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Part One: The Haymarket Affair: The Bomb & the Eight-Hour Workday

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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In 18 71, the entire city of chicago burns down. And then there's a great depression that was called the great depression until we got another one in the twentieth century. Yet open fire with like, artillerylike when we say cannons. What they're preparing is a big metal tube that they fill with shrapnel and gunpowder. It's called grape shot. They're making like a giant shotgun the size of a car d and readying to fire that into a crowd of human beings. Yes? Ahem.

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