On April 27, 1667, at age 59, blind and impoverished, English poet John Milton [1] 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 [2], 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.