Show r u vw m a NotebooK oie The Will war with Spain was one or of the t e shortest In tor l It lasted not quite quile four Caul months and cost the American t government t more than 11 mutt mIl mIllion mutton lion on dollars There wl ver j l only three engagements of any con con- consequence sequence the naval al b at and ami Santiago and the theland theland land fight around Santiago One hl history of the war w ar written ip 1899 br by A Johnston reported total den deaths from nil all causes cn among U S troops nilI to tobe tobe I be 2624 of whom 2225 2215 died of fevers an and other Spa Spanish n is h losses arc not accurately ac- ac accurately known r rOn On February 11 1776 the theU theU U S Marine Corps undertook its rust first mission a to shun assault 1 against aln t the British at New In the na- na hams sailing from from Philadelphia un on this date under l command of Commodore Esek Hopkins S I a Some years ears ago on Feb Feb- February 11 1847 Thomas r ha Edison was born at Milan Ohio llis formal education con I con con- consisted of three months at a Port I Huron I public school j He was a railroad newspaper boy at twelve and took out hi his first patent for no electrical vote recorder iri in hinny l in- in inventions followed Including the I he t ani 1 find the canida camera lie Ill also disco the Edison Edl on effect the of from n II filament to n a plate ot of met metal a I insi Inside e an in- in Incandescent candescent globe forerunner cr crof of the radio tube 4 oj 4 J Agricultural are ure as 01 old a the nation On February II 11 1785 in Philadelphia 23 21 members of the Philadelphia Society for Ill 0 mot In J Agri- Agri Agriculture culture culluri met to In cli dicus cu s such matters as Insect bisect control pre pre- of soil oll ero erosion und and ero crop relation r Abraham Lincoln believed ed that education was the lion for Cor complete living li lie He made full use of the funnily said to contain the e Aesop ops op's s 's Fables Fable Defoe's Ii Crusoe Bunyan's Pilgrims Pilgrim's Progress s Life of Washington A history of the United States Slates md and the dictionary |