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A picnic at Los Angeles' California Alligator Farm, where patrons were allowed to mingle freely among trained alligators from 1907 to 1953.

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Malling-Hansen Writing Ball

This mechanical gadget is a typewriter. It was designed in 1867 and patented in 1870. At that time, it was a technological wonder and fifty years ahead of its time.

The unique design of this typewriter turns it into a highly sought-after collectible. The estimated price of this machine is about $80,000.

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This photo from 1902 shows French knife grinders. They would work on their stomachs in order to save their backs from being hunched all day.

They were also encouraged to bring their dogs to work to keep them company and also act as mini-heaters by having them rest on their owners’ legs.

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Taz debuts in "Devil May Hare" in 1954.
Taz is generally portrayed as a ferocious, albeit dim-witted, carnivore with a notoriously short temper and little patience.
He got his name in the short Ducking the Devil, where he is described as a "vicious, evil-tempered brute with jaws like a steel trap".
Though he can be very devious, he is also sweet at times.
His enormous appetite seems to know no bounds, as he will eat anything in his path.
He is best known for his speech consisting mostly of grunts, growls, and rasps as well as his ability to spin like a vortex and bite through nearly anything.
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November 2 - 1994

Hubble Space Telescope observes the rings of Uranus.

This Hubble telescope snapshot of the planet Uranus reveals the planet's rings, at least five of the inner moons, and bright clouds in the Southern Hemisphere. Hubble allows astronomers to revisit the planet at a level of detail not possible since the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by the planet briefly, nearly a decade ago.

This picture is a combination of images showing the motion of the inner moons. Each inner moon appears as a string of three dots. Thanks to Hubble's capabilities, astronomers will be able to precisely determine the moons' orbits.
 
On this day in 1979 North Wales set an unusual world record - without even trying.
The record, verified by Guinness, was for the longest lasting rainbow.

It shone over Gwynedd and Clwyd for more than three hours.
The rainbow held the record until 1994, when it was beaten by a rainbow in Sheffield that lasted for six hours.
And it was only in 2017 that Sheffield's record was broken, when a rainbow in Taipei, China, lasted for nearly nine hours.
 

Whiskey Rebellion History, Details, and Impact​

Compromise of 1790 — The Federal Government Assumes War Debt​

In 1790, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison brokered a compromise that:

  1. Allowed the Federal Government to assume outstanding debts that any states still had from the American Revolutionary War, which was what Hamilton, the Secretary of the Treasury, wanted.
  2. Set the permanent location of the new nation’s capital in the South, which is what Jefferson and Madison wanted in return for allowing the debt assumption plan.

The 1791 Excise Whiskey Tax —Alexander Hamilton Urges Congress to Levy Taxes to Pay Down the War Debt​

In 1791, Hamilton recommended that Congress used its new constitutional authority to “lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises” in order to pay down its debt. This debt included the debt that had been assumed in 1790. Some critics of Hamilton believe he wanted the government to assume the debt in order to create the need for federal taxation.

On January 21, 1791, Congress passed the Excise Whiskey Tax by a margin of 35-21. It levied a federal tax on all alcohol that was produced in the United States and alcohol that was imported into the United States. The money collected from the new taxes was earmarked to retire — or pay off —the debt that had been assumed by the Compromise of 1790.
 

The Unknown Location of Hitler’s Stolen Wealth​

Valued at a whopping $4 billion, Hitler’s wealth is supposedly the largest cache of loot ever recorded.

With unimaginable stacks of looted gold bars, these looted riches disappeared from the vaults of the German Reichsbank, away from the public eye.

Many years after the Second World War, separate troves of looted valuables stolen during the war were found across the breadth of Europe — from Sweden to Spain, Switzerland, and Portugal. But these treasures could hardly compare to Hitler’s alleged hoard of loot.

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Cave full of gold found in Germany, 1945.
 

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