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The Benefits of Baby Burp Cloths

Let's face it, there is always going to come a time when your baby is going to need to be burped. This is a known fact to all parents. With the benefits of baby burp cloths, you're going to be able to have a lot of time not needing to wash your clothing. The reason why is because almost every time you burp a child, you are going to get the spit up to follow. There is no better way than to have a cloth that is going to catch what falls onto your clothing. There are many benefits to these that everyone can own one or more. Some benefits are: • Stay Clean- You are going to be able to not have spit up all over your face and your clothing when you use baby burp cloths. In every instance, there is a time when we don't want to have baby spit up on us. Regardless if it is your own child, no one wants to have to clean up afterwards. You are going to be able to have a clean face if you are smart about it and make sure that there is everything that should be done to better serve the p

The General Slocum Disaster

If you ask New Yorkers, besides the bombing of the World Trade Center Towers on September 11, 2001, what was the biggest disaster in New York City history, most would say the Triangle Shirtwaist Factor Fire of 1911, which killed 141 people, mostly women. But by far the worst tragedy ever to take place in New York City was the now forgotten 1904 General Slocam paddle boat disaster, in which more than 1000 German people, mostly woman and children, perished in an accident that certainly could have been prevented. Starting in the 1840's, tens of thousands of German immigrants began flooding the lower east side of Manhattan, which is now called Alphabet City, but what was then called the Kleindeutschland, or Little Germany. Just in the 1850's alone over 800,000 Germans came into America, and by 1855, New York City had the third largest German population of any city in the world. The German immigrants were different than the Irish immigrants who, due to the Irish potato famine in Ire