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Grafton Sentinel in Grafton, West Virginia

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Grafton Sentinel

Location

Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Dec 12, 1945

Page

5

Odd Facts From Ancient Lighthouses To Modern Oddities

A collection of brief curiosities notes ancient Greece building a lighthouse on Pharos near Alexandria and its 1326 ruin, a 500 foot American tanker expanding length from heated cargo, the notorious anaconda in South American valleys, a rural Ohio town trial of a civilian jeep for newspaper delivery, and Napoleon allegedly using aluminum tableware when metal cost high. plus readers’ questions to Dear Noah about love and weather mirth.

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From Yedo to Tokyo and a glance at rail and ship facts

A collage of historical notes mentions Yedo transforming into Tokyo with much land still water born, a single female sheep's wool impact, the Indian toma hawk ending in bone spikes, hire purchase in England, postwar British shipyards output, world merchant tonnage replacement timelines, and finsan haddie smoking by Scottish method.

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