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Monday, November 11, 1918
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The Headlines
Socialist Chancellor Appeals to All Germans To Help Him Save Fatherland from Anarchy
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Till We Meet Again
Richard A. Whiting
The must-have
Lincoln Logs
On This Day
World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne.
Wikipedia →Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland – symbolic first day of Polish independence.
Wikipedia →Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821)
- Paracelsus (1493)
- George S. Patton (1885)
- Victor Emmanuel III (1869)
- Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (1050)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
lousysnapshotmovies
Soldiers
over the topblightyno man's landcooties
Suffragette
deeds not wordsvotes for women
Tech Check
Superheterodyne Radio Receiver, Enigma Machine (Early Version) & Hydraulic Brakes.
Cost of Living (1910)
Loaf of Bread
$0.06
Gallon of Gas
$0.15
Average Home
$3,600
New Car
$950
Time Elapsed
39,288 days ago
(107 years, 233 days)