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DuPre Bookstore: I still do not know where it is

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When I first started this blog a few days ago, I do not think I fully realized the difficulty of finding information about people and places that have very little historical significance. Today, I began researching the first article on a widely unknown source, and decided to start on a building located in historic downtown Spartanburg(my home town)...the Dupre Bookstore. The Dupre bookstore was originally founded by Warren Dupre, the son in law of the ex-Wofford professor and bishop William Wallace Duncan, the original builder of the Dupre house. The bookstore was made around 1890, since it is mentioned in a picture of downtown Spartanburg, which was drawn in 1891. Starting in 1892, the book store was mentioned several times in The Carolina Spartan, The Spartan, and The Herald and News, mostly through ads. Some of the ads about the bookstore mention the affordable printing, Almanacs for a quarter, and even a second floor art gallery. One notable aspect of the Dupre Bookstore is the...
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Kushim: The Name Not Forgotten

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Since this blog is all about remembering parts of history that are not well known, I decided to start with a person who's name has survived the testaments of time...Kushim. Some people may have heard of the Kushim tablet, a tablet found in modern day Iraq, which once translated from cuneiform simply means "29,086 measures barley 37 months Kushim". This simple sentence may not sound that groundbreaking, and it isn't. The crazy thing about it though, is that the tablet is believed to come from 3400-3000 BC which makes it over 5000 years old!! This makes Kushim the oldest name we have recorded. Based off of the sentence written on the tablet, it is believed that Kushim is the Sumerian version of an accountant, who needed a way to track the amount of barely that he is getting every month. Which means the oldest name doesn't belong to a king or Pharaoh but some average person who just needed a way to track their barely. However, it is also a possibility that Ku...
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Welcome

Welcome to the Hibernating History blog!! As an avid history buff for most of my life, I have always enjoyed learning about history, even if it was a 5 minute youtube video. Before long, I realized that everything I learned in school was just cherry picked by the state in order to inform us of the most important things. So then I began researching more and more and found out about many cool things that history class just seemed to glance over, such as the African front in WW1. However, I will not be talking about things like that in this blog. The thing that has always amazed me about history is how much of it there is, I know that may sound obvious, but there are over 50,000 cities in the world(even more if you include small towns) each with their own little history that very few people know about. To put it in an even larger scale, researchers estimate that the total amount of people that have ever lived is around 100 billion, yet even the best historians would only know the n...
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