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...bitten by a dog, remember this-not once in many thousand times is the dog rabid. Rabies exists, but it is very rare. Of the almost uncountable bites inflicted during a term of years on attendants in the New York City dog pounds, not one caused a case of rabies...
Biggest and noisiest in history, the 1936 Olympics were scheduled to last for 16 days. Five thousand athletes from 50 countries will compete in 22 sports, watched by 3,500,000 spectators, recorded by 1,500 reporters. To accommodate all this, Berlin, cheated of the 1916 Olympics by the War, spent $24,000,000 on municipal improvements; a 325-acre Reichssportfeld including four stadiums, an outdoor theatre, basketball courts, pools, a polo field, a gymnasium; and an Olympic Village conveniently close to Staaken Airport which can use it for barracks when the Games are over...
...field at Manassas. He was lean, Kentucky-born Major Stonewall Jackson of the 12th U. S. Infantry, no kin to his famed namesake, commanding a "Confederate" force of 1,000 Army men and R.O.T.C. boys in a re-enactment of one of the South's proudest battles. A thousand Marines from Quantico, in special blue fatigue uniforms, took the part of Union troops...
Again, many a Washingtonian had ridden down to the same hilltop to join a crowd of some 40,000 cheering, rebel-yelling spectators. Five thousand automobiles were parked around the field. Through loudspeakers, Dr. Douglas Southall Freeman, editor of the Richmond News Leader and biographer of Robert E. Lee, began telling the story of the battle. Listeners grinned as this son of a Confederate veteran kept referring to the Southern forces as "our side." In the stands sat Harry Wooding, 92, mayor of Danville, Va. since 1892, who had fought under Longstreet at Manassas. Also present was General Longstreet...
...Indian who took her for his squaw. Organized warfare in the wilderness was a prolonged nightmare, with militiamen quarreling with regulars, regulars making more enemies by attacking the wrong Indian tribes. When General Herkimer, superb Indian fighter, led 800 militiamen against Butler's force of a thousand British regulars and Tories and a thousand Indians, he was driven into an ambush by his cocky, inexperienced officers. After he had driven the enemy off, directed a six-hour battle despite a shattered leg, he lost his life when General Benedict Arnold sent an inexperienced doctor to amputate. Before...