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August 2, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

The Bloomsburg Non Fair in 2020 vs the Big Bloomsburg Fair in 1918

Did the October 1918 Bloomsburg Spanish Flu surge get affected by the Big Bloomsburg Fair the same month?

July 21, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

The Skies of 2020: Neowise the Wise!

Comet Neowise was discovered as the pandemic of 2020 began.. It is about to be most visible to Earth today and tomorrow, and will vanish for 7,000 more years.

It is not the first comet that appeared during an historical event!

As the rockets red glare bursted like bombs in the air, protesters in Baltimore took down a statue of Christopher Columbus.

Remains of the Christopher Columbus statue near Little Italy after it was ripped from its pedestal and dragged into Baltimore’s Inner Harbor by protesters on July 4, 2020.

July 3, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

The battle hymn of Gettysburg, July 1-3 1863.

The battle of Gettysburg.. the newspapers.. the the anthem.. the paranormal.. all on July 1 through 3, 18963

June 18, 2020 THE COAL SPEAKER

The general of Juneteenth

The Civil War ended in April 1865 and two months later, on June 19, 1865, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger of the Union Army issued General Order No. 3 in Galveston, Texas, with Granger saying, “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free.”