The largest fresh water system on the planet, the Great Lakes of North America are estimated to hold no fewer than 6,000 shipwrecks and the loss of some 30,000 lives. Lake Superior alone forms the watery grave for some 350 wrecks, fewer than half of which have ever been found.

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November 18, 1883 Keeping Time – Historical Easter Eggs – Today in History

Forty years ago, Speaker of the House Tip O'Neil famously quipped, "All politics is local." In the age of our grandparents' grandparents, time itself was just that. Local.

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November 19, 1864 Avenging Lincoln – Historical Easter Eggs – Today in History

By the time of the Civil War, mercury poisoning had reduced countless numbers of factory workers to physical wrecks. Everybody knew the “Danbury shakes”. Erethism mercurialis or “Mad hatter’s Disease”, goes a long way to understanding Thomas Corbett.

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November 20, 1820 Call me Ishmael – Historical Easter Eggs – Today in History

Never in the history of the whale fishery had a whale been known to attack a ship unprovoked.

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