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Tuesday, November 21, 1905
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The Headlines
DENTIST'S BILL $1,000 FOR TREATING PRINCE; It Comes to $83 an Hour, or $250 a Tooth. PAID WITHOUT A QUIBBLE When Told That Bill Was Exorbitant, Prince Louis Referred It to Sir Percy Sanderson.
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On This Day
Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Voltaire (1694)
- Pope Benedict XV (1854)
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1903)
- René Magritte (1898)
- Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768)
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
44,026 days ago
(120 years, 226 days)