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Weird history on March 2
1859 Oddly trueThe Great Slave Auction, the largest single sale of slaves in U.S. history, with more than 400 people sold, began in Georgia.
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1791 First everFrench inventor Claude Chappe and his brothers first demonstrated the semaphore telegraph, a system to convey information by means of visual signals, using towers with pivoting crossarms.
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1882 Oddly trueQueen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick Maclean in Windsor.
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Vintage clipping · 1900
The age-herald (Birmingham, Ala.), November 4, 1900, (Section 2)
Page 14 · mentions "meteorite"
“COLLECTION OF SHOOTING STARS Harvards Famous Cabinet of MeteoritesCurious Analo gies With Terrestial Rocks Boston November 4If any one is so lucky as to find one of the shooting stars which will fall in the meteoric show…”
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