This day in history: Did you know...

Wednesday, 8 October 2014

From Wikipedia's new and recently improved content:

... that Margaret McLean (pictured) was president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria for almost a decade, and was appointed an honorary vice-president after her retirement?
... that the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad's Merchants Limited was the last all-parlor car passenger train in the United States?
... that David A. Randall obtained the typescripts of Ian Fleming's James Bondnovels for the Lilly Library?
... that during dry weather, the Texas toad remains dormant?
... that when the Transcendentalist poet and banker Samuel Gray Ward became a merchant rather than a painter, it deeply disappointed his friends Margaret Fuller andRalph Waldo Emerson?
... that despite the upper reaches of the Crooked Run being acidic due to acid rain, the creek is still considered Class A Wild Trout Waters?
... that the Kray twins allegedly extorted Esmeralda's Barn from Peter Rachman?

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