Sunday, December 23, 2007

on this date

Paul Hornung, Football Hall of Famer, is 72
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in 1823 The poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" by Clement C. Moore was first published, in the Troy (N.Y.) Sentinel.
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in 1871
, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.)

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