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Sunday, December 1, 1907
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The Headlines
FRENCH ALGERIA IN DIRE PERIL; Moor Hordes Threaten the Chief Centres for the First Time in Sixty Years. WHOLE Of FRANCE ALARMED Invasion Came Like a Thunderclap and Found Government Unprepared. MERE HANDFUL OF TROOPS Fierce Tribesmen Loot and Burn and Then Begin Siege of Bab-el-Rassa -- French Press Awakes to Peril.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
School Days
Will Cobb & Gus Edwards
The must-have
Rook (Card Game)
You Share a Birthday With
- Georgy Zhukov (1896)
- Nikolai Lobachevsky (1792)
- Hasan ibn Ali (624)
- Louis VI of France (1081)
- Anna Komnene (1083)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bullyfit as a fiddleblockhead
Aristocrat
capitalmy wordbally
Working Class
gadzooksblimeychump
Tech Check
Electric Washing Machine, Color Photography (Autochrome) & Bakelite (Plastic).
Cost of Living (1900)
Loaf of Bread
$0.05
Gallon of Gas
$0.10
Average Home
$3,200
New Car
$1,000
Time Elapsed
43,286 days ago
(118 years, 216 days)