This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Odd facts span centuries from falcons to Thermopylae
The excerpt surveys curious notes from history and nature including loyalties of falcons with a gold collar dated 161 percent, the first toll bridge at Pelrw Falls Vermont in 1784, the Marathon victory and Xerxes invasion halted by Leonidas and his 300 Spartans, a North Carolina term pocosin for swamp, waterlogged pine scrub and vines, crustacean relations among shrimp prawns and crayfish, and oyster shells used to pave Morgan City streets.
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France
England
Oes
Suviver
Pelrws Falls
Marathon
Xerxes
Persia
Greece
Thermopylae
Leonidas
B.C
Morgan City