can be accessed by car.
I took contact with Wikipedia in January of 2007. The idea of a free encyclopedia with the aim of having an important part of the common knowledge of humanity felt irresistible so since then I try to help improving this huge work.
I hereby give this Coming of the Cavalry Award to Garrondo, for helping out in a long hard slog when it was most needed. Cheers, Casliber (talk·contribs) 04:20, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
Together for the golden wikistars! International solidarity badge. Awarded to Garrondo by CopperKettle. Thank you for your work in upgrading the Alzheimer's disease article and helping me translate it! Its just received the GA status at RuWiki! CopperKettle 18:18, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
Thanks Garrondo, for your valiant contributions to numerous medical articles, and many hours helping get Huntington's Disease to GA status have the Medicine barnstar. L∴V 00:53, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
In September of 2009 the featured articles I had heavily contributed to (Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, treatment of multiple sclerosis and Huntington's disease) summed to the Spanish and Russian versions of the Alzheimer's disease article received a total of more than half a million visits (566.412)