Civil War Hostage Incident In Vicksburg Explored
In 1863 a marine brigade captured fifty aristocratic Confederate women in Port Gibson and escorted them to Vicksburg as prisoners of war. The women were paroled within a month and exchanged for northern teachers held by the Confederates. The raid led to social interactions and even romantic matches between opposing sides.
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Mississippi River
Rodney
Port Gibson
Mercy
Washington Times
Wedding Pageant Surprise Revealed by Groom’s Panties
The Atlanta wedding tale recalls a page boy who, during the ceremony, shouted to his mother that his nurse had put his panties on wrong side. The organ paused, guests blushed, and the boy behaved, receiving a kiss from the bride at the end. The incident is stated as a true story from the Galesburg Georgia Mail.
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Atlanta
Galesburg
Ancient Arithmetic Papyrus Unearthed in Egypt
A 3600 year old papyrus found in Egypt reveals early arithmetic teaching with addition and multiplication, and even equations. It shows division and fraction work, area calculations, and pyramid measurements, with examples including barley distribution and a sevenfold growth riddle. Admiral Byng’s 1757 execution is also noted, detailing his trial, verdict, and death in Portsmouth.
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Egypt
Philadelphia
Morning sermon mix up stuns Tinwald church
A misread plan sent a newlywed young preacher to the evening service, leaving the Sunday morning congregation waiting. An office bearer stepped in and delivered a sermon with the text He has married a wife and therefore he can not come, to amused and electrified listeners.
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Tinwald
New Zealand Herald
Wag
Wille
White
Detroit Free Press
Secret of Bright Colors and the Sunlit Secret
The Washington Star recounts an Englishman who pays $5,000 to Lyons for a carmine secret. He finds the technique yields no difference from his own method until the Frenchman reveals light as the key. The moral: color chemistry depends on weather and light, not hidden craft.
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Vestice
Lyons
Hig Secret
England
Washington Star
Peculiar Spider in Ceylon Catches Birds in Massive Web
A detailed account from the Pittsburg Dispatch describes a large yellowish gold spider in the Ceylon mountains whose web spans up to 12 feet and central net five feet in diameter. Birds about larks size are snared, with the spider grasping prey by winding coils around the head and blinding victims before choking them.
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Ceylon
Pittsburg
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