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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...First woman boxer on record: Elizabeth Wilkinson. She fought-presumably men-in the pubs of Clerkenwell, England, circa...
Having laid the little-lamented assistant for disbursing to rest along with Flattop, the class is now busily engaged in perusing railroad time tables for the trip home, and seeking apartments for the new crop of blushing brides expected to arrive circa 4 June. All is proof that time runs quick as Ohliger and W. T. Johnson will agree...
...First authenticated North American instance of public disrobing to make a point. Boston Quakers, circa...
...Quickest way to make an Aussie boil was and is to tell him unjustly that his bloody island lacks culture. Without "bloody," Australians could not talk. An Aussie poem (circa 1904) made the point: The sunburnt bloody stockman stood And, in a dismal bloody mood, Apostrophised his bloody cuddy; The bloody nag's no bloody good, He couldn't earn his bloody food! A regular bloody brumby. Bloody...
...Forgery. Cooper Hewitt's favorite discovery was the transformation of polyphase alternating current to direct current through the mercury vapor transformer. He decided suddenly, circa 1910, that "if a path of electric current were established across a tube which had a single negative electrode and multiple positive electrodes, and the positive electrodes were each connected with a different phase of the alternating current, the positive impulses would be conducted successively to the negative electrode which was already in operation with its surface resistance broken down, but the negative impulse could not be transferred to the positive electrode because here...