Way back when: Today in history

03/07/11 The first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversation took place on the 50th anniversary of Alexander Graham Bell's patent for the telephone.

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When condos were 'Surfside, Casino'

03/27/11 Back in 1876, as Alexander Graham Bell was being granted a patent for something he called a "telephone" and Colonel George Custer (at Little Big Horn) was wondering, (where in the heck did all of these Indians come from) there were papers being signed in the tiny town of Mound, Minnesota, transferring the property on the northwest shore of Cook's bay From: Charles Cushman to Seymour and Sumner ...

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Alexander Graham Bell's great-grandson now Canadian

06/10/11 Alexander Graham Bell's great grandson is sworn in as a Canadian citizen at a special citizenship ceremony in Baddeck, N.S.

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