Egyptian soldiers fired into a crowed of Muslims Najadis, killing 25 of them, following a protest that began when the Egyptians were playing music while carrying the Mahmal through the holy city of Mecca during the Hajj pilgrimage, to which the Najadis took offense.
It's often forgotten in the West that Islam is far more internally divided than Christianity, a fact that's aided by the fact that there is no central head of Islam.
The Fédération Internationale de Philatélie was formed for stamp collecting and other branches of philately in at Castagnola in Switzerland.
It's the oldest such organization in the world.
Princess Olga Constantinovna of Russia, 74, former Queen Consort of Greece from 1867 to 1913 as the wife of King Geórgios I, and briefly regent for one month in 1920, died in exile in Rome.
Congress was getting ready to go home.
Congress of that era, and all the way up into at least the 90s, really did work harder than it currently does. I've heard an interview of a member of Congress who was out of office for a decade or more and who was shocked when he went back about how much real work had decreased. It's not hard to see that the current Congress is a model of being ineffective.
I wonder, in part, if modern transportation contributes to that. And the net definitely does.
You could get really fresh butter in Casper.
I knew that you could get locally produced butter in the 20s (and 30s, and 40s, and at least the early 50s), but I didn't really give that all that much thought.
Weirdest coffee ad ever.
And Out Our Way explored a misunderstanding.
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