Songs for November 10
Greetings from my little corner of the world. It is November 10, and on this day in 1903, Mary Anderson of Birmingham, Alabama patented the car windshield wiper, but being a woman, she was scoffed at by car manufacturers and never made a dime from it. “Those windshield wipers slappin' out a tempo/Keepin' perfect rhythm with the song on the radio.”
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