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Thomas Edward "Black Jack" Ketchum: The Outlaw Who Went Out With a Bang (and a Snap)
Black Jack Ketchum went from Texas ranch hand to Wild West outlaw, riding with the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang and robbing trains until a botched 1901 hanging made him infamous forever.


Victorian Maps of Very Different Male and Female Hearts
In the 1830s, D.W. Kellogg & Co., a publishing firm based in Hartford, Connecticut, produced a fascinating curiosity titled A Map of the...


How The Last Invasion of Britain Was Thwarted By Jemima the Great (Jemima Fawr)
The morning of 22 February 1797 started off in Fishguard, north Pembrokeshire unseasonably warm and bright for the time of year, with the...
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