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Jeanne d’Arc

June 12, 1429, the assault on the fortress at Jargeau by Joan of Arc was accomplished. Its many lulls and “treaties” notwithstanding the Hundred Years War in its ninety-third year.

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Track Season at Soybean Field

Spring sports season at School in a Soybean Field switches the focus from random play and basketball to track and field. The seventh-grade and social studies teacher, Jack, is the all-sports coach for the seventh and eighth-grade boys. The school is tiny, but we have some fine specimens of farm-grown boys. Some of them think they can run and even fewer of them are right.

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The Skeleton Patent

In 1927, Helen Adelaide Shelby created a patent for something coined the “Apparatus For Obtaining Criminal Confessions And Photographically Recording Them.” This apparatus took the form of a giant skeleton with red glowing eyes, meant to scare confessions out of criminals.

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