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Did you know that there’s a love story behind the first Memorial Day?
When the flowers are reverently placed on the graves on Memorial Day, there will be many indebted to General John Alexander Logan. Here’s why.
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Get laced up with more than 200 classic Victorian corsets
Throughout the 1800s, clothing styles for women changed considerably. Come take a trip through history with this gallery of more than 200 corset styles!
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Here Come the Brides theme song & lyrics (1968-1970)
Here Come The Brides was an hour-long comedy/Western TV series set in Seattle in the 1870s about a family of loggers in the new West who had to bring in 100 women as potential brides. While the show was set in the past, it impacted the present — like launching Bobby Sherman and David Soul as teen idols.
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Views of Fairmount Park, Philadelphia (1870)
Fair Mount Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Seen below: The dam, the brook, band house, entrance to Lemon Hill, Iron Spring, a fountain, the Arch, the Mansion
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Back 50 years for a new hairstyle (1921)
Back just half a century for a new style for 1921 by Cora Moore, New York’s Fashion Authority New York (Special by Mail) – There’s
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The South looks back on Christmas Eve, 1870
Christmas To-morrow is Christmas: the day of days; when the sublime harmonies which nineteen centuries ago sounded on the plains of Bethlehem are echoed in
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