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Across the Blogosphere: The Lost State of Jefferson

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Back in October 2008 I wrote a post about the proposed State of Jefferson.  Over at the blog Strange Maps is an article on the same topic as well as a map from back in the day when they proposed creating the state (Follow this link to get to that article).  The map is much [...]

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Across the Blogosphere: The Bones of Santa Claus

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Saint Nicholas was a bishop in the city that is now Demre, Turkey back in the third century.  He would give gifts to the poor supposedly once even climbing down a chimney to leave a gift.
Centuries passed and when Muslims invaded the area the bones of Saint Nicholas were taken to Bari, Italy where they [...]

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Across the Blogoshpere: Soldier’s Mail

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Soldier’s Mail:Letters Home from a New England Soldier 1916-1919
Here is a really good blog about the experiences of American soldier Samuel Edward Avery. According to the author: “This collection of letters were sent home to Boston by my great-uncle Sam during his various deployments as a U.S. Army soldier during the period of World [...]

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Across the Blogosphere: ’59 Chevy at Adventures in History

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Here’s a link to: A Look Back at the ‘59 Chevrolet over at Adventures in History
It is an interesting post on the ’59 Chevy including a video showing it in a crash test with a ’09 Chevy. I guess fifty years of advances in automotive engineering have really made improvements in safety.
Still, [...]

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Across the Blogosphere: Sarah Greengrove

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Over the last year I’ve been writing a novel set during the end of the Victorian Age and up through World War I.  At times research can be a pain in the butt, however the internet has made my task much easier.  One site I discovered is The Victorian Peeper and it has a variety [...]

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Across the Blogosphere: Wendell Wilkie for President

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Over at the World War II History blog there is a post with an audio clip of a speech given by Wendell Wilkie while he was running for President of the United States in 1940. He lost the election to FDR, getting about 22 million votes to FDR’s 27 million and a spread at [...]

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Across the Blogosphere: Today in Medieval History

Saturday, July 4, 2009

This week I’ve decided to link into a blog called Today in Medieval History. It has a rather broad definition of Medieval and focuses a bit on England, but since I’ve so far neglected that era of history I thought I’d share the link.

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Across the Blogosphere: A Brief History of Toilets

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Roughly every week I’ll be trying to post interesting links to other history blogs out in the ‘blogosphere’ to help add a little variety here.  Today, for the first such post, I’ve decided to link up to an article over at the History Blog entitled: A Brief History of Toilets: From Ancient Toilets to Thomas [...]

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