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"Up then, Melpomene! the Mournful'st Muse of nine, Such cause of mourning never had'st afore." Edmund Spenser, The...
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Find out more about Stephen: Stephen Wylder is an Amtrak ticket clerk and freelance writer. After two years of graduate school at the University of Iowa, he quit the history racket to work for the railroad. But Clio, the Muse of History, has seduced him once more. He lives in Elkhart, Indiana with his wife Kathleen. Send story inquiries to Stephen. |
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Friday the 13th—the unluckiest day of the year. Or so the story goes. An article in the Friday, January 13,...
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November 11 is Veteran's Day in the United States. In Europe and the British Commonwealth (if that entity still exists), it's Armistice Day or...
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When we Americans write out a date, we put the month before the day. Today is November 9, or 11/9. But most every one else shows the day first: 9...
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From the Elkhart Truth, November 8, 1909: MRS. BEARDSLEY ESCAPES HOLDUP BY DIPLOMACY AND PERSUASION “Here, give me your diamond...
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From the Elkhart Truth, Saturday, Nov. 6, 1909: SEES DEATH BLOW TO HOME HAPPINESS IN WOMAN SUFFRAGE Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore, who...
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A century ago, Americans saw war looming on the horizon. In an earlier article, I commented on a New York Press cartoon by Floyd Triggs, which...
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Christianity has a tradition of co-opting pagan holidays. People who celebrated Saturnalia, the Unconquered Sun, the birthday of Mithra, Yule, or...
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When my wife and I visited Harpers Ferry with our daughter and son-in-law earlier this month, we stumbled upon the Heywood Shepherd Memorial tablet,...
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Pearl Tatten, music director at Storer College, a black school in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, had brought her college singers to the dedication of...
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