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Desolle. Procès contre Mme Rouanet le Sr. Jougrans la dame de Negries et le Sr. Vaganai porteur des lettres de change. [s.l.: s.n.], [ca. 1784]-1786. A volume of 11 pamphlets regarding litigation between Marie Antoinette de Carrión, wife of Augustin Spinola (married...Spiro Agnew Resigns, Oct. 10, 1973
Spiro Agnew, in his second term as Vice-President under Richard Nixon, resigned after pleading nolo contendere to falsifying income tax returns during his term as Governor of Maryland. He was also charged with extortion and bribery. He paid a fine and served...Happy Birthday, Barcodes!
US Patent #2,612,994 was issued on October 7, 1952, to Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver, for a round symbol with concentric circles or a linear label with lines and spaces which were readable by a special optical device. Silver proposed the linear barcode while a...