I remember those toothpicks.
1888 Frenchman Louis Aime Augustine le Prince was granted a US patent for the first single-lens film camera. The true father of cinematography, he settled in Leeds, Yorkshire, and disappeared while on a rail trip between Dijon and Paris. Both equipment and inventor were never seen again. When le Prince's son tried to prove his father was the originator of the motion picture, he was found dead in a wood in Long Island, NY
My goodness!
1918 The US House of Representatives voted in favour of female suffrage. The vote would go to married women over thirty
Heavens! Weren't they generous!
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