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Poetry for Winter
Image from www.wsbt.com Winter Coming A week or so since, we were forcibly reminded of the following, by Hood: Summer’s gone and over! Fogs are falling down; And with russet tinges, Autumn… more →
YesterYear Once More
1871: Levuka - Australia sailing time 11 to 20 days
wrote 2 days ago: “The Fijian market is supplied by Sydney and New Zealand as the Melbourne route is not economic due … more →
Poetry for Winter
wrote 1 month ago: Image from www.wsbt.com Winter Coming A week or so since, we were forcibly reminded of the following … more →
Johnny Clem: The Boy of Chickamauga
wrote 2 months ago: Little Johnny Clem Image above can be found on Find-A-Grave (posted by Grave Tagr,) along with a bio … more →
Paintings of Everyday Life
wrote 2 months ago: via::curated Club Night::George Bellows, 1907. Now on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, americ … more →
Commune De Paris, 1871 - Winter 2009
wrote 2 months ago: Style yourself this winter with a couple of pieces from Commune De Paris, 1871 which has just previe … more →
An Ohio Pioneer Woman's Obituary
wrote 2 months ago: From the TRIBUNE. DIED — December 31st, 1870, Mrs. Martha Alford, re???? of Esquire R.B. Alfor … more →
Jim Bludso (of the Prairie Belle)
wrote 2 months ago: Image from http://winmillfamily.com/riverboat_disaster.jpg JIM BLUDSO (Of the Praire Belle.) BY JOHN … more →
A Bully Gets His Due (The Kightlinger Murder)
wrote 2 months ago: Plank Road Bridge ( Crawford Co., PA built 1895) Image from Historic Bridges website. This is not th … more →
The Burning of Petroleum Centre aka "Sodom and Gomorrah"
wrote 4 months ago: Petroleum Centre - Washington St. - 1868 (Image from www.petroleumhistory.org) Destructive Fire at P … more →
The United States Isn't a Country - It's a Corporation!
wrote 5 months ago: We celebrate this day in honor of our “independence”. We call ourselves a free people in … more →
Murderess Laura D. Fair
wrote 5 months ago: Tahoe House - Virginia City, Nevada The jury in the case of Laura D. Fair, murderer of A.P. Crittend … more →
The Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871
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wrote 6 months ago: The Franco Prussian War in 1870-1871, revolutionized the balanced of power that erupted before the w … more →
$15,000 (1871)
wrote 6 months ago: Ivers Whitney Adams knew a very good thing when he saw it. He was very interested in professional ba … more →
What Would Socialist Democracy Look Like?
wrote 7 months ago: by Ian Birchall Most politicians and journalists talk as though the only possible sort of democracy … more →
Good Looking Men Are Too Great A Risk
wrote 8 months ago: Cotton Mill Workers (image from http://thepointofpittsburgh.vox.com) The proprietor of a cotton fact … more →
20 July 1871: Hennings, Sagar and Woods create Fiji “Government”, at Levuka, fund private army; drill 29 Fijians to fight “Ba mountaineeers”
wrote 8 months ago: The North Otago Times, reported “A body of over over 29 natives were being put through their facings … more →
The Bonfire of the Bonus Babies
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wrote 9 months ago: The Fifth Horseman - TARP Fund Distribution On some level, I understand why the management at AI … more →
Jacob Fournais "Old Pinau" Dies at 134 Years-Old
wrote 9 months ago: THE OLDEST INHABITANT. Death of a Man 134 Years Old. (From the Kansas City, (Mo.) Journal.) On Satur … more →
Cow is a Noun
wrote 10 months ago: NOTHING LIKE GRAMMAR. — Nothing like grammar! Better go without a cow than go without that. Th … more →
