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Let's Be Creative
07-17-2014, 10:12 AM
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Let's Be Creative
I now have maintenance men at Surratt House interested in history! One of them referred me to this website: http://www.ushistory.org/

If you look on the right-hand side, they are soliciting a contest for catchy headlines. Let's see how creative you are with historical headlines. My first attempt was: NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., April 15, 1865. Crazed Actor Takes Shot In The Dark.

I put this under "Other" so that other events in history could be used also.
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07-17-2014, 10:21 AM
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RE: Let's Be Creative
Thanks, Laurie!

Sounds like fun!

"The Past is a foreign country...they do things differently there" - L. P. Hartley
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07-19-2014, 05:30 AM
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My headline??

BOOTH HITS NUMBER ONE WITH A BULLET
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07-19-2014, 10:13 AM
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(07-19-2014 05:30 AM)Hess1865 Wrote:  My headline??

BOOTH HITS NUMBER ONE WITH A BULLET

Good one.
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07-19-2014, 04:55 PM
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Booth's last shot!-Herb
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07-23-2014, 09:11 AM
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RE: Let's Be Creative
Edward Percy Moran (1862 – 1935) was creative, example:
   
Not the Lincolns, but some other great "history" paintings are here:
https://americangallery.wordpress.com/2013/06/
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