Elephants in Warfare and Entertainment Across Ancient Africa
The article traces African elephants’ roles from ancient battlefields to Roman arenas. It notes their training, use by Egypt, Carthage, and Rome, and famed feats in spectacles. Elephants are profiled by physical traits, migration, and symbolic ceremonial uses in various empires through 248 AD.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teesden
Af Towle
Africa
North Africa
Desert
Satara
Upper
Egypt
Morocco
Algeria
Bgypt
Raphin
Antiochus
Atlas Mountains
Hannibal
Pyrenees
Rhone
Alps
Italy
Spain
Carthage
Rome
Pompey
Lisly
Inter
Pliny
Germanieng
Nero
Agrippius
Mary
Galba
Colonus
Trana
Rote
Tennyson's Cornwall Visit and Poet's Life Portrait
A fragmented reminiscence of Alfred Lord Tennyson's visits to Cornwall around 1841 1848 and his companionable habits at Stokes house in Truro Morwenstow and Bodmin Moor are depicted. The piece notes his pipe a black dudheen and his social curiosities discussing Browning Burns and Gray while gathering impressions of life in Cornwall and the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Sewell Stokes
Cornwell County
Lord Tenhyeon
Broaine
Stikeow
Truro
Orriotts
Tennyton
Morwenstow
Stokes
aMie
Nat
Amin
bin Vish
Phot le
Tennyson
Myrhile Ith
Connie
Mehcau
Mankorl
Ghleb
Cornwall
Corswall
Arthur Hallam
Stokes’ House Sr
Traro
Hay
Robert Browning
Mr. Stokes
Browning
Burns and Gray
Poe
Lewis
England
Mercury
Lost Valuables On a Train Carriage Door
Fragmented report from London TIL-Bits and Exchange detailing valuables found in railway carriages. Diamond and other items slipped into window gaps, later recovered from a carriage after exhaustive search. Also notes on savage sacrifices and a plows pickpocket with incomplete text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Afric
London
A Train Compartment Tale of Punch and Judy
An amateur narrator recalls a Western Morning News reader on a suffocating train ride toward Lostwithiel. A Punch and Judy performance draws a crowd including an irascible old gentleman, a crone and a persistently curious child who gestures toward the coffin maker Mister Barrabel with a doll. The scene reveals compassion as the elderly man comforts the child, sparking a quiet moment of shared humanity amid travel bustle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shepherd's Pla
Lostwithiel
George
Thomas
Tom
Joe
Heton
Annie
Barrabel
Anno
Punch
Arthur T. Quiller-Conch
Harrigan Seeks renomination by open patronage power
Benjamin Harrigan becomes the first president to secure renomination through an open display of power and patronage in the great office, as reported by the New York World and tables of almanac-like notes.
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Devetivsial
Mary Wits
Ernie Aod Prager
Ake
Bergs
Harrison
Fieas
Coly
Dudley
Deilley
Hiis Party
Johny
New York World
New York Journal
South Pacific
Southern
Union
Port Jervis
New York
Texas
Harvison
Wanamakers
Benjamin Harrigan
Aiians
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Democratic Northwest
Eliin Thomson
Lynn
Mana
Thomson
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Danny
Genton
Uncle Sam
Bos- Herald
Theodore N. Elgin
Scribner's
Philadelphia Record
Te Dale Hall
Punci
Ong Life
Emma P. Ewing
Towaderrtautiwral College
Owe
Indiana
Chautauqua
Emma P. Rwing
Christy Knife CO
Fremont
Ohio
R.R
Dr.judd
C.D. Judd
Detroit
Leh
Griffith
Haramond
H‘grizith
Harvey
Galteries
Chicago
Grigith
Jay Dwigeins
Commetto
Permilim
W.G. Coover
Sap
Neer
Co-Operative
Perry Street
General Supe
Charles Boyer
Senat Monty
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