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The Greeks entered Troy through the Trojan Horse on this day in 1184 BC. Did you know that: • Jacob Evert and George Dulty patented the first soda fountain on this day in 1833• The Fathometer, a device used to measure underwater depth, was patented by Herbert Grove Dorsey on this day in 1928• Sachin […]

Virginia Woolf was an English writer born on this day in 1882, considered to be one of the most important modernist twentieth-century authors. Did you know that: • Gustavus Dows patented a modern form of the soda fountain on this day in 1870• Michael Brassil received a patent for a candlestick on this day in […]