Fish Climb Tree Shows Perch With Lungs as Well as Gills
A century and a half ago European travelers recounted a fish climbing palm trunks to drink palm wine. Danish lieutenant Daldorf reported a fish off Tranquabar that ascended a palm via gill covers and fins, surviving out of water. The climbing perch Anabas scandens indeed lives out of water for hours, using lungs and gills to breathe.
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India
Baron Munchausen
Leutenant
Daldorf
Natural History Society
London
Linnaeus
Tranquabar
Shrine Unearths Heathen Relics in Stone Age Tomb
Scientists uncover a 4000 year old shrine in southern Sweden beneath ten earth strata. The site features a central chamber of five by ten feet, a circular pavement with radiating walks, and many human and animal bones flint daggers and spearheads. About 7000 ornamented vase fragments lie scattered outside the tomb, likely shattered during heathen ceremonies.
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Sweden
Burglary Standoff Ends With Local Wife Hero
Thompson returning home collides with his friend Wilks who rushes in from the street saying he is off to fetch the police. The pair discover burglars in their house and the wife is described as holding the burglar, underscoring a tense domestic moment.
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Thompson
Wilks
Last Words of Bob Ingersoll Died Sudden Death
Detroit News reports Robert G. Ingersoll died from acute indigestion after an hour of resting. He refused dinner and medicine, saying he was better, then smiled and died in his chair.
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Bob” Ingersoll
Robert G. Ingersoll
Honest Way to Price Shoes Shown by Old Man
An old shopkeeper refuses to misrepresent inferior shoes. He insists on marking a substandard pair plainly as such. He tells the clerk to label it A Shoe Fit for a Queen and display it, arguing a queen does not walk much.
The Next War Will Be Won By Mind Over Flesh
A discussion of J F C Fuller and others predicting future warfare relies on air power gas and nerve warfare. The piece argues the coming war will replace traditional armies with the war scientist and moral weaponry to coercively enforce political will. It warns that gas and aerial terror could cripple cities within hours and that invention will decide victory more than valor.
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John Dickinson Sherman
United States
War Department
American Legion
Virginia
Maine
Atlantic Coast
Wilbur Wright Field
United States Naval
New York
Philadelphia
Atlantic Seaboard
Ralph D. Weyerbacher
Hamilton
Wadsworth
Manhattan
Weyerbacher
Raymond F. Beacon
Chemical Warfare Service
American Chemical Society
Victor Lefebvre
Col. J. F. C. Fuller
Fuller
Ypres
London
Westminster
Omdurman
Frontier Samson Ames Curry Fights Indians at Cabin
Kentuckian frontier fighter Curry and companion Teel are attacked by Piankeshaw at a cabin near Kaskaskia in 1788. Curry drives off warriors, collapses the roof, saves Teel, and returns to the fort with aid. He kills several attackers and carries Teel to safety.
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Samson Ames Curry
Georg Rogers Clark
Grea Northwest
Old Kaskaskia
Mississippi
Curry
Namevi Teel
Anold
Teel
Kaskaskia
Valor of Young George Croghan in the War of 1812
Maj George Croghan commanded Fort Stephenson on the Sandusky river Ohio with 7 officers and 160 Kentucky riflemen facing 600 British regulars and Tecumseh’s Indians. He held the stockade against a day long bombardment using Old Betsy the six pounder until Proctor abandoned the assault.
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Northwest
George Rogers Clark
Maj
George Croghan
Croghan
Fort Stephenson
Sandusky River
Ohio
William Henry Harrison
Kentucky
Harrison
Proctor
Tecumseh
Colonel Short
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Barling
Western Newspaper Union
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