Washington and Steuben Honor Seaton with Two Heroes
Seaton meets Washington and Baron de Steuben after delivering prisoners and capturing fugitives in a pivotal Valley Forge era scene. La Fayette praises Washington, Steuben explains orders and Seaton’s sword ties to his father, and a late night ambush provokes Seaton to swift, deadly defense against two attackers.
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Marquis
Ordereo
Prussia
Europe
Washington
Frederick William Augustus
Baron de
Frederick the Great
Gen. Washington
Gabriel van Tromp
Tam
Kirk Fagan
Philadelphia
Magan
Fagan
van Romp
Desperado
Old Warwick Tavern
Howe
Maravis
Robert Seaton
Marquis Gillert Motier de la Fayette
Brandywine
Sullivan
Stirling
Ker Ball
Baron de Steuben
Charles of
Baden
Sardinia
Austria
America
Baron Steuben
Valley Forge
Monmouth
Marquis de la Fayette
France
la Fayette
Capt. Seaton
Steuben
Frederick
Ele
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Marshal Schwerin
Prague
Liegnitz
Taugau
Buckersdorf
Black Eagle of
Frederick of
Robert
England
McIntosh
Harry Lee
Georgia
Monmouth Pines
Freehold
Tempt Upon My Life Excerpted Fragment
A brief fragment voices a lament of imminent death and the loss of secrets, with the speaker reflecting that fate may have already claimed what was hidden. The lines express sorrow, defiance, and a sense of irrevocable consequence as the speaker contemplates mortality.
Stratford Tales And Stratford Prodigies In Rural Wit
In a Stratford area inn Haydon extols Shakespeare to rustic listeners who note a new local prodigy John Cooper who has lived ninety years there without a toothache. A Nuneaton boast about George Eliot sparks a village quip praising a vigorous elderly woman over a male named writer and her quarrels with the parson’s wife.
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Haydon
Stratford
Shakespeare
John Cooper
Zur
Nan
Nuneaton
George Eliot
Curious Partnerships and a Frosty Home Welcome
A collection of light anecdotes begins with Uncle Hiram visiting Chicago for Christmas and marveling at floor furnace heat while joking about fire from fireworks. It moves to natural partnerships, noting tuatara lizards and petrels sharing burrows and the remora fish riding sharks, whales, or ships, plus other Brazilian catfish associations for shared meals.
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Hiram
Chicago
Chicken Islands
New Zealand
Costliest Wine in Bremen Town Hall Cellars
The Rose cask in Bremen’s Town Hall cellars holds the most valued wine, a Rudesheim from 1653. It is never sold and reserved for Bremen’s sick, with rare exceptions granting small bottles to Emperor William I, Frederick III, and Prince Bismarck. The wine’s money value is incomprehensible, though irrelevant since it remains unsold.
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Bremen
Rudesheim
William I
Frederick III
Bismarck
Echoes in Churches Span Wide Distances Across Europe
A Sussex church is said to host one of the most remarkable echoes, while a Mertfordshire church may reveal a watch tick audible from end to end. In Girgenti Cathedral Sicily the slightest whisper carries clearly about 150 feet from the western door to the altar cornice.
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Sussex
Mertfordshire
Girgenti
Sicily
Opal Mining Flourishes in White Griffs Australia
Opal mining expands in Australia with White Griffs as the main center where gems are found in rich quantities within ten miles. The town houses about 1500 residents. Separately, St. Petersburg boasts the largest bronze statue of Peter the Great weighing 1000 tons.
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Australia
White Griffs
St. Petersburg
Peter the Great
Covered Sheep Yard and Apple Feeding Observations
Practical notes on building a simple covered sheep yard linked with insights on cows feeding in apple orchards. Covers yard size for flocks, storage, ventilation, and placement, plus observations that cows prefer apples to hay and can digest small quantities when mellow cider apples are fed gradually.
Apple pomace use on farms and related notes
Article describes converting cider byproducts into valuable farm outputs. Apple pomace can yield wine or feed when treated with water and grain meal. Discusses cow peas in peach orchards, lice control in swine, movable fencing, potato rot after heavy rain, farmer reputation, estimating live weight of cattle, and horse values. Includes practical methods and farming insights.
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Coburn
Kansas State Board of Agriculture
Rocky Ford
National Stockman
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