The Decisive Moment on a Voyage Romance
Harding falls for Elsa Wayne aboard a ship en route to Naples. Elsa, bound by a rich heiress upbringing, resists a marriage to Count FoscarI. After shipwreck and peril, Elsa chooses FoscarI, then returns to Harding just as a rescue boat appears, and they sail away united.
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Arding
Elsa Wayne
Count Foscari
Italy
Harding
Naples
Azores
New York
Waynes
Bankers
Wayne
Count Foscarl
Survivors Drift to Verdant Island After Sea Current
The lone survivors drifted across the calm sea after a perilous passage. The current carried them swiftly toward a small green island where refuge and unknown dangers awaited.
Island Castaways Observe Silent Distant Coast
From the island they could glimpse the distant coast with white houses. They had been there two weeks and no fishing boat had approached. The island, about a mile in diameter, was then uninhabited. It once held a small settlement and cultivated grapes and wheat had run wild, supplying sustenance for the castaways. Bisa ground ripe grains between two stones to mix unleavened flour for them.
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Fescarl
Harding
Elsa
Ike
Foscari
Europe
Harlequin bug named Abe Lincoln pest in South gardens
Indianap olis News notes that locals dubbed the harlequin bug the Abe Lincoln bug due to Civil War era irritation, while scientists call it harlequin for its color. The piece cites earlier pest names like the General Gage bug and the French weed to show bias in naming pests.
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South
Abe Lincoln
Boston
General Gage
Ontario
Quebec
Indianapolis News
Redfern rules require car lights at night
Redfern municipality in New South Wales posts notices urging drivers to turn on vehicle lights at night. Darkness begins when street lights are illuminated, and all vehicles must carry a light once darkness commences.
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Redfern
S. W
Sydney
Miles of Thread In Clothing Humanity Statistics
A discussion of fabric thread counts estimates that a square yard holds about 1,800 threads, yielding four miles of wool per person for two outfits annually. Over fifty years this totals 400 miles of wool per person. Linen and cotton, with 80 to 100 threads per direction, yield even higher totals. A handkerchief uses about 2,400 strands of thread, needing 1,000 yards of cotton, while a shirt needs roughly three miles of thread.
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Humanity
Salter
Xerxes Army Counted by Dense Enclosures In 480 B C
Persian king Xerxes assembled the largest invasion force seen, counting troops by tallying 10 000 men in dense walls and multiplying by 10 000 across detachments. Herodotus reports 1 700 000 foot soldiers and 80 000 cavalry, with fleet personnel bringing total to about 2 817 000.
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Xerxes
Thermopylae
B. C
Herodotus
Grand Name Given to Lewisham Foundling
An infant found in a Lewisham motor car prompted a board of guardians to discuss names. After debates over gender and location hints, the baby, a boy, was christened George Granville King by the local chaplain, a grand compromise reflecting park and hall references.
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Lewisham Board of Guardians
Ingland
Alice
Lewisham Park
Park
King’s Hall
George King
Granville Park
George Granville
George Granville King
Lasting Monument of Early Rome in El Djem North Africa
The Tunis site El Diem houses a five story amphitheater, third largest in the world, seen from miles away as a stone mountain. Built by slaves and oxen hauled from quarries twenty miles distant, it endures after Roman rule ended in the third century. The once thriving Thysterus city, 100,000 inhabitants strong, vanished leaving a barren plate with camels grazing near the base.
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el Diem
Tunis
North Africa
Desert
Thysterus
el Djem
Christian Science Monitor
Boy Helps Engineer Hulett Create First Niagara Bridge
A Boston era tale recalls a $10 prize for the first boy to fly a kite over Niagara Gorge and fasten it to a tree on both sides. Homan Walsh of Lincoln Nebraska succeeded setting a stronger line and then a rope, enabling the iron cable to be hauled across. The cable crossed five miles above Lewiston linking the gorge ends to solid rock.
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Theodore G. Hulett
Niagara
Homan Walsh
Lincoln
Neb
Lewiston
Shifting Readings of Classic Lines Across Ages
A compact note surveys how centuries of writers alter famous phrases and lines. It cites Lord Brooke, Donne, Ben Jonson, Milton, and Shakespeare, noting substitutions and reinterpretations that modify meaning and rhythm.
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Lord Brooke
Join Donne
Ben Jonson
Peculiar Tibetan School Described by Narrator
A narrator portrays a Tibetan school scene in a sunny spot where about a dozen Mussulman boys sit in a semicircle with books before them. The teacher is a simple layman who mentors the pupils and may run a shop nearby. He reads a phrase and the boys repeat it, yet when asked to explain, they show complete ignorance and no sense of shame.
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Ife
Shane
High Offices in England Hire Without Pay and Cost of Mayoral Office
High offices in England are filled by men who receive no salaries including the prime minister who often takes another post like first lord of the treasury with a 25000 dollar annual salary. Justices of the peace and district councillors serve free. The lord mayor of London earns 50000 dollars a year but the office costs him about 75000 dollars annually after expenditures.
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England
Christmas party tale ends with brave yet odd reply
A children's Christmas party ends with Tommy Jones declaring he cannot sing but would fight any other kid in the room, leaving the room stunned as the tea and festivities progress.
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Tommy Jones
Tommy
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Denton, Md
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Attorneys At Law
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Salem, N.C
James J. Ross
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