Quest Diagnostics
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Elephind: A Digital Newspaper Collections Search Engine:
Dick Eastman eogn.com
"Elephind.com is a search engine that operates much like Google, Bing, or other search engines. The one thing that is different with Elephind is that it searches only historical, digitized newspapers."
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The Importance of Labeling Photographs:
Save Your Photographs
"We had a treasure trove of pictures, but we were not able to identify some of the people. As I showed them to my parents, they really enjoyed the memories that came flooding back to them: The picture of the night that Dad had proposed to Mom at Cameron Park, Dad in his Navy uniform...
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Five Tips For Scanning Your Old Photos:
Twile
"If your family is anything like mine, you have hundreds or thousands of photos that will never be seen again. We have boxes filled with old photos (typically hidden in the attic); everything from black-and-white pictures from the early 1900s through to colour photos of me and my brother growing up."
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How to Make All Your Past Facebook Posts More Private:
How-to-Geek
"When you post on Facebook, you can choose who will see that post, as well as all future posts. However, what if you want to limit who can see all the posts you’ve made in the past? Facebook has a setting to do just that."
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1790: The Revenue Cutter service, the parent service of the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard, is organized.
1944: RAF pilot T. D. Dean becomes the first pilot to destroy a V-1 buzz bomb when he tips the pilotless craft’s wing, sending it off course.
1952: Helicopters from the U.S. Air Force Air Rescue Service land in Germany, completing the first transatlantic flight by helicopter in 51 hours and 55 minutes of flight time.
1901 Birthday: Louis Armstrong, legendary jazz trumpeter.
State Timelines:
Even though it is hard to tell what made people move or disappear, these are just a few possibilities.
North Carolina:
1719: Large numbers of Scots Irish arrived
1739: Pennsylvania Germans arrived at Wachovia, Forsythe & Giilford
1756: Cherokee uprising
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