1885 - Soldiers monument unveiled in Fremont at Fort Stephenson Park.
1908 - The new Secor Hotel in downtown Toledo opens for its first guests. The new hotel has 304 rooms, many with private bathrooms. It features a spacious new lobby with green and gold decor, a European dining room finished in Louis XIV style and large pillars in the dining area wrapped in grapevines laden with ripe white and black grapes.
1915 - Ohio Oil Company is formed to produce petroleum products from the oil being recovered in Northwest Ohio.
1916 - A sick camel given to the city of Toledo Zoo by Barnum and Bailey Circus dies an hour later after it is given a cold bottle of beer to drink by a city veterinarian.
Americans gathered at memorials, museums and monuments and the president laid a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery to honor fallen service members on Memorial Day, as combat in Afghanistan approach
Hitting the Books: Smaller cameras and projectors helped the Allies win WWII Engadget 1/16/2021 Andrew Tarantola
Modern cameras exist in high definition ubiquity they’re in our laptops and phones; strapped onto our helmets and dangling from our drones heck, you’d be hard pressed to find someone on the street without a video capture-capable device in their pocket these days. In the early era of cinema, however, cameras and projectors were anything but that. Bulky, temperamental and prone to catching fire, early motion picture technology would require decades of innovation to migrate from their gilded movie palaces to American living rooms and classrooms even the front lines. In
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