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On this day in history
Sunday 15 November. A moment from one of the lives on Slowmarch, every day it has one.
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1863
The Gettysburg Address
Lincoln speaks for about two minutes at the new cemetery.
The Wire · Abraham Lincoln1942
Uranus
The Red Army attacks north and south of Stalingrad to encircle the German Sixth Army.
Iron Winter · Joseph StalinSaturday 21 November
1915
The ship goes down
Crushed by the ice weeks earlier, the Endurance sinks.
Endurance · Ernest ShackletonSunday 22 November
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