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OddlyTrue News Stand — August 11
One real weird headline, three odd happenings and a page from a 1910 newspaper. See the full Vintage News edition →
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Weird history on August 11
1492 First everThe first conclave to be held in the Sistine Chapel elected Roderic Borja as Pope Alexander VI to succeed Innocent VIII.
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1786 First everFrancis Light founded George Town (city hall pictured), the first British settlement in Southeast Asia and the present-day capital of the Malaysian state of Penang.
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1858 First everThe Eiger in the Bernese Alps is ascended for the first time by Charles Barrington accompanied by Christian Almer and Peter Bohren.
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Vintage clipping
Vintage clipping · 1910
The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette (Starkville, Miss.), July 16, 1910
Page 6 · mentions "weird"
“THE HOME CIRCLE WHEN I HAVE GONE WEIRD WAYS WHEN I HAVE finished with this episode Left the hard uphill road And gone weird ways to seek another load Oh friends regret me not nor weep for me Child of Infinity Nor dig a g…”
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