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		<title>The First National Report of Lincoln&#8217;s Assassination</title>
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President Abraham Lincoln was shot at 9:30 p.m. on Friday, April 14, 1865, at Ford&#8217;s Theater. He was moved to a house across the street where he died at 7:22 a.m. on Saturday, April 15.  The news bulletins through 2 a.m. reached the New York Herald by telegraph in time to make its first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raglinen.com/2010/03/14/the-first-national-report-of-lincolns-assassination/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;One of the Most Unusual Events in Human History&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The History Channel
&#8220;During World War I, in the winter of 1914, on the battlefields of Flanders, one of the most unusual events in all of human history took place,&#8221; according to the Snopes verification of what is called the Christmas Truce of 1914.
The Germans, who had been engaged in fierce trench warfare with the British [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raglinen.com/2010/03/14/1915-january-2-daily-mirror/</link>
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		<title>Frans Hogenberg: Engraving 16th Century News</title>
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Throughout Europe during the 1500s, experiments were made in printed news, such as illustrated news broadsides that appealed to a mostly illiterate population. Frans Hogenberg was the first to successfully build a career in illustrated journalism.
According to the Hollstein Studies in Prints and Printmaking, Frans Hogenberg moved from England to Cologne in 1570 and founded [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raglinen.com/2010/03/14/frans-hogenberg-printing-16th-century-news/</link>
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		<title>The Perfect Laptop Case for Rare Book Lovers</title>
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&#8220;BookBook is a one-of-a-kind, hardback leather case designed exclusively for MacBook and MacBook Pro. Available in Classic Black or Vibrant Red, BookBook brings three levels of security to your prized Mac. First, the hardback cover and spine provide solid protection from the rigors of the road. Second, the vintage book design disguises MacBook for superior [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raglinen.com/2010/03/14/the-perfect-laptop-case-for-rare-book-lovers/</link>
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		<title>The Rag Linen iPhone App in 1770</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I traveled to Boston this past weekend and witnessed the annual Boston Massacre reenactment commemorating the 240th anniversary of the first blood shed in the American Revolution. During my trip, I had the good fortune of meeting the historians behind TeachHistory, Boston 1775 and Lessons on Liberty.
I was honored to learn that Gary Gregory, founder [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raglinen.com/2010/03/08/the-rag-linen-iphone-app-in-1770/</link>
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		<title>A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At a town meeting on March 12, 1770 &#8212; one week after the Boston Massacre &#8212; James Bowdoin, Joseph Warren and Samuel Pemberton were appointed to a committee to prepare the Patriot account of the massacre.
According to John Doggett Jr.&#8217;s 1849 enhanced edition of the Patriot account, during that March 12 meeting a &#8220;report made [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raglinen.com/2010/03/03/a-short-narrative-of-the-horrid-massacre-in-boston/</link>
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		<title>The Effect of the Royal Proclamation of 1763</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On October 7, 1763, King George III issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which legally restricted any westward expansion of American colonies beyond the Appalachian Mountains. The goal was to prevent the cost of any further conflict with the native Americans since the French and Indian War had just ended (browse Rag Linen&#8217;s French and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raglinen.com/2010/02/28/the-effect-of-the-royal-proclamation-of-1763/</link>
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		<title>B. Franklin&#8217;s Confession to Leaking Hutchinson&#8217;s Letters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If a finger had to be pointed at one person for causing the American Revolutionary War, a strong case can be made for pointing it at Thomas Hutchinson.
According to Thomas Hutchinson and the Origins of the American Revolution by Andrew Stephen Walmsley (1999):
Rarely in American history has a political figure been so pilloried and despised [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://raglinen.com/2010/02/27/b-franklins-confession-to-leaking-hutchinsons-letters/</link>
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		<title>The Stamp Act of 1765 Collection</title>
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		<link>http://raglinen.com/2010/02/25/the-stamp-act-of-1765-collection/</link>
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		<title>Stamp Act Collection &#8211; Video Supplement</title>
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		<link>http://raglinen.com/2010/02/25/stamp-act-collection-video-supplement/</link>
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