Three Painters and Rivalry Amid Florentine Commissions
In Florence three painters Andrea Castagno Alessio Baldovinetti and Domenico Veneziano win commissions from Folco Portinari for Santa Maria Nuova rooms. Castagno grows envious as Domenico's vibrant oils gain fame prompting tense rivalry and an eventual murder impulsively sparked by Andrea.
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Alessio Baldovinetti
Domenico Veneziano
Folco Portinari
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Beatrice
Church of
Santa Maria Nuova
Andrea
Baldovinetti
Ore
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Andrea More
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Metropolitan
Fishing memory and a busted woodcut tale
A railroad official recalls a boyhood fishing Saturday after noon rule tied to splitting cord wood for Sunday. He describes blue June water and bass moving in limpid depths, but ends with a humorous twist noting he caught a licking because he failed to chop the wood.
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Indianapolis Star
Collecting a Debt from a Forgetful Neighbor
A dinner table tale follows Fulton recounting a small loan to Mrs Dwight and the long delay in repayment. Their daughter Hilda finally recovers the dollar from Mrs Dwight’s desk, prompting a lesson in honesty and repayment.
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Ms. Fulton
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Papa
Hilda
Noth
Fulton
Uncle's opera hat tricks delight nephew in brief
A Baltimore man shows his new opera hat to his nephew who enjoys the springing top. Days later the same man visits with a silk hat and the boy races down the hall with a black accordion like object, claiming it goes awfully hard and will not fully close.
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Baltimore
Speed of sound in air and water varies with conditions
The text notes sound travels 1,090 feet per second at 32 F in air, rising about one foot per second per degree above freezing. Damp air speeds up sound versus dry air. In water sound exceeds air speed by more than four times, about 4,700 feet per second.
Oyster Placuna placenta Used as Window Panes in India
On India's west coast, Placuna placenta oysters form shells of roughly six inch diameter. Early English rulers valued the shells as window panes. In Bombay cathedral's early eighteenth century construction, these shells were used to pane its windows, producing a frosted light effect.
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India
Bombay
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