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Armistice 100: We Will Remember Them

Today is the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended the fighting of what they knew as the Great War, what we know as the First World War. In memory of the millions who died in the conflict and the millions more who were maimed in body and mind, here...

Posted by Michael Bates on November 11, 2018 11:57 AM

Rand McNally on the Internet Archive

On the Map Scans Facebook group, someone posted a link to the Internet Archive's copy of the 1980 State Farm Road Atlas, which was a rebranded Rand McNally Road Atlas. That got me wondering about finding earlier editions, and I did a search for items published by Rand McNally. The...

Posted by Michael Bates on July 4, 2018 12:23 AM

Battle of Beersheba: 100 years

I'll get back to the charter amendment proposals in a couple of days, but we have some historical commemorations that deserve our attention. There's the big one -- the semimillenial celebration of Luther's 95 Theses and the commencement of the Protestant Reformation -- but 100 years ago today there...

Posted by Michael Bates on October 30, 2017 11:13 PM