Did you know that “Taken back” is a nautical term. If the wind suddenly changed direction a sailing ship stopped moving forward. It was ‘taken aback’, which was a bit of a shock for the sailors.
VINEGAR OF THE FOUR THIEVES: Recipes & curious tips from the past
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Did you know the first breaking news event covered by helicopter was in Baldwin Hills, Ca.
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The way to a man’s heart – good pie-making? This author from 1886 thinks so..
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Eleven year old girl “They say I’m too little to work steady” – {photographs from 1911}
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The Federal Government once owned towns in the United States
Alabama Pioneers
- Did you know the first breaking news event covered by helicopter was in Baldwin Hills, Ca.
- People and news transcribed from the April 2, 1874 edition of The Birmingham Iron Age newspaper
- Strange duel included encasing his leg in a hollow tree stump
- Letter from a WWI soldier in France, December 5, 1918
- A fire, an oyster supper, and a local contest occurred in Phenix City, Alabama in 1909
- SATURDAY SECRETS – Old ways to repel roaches, mice & other bugs
- BIOGRAPHY and GENEALOGY – Jeffries A. Blunt DEc. 5, 1861 Perry and Hale Counties, Alabama
- See the BIOGRAPHY: Robert Patton McDavid born 1867
- Francis Scott Key who wrote The Star Spangled Banner shared a close friendship with Alabama Governor Gayle’s wife and daughter
- The difficult life of the Stringers – Uniontown, Perry County, Alabama – Part II
