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Boris Yeltsin Shocked at Variety in American Grocery Store
The evening world (New York, N.Y.), August 6, 1890, (EXTRA 2 O'CLOCK)Newspaper featuring the first person, William Kemmler, to be executed by the electric chair
Execution of Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George AtzerodtIn the 19th century, some U.S. states reduced capital crimes, moved executions out of the public eye, or abolished the death penalty, with Michigan…
Discovery of the Yosemite, and the Indian war of 1851, which led to that eventAn account of discovering Yosemite Valley by Lafayette Houghton Bunnell, a member of the Mariposa Battallion. Tells encounters with native tribes
The Fugitive slave law.The Fugitive Slave Law document passed in 1850 during President Millard Fillmore's term.
Anti-Morale - Surrender AppealPropaganda leaflet created by U.S. army during the Korean War, for distribution in North Korea.
Anti-Communist - Russian Exploitation of North KoreaPropaganda leaflet created by U.S. army during the Korean War, for distribution in North Korea
North End, BostonNorth End, Boston
Statement by Principal Deputy Press Secretary Speakes on the Soviet Nuclear Reactor Accident at ChernobylIn response to the Chernobyl nuclear accident, the Reagan administration established a U.S. interagency task force, led by the Environmental…
Soviet authorities say one of the atomic reactors at the nuclear power plant in Kiev was damaged. Radiation had spread very far and slowly revealing…