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Odd Facts From a Varied Journal
A collection of brief notes noting Italy's coal scarcity despite sulfur production in Sicily, Ganister used in iron smelting furnaces, archaeology claiming Middle American culture thrived 2000 years before Europeans, a remark on Thomas Moore as a social favorite, and the English East India Company's charter from 1600 granting a 15 year monopoly to trade globally from the Cape to the Strait of Magellan. It also notes a toad reportedly eating about 10,000 insects in summer.
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Thomas Moore
Oke
English East India Company
Cape of Good Hope
Strait of Magellan