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Friday, June 24, 2011
Samuel Clemens' patent on this day
On this date in 1873 that Samuel Clemens [Mark Twain] received a U.S. patent (No. 140,245) for a self-pasting scrapbook which was popular enough ultimately to sell 25,000 copies.
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