Why Birds Move Habit Started In Changing Seasons
The article explains that bird migration began with seasonal shifts replacing semi tropical preglacial conditions. It cites two theories and notes that the practice formed as ice advanced, then receded, guiding birds to increasingly southern winter homes and later reestablished northward routes after glacial retreat. The District of Columbia is mentioned as a noted migration path.
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Southland
Tropics
Gulf Coasts
United States Geological Survey
United States
Canada
Arctic
Middle South America
John Burroughs
District of Columbia
Washington Star
Wind Powered Bread Milling in European Boutique
A European baker uses a windmill atop his facility connected to below ground machinery to mix knead and bake. When wind turns the mill it powers flour grinding and dough processing, showcasing wind as a free energy source in daily tasks.
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Europe
Italian Fish Die By Electric Shock At Bracciano Lake
Italian anglers on Lake Bracciano found the surface strewn with dead fish which experts say were killed by an electric shock. The lake lies in a volcanic crater, supporting the theory. Some specimens were sent to Rome for study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Bracciano
Rome
Lake
Bracciano
Almost Repeated Misstep at Hostelry Causes Friction
Two friends at a hotel confuse rooms when one undresses in the wrong bed. After a late misadventure he asks a night porter if his friend went to bed, learns yes, and the man ends the night sleeping in a chair by the fire.
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Yorkshire Post
Expanded Responsibilities in Moral Atmosphere Debate
In a dialog about progress and crime, Cactus Joe remarks that cars changed affairs. He notes mass hangings once mitigated crime, but targeting sly thieves from Snake Ridge would require a massacre.
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Cactus Joe
Snake Ridge
Alaska's Riches and Governance Debate Amid Harding Era
An article surveys Alaska's resources coal oil copper gold and fisheries, notes the 1921 production values and population trends, and discusses federal versus territorial oversight including the railroad from Seward to Fairbanks the McKinley park region and Katmai. It highlights calls for streamlined authority and coordinated development to unlock Alaska's potential.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Harding
Alaska
Panhandle
Union
Gov
Scott
Bone
Secretary of the Interior
Senate
House of Representatives
Territory
District Court of the
United States
District of Alaska
Congress
Washington
General Treasury
Interior
Agriculture
Wallace
Commerce
Hoover
Congressional
Francis B. Warren
Wyoming
Senate Appropriations Committee
Interior Department
Naval Oil Reserve
Seward
Fairbanks
Yukon
Department of the Interior
Frederick Mears
Colonel Mears
McKinley Park
Mount McKinley National Park
Yellowstone
Mount McKinley
North America
Katmai
Woman Warrior in Kentucky Frontier Tale
A frontier couple, John and Mrs. Merrill, defend a Nelson county cabin in 1787 against seven attacking Indians. Mrs. Merrill kills two intruders with an ax and blinds two more with smoke to drive off the attackers, while a surviving warrior spreads word of the fierce “long-knife squaw” who defeated his war party.
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Appalachians
John Merrill
Nelson County
Kentucky
Daniel Boone
Nelson
Merrill
Chillicothe
Franklin the outlaw state that used coon skins as currency
In a transformative tale from early American frontier days, Franklin declared an independent state with John Sevier as governor. Lacking coin, the government valued coon and fox skins as money, setting wages in deer skins and beaver skins, before North Carolina reclaimed the territory and Tennessee formed.
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Alaska
Cook Inlet
Susitna
United States
J. J. Underwood
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
West Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Mississippi
Tennessee
Yukon
United States Fish Commission
Union
Andrew J. Stone
Japan
California
Manitoba
Pribilof Islands
St. Louis
Phibisoft
United States Signal Corps
Cys
Franklin
John Sevier
King's Mountain
Old Southwest
Sevier
Com Sooweith
Franklinson
Deca
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John Dickinson Sherman
Lalid
Western Newspaper Union
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