Grand Canyon Comparisons Impress Tourists and Guides Alike
Guides at the Grand Canyon rank big numbers and famous structures beside the canyon to help visitors grasp its size. They compare it to the Eiffel Tower and New York skyscrapers, count depth in terms of monuments, and note the immense area—yet admit geological time remains a mystery beyond figures.
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Grand Canyon
Mark Twain
Christopher Columbus
New World
Columbus
Philadelphia
Canyon
Wiliam Penn
Fourteenth Street
Bowery
Eiffel Tower
Washington
St. Peterin
Strassburg
Cheops
New York
Singer
Colorado River
Arizona Plateau
Atlantic Coast
New York City
Battery
New York Cities
Switzerland
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Delaware
Rhode Island
Colorado
Clarence Edward Dutter
Canyon of Colorful Form and Vast Desert Expanse
Charles I. Lummis recalls approaching the Grand Canyon from the railroad and desert, describing a vast trough of peaks taller than eastern mountains, glowing with unique colors as sunlight shifts. The canyon reveals new faces hourly, a shifting, cosmic landscape noted by the New York Tribune.
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Arizona Desert
Charles I’. Lummis
Broadway
Rockies
New York Tribune
Queen Elizabeth Defies Physicians and Rises No More
In a historical account the ailing Queen Elizabeth refuses medical aid despite offers from ten to twelve doctors and the urging of counselors divines and waiting women. She dies after a month of illness with no will or instructions for successors while her fame remains unchanged.
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Elizabeth
Mourmur
Cornbill Magazine
Infernal Drink Prank on Irish Chief Secretary
A St Patrick's day joke for Arthur Bal four involved a cigar box sent to the House of Commons containing shamrocks and a hidden spring with a white compound. A chemist found it was lemon sugar. a corkscrew spring and nutmeg grater rolled out with a note urging whisky and Ballyhooley lemonade toast to old Ireland.
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Arthur Balfour
House of Commons
Ballyhooley
Ireland
The Wild Buffalo Explored by Hamilton Wright
A Wide World Magazine description by Hamilton Wright portrays the wild buffalo as a formidable, enduring, and hostile creature. It notes its speed, sharp turns, and ability to charge after mortal wounds, plus its fierce nature, protective instincts for its young, and cunning in combat against white settlers.
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Hamilton Wright
Wide World Magazine
Lady Jane Grey A Child Scholar Of Royal Blood
The piece recounts Lady Jane Grey as a remarkable child prodigy who learned multiple languages and philosophy before adolescence, with Ascham noting her Plato studies at Bradgate. It follows her swift rise to queenship at sixteen and tragic downfall, framed by a century-old view of education and the value of lifelong learning.
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Jane Grey
England
Tower of London
Plato
Jane
Bradgate
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Roger Ascham
Ascham
Lady Jane
Lady Jane Grey
London Spectator
Ink as a lingering symbol in language and lore
A reflective meditation on ink from the New York DREAN, discussing ink’s flaws, the patient craft of writing, and the word’s Italian roots from its cloistered origins, highlighting literature’s debt to ecclesiastical scriptoria.
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Ita Vestal Firas
New York
D’rean
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