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Wednesday, January 12, 1916
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The Headlines
PARK INVASION NOT AGREED TO YET; Mayor and Park Commissioner Doubtful About Letting In the Shakespeare Masque. A YEAR TO REPAIR DAMAGE Mr. Van Ingen's Estimate of the Loss to Central Park -- Suggests Van Cortlandt Instead. PARK INVASION NOT AGREED TO YET
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Poor Butterfly
Raymond Hubbell
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On This Day
Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann become the first German aviators to earn the Pour le Mérite, receive the German Empire's highest military award, for achieving eight aerial victories each over Allied aircraft.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Jack London (1876)
- Swami Vivekananda (1863)
- Edmund Burke (1729)
- Hermann Göring (1893)
- Charles Perrault (1628)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
lousysnapshotmovies
Soldiers
over the topblightyno man's landcooties
Suffragette
deeds not wordsvotes for women
Tech Check
Toggle Light Switch, Electric Clock & Submachine Guns.
Cost of Living (1910)
Loaf of Bread
$0.06
Gallon of Gas
$0.15
Average Home
$3,600
New Car
$950
Time Elapsed
40,322 days ago
(110 years, 172 days)