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Saturday, April 20
Chris McAvoy has been doing research on Isham Randolph, the civil engineer behind the Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal, in order to rewrite his Wikipedia entry. Among his findings: Randolph's son was Batman, and this sales pitch to manufacturers to build factories along the canal.