America's Century Subway Penelope's world is rocked-literally-with the

Penelope's world is rocked-literally-with the 1917 Halifax harbour explosion

At the end of its life-cycle the phoenix builds itself a nest of cinnamon twigs that it then ignites

From Monday's standard meatloaf

including Frank Sinatra

twenty-five years later

America's Century Subway Penelope's world is rocked-literally-with theBeginning with 1900, four (usually) pages of text and pictures are devoted to each year of the 20th century. Lesser events have one sentence descriptions; more important events are presented like newspaper stories (they are not, however, real newspaper articles), and are often accompanied by pictures in either b&w or color, about 1,300 in all. Three periods (1900 16, 1917 45, and 1946 99) earn one page introductions. Appendices provide descriptions