On July 21, 1853, Central Park in New York created when the New York State Legislature set aside more than 750 acres of land on Manhattan Island.
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July 21st is also the birthday of Ernest Hemingway. He was born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. He committed suicide on July 2, 1961 in Ketchum, Idaho, after being diagnosed with haemochromatosis, and after electroshock treatments failed to lift him from chronic alcoholic depression. He lived a sad life but was a great writer.
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We are in need of a few more entries for Round 113 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest.
Round 113 ends on July 31st, so get busy writing and e-mail us your entry. Remember that there is a 1,500-word minimum, and that articles on practical “how-to” skills for survival have an advantage in the judging.