1980s
Mount St Helens blows stack sky-high (1980)
St Helens blows stack sky-high Copter locates nine survivors – The plume from Mount St Helens reached more than nine miles into the air Nine
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Classic books
Darwin on the fossil record & the Cambrian period (1859)
On the sudden appearance of groups of allied species in the lowest known fossiliferous strata Excerpted from “On the Origin of Species,” by Charles Darwin,
1800s
Grand Cañon of Arizona (1899)
Grand Cañon of Arizona 220 miles long, 9 to 18 miles wide, a mile deep, and painted like a flower. The greatest, grandest, most wonderful
1960s
Make a milk carton bird house (1964)
Fun to do… fun to bird-watch all summer long! How to turn a Pure-Pak milk carton into a beautiful home for birds It’s easy with
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Hershey’s rich cocoa fudge recipe from the ’70s & ’80s - Look back at Candy Land, the vintage board game that made millions of kids dream of an ice cream & lollipop world
- The real death of a cheerleader story (1985)
- The Great Depression: Newspaper headlines from the stock market crash (1929)
- DIY Halloween decorations on a budget: Fiendishly clever ideas from the days before party supply stores (1919)
