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Monday, January 23, 1905
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The Headlines
DAY OF TERROR IN CZAR'S CAPITAL; Troops Slay Women and Children with Men. LED BY PRIEST TO DEATH Workmen Force Guards to Fire to Stop Them. BARRICADES IN STREETS A General Killed and Other Officers Attacked -- Crowds Shout "Down With the Czar."
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
In My Merry Oldsmobile
Gus Edwards
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Land's Lord (Precursor to Monopoly)
You Share a Birthday With
- David Hilbert (1862)
- Stendhal (1783)
- Édouard Manet (1832)
- Subhas Chandra Bose (1897)
- Otto Diels (1876)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bullyfit as a fiddleblockhead
Aristocrat
capitalmy wordbally
Working Class
gadzooksblimeychump
Tech Check
Jukebox, Silencers & Novocain.
Cost of Living (1900)
Loaf of Bread
$0.05
Gallon of Gas
$0.10
Average Home
$3,200
New Car
$1,000
Time Elapsed
44,328 days ago
(121 years, 163 days)