All posts tagged "Great Burned-Over District"

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  Melvil Dewey, the Womanizing OCD Librarian who Organized the Olympics

  Melvil Dewey had an obsession with the number 10. He slept 10 hours, wrote 10-page letters and created the Dewey Decimal System...

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  Crystal Eastman Keeps Her Name, Doesn’t Do Housework

  Crystal Eastman wanted to change the world for women and to change the way women lived in the world. For that, she...