If We Had But Known In Summer And Winter
A reflective poem contrasts summer days and winter nights lost to time and memory. The narrator laments that past happiness and companionship vanished, leaving a sense of longing and enduring pain as life moves on.
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Nike
Jung
Carol Guy
Quuring
Savdone
Holy Land
Burton the Explorer and His Odd Tastes Revealed
The article outlines Sir Richard Burton’s quirks including language genius, practical living, and rituals. It notes his dislike of honey, a habit of collecting boot mates, and a habit of keeping a wild bouquet of towers, with anecdotes from his widow on his Consul days and personal preferences.
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Richard Burton
Trieste
Burton
Richard
Jack
Beat
Martha
Elis
Eno
Familiar Songs and Mary the Most Popular Christian Name
A collage of history and anecdotes from Mother Goose origin to willow dam construction on the Mississippi and curious baby-name rankings. It weaves nursery lore, river engineering, and a humorous list of monikers drawn from a Pittsburgh Dispatch clipping.
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Mississippi River
Mary
Nanaia
Wiliam
Ohn
Atzabeth
Thomas
Geore
Sarat
James
Charles
Ffenmry
Aliece
Joseph
Ana
Jave
Eden
Honky
Prederek
Anni Mialgaret
Kaotias
Jolie
Robert
Arthur Alfred
Edward
Ossidde Edward
Notable figures and curiosities from 19th century letters
The piece surveys diverse topics from royal and political figures to cultural notes. It mentions the Ameer of Afghanistan's stud farm near Dabal with 1,000 mares under Clemence, Gail Hamilton printing a pamphlet on Mrs Maybrick, King Oscar publishing poems, Queen Wilhelmine’s 13th birthday doll collection, and Count Crispi’s son’s troubles. It also notes diamond fields in Russia, a Canadian expedition tale, and a woman pursuing a PhD at Johns Hopkins mixed with light health and consumer notes about hair tonics.
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Ameer
Afghanistan
Dabal
Clemence
Gail Hamilton
Salem
Mass
Maybrick
England
Miss Dodge
Oscar
Sweden
Stockholm
Tasso
Goethe
Racine
Willielmine
Holland
Crispi
Italy
Pisa
America
M. d. Lesskos
Paris
Papams Canal Company
Sue, Canal
PP. Soutvatori
Russia
Ount
Verko Lev Abardeen
Canada
St. Lawrence
United States
Lord Haldo
Grovernor
Lord Halde
China
Arthur Davis
John Hopkins
Davis
Columbia University
Washington
Arthur Powell Davia
Major Powell
Pedogical Survey
Alice
Board of
Baltimore
California
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