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Thursday, December 28, 1905
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The Headlines
REGIMENT JOINS MOSCOW REBELS; Battle Continues -- Guards Sent from St. Petersburg. WOMEN AMONG THE FIGHTERS Display More Ferocity Than the Men -- Fifty Officers from Manchuria Captured.
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In My Merry Oldsmobile
Gus Edwards
The must-have
Land's Lord (Precursor to Monopoly)
You Share a Birthday With
- Woodrow Wilson (1856)
- John von Neumann (1903)
- Arthur Eddington (1882)
- F. W. Murnau (1888)
- Lili Elbe (1882)
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
43,989 days ago
(120 years, 189 days)