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On April 15, 1912, 101 years ago this week, a ship bigger than any before it scraped along an iceberg and within hours sank below the frozen water. Around 2,200 passengers and crew embarked on the journey from Southampton four days … Continue reading
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On the 17th of October, 1814, a flood that no one saw coming gushed into the streets of St. Giles parish in London, England. On Tottenham Court Road, one of the huge vats in the Meux and Company Brewery burst, … Continue reading
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1904 saw one of the biggest worldwide celebrations in history. The St. Louis World’s Fair, more formally called the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, was an international presentation of architecture, foods, and events, contributed to and attended by countries all around the … Continue reading
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A sobering story with a mysterious side is found in this 1905 edition of the Washington Post. When a spiritual medium successfully revealed the location of a body from a murder committed six years earlier, farmer Michael Nelson, long suspected … Continue reading
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On 10 March 1916, American newspaper coverage of the war raging in Europe was interrupted by headlines screaming of an attack much closer to home: the day before, Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa had led an attack on Columbus, New Mexico, … Continue reading