150 Years Ago: General Tom Thumb Gets Married
The remarkable thing about P.T. Barnum performer Charles Stratton wasn’t his height but his heart.
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Tag Archives: 1800s
The World Comes To An End. Again.
Was there ever a planet so destruction-prone as Earth? Prophets have continually announced the imminent end of the world throughout history. But in 1881, it was the real thing.
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The Short, Noisy Life of the Vigilance Committee
For all its display, all the weapons seized, all its show of force, and all the laws it broke, did the 1856 Vigilance Committee of San Francisco accomplish anything?
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