Escape Through Timber After Creek Pursuit
In a smoky frontier fight scene, a narrator and a woman traverse a hostile forest to reach the Frazier cabin. They evade pursuing Indians, double back toward woods, and carry the exhausted companion as howls echo from the river bend signaling danger ahead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guuarantee
Senin
Turth
John
Black Smith
Turtle Creek
Womingeer
Washington
Trent
Onhle
Frontier Fight in a Cabin Escape by Creek
A perilous retreat from pursuing savages ends with a lone cabin siege. A brave girl aids by improvising water and hide-based armor while the narrator defends the doorway and loopholes using rifles and a pistol as arrows and axes bruise the confrontation.
Home for Christmas in the Old Farmhouse
An eighties Christmas tale unfolds as Mollie John Henry and Ma prepare a family feast while Uncle Ike and George return from the West. A wary stranger is chased from the barn as siblings reunite, revealing Ike and George’s surprise visit and plans to stay. Master West proclaims home is best.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mole
Mollie
John Henry
Sue
Molle
Johnnie
Golly
Jimmie
Mary Ann
Hiram
Betsy
Ethelbert
Tamerine
Hannah
Catherine
Sary Jane
Billy
Pike County
Ike
Samantha
George
John
Henry
California
Ske
Home
Master West
Western Newspaper Union
First Military Book From 1578 In British War Office Library
The earliest military book in the British War Office library is dated 1578 and titled Certayne Wahyes for the Ordering of Sonlifiers in Battlesay and Setting of Buttnyles. It describes tactics of maneuvers and weapons as well as figures of defense and new plates for tractation of towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British War Office
Mirch Ing
Starry hymn
Fragmentary song lyrics describe a Christmas scene with a star in the sky a baby born in Bethlehem and the Virgin Mary. The piece evokes joy across nations and declares Jesus is King as a central message.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bethlehem
Jesus
Compass Origins and Early Magnetic Discovery
The origin of the compass is uncertain with Attributions to Chinese Arabs Greeks and Etruscans. Lodestone behavior showed magnets align to the north south line depending on position relative to the equator. William Gilbert conducted early magnetism studies publishing De Me di in 1600.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilam Gulbert
Whale Feeder Myth and Notable Sperm Whale Traits
A description contrasts the sperm whale with the Greenland whale noting a large head cavity filled with oil. It claims the sperm whale hunts large ocean creatures including an octopus and a five foot fish, and mentions a cavernous mouth once said to hold four people.
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Greenland
Hermann Melville
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Braddock
Hugh Pendexter
Irwin Myers
WNN Service
Eather Hows
Phin Te Cist
Dent
Anoux
Norow
Jodi
Frazer
Antil
Tim
Tin
Bening
Nonic
Bailey
Josiah Gilbert Holland
Montreal Herald
Evangel
Maple Valley Mutual Insurance Association
Auralia, Iowa
Cherokee County
Geo. BE. Blanch
H. H. Lockin
G. E. Bianch
Fred Kohlhagen
Peter Farrow
Aurelia, Iowa
Orlo Shank
Otto Matzdorff
Chas. J. Everett
Dawson Farm
BE. G. Bates
Aurelia
Iowa
A. H. Eddy
Eddy
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