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Track of the storm

The 1916 Texas hurricane was an intense and quick-moving tropical cyclone that caused widespread damage in Jamaica and S
Texas in August 1916. A Category 4 hurricane upon landfall in Texas, it was the strongest tropical cyclone to strike the United S
three decades. Throughout its eight-day trek across the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Texas, the hurricane caused 37 fatal
inflicted $11.8 million in damage. Becoming a small tropical storm by August 12, it skirted the southern coast of Jamaica as a hu
on August 15, killing 17 people and causing extensive damage to crops and buildings. The storm then moved into the Gulf of M
intensified into the equivalent of a major hurricane on the modern-day Saffir–Simpson scale. On the evening of August 18, it str
Texas near Baffin Bay with winds of 130 mph (215 km/h). The storm's evolution has been inferred from scant historical weather
analyzed by the Atlantic hurricane reanalysis project in 2008. (Full article...)
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 General George Washington Resigning His Commission is a large-scale oil-on-canvas painting by the American artist John
December 23, 1783, to the Congress of the Confederation. The painting now hangs in the United States Capitol rotunda. This
on the reverse of the 1000-dollar denomination of the first issue of National Bank Notes from 1875.
Engraving credit: Luigi (Louis) Delnoce and Frederick

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