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This can lead to dire consequences, particularly when so many people get their information from TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, and so on, where these memes rule the day,” warns Bernstein. #16 Image ...
The transcontinental telegraph was completed on Oct. 24, 1861, making possible instant communication between the coasts possible for the first time. It rendered the Pony Express obsolete.
The Marshall House, Alexandria, Virginia – the place where Elmer Ellsworth was shot to death by Jackson. (photo 1861) James William Jackson (March 6, 1823 – May 24, 1861) was an ardent secessionist and the proprietor of the Marshall House, an inn located in the city of Alexandria, Virginia, at the beginning of the American Civil War.
1301 – King Andrew III died without any male heirs, ending the Árpád dynasty, which had ruled Hungary since the late 9th century. 1900 – Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca (poster pictured), based on the play La Tosca by French dramatist Victorien Sardou, premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.
Steve Brodie (December 25, 1861 – January 31, 1901) was an American from Manhattan, New York City, who claimed to have jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge on July 23, 1886, and survived. The supposed jump, of which the veracity was disputed, gave Brodie publicity, a thriving saloon and a career as a performer.
Alan Guebert shares parts of an essay, written by historian Ted Widmer, that examines Abraham Lincoln's 1861 Fourth of July, his first as president. Fighting had not started, but Lincoln won the ...
Tom Wills, cricketer and founder of Australian rules football, one of six settlers who survived the massacre Horatio Wills' gravestone, ca. 1950. The Cullin-la-ringo massacre, also known as the Wills tragedy, was a massacre of white colonists by Indigenous Australians that occurred on 17 October 1861, north of modern-day Springsure in Central Queensland, Australia.
It's been 11 years since we said goodbye to the Dunder Mifflin gang, but the popularity of "The Office" is still going strong. In 2020, it was the most streamed show in America and held the record ...