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** To be a little more specific, "What hath God wrought?" was the first electric telegram, sent in 1837. (Optical telegraphs, using smoke, mirrors, or semaphore, existed long before.) The "last telegram" mentioned above was the last telegram sent by Western Union. Telegraph is still in use in countries including Bahrain, Germany, Japan, and Sweden, mainly for formal notices (mainly funerals, weddings, and births), and for sheer novelty. It's also still in use in areas of the world without Internet access.
* People sometimes go through these without taking much note of it. For example, you begin and end the day asleep.
* [[wikipedia:USS_Pennsylvania_(BB-38)|USS Pennsylvania]] was damaged during the attack on Pearl Harbor, repaired, and put back into service. After the atomic bombings, but before Japan's surrender, she was again damaged in a surprise Japanese air attack.
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