The Wolf's Crest and the Huguenot Refuge
In a moonlit spring, Placide and two Choctaw companions escort Colonel d'Ortez, a Huguenot refugee, to reveal a buried family shame. The dying noble confesses the dArtin curse marked by a red bend sinister on the arms and entrusts papers proving true lineage, urging Placide to seek the last day Artin.
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Tuska
Biloxi
France
Spain
Louis
America
Placide
d’Ortez
Cartillon
d’Artin
Guise
St. Bartholomew's
Raoul d’Ortez
Raoul d'Ortez
Charles
Normandy
Oor
Bienville's Vision and Secret Mission in 18th Century Biloxi
In Biloxi Bienville, agitated by conspiracies and imperial dreams, asks Captain de Mouret to sail to Paris with urgent dispatches. The governor laments Crozat's potential control, praises a Bourbon empire, and assigns de Mouret to deliver secret orders to Serigny as he weighs war risks, funds, and reform.
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Pirogue
Biloxi
Bienville
de Mouret
Paris
Vex
de la Vente
Crozat
la Salle
Placide
Louis
Grey Tower
Bourbon
Mhirage
Quebec
Tosh
France
le Moyne
Havana
le Dauphin
Serigny
Iberville
le Moynes
Sand jacks and ancient engineering lessons in a modern bridge move
The article surveys engineering feats from the Newark Lackawanna bridge project using sand jacks to lower a draw span, linking the method to ancient Egypt and Rome. It notes parallels in tomb corridors, obelisks, and pyramid passages, and compares Roman and medieval concrete building to modern methods.
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Chicago Chronicle
Lackawanna
Newark
N. J
Egypt
Central Park
Liem
Nile Valley
Pyramids
Pyramid
Giseh
Pyramid of
Aboukir
Beliopolis
Palmyra
Rome
Lackawanna Road
Pantheon
Europe
Riches From Sea Bottom Treasures Unearthed In Turk Naval Feat
Reported searches by Greek divers under Turkish authority uncover sacks of gold and silver from a Russian admiral’s ship sunk during the 1770 naval battle. Divers count coins, recover jewels and relics, while Turkish inspectors log each sack. Similar wrecks yielded vast fortunes from other ships, including ingots and relics.
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Tcherman
Constantinople
Admiralty
Holland
Moelfram
Trafalgar
St. Jean de Malte
The Coldest Known Liquid by Cassier’s Magazine
The article notes liquid hydrogen as the coldest liquid known, boiling at -422 F at atmospheric pressure and solidifying at -433 F under reduced pressure. Professor Dewar liquefied hydrogen in 1898, describes the liquid as colorless and transparent, the lightest liquid with density about one fourteenth that of water, and mentions solid marsh gas as the previously lightest liquid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cassier's Magazine
Dewar
In Lighter Vein excerpt by Cooke in Century
Grace MacGowan Cooke presents a humorous verse about a boy named Little Boy Black and his hogs as frogs imitate him in a bayou setting. The piece appears in the December Century magazine.
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Bayou
Grace MacGowan Cooke
A Rose-Bedecked Courtship in Ainslee’s Verse
A budding romance unfolds as a couple strolls from friends to discuss Girton golf and kissing. He claims kisses beneath the rose prove tenderness, while she silently ponders if the year suits rose life. Béatrice Hanscom notes the pause and observation.
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Girton
Rose
Béatrice Hanscom
Ainslee
The Little Blackbird by Viggo Toepfer
A playwright seeks a young Parisian girl Madeline for the Blackbird role in The Dance of the Birds. She battles illness in a garret, dreams of stage stardom, and dies after a hopeful moment with her costume sketches and a kiss from the author.
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Viggo Toepfer
W. R. Hearst
Theatre Des Varietes
Blackbird
Warsaw
Theater Des Varietes
M. Villars
Paris
Madeline
Konaski
Kowaski
Sascha
Wowoski
Kowoski
Value of Being Friendless in Cabinet Circles
A brusque public figure faced informal cabinet discussions. Secretary Hay praised him for never seeking promotions for friends, while Secretary Root added he has none. The report notes calm in Finland and east Turkestan, where thune fer storms are unknown.
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New York Times
Hay
Root
Finland
East Turkestan
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Buchanan
Delaware
Benton
Linn
United States Geological Survey
Winthrop
Buchanan County
Independence
Marion
Gulf of Mexico
Mississippi River
Mississippi River Commission
Central City
Flemingville
Shellsburg
Quadrangle
Montana
Wyoming
Pennsylvania
Ancient Engineers
New York
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