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Article: Man finds calling in Fourth of July history
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- Capital (Annapolis)
- Article date:
- July 6, 2008
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CLARKSBURG (AP) - Historian James Heintze can tick off colorful
accounts of how the nation has celebrated the Fourth of July over
the years: In the 19th century, canons fired, church bells sounded
and fireworks exploded.
Indianapolis residents watched in 1911 as two trains purposely
collided at full speed, the locomotive personnel bailing out before
the crash.
The gray-haired, bespectacled academic has chronicled just about
everything there is to know about commemorating the birth of the
United States. His 360-page, factoid-packed book, "The Fourth of
July Encyclopedia," was published last year, and he's now moved on
to researching a book about Fourth-related music. He has a weighty
Web site ...
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