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Whig reported “Mary Jones, alias Mary Jane Henley a likely mulatto girl, about twenty years of age, arrested for being without free papers, was committed for nine days. She was sent to the North about nine years ago, by a highly respectable lady of this city, for the purpose of receiving a thorough education, after completing which she went to Liberia.” The article asserted, “The laws of Virginia positively prohibit the return to this State of any free negro who has lived in a free Stat...

℘℘℘ In April 1916, the front pages of America’s newspapers were dominated by headlines about the war on Europe’s western front, where the German and French armies were battling at Verdun, and by reports of German American opposition to President Wilson’s re-election campaign. Then, on Tuesday morning, the 25th, came news of the capture of a German ship that had tried to land arms on Ireland’s west coast, and the arrest of Sir Roger Casement, a retired diplomat. “Daring Invasion ...

Batters who made teams only 3 hits vs. Cubs By JohnW53 on Feb 20, 2021, 5:38am CST + On Opening Day of last season, Kyle Hendricks shut out the Brewers on 3 hits -- all by Orlando Arcia. Right after the game, I used the search tools at Baseball-Reference.com to generate a list of all 3-hit, complete-game shutouts by Cubs pitchers since 1901. There were 152, of which 62 took place in the first 20 years and 90 in the next 100. Hendricks was only the fifth of the 2000s. I checked the b...

Leonard Zhukovsky/Shutterstock.com “The new and enterprising Cleveland Club management has taken the bull by the horns and numbered its players,” proclaimed Sporting Life magazine on July 8, 1916. A weekly sports journal based in Philadelphia Sporting Life had recommended that teams adopt numbering “years ago”—a suggestion that baseball team owners had soundly ignored. Now they had been beaten to the punch by a football league. Even before the formation of the National Football Leag...

Sure, some con men are just too good with their schemes. However, some scams (like the ones below) were so obvious that only an idiot would have fallen for them. And guess what? Several did—and ended up paying the price for their gullibility. 10 Hongcheng Magic Liquid In the 1980s, Chinese man Wang Hongcheng claimed that he had invented a magic liquid that turned ordinary water into gasoline. He was just an amateur chemist with no advanced education, but that didn’t stop numerous governmen...

Personalities at Play in 1904 Cambridge Springs Chess Tournament The story of four top players and who prevailed by Jonathan Burdick chessgames.com The 1904 Cambridge Springs International Chess Congress gathered some of the times greatest talents, and most disparate personalities. Among them were the calculating German mathematician and reigning world champion Dr. Emanuel Lasker, who had recently recovered from a nearl...

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Longreads Best of 2020: Profiles All Best of Longreads illustrations by Kjell Reigstad. At GQ, Mosi Secret offers a moving portrait of Joe Louis Cole, Larry Barbine, Rev. Joey Crutcher, Selwyn Jones, Jacob Blake III, and Michael Brown Sr., who are the fathers and father figures of Michael Brown, Terence Crutcher, Daniel Prude, Rayshard Brooks, George Floyd, and Jacob Blake — all Black men who were killed by police brutality. Their lives were transformed by the worst kind of news, a blow tha...