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52. The Bubble Project

A collaborative and interdisciplinary research initiative on the subject of the South Sea Bubble, the first great stock-market crash of 1720.
http://is.dal.ca/~dmcneil/bubble.html - 16-06-2003
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54. The History of the Dow Jones Averages

Information about how Charles Dow devised the now famous stock averages and a chronology of their activity from 1884 to 1995.
http://www.cftech.com/BrainBank/FINANCE/DowJonesAvgsHist.html - 30-01-2004
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57. Transatlantic Cable Communications

History of the first transatlantic cables linking Britain and North America, the socio-economic impacts, famous messages such as the messages from the Titanic, phot
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/cable/ - 01-02-2004
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59. Spindletop

Brief history of the first oil gusher in the continental United States in 1901.
http://db1.ledbettersystems.com/legendary/legdetail.asp?Tex_ID=111 - 11-08-2000
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Rating: [4.00] Votes: [273]
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