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Updated as of 2 October 05 Today in History: On October 2, 1780, Major John André, a British spy associated with Benedict Arnold, was executed on this day in history. Quote of the Day: "In my view we are much worse off now than when we went into Iraq. This is not a partisan position. I voted for these guys." A senior figure at a military-sponsored think tank as told to James Fallows in "Bush's Lost Year" in The Atlantic Monthly (Oct. 2004) Take the Ann Coulter Quiz Where are you politically? Take the Neocon Quiz and find out. "History is Far too Important to be left to History Professors" Teaching isn't such a novel idea
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Stormy Weather Bibliography
Barry, John M. Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997. Burns, Cherie. Great Hurricane: 1938. New York: Atlantic Monthly Books, 2005. Drye, Willie. Storm of the Century: The Labor Day Hurricane of 1935. Washington: National Geographic Books, 2002. Greene, Casey Edward and Shelly Henley Kelly, eds. Through a Night of Horrors: Voices from the 1900 Galveston Storm. College Station: Texas A&M Press, 2000. Kleinberg, Eliot. Black Cloud: The Deadly Hurricane of 1928. New York: Carroll and Graf, 2003. Larson, Erik. Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History. New York: Vintage, 1999. Scotti, R. A. Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938. Boston: Little, Brown, 2003. Standiford, Les. Last Train from Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean. New York: 2002.
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