On April 27, 1667, at age 59, blind and impoverished, English poet John Milton sold his copyright to “Paradise Lost” for just £10 Sterling.
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April 27, 1789: he crew of the British ship Bounty mutinied, setting Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors adrift in a launch in the South Pacific.
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On this day in 1861, West Virginia seceded from Virginia after Virginia seceded from Union.
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The last day! We have been running a two-week-long sale on all of our pre-1899 antique shotguns at Elk Creek Company, with deep discounts. This sales ends at midnight tonight, Pacific Time. (Monday, April 27th, 2026.) Please note that some of these guns have been re-sleeved and re-proofed for modern shotshells!
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Today’s feature is a review written by our own Tom Christianson.