On May 3, 1849, the Gold Coinage Act authorized $20 Double Eagle gold coin and the $1 Gold Liberty coin in the United States.
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Today is the birthday of bluegrass musician Doc Watson. (He was born in 1923 and passed away in 2012.) His guitar work was phenomenal.
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This is also the birthday of both Alexander Graham Bell and actor James Doohan, in 1920. He played Montgomery Scott in the Star Trek television series and films. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He passed away on July 20, 2005.
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A Newsletter Update: The March, 2025 edition of the SuvivalBlog Old School (S.O.S) newsletter has been completed and printed. This issue is six pages long. Mailings should begin this week. However, I ran out of envelopes! So the mailings might not be completed until mid-March. (I now have another 1,000 envelopes on order.) Thanks for your patience. One minor note of clarification: Anyone who subscribed after March of 2024 will be getting copies of both the 6-page March 2025 issue and the 4-page March 2024 issue.
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Today’s feature article is a review written by our own Tom Christianson.