vaudeville performer Birdie Reeve was billed as the "World's Fastest Typist" in the 1920s, typing 200 words a minute using just two fingers of each hand?
in the 1920s, Cudahy Packing Company shifted from exporting cured pork because of British tariffs and focused instead on domestic sales of canned hams, sliced dried beef, Italian-style sausage, and sliced bacon?
the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral(pictured), by the time of its construction in 1912 was the tallest building in Warsaw, Poland, but was demolished less than 15 years after its construction, in the mid-1920s?
the Korpela movement was a short-lived cult during the 1930s in Northern Sweden and Finland whose controversial sexual rituals eventually led to the arrest of 60 followers?
Marguerite Clark left school at age 16, debuted on Broadway a year later, and then quickly became one of the major stage and film stars of the first two decades of the 20th century?
Moscow City Hall, built in the 1890s to the tastes of the Russian bourgeoisie, was converted by Communists into the Central Lenin Museum after its rich interior decoration had been plastered over?
the Opinel knife has been manufactured since the 1890s in the town of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne in the Savoie region of France?
the War of Canudos was an armed conflict in the 1890s in the Northeastern village of Canudos, Brazil, that was started by a Christian mystic and messianic leader Antônio Conselheiro and a band of fanatic followers and resulted in the death of more than 15,000 people?
after two thousand years or more of continuous habitation the Scottish island of Mingulay(pictured: old school house) was abandoned by its residents in 1912?
the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral(pictured), by the time of its construction in 1912 was the tallest building in Warsaw, Poland, but was demolished less than 15 years after its construction, in the mid-1920s?
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