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Was Nabi Tajima (died this week at 117) born in the 19th or 20th Century?
A great-great-great grandmother thought to be the oldest person in the world has died in Japan aged 117.
Nabi Tajima, who was born August 4, 1900, became the world's oldest seven months ago after the death of 117 year old Jamaican Violet Brown.
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Was "St. Bartholomew's Day massacre" what people used before Kristallnacht happened?
The New York Times' first article on Adolf Hitler, "Hitler New Power in Germany", written in 1922 (but still paywalled), referred to fears of a St. Bartholomew's Day massacre. Was that the standard way of referring to an incident of racist violence…
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Attributive modification of subjective pronoun - was possible in 20th century?
I noticed an article in Los Angeles Herald, Volume XLIII, Number 304, 22 October 1918:
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The title says:
Influenza-Crazed He Slays His Family
Here 'Influenza-Crazed' seems to modify 'He'. Were there a comma, it could have modify the whole…
