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THREE OF THE MOST POWERFUL EARTHQUAKES EVER to hit the U.S. -- each topping 8.0 on the Richter scale -- struck near the town of New Madrid, Missouri, in the early 1800s. It is hardly an obvious location. The theory of plate tectonics says quakes should happen most often along the edges of crustal plates, pancakes of rock a few score miles thick and thousands of miles across, which carry the continents on their backs as they slide across the semimolten mantle below. The plates ride over each other or grind together, and the earth shakes. But New Madrid is right...
...sign of Hot Springs' comparative cosmopolitanism that Catholics, rare elsewhere in the state, had a large parish and school in the city. The city's affluence came largely from the Federal Government, which had established a hospital and reservation around the mineral waters in the 1800s. The natives let a double jurisdiction grow up, and visitors to the spas were received with illegal (but openly practiced) gambling and prostitution. The local tales of Hope were traded for the legends of Al Capone carousing in the acrid steam of the bathhouses or at champagny circles around the roulette wheel...
...Lawrence Lowell first suggested that the Yard be excavated, Williams says. According to legend. Lowell looked out of the President's office--then in University Hall--and saw people digging a trench near where Widened Library still stands. They had found broken china that dated back to the early 1800s...
Another marker will note the former residence of Charles Lenox, a Harvard baker who had amassed a $14,000 fortune by the time of his death in the late 1800s...
Canosa utilizes some particularly clever anachronisms--Jeans uses a cordless phone at one point when being called upon by Miss Julie's father--even though it is still approximately the 1800s...