Dr Holub Africa explorer tours and curiosities
Dr Emil Holub the Austro Hungarian Africa traveler arrives in America with extensive fauna and flora collections, photographs, and drawings from a northern to south central African journey. He details routes through the Ma-Rutse and Ma-Shukulumbe areas, with wife accompanying him on long expeditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Emil Holub
America
Ntinent
Austria
Matabela Land
Hedina Holub
Africa
Kimber
Great Diamond Region
Monapatopa
Hallwater
Transvaal
Emit
Holur
Hol
Cape of Good Hope
England
Shupia
N' Isa
Owlsaid
Helotausus Ecandatus
Gaukler
Holub
Europe
Youngest German prince enters navy at Kiel
The narrative covers Prince Adalbert Ferdinand Berengar Vietor, youngest son of the German emperor, entering the German Navy at Kiel amid family honors. It notes his mischievous nature alongside brother Eitel-Frederic, contrasts him with the crown prince, and mentions a portrait by Kegel of Cassel. It then shifts to Armenia’s ancient Christian history, highlighting rulers, early Christianization, persecutions, and the rise of Protestantism in 1826 with Ameri missionaries among about fifty thousand Protestants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiel
Hohenzollern
Adalbert Ferdinand Berengar Vietor
Eitel-Frederic
Adalbert
Prince Adalbert
Crown Prince
Kegel of
Cassel
Asia Minor
Armenia
Tigranes
Cyrus
Babylon
Alexander
Western
Asia
Mark Antony
Nia
Egypt
Cleopatra
Christ
Abgar
Tigranes the Great
Jesus
God
Jude
Bartholomew
Thaddeus
Sanatrug
Zoroaster
St. Bartholomew I
Arianopolis
St. Gregory
Rome
Wintias B
Haring Shoes
Chicago
Paintings Hidden Behind Versailles Woodwork Revealed
Dusty corridor panels at the Palace of Versailles yield rediscovered paintings from Marie Antoinette era. Cream background features baskets of flowers landscapes and rustic scenes in blue bordered Louis XV style frames. Garlands linked to the Dauphin's Austrian taste surround the panels. Louis Philippe had these works whitewashed, critics say the Romanticists saw him as a bourgeois king.
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Palace of Versailles
M. Pierre de Nolhac
Marie Antoinette
Louis XV
Louis Philippe
Truthful Flattery and Honest Words Across Time
Mrs Hamilton Mott notes that blunt truth tellers are disliked yet endure, while flattering talkers wear well through the day. A woman who peddles pretty, not always genuine, reveals counterfeit charm. The Philadelphia Savings Fund Society began in 1816 and still operates today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton Mott
Ladies’ Home Journal
Philadelphia Savings Fund Society
Armenia and the Armenian Church’s Claims and History
The text outlines Armenian assertions about their birthplace of humanity and Christianity, identifying Ararat and Eden regions, Noah’s landing in Armenia, and historic sites between the Euphrates and Tigris. It notes the Armenian church’s independence, the Catholicos’ seat at Etchmiadzin, bishops and clergy, dispersed Armenian communities, and theological differences with Roman and Greek Catholicism.
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Armenia
Euphrates
Tigris
Noah
Ararat
Tribizon
Erzeroum
Ophir
Solomon
Joest
Togarmah
Gomar
Japheth
Christ
Nice
Ephesus
Children of Famous Women
Among famous women who were childless or the mothers of a few children were Mme. George Sand who had two children a son and a daughter Mme. de Stael who had three children during her early married life one after her second marriage Elizabeth Barrett Browning who had only one son Mrs. Somerville the astronomer who had three children though twice married George Eliot was childless and so were Mrs. Craile (Miss Mulock) and Mrs. Barbauld.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mme
George Sand
Mme. de Stael
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Somerville
George Eliot
Craile
Mulock
Barbauld
Ended the Empori Man’s Death at Workhouse Gates
An elderly man in the Wueshire Workhouse admitted to the Poor Law Guardians that he possessed five pounds for burial beside his wife. The guardians ruled he was not destitute and expelled him. At dinner next day he seized a knife and cut his throat, killing himself and removing their embarrassment.
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Connecticut
H. M. Wright
Glastonbury
Mr. Wright
Wueshire
Poor Law Guardians
Novelty Pin Cushions Feature Siamese Twins Design
A novelty pin cushion named Siamese Twins shows two small cushions stacked squarely like a French pout. Another design imitates a pair of briar pipes tied together, with owls carved and velvet covering, into which pins are inserted.
Alaska's ferocious grizzlies and polar bears attract hunters
The article describes Alaska's vast hunt zones near the Porcupine and Yukon rivers where caribou and moose draw sportsmen, noting 19th century inventories of venison at Hudson’s Bay supply depots. It recounts encounters with Mt St Elias grizzlies, polar bear legends on St Matthews Island, wolverines’ value, and native beliefs about white men’s traps, ending with seasonal migrations of caribou and moose.
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Alaska
John G. McGrath
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
Mr. McGrath
St. ‘N'S Island
Behring Sea
Fone
St. Matt
Mt. St. Elias
Mt. St. Eling
George
Port Simpson
Wolverine
Tanana
Yukon
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Emil Holub
Ons
HoLun
Zambest
Frau Holub
Franz Joseph Range
Oeyeme
Bennawee
Pripte
Kase Agha
Jesus Chest
Garden of Eden
Mount Ararat
Sening
Empori
Hanter
Moore
Polar
Virginia
Cape Cod
Uniteds
Greater A
London
Deborah Brown
Congress
Congressional Library
British Museum Library
Paget Sound
Episcopalians of
Tacoma
Vermont
United States
Lea Merritt
Blackheath
Ocosta
Wash
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