Aleutian volcanic arc and Alaska’s rocky frontier
The Aleutian chain near Alaska forms a vast volcanic region with Mount Redoubt Iama and Augustine as visible cones. Katmai exploded in 1912, forming the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, while Bogoslof Island shows shifting activity nicknamed Jack in the Box. The area, though icy and foggy, supports sparse habitation and small economies built on fishing and fur.
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National Geographic Society
Washington, DC
Alaska
America
Aleutian Islands
Aleutians
Cook Inlet
Greenwich
Asia
Redoubt
Japan
Katmai
Augustine
Bogoslof Island
Aleutian Chief
Dutch Harbor
Bogoslof
Castle Island
Bogossof
Jack
Fire Island
Perry Peak
Bogoslot
Canada
Hat on approval leads to a costly lesson in Bergmont
Lilla Bennett accepts a fashionable hat on approval via a drugstore call and purchases the $65 French model for a luncheon at Mrs. Wales. A misadventure steals the hat in a rainstorm, leaving her husband Burt to cover the loss. Lilla vows to repay and vows wiser spending, while Mrs Potter privately admits economy can backfire.
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Illa Bennett
Mrs. Wales
Tom
Bergmont
Lilla
Burt
Helen
Marcy’s
Miss Serge
Burton Bennett
William Hudson Wates
Wales
Mrs. Chambers
Mr. Wales
Davenport
Helen Potter
Fly Travel Distances Revealed In Texas Experiments
A Texas study released 284000 flies of various species after dusting for ID and baited traps. While most stayed near birth, many covered six miles in a day and the maximum reached a little over 13 miles. Wind-assisted travel yielded even longer distances.
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Texas
Precious English Relic Domesday Book and Its Role in England
The Domesday book, England’s most precious relic, was ordered by William the Conqueror to record every lord, peasant, acre, ox, plow, and pig. Housed in a Tudor-era London chest, it stands as the western world’s first thorough census, underpinning land deeds and ancestry for Englishmen alike.
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England
Chancery
Ftane
London
America
Detroit News
Sports Improve Posture Through Organized Athletics
A Harvard study found freshmen required to take corrective exercises for poor posture improved more if they joined organized athletic sports over the next three years. Those who did not participate showed little or no improvement according to the Boston Herald report.
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Harvard
Boston Herald
Artist Praised by Woman Reveals Original Masterpiece
An artist working at his easel is complimented by a young woman who compares his landscape to the original. He modestly downplays the work, insisting the original eclipses his own. The woman quietly reveals she meant the original landscape.
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Boston Transcript
Victims of Materialism Warn of Empty Wealth Pursuit
A Boston Transcript quip laments that in striving for wealth many people lose their character and inner richness as materialism consumes their values and well being.
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Boston Transcript
Answer Key Quiz Questions From Historic Newspaper Text
A compilation of questions covering geography history literature and science. It asks details such as New Orleans distance from the Mississippi mouth Rhode Island founder the earliest weapon the champion automobile driver and other general knowledge items including moon phase length and notable figures.
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the Mississippi
New Orleans
Answers to a Historical Quiz Pack 24 1 to 20
A list of quiz answers includes Sacajawea, the combustion definition, Welker Cochran, Madame Butterfly, Ninety miles, Emerson Thoreau Hawthorne Alcott Alcott Channing, walnuts as a nut tree group, seventieth, sun facts, Alexander Hamilton, Birmingham Alabama, Capt Matthew Webb, 1621, fingerprint uniqueness, Ford's Theatre Our American Cousin, Venice, James Mortier, 1000 to 2000, Andrew Mellon, 7926.5 miles and polar diameter 7899.5 miles.
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Welker Cochran
Madame Butterfly
Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne
A. Bronson Alcott
Louise M. Alcott
William Ellery Channing
James Justinian Mortier
Andrew W. Mellon
Pennsylvania
Belle Starr the Bandit Queen in Texas
A historical profile of Belle Starr, the so called Queen of the Bandits, noted for defying gender norms by acting as a man in her outlaw circle. She taunts gender expectations with a pistol shot demonstration and a remark on women not needing men’s opinions, cited by the Kansas City Star.
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White House
Belle Starr
Jane
Texas
Belle
Starr
Kansas City Star
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Aleutian
Scotland
Ireland
Isles
Unalaska
Yukon
Nome
Seattle
Tokyo
Honolulu
Atka
United States Army
Nazan Bay
Attu
Hawaii
New Zealand
Maine
Washington State
United States
Washington
Eastport
Thomas A. Jazgar
Kilauea
Bogosiof Islands
D. J Walsh
Rhode Island
Leghorn
Italy
House of Representatives
New Moon
Sacajawea
Alexander Hamilton
Birmingham
Ala
Matthew Webb
Ford’s
Washington, D. C
Venice
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