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Tuesday, February 29, 1916
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The Headlines
INFANTRY AGAIN A FACTOR; Paris Sees Vital War Lessons in the Verdun Combat. TRENCHES ARE "SCRAPPED" And the Old-Fashioned Pitched Battle Takes the Place of Deadlock. TWO MILES OF SLAUGHTER Greatest Battle of War Now Concentrated Within Two Narrow Fronts.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Poor Butterfly
Raymond Hubbell
The must-have
Lincoln Logs
On This Day
In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill and mine workers is raised from 12 to 14 years old.
Wikipedia →Tokelau is annexed by the United Kingdom.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Gioachino Rossini (1792)
- Pope Paul III (1468)
- Morarji Desai (1896)
- Herman Hollerith (1860)
- Balthus (1908)
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
40,274 days ago
(110 years, 124 days)