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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Thursday, April 29 2021 Sponsored by Great Lakes Pondscapes in Paw Paw. Experience the Great Lakes Pondscapes Lifestyle at Greatlakespondscapes.com.  1852 Peter Roget’s thesaurus was released to the public. The original

Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Wednesday, April 28 2021 Sponsored by Great Lakes Pondscapes in Paw Paw. Experience the Great Lakes Pondscapes Lifestyle at Greatlakespondscapes.com.   1789 “The Mutiny on the Bounty”’ as Fletcher Christian led

Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Tuesday, April 27 2021 Sponsored by Great Lakes Pondscapes in Paw Paw. Experience the Great Lakes Pondscapes Lifestyle at Greatlakespondscapes.com.  1861 President Abraham Lincoln suspended the “Writ of Habeas Corpus” (US

Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Monday, April 26 2021 Sponsored by Great Lakes Pondscapes in Paw Paw. Experience the Great Lakes Pondscapes Lifestyle at Greatlakespondscapes.com.  1865 John Wilkes Booth, who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln was

Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Friday April 23, 2021 Sponsored by Great Lakes Pondscapes in Paw Paw. Experience the Great Lakes Pondscapes Lifestyle at Greatlakespondscapes.com.  1635 The Boston Latin Elementary School was founded. It is still

Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Wednesday April 21, 2021 Sponsored by Great Lakes Pondscapes in Paw Paw. Experience the Great Lakes Pondscapes Lifestyle at Greatlakespondscapes.com.  1876 The first Fire Pole was installed in a New York

Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Monday April 19, 2021 Sponsored by Great Lakes Pondscapes in Paw Paw. Experience the Great Lakes Pondscapes Lifestyle at Greatlakespondscapes.com. 1775 The Shot Heard Round the World. The American Revolution begins

Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Friday April 16, 2021 Sponsored by Great Lakes Pondscapes in Paw Paw. Experience the Great Lakes Pondscapes Lifestyle at Greatlakespondscapes.com.  1900 The first stamps in a book were issued by the

Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Thurs. April 15, 2021 Sponsored by Great Lakes Pondscapes in Paw Paw. Experience the Great Lakes Pondscapes Lifestyle at Greatlakespondscapes.com.   1770 The Rubber eraser was discovered as English chemist Joseph

Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Weds. April 14, 2021 Sponsored by Great Lakes Pondscapes in Paw Paw. Experience the Great Lakes Pondscapes Lifestyle at Greatlakespondscapes.com.  1912 At 11:37 p.m. While on her maiden voyage, the “unsinkable”

Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Tuesday, April 13, 2021 Sponsored by Great Lakes Pondscapes in Paw Paw. Experience the Great Lakes Pondscapes Lifestyle at Greatlakespondscapes.com. 1860 The Pony Express arrived in Sacramento, completing it first run

WAY BACK WHEN for Monday, April 12, 2021 Sponsored by Great Lakes Pondscapes in Paw Paw. Experience the Great Lakes Pondscapes Lifestyle at Greatlakespondscapes.com. 1861 The American Civil War begins as the Confederacy fired upon Fort Sumter,

WAY BACK WHEN for Thursday, April 8, 2021 1966 Time magazine asked a controversial question on its cover. Is God Dead? 1974 Baseball legend “Hammerin Hank” Aaron hit his 715th career home run breaking Babe Ruth’s record.

WAY BACK WHEN for Wednesday, April 7, 2021 1927 Herbert Eugene Ives of Bell Laboratories broadcast the first official TV picture from Washington D.C. to New York over telephone lines. 1933 Prohibition officially came to an end.

WAY BACK WHEN for Tuesday, April 6, 2021 1909 American explorer Robert Peary claimed to have reached the North Pole. However, his claims were disputed by some historians and Frederick Cook who claimed to have reached it the

WAY BACK WHEN for Monday, April 5, 2021   1614 Pocahontas married Capt. John Rolfe. She is famous for the story told by Captain John Smith of how she risked her life to save his after his

WAY BACK WHEN for Thursday, April 1, 2021 1957 The BBC aired an April Fool’s “news story” about a successful spaghetti harvest in Switzerland. It claimed to show spaghetti being harvested from trees and laid out to

WAY BACK WHEN for Wednesday, March 31, 2021 1889 The Eiffel Tower was opened to the public. At 984 feet, it was the tallest man-made structure in the world. So how did it get its name? The

WAY BACK WHEN for Tuesday, March 30, 2021 1858 The first pencil with an eraser was patented by H.L. Lipman. 1867 The U.S. bought the state of Alaska from the Russians for the bargain price of 2¢