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William Peirce Randel

William Peirce Rondel’s account of the General Slocum disaster appeared in the October/November 1979 issue.

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On November 18, 1883, the nation finally settled on the method of synchronizing all clocks that we call standard time. Why did it take so long to figure that one out?