Sources that don't inspire confidence

I'm looking at Chronology of 20th Century America by Melinda Corey.  And under 1995 it tells me the World Series was cancelled due to a players' strike.  Which would be some news to the Atlanta Braves and Cleveland Indians.

Fun Facts I Can't Use

I'm writing a game on 1772, but of course when you look up something for 1772 in a chronology your eye is often caught by something from an adjacent year.

Case in point:  in "The Burlington Story", which covers Burlington, New Jersey, there's an awfully boring fact for 1772, which I nonetheless will turn into a question.

But for 1773, there is a far more interesting fact.  On December 4, 1773, a marriage license was issued in Burlington to a couple from Philadelphia:  John Ross and Elizabeth Griscomb.  Miss Griscomb, though, usually went by a nickname.  I think you might be able to figure that out.

This is so cool

Marjorie had bought me, some years ago, a book called the Annual Register for some year or other, and it just sort of sat there until last fall, when I hurt my back and I couldn't write games the ordinary way.  So I found the book again (as I was doing the shelving that led to me hurting my back; oh irony!) and realized I could write an entire game based on one of these.

Naturally, I went and found a bunch of them online and bought the cheapest ones, particularly with free shipping.

I'm writing a 1988 game for this week and I decided to start with its Annual Register.  As I open the book, I see a stamp.

Now, understand, the book is distributed in the USA from the Book Tower in Detroit.  It is printed in London.  The series was developed originally by Edmund Burke.  Yes, that, Edmund Burke.

Here is what the stamp on it says:

Alhaji G.V. Kromah
P.O. Box 4196
Monrovia, Liberia

And inside the book is a receipt I can't make head nor tails or (the handwriting is that really weird French kind and it's in French) from a place in Conakry.  Conakry is the capital of Guinea.

Some days, globalization is kind of cute.