Heaviest Rocket Zooms Eighty-Five Miles High
WHITE SANDS N M The biggest heaviest rocket launched from White Sands ordnance proving ground rose 85 miles into the stratosphere at 3600 miles an hour. Its warhead was four times as large as the German early rocket. It was called a flying laboratory carrying many instruments. Provisions dropped during flight were recovered by parachute for analysis. It was the fourth large rocket test, all reaching 80 miles or more.
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Calvin Coolidge Dines With Guest And Dog
At the White House a distinguished visitor watched President Calvin Coolidge pour coffee into a saucer and blow on it. Coolidge then added milk and sugar, the guest mimicked the action, and he later realized the saucer was placed on the floor for Coolidge’s dog.
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Christmas Tree History Reaches 150 Years in U S
A historical overview traces the Christmas tree’s rise in the United States from Pilgrim bans and colonial fines to broader acceptance after the Revolution. German immigrants popularized the custom, with Luther and St Boniface legends cited as origins of the lighted evergreen symbol.
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Dickens Life of Our Lord manuscript sold for 210000
The unpublished Dickens manuscript Life of Our Lord, written for his children, was published after 1933 following Sir Henry Dickens death. It sold for 210000 dollars to the London Daily Mail, a historic event in Christian literary history. The work presents a simple child friendly life of Jesus Christ with Dickensian warmth.
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