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• 1858: William and Daniel Cormack, for murdering John Ellis

  
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  “Land agents” — the rent-squeezing fist of distant landlords — were not popular people in Ireland. These bill collectors literally ran people out of house and home: one late 19th century land agent in Ireland recalled in his memoirs having received over a hundred threatening letters and, in November 1884, ...
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• Little Wars and the New York Times

  
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  The illustration of Little Wars from over 100 years ago I was reading one of my favourite blogs recently, The Grand Duchy of Stollen , which is wargames related and deals with the Imagi-nation of the Duchy of Stollen, when I came across a piece about H. G. Wells’s Little Wars. There was an essay titled Basic ...
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• Leviathan Warships pc games 2013

  
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  Leviathan Warships Leviathan: Warships – strategic project, in which the player has the opportunity to create your own fleet and lead them into battle. You can play in single player or co-op modes, and test your ability to make important tactical decisions in confronting the real enemies. Show Download Links » ...
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• The Smithsonian in Cyanotype

  
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  Early museum photography! Thomas William Smillie was the first official photographer at the Smithsonian in the late 19th century, documenting objects, activities, and exhibitions. As his photographs were mostly intended for use as reference, they were printed as cyanotypes, easy and cheap. The results, combining ...
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• Top 10 Busiest Ports in the World

  
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  How times have changed!! The ports which were given no importance in the 19 th century are now competing on global scale. The port related costs were so less that they could be easily ignored earlier. But now ports are having direct impact on the economy and hence the importance of ports is on rise. Countries have ...
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• Undercover In An Industrial Slaughterhouse – Part 2

  
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  Click here for part 1. Conover believes we have Upton Sinclair to thank for the federal meat inspection effort, adding that his book “The Jungle” frightened the nation so thoroughly in 1906 that Congress passed legislation mandating inspection the same year. Upton Sinclair’s novel describes the life and ...
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• The Railroad in the Swift River Valley

  
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    North Dana RR Station (Image Museum site) Continuing our look at the history of the "lost" towns of the Swift River Valley, now the site of Quabbin Reservoir in central Massachusetts, as well as a nod to National Train Day this coming Saturday the 11th, we feature the railroad that once crawled along the valley ...
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• The origins of the May Day bank holiday

  
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  Enjoying the May Day bank holiday?  A resolution calling for two new public holidays a year, on May Day and New Years Day, was passed by the  Trades Union Congress in 1970 and in 1975 the Labour Government declared that from 1978, May Day (or the Monday after it) would be a bank holiday. So this is the 35th May Day ...
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• A 10th Street studio brings artists to the Village

  
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  In 1858, as Pfaff’s beer cellar at 647 Broadway  began attracting an arts-oriented crowd , a new building just blocks away on 10th Street would further build Greenwich Village’s reputation as a neighborhood of artists. Called the Tenth Street Studio Building, it was a handsome three-story structure made up of ...
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• To A STRANGER.

  
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  by: Walt Whitman (1819-1892) ASSING stranger! you do not know how longingly I look upon you, You must be he I was seeking, or she I was seeking, (it comes to me as of a dream,) I have somewhere surely lived a life of joy with you, All is recall’d as we flit by each [...]
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• Grass Hoppers and Frost

  
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  [ from Ellen Greer Rees, compiled by Helen Thackeray Rees Berger, modern day arrangement by Lynn C. Rees ] On September 22, 1859, Edmund Rees , wife Margaret , and their five children ages 12-18 months (the 12-year old was my great-great grandfather ) arrived in Great Salt Lake City, twelve-year old capital of ...
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• Manhattan’s 19th century temperance fountains

  
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  Just as abortion and the death penalty are hot-button issues today, temperance divided Americans in the 19th century. The millions of members of the American Temperance Society, the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, and other groups believed that banning alcohol could eliminate major social problems like poverty ...
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• Barclay Perkins Table Beer 1804 - 1869

  
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  Ive never written much about Table Beer, have I? Just realised that. Not sure why, just havent. Guess its time to put that right. I suppose I should get things rolling with an explanation of exactly what Table Beer was. First though, Ill explain what it wasnt. It wasnt a specific style. As the example from Barclay ...
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• Fukagawa Susaki and Jūmantsubo by peacay on Flickr.

  
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  Fukagawa Susaki and Jūmantsubo by peacay on Flickr.
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• 1883: Heinrich “Henry” Furhmann, oldest hanged in Montana

  
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  (Thanks to Meaghan Good of the Charley Project for the guest post. -ed.) On this date in 1883, Heinrich “Henry” Furhmann was hanged in Helena in the then-territory of Montana. He was the first person hanged in that city, and at seventy years old, the oldest person ever executed in Montana. A ...
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• It Happened at the Fair...Review

  
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  About the book: A transporting historical novel about a promising young inventor, his struggle with loss, and the attractive teacher who changes his life, all set against the razzle-dazzle of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. Gambling everything, including the family farm, Cullen McNamara travels to the 1893 ...
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• Hans D. Runge - John F. Smulski House

  
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  [ Hans D. Runge - John F. Smulski House (1884) Frommann & Jebsen, architects /Image & Artwork: designslinger ] In the later part of the 19th century lumber was big business in Chicago. Along with meatpacking and grain trading, the lumber industry made Chicago an economic powerhouse, and the largest ...
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• 1897: John Gibson, under Jim Crow

  
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  On this date in 1897, John Gibson was hanged for murder. In its particulars, the case itself was as minute and forgettable as a homicide ever could be: Gibson got into a spat with a plantation overseer over the theft of 20 or 25 cents from his wages. Later that night, still steaming and now drunk, he called the boss ...
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• A Quabbin Reservoir Timeline

  
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  Greenwich  The Quabbin Reservoir in central Massachusetts marks the ending of a long timeline of four towns that used to be there: Prescott, Greenwich, Enfield, and Dana.   Last week,my re-published interview with Eleanor Griswold Schmidt , a former resident of the former town of Prescott, covered her childhood ...
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• Gustavus F. Swift House

  
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  [ Gustavus F. Swift House (1898) Flanders & Zimmerman, architects /Image & Artwork: designslinger ] There once was a time when the name Swift meant meat and not a boat that derailed a presidential campaign. Over 100 years ago Gustavus Swift financed a venture that provided fresh-cut meat to America ...
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