Odd Facts Packed Into One Curio Page
Frederigo Giambelli, a Mantuan born military engineer, served the queen and blew a Spanish bridge at Antwerp in 1585 using an explosive ship. The text notes German dancing manias in the Middle Ages, Te Magnus the Good, and a Norwegian reference to Magnus. It mentions 12 soldiers chosen to tend wounded, cricket calls heard a mile away, an oil company teaching 4-H clubbers farm machinery care, Mincius the Venetian river feeding the Po, and Virgil born at Andes on its banks.
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Frederigo Giambelli
Mantua
Antwerp
Scheldt
Germany
Te Magnus
Kang
One Oil
Andes
Virgil
PUZZLE CORNER ACROSS AND DOWN LIST OF CLUES
Cryptogram quotation appears with FDC X UB LUXXE WH LXUE LUXXE and a second line HALF THE FAILURES IN LIFE SE FROM PULLING IN ONE'S HORSE AS HE IS LEAP. Dispatched by King Features Syndicate with puzzle notes and instructions for Saturday.
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Hare
Fragmented OCR note with garbled names and lines
The readable text mentions Titusville Pennsylvania and a jumble of phrases about dreams, colors, and a quiz kidder. It presents no clear event, date, or identifiable subjects beyond place names and scattered odd terms.
Evolving terms and travels across eras in a single note
The text traces the origins of cemetery and churchyard terms in England and Rome, notes Lowell Arizona as a 1862 Sixth Cavalry camp, mentions 18th century sword design for US officers, recalls Eros as the Greek Cupid name, and cites Polio Emergency Volunteer groups trained in 74 SA counties with a stage journey from New York to Albany lasting from morning to night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lowell
Arizona
Sixth Cavalry
Eros
New York
Albany
Also Mentioned on This Page
AM Ritt and
Clarence Gray
Stanley
Brick Bradford—And the
Witch Doctor of
Wanchi
ETA
Ned
Kiddo
REET
Muggs and
Skeeter
June
Pert
Witch Doctor
Brick
Paul Robinson
Hubba-Hubba
Suan
Serer
BY Wally Bishop
Big Sister
Ariver
Donnie
Les Forgrave
Eden
Felix the Cat
Tina Jiffy
Lemme Lee
Scott
R.J. Scott
U.S.A
Polar Circle
Willie
Sally
Daily Crossword
Scott Sun
Ashater
Island
Java
Slovakia
Ireland
Peel
Observes
Dist
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Rome
England
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