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On March 10, 1869, railroad officials, political leaders and work gangs converged at Promontory Point, Utah, to drive in the last spike of the Pacific Railroad, the first of five transcontinental railroads built in the 19th century. The driving of the spike linked the Union Pacific line built from East to West with the Central Pacific, which had commenced construction in California. On January 28, 1986, after about 73 seconds into its launch, space shuttle Challenger exploded, leading to the deaths of its seven crew members, which included the first teacher in space.
Edgar Allen Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner all have one thing in common (besides being dead): they wrote under the influence. There's nothing worse than uptight writing.
In a secluded field, a lone farmer finds an unconscious, nude man whom he adopts as his farm animal.
Hey, wait a minute!