@daveg appears to have found the census record for Jordan Anderson, author of the very arch and admirably sarcastic letter from a former slave to his former master I reposted the other day.
Census record for "letter from an ex-slave" author?
Castro's supercow got a state obituary and a marble statue
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Soldier who was shot in eight places said he "enjoyed the war"
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A plane vanished in 1947 after sending "stendec" in Morse Code
According to the account of the 1947 crash of the airliner Star Dust, the British plane left Buenos Aires for Santiago on 2 August 1947 and vanished over the Andes.… READ THE REST
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