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Friday, February 23, 1917
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The Headlines
Sinn Fein Leaders Arrested in Ireland; Recently Backs from Internment in England
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Over There
George M. Cohan
The must-have
Lincoln Logs
On This Day
First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution (March 8 in the Gregorian calendar).
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You Share a Birthday With
- George Frideric Handel (1685)
- Karl Jaspers (1883)
- Kazimir Malevich (1878)
- Pope Paul II (1417)
- W. E. B. Du Bois (1868)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
lousysnapshotmovies
Soldiers
over the topblightyno man's landcooties
Suffragette
deeds not wordsvotes for women
Tech Check
Modern Zipper & Drone Torpedoes.
Cost of Living (1910)
Loaf of Bread
$0.06
Gallon of Gas
$0.15
Average Home
$3,600
New Car
$950
Time Elapsed
39,914 days ago
(109 years, 129 days)