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Saturday, December 30, 1916
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The Headlines
Text of Norwegian Note to Washington Indorsing President Wilson's Move for Peace
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Poor Butterfly
Raymond Hubbell
The must-have
Lincoln Logs
On This Day
Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin is murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen, partially-trussed body was discovered in a Petrograd river three days later.
Wikipedia →The last coronation in Hungary is performed for King Charles IV and Queen Zita.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Rudyard Kipling (1865)
- Hideki Tojo (1884)
- Theodor Fontane (1819)
- Ramana Maharshi (1879)
- Ahmed III (1673)
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
39,970 days ago
(109 years, 185 days)