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  • The Worst Hurricane You Never Heard Of

    The Worst Hurricane You Never Heard Of

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    The South Florida Hurricane happened in September 1928. Calvin Coolidge was the occupant of the Oval Office. The weather bureau had been working at forecasting dangerous storms for more than fifty years, but their most useful tools were that of educated observation and data comparison to the statistics of past events. “Accurate” was hardly part…

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Eleanor “Ellie” McCrackin
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There are twelve six-part sets of Uvachrom postcards illustrated by Oskar Herrfurth. You may not know Oskar, but the name of the brothers who found the Tale of the Bremen Musicians is surely one you know – it’s a “Grimm” story! Pun intended.

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