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- the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad was a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway that operated in Arizona, New Mexico and California from July 1, 1897 till July 1, 1902?
- the conditions at the chapel of St. Nicholas' Church, Tallinn (pictured) in 1703 protected the unburied Duke Eugène de Croÿ from decaying and his body became an attraction remaining on display until 1897?
- the Greco-Turkish War of 1897 was sparked by a Minoan rebellion?
- backlash from the 1897 Lattimer Massacre in Pennsylvania, an important event in the U.S. history of labor relations, resulted in the addition of some 15,000 new members of United Mine Workers of America union?
- Swedish adventurer Saloman Andrée died in 1897 while trying to reach the geographic North Pole by hot-air balloon?
- Canadian painter Sophie Pemberton, who painted her award-winning "Little Boy Blue" in 1897, taught painting to local female artists?
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