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Monday, July 14, 1902
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The Headlines
CHURCH WAR LASTED 12 YEARS; Pastor of the Jamestown (Penn.) United Presbyterian Church Ends a Long Fight by Resigning.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home
Hughie Cannon
The must-have
Teddy Bear
On This Day
The Campanile in St Mark's Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta.
Wikipedia →Peruvian explorer and farmer Agustín Lizárraga discovers Machu Picchu, the "Lost City of the Incas".
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Gustav Klimt (1862)
- Cardinal Mazarin (1602)
- Gavrila Derzhavin (1743)
- Arthur de Gobineau (1816)
- Buenaventura Durruti (1896)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bullyfit as a fiddleblockhead
Aristocrat
capitalmy wordbally
Working Class
gadzooksblimeychump
Tech Check
Air Conditioner, Hearing Aids & Lie Detector (Polygraph).
Cost of Living (1900)
Loaf of Bread
$0.05
Gallon of Gas
$0.10
Average Home
$3,200
New Car
$1,000
Time Elapsed
45,252 days ago
(123 years, 357 days)