Fiery Dragons in History and Medieval Lore
The article surveys dragons as known in ancient and medieval natural history. It notes Winchester records from 1177, Gesner and Aldrovandus’ detailed dragon descriptions, and a beast about the size of a sheep with scales a silver sheen. It discusses the dragon’s form, brains, and feared behavior, plus debates on its origins and possible hybrids like an eagle and wolf.
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Annals of Winchester
England
Gesner
Zurich
Aldrovandus
India
Ethiopia
John Leo
Russian’s First Encounter With English in London
A Russian newcomer in London asks a cabman for a landmark based on a notebook address. He is mocked by drivers and police until a friend reveals the note read Thing the Beil, copied letter for letter from a gatepost, misread as a street and house.
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Pearson
The Worth While Person
A description of the making of a strong, worthwhile individual. The speaker likens essential traits to bricks in steel and bread yeast, noting steadiness, breadth, kindness, justice, humor, and capability as universal across life ranks, from kitchen to office, creating three dimensional people.
Primitive Wan and Jones at Opera House Dinner
A humorous aside recounts a primitivish Jones at an opera house stage band moving a table he yells Supe and later mocks a dinner scene with a spoons and forks row. The Cleveland Plain Dealer quote is cited. A medieval cuckoo myth is contrasted with Roman practicality noting they ate the bird for sweetness of dish.
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Jones
Opera House
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Discontentment and Odd Prophecy in a Cleveland Note
An exchange from the Cleveland Plain Dealer features a man predicting in three months he will own his own home and a friend asking if his wife will be away. The quote ends with a line about there being no greater mistake than discontent.
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Ny Otto
Cleveland Plain Dealer
W. HL
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