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• Today -100: January 31, 1912: We are progressive in the sense that we are making progress all the time

  
  Whatever It Is, Im Against It — Authority: 492
  Taft, evidently finally tired of all the criticism he’s receiving from within the Republican Party, makes a speech at the Columbus Glee Club denouncing Progressives, or rather declaring that the old-line Republicans are quite progressive enough, without “chasing chimeras and... unsettling the foundations of ...
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• Today -100: January 30, 1912: Of playboys and lawyers

  
  Whatever It Is, Im Against It — Authority: 492
  Chicago’s Common Council (the city council, I guess) orders the play “The Playboy of the Western World” banned (there was a lot of heckling and stink bombs and such when it opened in NY last year). Clarence Darrow is indicted for allegedly bribing a juror in the McNamara brothers’ case.
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• Today -100: January 29, 1912: Of nurses, dead generals, and Whigs

  
  Whatever It Is, Im Against It — Authority: 492
  Italy seizes more Red Crescent nurses on the way to Libya, from a French steamer. One might begin to think that denying medical care was an intentional policy of some sort. Not a good week for Ecuadoran military presidents. This time, José Eloy Alfaro, general and president 1895-1902 and 1906-11, who was ...
  2 days ago

• Today -100: January 28, 1912: Of veterans, sacrifice cults, flying machines, and annoyed Italians

  
  Whatever It Is, Im Against It — Authority: 492
  The last Civil War veterans still in the military are about to retire . First NYT mention, I think, of a “Sacrifice Cult” in Louisiana, which has killed 26 people (five families). Victims and killers are all black, so I guess it’s not really news. (Update: the LA Times Jan. 30 issue says that no one ...
  3 days ago

• Today -100: January 27, 1912: The peace of the world is now assured

  
  Whatever It Is, Im Against It — Authority: 492
  Manchester, CT, gives a pauper a wooden leg, stamped “This leg is the property of the town of Manchester, loaned to William Armstrong, and is not to be hocked, sold, or exchanged without a majority vote of the Board of Selectmen.” Because one selectman had complained that people with wooden legs often hock ...
  4 days ago

• Is it a book? Is it a …?

  
  The Bookwright — Authority: 92
  Writing and publishing a book is the most amazing process – not just for the pride it gives you as an author but for all the doors it opens as a result.If I hadn’t written those 33 stanzas in 100 Years of Ermintrude back in 2006, I simply wouldn’t be doing what I am doing now. [...]
  5 days ago

• Today -100: January 26, 1912: Of kaiser divisions and free speech

  
  Whatever It Is, Im Against It — Authority: 492
  German Socialist Karl Liebknecht, fresh off an 18-month prison term for anti-militarist propaganda, wins the “kaiser division” of Potsdam (where Wilhelm lives most of the time). The SPD is now the largest party in the Reichstag, with more than 100 seats. First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill agrees ...
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• Today -100: January 25, 1912: Of spelling, Jews, murderer’s arms, and interracial marriages

  
  Whatever It Is, Im Against It — Authority: 492
  Headline of the Day -100: “Blease Sure He Can Spell.” South Carolina Gov. Coleman Blease sends a special message to the Legislature accusing it of deliberately inserting misspellings – explanitory for explanatory – into his messages when they are printed in the House Journal, to make him look illiterate. ...
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• Today -100: January 24, 1912: Confiscation? Really?

  
  Whatever It Is, Im Against It — Authority: 492
  3 judges of the NY Court of Special Sessions rules that theaters can’t exclude black people. The NYT thinks that this amounts to a confiscation, because white people would stop attending, and that “The friends of the negroes [presumably the NAACP, which brought this case] are doing them a disservice in this ...
  1 week ago

• Tracking the New Year’s Resolutions: The First Turn

  
  The Droid You're Looking For — Authority: 107
  2012 is approximately 6 or 7% of the way complete. There is a long, long way to go. However, it’s awfully easy for people to fall off the horse with regards to their New Year’s resolutions, even this early in … Continue reading →
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• Today -100: January 23, 1912: Of kaiser districts, lynchings, aerial warfare (with camels), and new states

  
  Whatever It Is, Im Against It — Authority: 492
  The German Socialists fail to take the “Kaiser district” of Berlin during the second round of Reichstag elections, so I guess the kaiser doesn’t have to move to Potsdam after all. The seat was won by a Radical by just 7 votes, including the votes of many Conservatives, who held their noses in order that the ...
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• Today -100: January 22, 1912: Of flower nations, nurses, and booms

  
  Whatever It Is, Im Against It — Authority: 492
  China will now call itself Chung Hwa-Kwo, meaning Middle Flower Nation. As part of its war in Libya, Italy seized a French steamer last week. Its captain then handed over 29 Turkish Red Crescent nurses, possibly at the orders of the French government, though France denies it. The behind-the-scenes turmoil in ...
  1 week ago

• Today -100: January 21, 1912: Of apologies, bores, recalls, nefarious conspiracies and disgusted kaisers

  
  Whatever It Is, Im Against It — Authority: 492
  South Carolina Gov. Coleman Blease vetoes a Libel Bill which would have allowed newspapers to issue an apology to mitigate damages in libel cases. Blease’s veto message attacked the press in such strong terms that the Lege is considering expunging it from the record. (Update: they do expunge it .) ...
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• Today -100: January 20, 1912: Of recognition, arguing Cubans, and cars

  
  Whatever It Is, Im Against It — Authority: 492
  The new republican government of China asks the world powers to recognize it. Headline of the Day -100: “Cubans May Come to Argue with Taft.” Members of the Cuban Veterans’ Committee. The NYT claims that the commercial classes of Cuba want annexation by the US. Theodore Roosevelt – this is of course ...
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• Will you live to be 100?

  
  Ruby Room — Authority: 127
  Filed under: Health & wellbeing Getty How would you like to know how long you have to live? Thats the tricky question we could soon all be asking ourselves, according to new research carried out in the US. A team from the Boston School of Medicine are attempting to create a test which will reveal ...
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• Today -100: January 19, 1912: Of pardons, spies, and mighty good godfathers

  
  Whatever It Is, Im Against It — Authority: 492
  President Taft pardons Charles Morse, a banker, shipping magnate, speculator, and general scumbag, who in his illustrious career cornered, or attempted to corner, the market in various products, including ice, and whose machinations single-handedly caused the Panic of 1907. He’s been in prison only two years on a ...
  1 week ago

• 100 years in 10 minutes

  
  Jehovah's Witnesses News and Archive — Authority: 139
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• South India shivering with cold: 7 dead in AP

  
  The India Daily — Authority: 442
  Madikeri in Karnataka recorded its lowest in the last 132 years on January 16 when the mercury plummeted to 4.8 degrees Celsius. Mysore, too, recorded its lowest temperature in over 100 years. The minimum in Mysore fell to an all-time record of 7.7 degrees Celsius on January 16, the lowest in the last 120 years. [...]
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• Indian cinema’s centenary celebrations to begin at Apsara awards

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 534
  New Delhi, Jan 18 (IANS) The celebrations of 100 years of Indian cinema will be flagged off at the seventh edition of Chevrolet Apsara Awards at Mumbai’s Yash Raj Studios Jan 25.As a special segment of the celebrations, the awards night will showcase a special tribute dedicated to the legends of Indian cinema [...]
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• Antique School Table

  
  Vintage Antique Collectible — Authority: 130
  Antiques -> Furniture -> Tables, Stands If you’re looking for antique furniture like an antique school table or desk, one great place to find these items is estate auctions.  While you can find antique furniture in online auctions like eBay, you need to be very savvy about the purchases you make–just ...
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