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Topic: OT - Weird History

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FearlessF

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #6454 on: May 24, 2026, 08:38:45 AM »
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"What Hath God Wrought" (1844)
Samuel F.B. Morse was originally a painter, and a good one. His portraits still rank among the finest produced in the US. However, he is best remembered for having developed the telegraph and the code of dots and dashes that bears his name. In 1844, Morse demonstrated the practicability of his instrument to Congress by transmitting the famous message "What hath God wrought" over a wire from Washington, DC, to Baltimore.
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« Reply #6455 on: May 25, 2026, 07:39:47 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
"Spider Dan" Scales 110-Story Sears Tower (1981)
After witnessing a deadly high-rise hotel fire, Dan Goodwin resolved to call attention to the need for better skyscraper firefighting and rescue techniques. Six months after the blaze, he donned a homemade Spider-Man suit and, using suction cups and climbing gear, began an ascent of Chicago's Sears Tower—then the world's tallest building. He reached the top seven hours later and was promptly arrested.
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« Reply #6456 on: May 26, 2026, 07:46:50 AM »
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First "Witch" Executed in the British American Colonies (1647)
Nearly 50 years before the infamous trials that resulted in the execution of 20 people as witches in Salem, Massachusetts, Alse Young of Windsor, Connecticut, became the victim of the first recorded execution for witchcraft in the American colonies. Although she may have had a daughter who was also accused of witchcraft 30 years later, very little is known about Young's life, except that she was hanged at Meeting House Square in Hartford.
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« Reply #6457 on: Today at 07:28:07 AM »
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Coney Island's Dreamland Park Burns (1911)
Dreamland was, for a brief time, one of the many attractions in Coney Island—a popular New York seaside resort area. An amusement park, Dreamland featured rides and exhibitions of curiosities, including caged animals, and, more bizarrely, a display of premature infants in incubators. In 1911, a fire sparked by light bulbs ripped through the largely wooden park, creating chaos as animals escaped. Fortunately, the babies were carried to safety, and no one was killed.
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« Reply #6458 on: Today at 08:14:21 AM »
May 27, 1899 — Several thousand people gathered at the Burlington railroad station in Lincoln to meet a train carrying the body of Col. John M. Stotsenburg on May 27, 1899.

Stotsenburg was a commander of Nebraska volunteer troops fighting a revolt against U.S. rule of the Philippines.
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« Reply #6459 on: Today at 10:46:01 AM »
Orson Welles has a great take

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI3RY0173zM
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