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Reuben Baxter Detrick
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William Hayden English
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Hannibal Hamlin
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Emory Upton
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James Alexander Walker
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Events
Science/Technology | British scientists estimate the country's coal reserves will last 930 years at present levels of consumption | 08/27/1863 |