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Wiederkehr was named for Johann Wiederkehr, who settled in Altus, Ark., in the 1880s because the Ozark Mountain country reminded him of his native Switzerland. Johann planted native Concords and Delawares, but in 1958 his grandson Alcuin, now 43, began experimenting with vinifera and last year sold 10,000 gal. of such wines as Cabernet Sauvignon and Gewurztraminer, some of them in his own Alpine-style restaurant...
Henry Ford couldn't possibly have imagined that men would want to drive automobiles as fast as possible around a course when he tinkered with horseless carriages before the turn of the century. When Daimler and Benz, those great German mechanics, put together their first cars in the 1880s, they certainly didn't have motor racing in mind. Yet since the early days of automobiles, there have been the ordinary passenger cars and, in a class by themselves--the cars designed for racing. Perhaps it is a manifestation of human curiosity and a love of danger, or maybe just...
...looking for something to watch tonight, the selection is much better than usual. Channel 2, the PBS station, offers Part 2 of an interesting dramatic series set in the 1880s. The show, entitled Best of Families, will appear regularly for several weeks, tracing the startling transformations wrought upon American society between 1880 and the turn of the century. Everyone in History 1621 should tune in, 9 p.m. on Channel...
During the 1880s, Bunau-Varilla worked for a private French company that attempted to dig a canal through the muddy, mosquito-filled tropical jungle of Panama, then a province of Colombia. Any canal across Central America would have eliminated the 7,000-mile journey around Cape Horn for ships navigating between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. At the time, most U.S. engineers favored a canal at sunny Nicaragua. The crossing there would have been 131 miles longer than at the 50-mile Isthmus of Panama. But almost all of the extra miles would have required no digging, since a Nicaraguan...
Most collectors sell and swap in order to complete "sets"-series of cards distributed by one company in a single year. Over 2,000 such sets exist today, including some dating back to the 1880s when Old Judge Tobacco first printed crude photographs of players on cards, which were used as stiffeners in cigarette packages. Since then baseball cards have come with everything from Pepsi-Cola cartons to Burger Chef disposable trays. And, of course, bubble gum. Topps Chewing Gum, Inc., which prints 250 million cards a year and pays players $250 plus royalties to pose, makes the largest...