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Tuesday, September 17, 1901
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The Headlines
AUSTRIA TO BE CROWDED OUT?; Suggestion of a New Arrangement of European Politics Supplanting the Triple Alliance.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Blaze Away
Abe Holzmann
The must-have
Lionel Trains
On This Day
Second Boer War: A Boer column defeats a British force at the Battle of Blood River Poort.
Wikipedia →Second Boer War: Boers capture a squadron of the 17th Lancers at the Battle of Elands River.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Bernhard Riemann (1826)
- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857)
- Pope Paul V (1550)
- Marquis de Condorcet (1743)
- Billy the Kid (1859)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bullyfit as a fiddleblockhead
Aristocrat
capitalmy wordbally
Working Class
gadzooksblimeychump
Tech Check
Transatlantic Radio Signal, Vacuum Cleaner & Meccano.
Cost of Living (1900)
Loaf of Bread
$0.05
Gallon of Gas
$0.10
Average Home
$3,200
New Car
$1,000
Time Elapsed
45,552 days ago
(124 years, 292 days)