Virgil the Poet and His Unfinished Masterpiece
The article outlines Virgil the poet born October 15 in Italy near Andes, son of a farmer, with Celtic hints in his names. It notes his Milan schooling, Rome poetry circle, studies in rhetoric and philosophy, and that he spent seven years on the Georgics and worked on the Aeneid. He died in 19 B. C. without marriage, unsatisfied with his life’s work.
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Virgil
Italy
Andes
Elis
Vipilius
Maro
Kansas City Star
Lulius Caesar
Milan
Rome
Withouy
Hurricanes on the Sun Described by Popular Mechanics
Popular Mechanics Magazine describes solar storms as fiery hurricanes on the sun. They imagine rotating vortices with central calm areas akin to sunspots, vastly larger than earthly hurricanes and intensely bright around the edges.
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Caribbean Sea
Florida
Pstronomer
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Shakespeare Apt Name From A Royal Bodyguard Tale
A tall royal bodyguard allegedly saved a king or heir by killing an assassin, earning knighthood on the field. He was granted a spear and ceremonial duties, with a yearly scarlet cloth grant and later estate settlement near London, per the fragmentary tale.
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Shkespeare
Airea
London
God
Gineer
Fleur
Herior
Browning Sonnet Writings Found On Reused Pages
A critic notes that Ron Browning copied lines from Browning's sonnet to Carlo Galdeni onto torn leaves from an eighteenth century book of verse. The piece cites another instance where a famous line was written in the margins of a Pilgrim’s copy, with a sailor’s note about fate.
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Browning
Carlo Galdeni
Southby’s
Ghent
Kartoll
Blanchester Fuardian
Eclipsed Welshman Dreams of Mighty Choir
A Welshman with a fine basa voice tells a friend of a remarkable dream. In the vision he saw a colossal choir with five thousand sopranos, five thousand altos, and three thousand tenors singing at once. The conductor then rebuked him, saying not so loud in the basa, John Jones.
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John Jones
Where Flowers Grow Steep Valleys Harbor Moisture Lovers
Water collection in deep ravines creates sheltered moisture pockets that favor moisture loving plants. Evaporation is 20 to 30 percent lower at the bottom than at exposed rims, where sunlight drives faster loss of water.
Rise of Graded Entertainment in Modern Life
The piece reflects on how, in the past, people created their own amusements from music theater and drama, while modern society relies on radios, cinema, and professional services. It laments lost self-made artistic culture under commercial mass media.
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Recrewcom
Enormul Juin Stork
Wali
Nancy Sit
Cheetahs in India Made Household Companions
The article notes cheetahs used for hunting in India are caught as full grown and trained to catch prey. It describes natives tying claws on trees for hunting, using gut snares around trunks, and keeping cheetahs hooded during transport before revealing quarry to the animal.
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India
Nile Valley Ideal Land and Early Civilizations
The text explains how geography shaped early civilizations in Egypt. Deserts shielded inhabitants from wild animals and enemies, and Nile floods provided fertility without harsh rains. The lack of winter and extreme climate fostered relative prosperity, with monuments preserved by dry conditions.
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Nile Valley
Ideal
Reyat
Bottomless Well in Arizona's Slontezuma Center
A desolate article describes Slontezuma Well in central Arizona as a vast nearly bottomless lake about 200 yards wide with pure water maintaining a constant feverish warmth. Towering walls overlook the waters, once the homes of a densely populated ancient community in a primitive, early civilization stronghold.
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Arizona
Slontezuma
Ideal Square Meal Featured in London Exhibit
A London exhibit showcases what dietitians call the perfect square meal. The dish, described as balanced and suitable for both fat and thin persons, includes cold chicken and egg sauce on potatoes, salad, corn meal mold fruit with cream, whole wheat bread, butter, and lemonade.
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Walla
London
Path ‘Oder Mapazing
Speed Limits of Vision Measured by Two Researchers
Dr P W Coleh and F K Moss measured human eye response in a skip stop reading test. After thousands of trials on eleven subjects they found that distinguishing an object requires a stillness of about one seventh of a second. Higher ionization or added energy will not speed perception. most homes and factories lack high focus to produce more rapid eye movement.
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P. W. Colehnd
F. K. Moss
Popular Science Monthly
Tps
Hese
Shesword
Absence of Standard Recalled in Royal Guard Tale
A New York Sun piece recalls the missing royal standard of the corps of gentlemen at arms, bodyguards to King George of Fingland. The standard vanished after Naseby when defenders died defending Charles I. No new colors were issued until the 400th foundation anniversary in 108, when King Moward presented a new standard embroidered by noble widows and wives of former captains.
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Corps of Gentlemen-At-Arma
George of
Charles 1
Nweehy
Moward
Monks Orange Trees Start California Citrus Industry
A few orange trees brought from Spain by Franciscan monks in 1769 at mission grounds began California's citrus industry. The San Gabriel mission area housed a premier orchard by 1804–1805, with 400 seedlings on six acres. Fremont noted later erosion of orchards after 1834 secularization. The navy orange and Valencia were later introduced and lemons came from Australia and Sicily.
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Spain
Mission Grounds
California
San Gabriel Mission
Los Angeles
John C. Fremont
Azores
Australia
Last Aztec Ruler Montezuma and Spanish Conquest
Montezuma, last Aztec ruler of Mexico, reigned about 17 years before the Spaniards led by Hernando Cortez arrived. He was captured as native resistance grew, a revolt led by his brother followed, and Montezuma died during the turmoil. Reports conflict on whether he was killed by Spaniards or by a stone dropped by revolters.
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Montezuma
Mexico
Hernando Cortez
Orchids With Your Bread In Black and White
A fragment exploring mold on bread as a flowering-like growth seen under a microscope. It describes a delicate, orchid-like display formed by mold filaments, flowering stalks, and countless tiny spores dispersing into the air as part of a mysterious microbial garden.
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Tomoll
Shopping Hat Notes Home Furnishings List
The exchange reveals Mrs Hemmandhew denying plans to buy furniture while Mr Remmandhew references a shopping hat. A floor note lists items such as wash stand dining-chair set and refrigerator, apparently a record of the baby’s recent mishaps rather than a shopping list.
Mystery Note Leads to Curious Romance Contact
A man named Binks finds a slip inside a sewn shirt with a girl’s address and a request to write and send a photograph. He writes and sends a photo, then receives a reply that turns out to be only a curiosity note about the sender’s interest in what kind of “gink” would wear such an item.
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Hinka
Bluks
Gink
Ceep Ankirt
New Grlenna Times-Picayune
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