The Violet in History and Legend Across Ages
A long excerpt traces the violet from ancient Greece to Napoleon era France, detailing mythic origins, symbolic meanings, and cultural roles. It notes blue, white, yellow violets and pansies, their legends, and how the flower figured in weddings, poetry, and politics, ending with social observations on young women seeking work in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greece
Diana
Jon
Jupiter
Ionia
Athens
Glycera
Pausias
Plato
Alcibiades
Agathon
Sappho
Alcaeus
Homer
Virgil
Chaucer
Juno
Paris
Liberal
Napoleon I
France
Elba
Lake Geneva
Napoleon
Tuileries
Louis XVIII
Corsica
L'Aiglon
Iberty
Shakespeare
Ophelia
Heartsease
Bunyan
Christiana
Lore and Legends of Easter Across Cultures and Eras
A survey of Easter origins from Eastre to Ostara, tracing pagan roots in Saxon and German traditions, how Christianity reframed rites, and customs from Ireland to Greece. It notes bonfires, paschal taps, spring dances, and varied observances including sun dances, rain proverbs, and festive meals with lamb, bonfires, and fireworks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eastre
Ostara
Oster
Germany
England
Nicaea
Bythnia
Council of
John Suckling
Nature's Child in the Open Air
A rugged voice proclaims a life of forest work and outdoor toil. The speaker celebrates felling trees, tending gardens, and plowing virgin soil, cherishing wind washed skies and solitude as the path to joy and bread from stubborn soil. He finishes each day by scratching in the back yard loam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connaught
Ireland
Turkey
Italy
Christ
Sweden
Devonshire
Dorsetshire
England
Athelstane Wade
Richard I
George Horton
Argolis
Ikon
Poros
Kansas City Catacombs Beneath Busy Downtown Walkways
Underground passages under sidewalks connect two floors of offices and shops where thousands work daily. Tunnels span from Willis Wood theater to the Baltimore hotel and from the county jail to the courthouse, facilitating retail life unseen by shoppers above.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Kansas City
Walnut Street
Grand Avenue
Willis Wood
Baltimore Hotel
Petticoat Lane
Who Should Hold the Baby in Street Car Etiquette Debate
A group on Thirty-first and Main discusses who should hold a baby versus manage the carriage. One man argues the man holds the baby if heavier and the carriage if lighter, while others joke about handing baby and carriage to the wife or conductor. A separate Wales parish fact notes a parish consisting of one farm with scant church accommodation and aging benches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Inter Ocean
London
Wales
Royal Commission On the
Church of Wales
John Williams
Llandilo- Abercown
Carmarthenshire
Archdeacon Evans
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Hanks
May
Floy Campbell
Tre
James L. Ford
Success Magazine
New York
Dick Whittington
Greenland
Judas Iscariot
Aving
Judas
United States
al Ic
Judge
Speeder
Broadway
Miss Jones
LI Jay
Earl
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