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Thursday, January 16, 1913
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The Headlines
FINDS SON; DROPS DEAD.; Discovered Through Mother's Dream, Father Dies from Emotion.
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Peg o' My Heart
Fred Fischer
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Erector Set
On This Day
Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan writes his first letter to G. H. Hardy at Cambridge, stating without proof various formulae involving integrals, infinite series, and continued fractions, beginning a long correspondence between the two as well as widespread recognition of Ramanujan's results.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Fulgencio Batista (1901)
- Vittorio Alfieri (1749)
- John C. Breckinridge (1821)
- Ethel Merman (1908)
- Franz Brentano (1838)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
lousysnapshotmovies
Soldiers
over the topblightyno man's landcooties
Suffragette
deeds not wordsvotes for women
Tech Check
The Zipper, Refrigerator for Home Use & Crossword Puzzles.
Cost of Living (1910)
Loaf of Bread
$0.06
Gallon of Gas
$0.15
Average Home
$3,600
New Car
$950
Time Elapsed
41,413 days ago
(113 years, 168 days)