How a Yankee Did It in Peru War Torpedo Plot
The narrator recounts a plan to blow up the Chilean flagship Vengeance in Callao during a Peru Chile war. A Peruvian widow finances and urges the attempt. despite wide support, locals refuse to join. The mission proceeds solo, sinks the Vengeance, and the narrator survives to tell the tale.
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Callao
Peru
Chile
Calinte
Donna Calinte
Providence
London
Donna Callnte
Ancient Coins Traced From Hatchets to Brassy Cash
The article rewrites the origin of money, tracing brass and Chinese coins to a lineage from bronze hatchets. It claims early bartering used metal tools, then scaled down hatchets into thin coins by Al Siu to facilitate trade long before Lydian electrum staters.
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Central
Africa
Javine
al Siu
Cornhill Magazine
Strange Fire of March 21 1676 Across Adriatic Rimini to Leghorn
An account describes a bright object rising from the Adriatic on March 21 1676, moving east-northeast to west southwest across Italy between Rimini and Leghorn. Reported heights varied wildly, with estimates from 30 miles to about half a mile in diameter, accompanied by a hissing sound.
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Adriatic Sea
Italy
Rimini
Leghorn
Calmers
Canton
le Cat
Bohn
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