The title promises two tales; both are actually the same story, told with different levels of detail and suspense. The first is from The Earthquake that America Forgot by Dr. David Steward and Dr. Ray Knox. (These authors have a whole series of books about the New Madrid earthquakes, all of which seem to include [...]
The story of the slightly smaller Government-Letter sized paper (from Wikipedia): There is an additional paper size, to which the name “government-letter” was given by the IEEE Printer Working Group: the 8 in × 10½ in (203.2 mm × 266.7 mm) paper that is used in the United States for children’s writing. It was prescribed [...]
