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Apparently Madame Marie Curie's papers and cookbook are still so dangerously radioactive (100 years on), you have to wear protective clothing in order to do research with them. Makes wearing gloves and only using a pencil to take notes seem positively convenient. She tended to carry isotopes around in test tubes in her breast pocket too, and wrote ( Read more... )

From the April 24, 1940 Chicago Tribune. A report on the Rhythm Night Club fire in Natchez, MS, which killed 209 people, include bandleader Walter Barnes and ten of his musicians (Barnes is buried in Burr Oak Cemetery, which is how I heard about him). Love the subhead.


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Studs Terkel is 578 years old today!


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My uncle, a UPI photographer, describes a tornado in the Tribune in April 1967.

( Damn it, it is a tornado. )