Constance and the Countess Face War and Marriage Demands
In London society Constance questions if Frank will fight in Zululand. He asks to marry before departure. Mrs Menson refuses. Years later Constance uncovers a family secret linking Frank to the Earl of Harrington and a deadly past.
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Continent
Constance
Countess of Seafield
London
Lady Constance
Lady Codrington
Lady Seafield
Avondale
Frank
Connie
Zululand
Mrs. Meason
Krank
Avondale Park
Irank
Braak
Grandma
Duke d'Azzeglio
Duke d’Azzeglio
d’Azzeglio
Brank
Mra Meason
Earl of Harrington
Frank Woworth
Earth
Crowning a Czar as described by the British envoy’s daughter
Miss Thornton reports the Russian coronation with vivid detail. The emperor wore the crown and mantle, received benediction, and sat on his throne with the empress by his side. They were greeted with tears, bells, and chants as priests blessed them and the crowd celebrated the imperial pair.
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Russia
Misa Mary Grace Thornton
Edward Thornton
Miss Thornton
Waldemar
Dames Honnear
Countess Adderborn
Wiasemski
Notehounder
Catarina
Kremlin
Chevalera Gardes
Deadly appetite in nature lines a curious chain of choking deaths
Readable excerpts recount animals choking on swallowed prey from pikes to swans. A four and a half pound trout suffocates a twenty five pound pike, water birds drown on embedded shells or prey, a wild turkey dies after neck entanglement, and a swan perishes swallowing Sagittaria variapilis bulb. A trader in the Columbia region shoots a swan midflight, then autopsies it and gains tribal reverence after shown to have removed the bulb.
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Deutsche Fischerel- Avitung
Ville Scholz
Horn
Massachusetts Bay
Tennessee
Noonan
Ali
Columbia River
Aste Vin
Oye
Hudson Bay
Vancouver
The Mud Wasp: Life of a Mud-Walled Nest
For centuries the mud wasp builds soft mud cells and lays a single egg in each. It catches a spider and injects a toxin to torpify it through winter, then the warm spring awakens the larva which consumes the spider to grow and emerge as a full winged insect. No mind isps has ever seen the young.
Centenarian Mary Harlan Celebrated in Coxville
Mrs Mary Harlan of Coxville Indiana reached her 100th birthday on March 20 with family present including a 78 year old daughter and other relatives. She is mother of former United States Senator Harlan of Iowa and grandmother of Mrs Robert T Lincoln.
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Mary Harlan
Coxville
Ind
United States
Harlan
Iowa
Mra
Robert T. Lincoln
Aaxon Tt
Watch Keeps Time Across a Year of 157,680,000 Ticks
A watch runs smoothly for a full year, recording 157,680,000 ticks indicating consistent operation and reliability across daily timekeeping.
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Avondale Castle
Jameson
Montana
Helena
Northwest
Judith Basin
Tai Ieg
Czar
Moscow
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