Liberia's Free Republic Grows From 19th Century Colonization
West Africa's Liberia emerged as a free negro republic after the American Colonization Society began in 1816. By 1847 a US inspired constitution created an independent government, with about 3,000 settlers and 20,000 American Liberians, while a native population of around 1.5 million. The United States provided financial aid and training.
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Liberia
West Africa
American Colonization Society
Africa
Sierra Leone
United States
America
Monrovia
Republic
Too Many Kind Things Said About Busy Bee
A humorous note contrasts a slow bee with a modern milking cow. The bee’s top speed is 25 mph and typically 15 mph, while Carmarthenshire's cow accepts milking machines and ejects manual milking with a kick. The piece uses playful exaggeration to compare old and new methods.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Amerten
Carmarthenshire
Wales
Keas Taunt Turkey in Domestic Island Prank
A group of Kea parrots at the Hermitage teased a recently uncrated turkey, jeering with loud squawks as the bird attempted to assert itself. The persistent keas kept returning to mock the turkey until it submitted to their taunts, a comic scene reported by the Christchurch Press.
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Keas
Turkey Keas
South Island
New Zealand
Hermitage
Kens
Christchurcch
Scriptural Book Names Ecclesiastes and Ecclesiasticus
The passage explains Ecclesiastes as canon in both Catholic and Protestant Bibles while Ecclesiasticus or Wisdom of Jesus Son of Sirach is a deuterocanonical book in the Catholic canon from the Council of Trent. Protestants call Ecclesiasticus apocryphal though they still read it for edification.
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Jesus
Slrach
Path- Under Magazine
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