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Sandler, Martin W.

Lost to time : unforgettable stories that history forgot / Martin W. Sandler.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-1-4027-2958-4

1. History—Miscellanea. I. Title.

D10.S313 2010

904—dc22

2009048992

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FRONTISPIECE: THE GREAT CLOCK ABOVE the entrance to the rotunda of the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building in Washington, D.C., was sculpted by John Flanagan in 1896. Above the clockface, Father Time strides forward, holding his scythe.