Parisian guests stir envy and longing in California
La Gobernadora Eulalia hosts La Perouse and his party at a cliffside merienda while Dagelet confesses longing for Paris. Conversations mix gossip and politics as the expedition planners outline study aims, and Eulalia imagines a daring escape to join the Frenchman at sea. Homesickness threads through Governor, priest, and visitors as sunset lingers over the cove.
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Palais de Adobe
la Gobernadora
Palais
Hotel de Ville
Louis XVI
Charles
Spain
Madame
Monsieur le Gouverneur
Parbleu
Adam and Eve
Eulalia
California
Dagelet
Monsieur
Pedro Fages
Comte de la Perouse
France
Paris
Jeunesse
Barcelona
Indizuela
Moza
Don
Don Pedro
la Perouse
Augustias
Fray Fermin Lasuen
San Carlos
Carmel
la Reine
San Francisco
Presidio
Santa Barbara
Presidio of
Monterey
Lasuen
Senor el Conde
Catalonia
Fages and La Perouse Discuss Odd Instruments on Beach
Pedro Fages observes eso teric instruments in La Perouse's beach lab while a pale scholar adjusts a microscope. The governor muses on native knowledge, confessing he studies country and people by feel, not by science, and notes his simple grasp may outstrip the scientists’.
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Pedro Fages
la Perouse
Senor el Conde
Mon Ami
Giant Roses Tower Thirty Feet In Santa Barbara Garden
A Santa Barbara priest cultivates extraordinary roses in an ordinary garden. Giants rise thirty feet and a rare black rose appears from crossing very dark varieties. The article notes ongoing scientific work behind plant traits and emphasizes facts over theory.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Romans Introduced Bagpipes to Britain Say Historians
Scotland may not be original home of the bagpipe as Romans brought the instrument to Britain. The article notes Nero is believed to have played the bagpipe.
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Scotland
Britain
Nero
Doan
Bonnet and Sugiyama Seen Shaping World Powers Plans
French foreign minister Georges Bonnet pushes toward a four or five power balance with Britain, Italy, the United States and Poland as France shifts away from Soviet ties. In Japan, fascist leaders center on War Minister Hajimi Sugiyama as a likely strongman candidate amid Konoye’s government.
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York
Georges Bonnet
France
M. Bonnet
Poland
Russia
England
St. Georges de Didonne
Didos
Chautemps
Chamber of Deputies
Apan
Konoye
Hajimi Sugiyama
Sugiyama
National Military College
Japan
Geneva
Europe
Consolidated News
Service
Late Bloomers in Literature and Science
The article notes famed figures reached prominence after ages forty to sixty. Cervantes, Chaucer, Milton, Defoe, Bunyan, Scott, Bach, Darwin, Franklin, Wordsworth, and Harvey all began major works or discoveries well into middle age, challenging the idea of early genius.
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Cervantes
Chaucer
Milton
Daniel Defoe
Bunyan
Sir Walter Scott
Bach
Darwin
Franklin
Wordsworth
Harvey
Elephant enraged by taunter attacks home in Bengal
An elephant wandered near Rangpur in Bengal after a man in a garden shouted and taunted it. The elephant entered the garden until restrained by its mahout. Later that night the beast rushed to the tormentor’s house and caused severe damage.
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Rangpur
Bengal
Seek to the End Belief in Truth and Pursuit
A reflective aphorism on the hopeful pursuit of truth despite uncertainty, urging steadfast dedication to an elusive ideal. James Hilton attributed sentiment anchors the moral.
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James Hilton
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Virginia Stivers Bartlett
Who’s News
By Lemuel F. Parton
Scott
Defoe
America
Lydia E. Pinkham
Nature
Pinkham
Terence
Rae
Wright's Pill Co
Gold St
N. Y
Doans
WNU
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