The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on Breed’s Hill.

According to Wired, some U.S. experts reportedly believe the Soviets
used a “seismic weapon” to trigger an earthquake in Beijing in 1977.

There is only one surviving photo of Abraham Lincoln laying at rest in his
coffin.

The expression “it’s raining cats and dogs” originally started out as a German
saying that roughly translated to “it’s raining cats and ducks.”

Austin’s Paramount Theatre originally had three vomitoriums.

This article appears in July 5 • 1996 and July 5 • 1996 (Cover).

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