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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1914
Page
6
In a Navy photo two swift British vessels are shown in action. The lower is the Swift and the upper the Javus racing at full speed. The British navy relies on torpedo boat destroyers as well as larger ships.
The Armored Cruiser Argyll N, a British armored cruiser, was launched in March 1901. As one of six vessels of its class, she features 21,000 horsepower, 22 knots speed, 7.5 inch guns and two 18 inch torpedo tubes in the armament.
Swinburne, famed swimmer in youth, wedged himself in a chalk rock tunnel near Etretat after entering at low tide. He crawled through a sixty foot natural passage bent within the arch coast, wedging himself as pebbles filled the center and the tide rose, forcing a desperate bid for escape.
James Welter Gray recounts a harrowing rescue as a worker fights through a flood tunnel toward daylight. submerged by rushing water, he is swept back and forth, finally hurled onto a beach bruised and exhausted yet alive, feeling saved from hell.
The article explains how early humans found bronze from copper and tin and describes how alloys alter properties. It notes gold's ductility, copper antimony effects, manganese and tungsten impacts on iron and steel, and how lead antimony alloys expand when cooling used for type metal.
A Yorkshire Weekly Post reader recalls a violent thunderstorm in a North of England city. Windows were opened to let lightning out or in, and the strike wrecked a large safe in an adjoining room. The tale casts lightning as a fearsome force.
England may have the oldest active village theater at Little Easton though others argue the ancient Roman theater at Dorchester seats about 13 000 and was used in modern times. In 1705 about 10 000 people gathered to watch the burning of a woman accused of poisoning her husband per London Spectator.
A note on the word Lambaste praising its long spelling with final e and tracing its origin from lam and baste and its usage as an intensive tautology in 17th century English.
In a fragment from Jarre T. Richards, villagers of Saint Agnes devise a daring scheme to repurpose a brass cannon atop a mountain to signal vaqueros hiding along the beach. They would lash a United States warship if sighted, capsize it, and harpoon its crew, but the ship never arrived.
The battleship Superb was launched in December 1907 as Temeraire and Bellerophon’s sister ship. She surpasses twenty one knots in speed and mounts ten twelve inch guns plus five eighteen inch torpedo tubes, with sixteen four inch secondary guns and five machine guns as part of her armament.
Guncotton, found by Pelougi in 183S, is cotton steeped in equal parts nitric and sulphuric acid and dried. Nitroglycerin is a pale yellow oily liquid about half again as heavy as water, discovered by Sobrero, an assistant in Pelougi's lab, in 1847.
An event organized by the group features eight participants and speakers who will discuss topics related to dining and social engagement. The evening includes a formal dinner and promises guidance on finding agreeable conversation subjects and maintaining polite discourse.
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