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On April 10, 1917, four days after the U.S. declared war on Germany, the Eddystone Ammunition Works in Eddystone, Pennsylvania, outside of Chester, exploded, killing 139 workers, mostly women and children. This is yet another example of the horrors of the American workplace in this era....
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A trip down the wiki rabbit hole

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Here's a weird little bit of historical arcana: the 1912 Republican presidential ticket featured a dead man on the ballot. William Howard Taft's vice president James Sherman died just eight days before the election, and there was apparently no formal provision to deal with this eventuality...

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A certain Germanophile, whose name I do not wish to remember, came to my house that day. Standing in the doorway, he announced the dreadful news: the Nazi armies had.

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