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Saturday, September 5, 1908
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The Headlines
WRIGHT FLIES AGAIN; ARMY MEN THRILLED; Second Experiment at Washington Results in Remarkably Successful Use of Aeroplane. CIRCLED COURSE 5 TIMES Then Aviator Brought His Machine to Earth with the Lightness of a Bit of Thistledown. WRIGHT FLIES AGAIN; ARMY MEN THRILLED
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Shine On, Harvest Moon
Nora Bayes & Jack Norworth
The must-have
Rook (Card Game)
You Share a Birthday With
- Louis XIV (1638)
- Caspar David Friedrich (1774)
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888)
- Tommaso Campanella (1568)
- Louis VIII of France (1187)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bullyfit as a fiddleblockhead
Aristocrat
capitalmy wordbally
Working Class
gadzooksblimeychump
Tech Check
Ford Model T (Assembly Line), Geiger Counter & Cellophane.
Cost of Living (1900)
Loaf of Bread
$0.05
Gallon of Gas
$0.10
Average Home
$3,200
New Car
$1,000
Time Elapsed
43,007 days ago
(117 years, 302 days)