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A Newspaper Article From 1963 Predicted a Phone That You’d One Day Be Able to Put in Your Pocket

The concept of a cellphone existed long before you held one in your hand. In 1963, a newspaper article from the Mansfield News-Journal accurately predicting people would be able to carry a phone in their pocket in the future. The article was published on April 18, 1963. It features a picture of a woman holdingContinue reading “A Newspaper Article From 1963 Predicted a Phone That You’d One Day Be Able to Put in Your Pocket”

24 Tragic Photos of the Kent State Shootings, 1970

On May 4, 1970, at Ohio’s Kent State University, four American citizens were murdered by their own government. A line of 29 men of the Ohio National Guard marched up before a group of unarmed protesters and opened fire, killing four and wounding nine others. It’s an episode now burned into history as the KentContinue reading “24 Tragic Photos of the Kent State Shootings, 1970”