Invention and ascent mark early balloon history
The article traces the 18th century origins of balloon flight from Cavendish and Cavallo through Montgolfier, Rozier, and Blanchard. It covers early experiments in Europe and America, progressive ascents in Britain and Ireland, and the first fatal ballooning accident during a Channel crossing.
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Daedalus
Archytas
Tarentum
Archimedes
Syracuse
Simon
Forum
Saraes
Constantinople
Dante
Terouse
Lake ‘Vrasimene
Oliver of
Mamesbury
Bernovin
Fresnier
Lana
Marquis de Bacqueville
Cavendish
Binck
Edinburgh
Ciberius Cavallo
British Royal Society
Istienne
Joseph Sealeroiaens
Priestly
Annonay
Auvergne
France
Charles
Paris
Versailles
Louis XVI
Joseph Montgolfier
Pilatre de Rozier
Faubourg St. Antoine
Louis Iisad
Robert
Nesle
Cr. Charlies
Great Britain
James Tytler
Comely Gardens
England
Vincenzo Lanardi
London
Prince of Wales
Royal Artillery
Moorfields
Standon
Ware
de Moret
Johnson
James Sadler
Oxford
Hartwell
Aylesbury
Dublin
Holyhead
Sheldon
Blanchard
Chelsea
English Channel
Dr. Jeffries
Dover Castle Cliffs
Forest of Guines
Calais
Marie Antoinette
Crosbie
Ireland
St. George's Channel
Count Zambeccari
Sir Edward Verrion
Whorsham
Major Money
Lunardi
Windham
Fitzpatrick
M. Romaine
Jeffries
Baltimore Sun
Do Snakes Hypnotize Prey or Not
An observer reports experiments with rattlesnakes and birds showing snakes do not hypnotize. Birds approach, are struck, and disabled within seconds, then consumed, after a sequence of head lift, coil, dart, and retreat. The account notes multiple trials with rats and birds, ending with the snake dragging the dazed prey away.
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Ile
Heyoud
Chicago News
Conspiracy Ends With Father Choosing Mrs Martindale
In a ballroom intrigue, the narrator and sister Edith scheme to push their father toward marrying Mrs Martindale to block Anabel Green. The plan unfolds as a Marie Antoinette themed costume ball leads to a successful match and a new wife for the father, as hinted by a noon library reveal.
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Anabel Green
Edith
Father
father—Wing Henry Viiii
Marie Antoinette
Frank Englehart
Lindley Murray the Gramarian of Swatara Pa
Lindley Murray born in Swatara Pennsylvania in 1745 pursued law before marrying after four years of study. He retired to Long Island during the Revolution and fished and boated for four years before finding success in New York in 1779. He later moved to England dying near York in 1826. His English Grammar published 1795 became a standard in schools and made him widely known.
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Lindley Murray
Swatara
Long Island
New York
Hudson
England
York
Holdgate
Royal Gardens
Kew
A Great Diplomat Metternich Chronicle
The piece portrays Klemens von Metternich as a polished old school diplomat who valued forbearance among states and rejected egoistic policy. It notes his stern, inflexible bureaucratic nature and his motto la force dans le droit, insisting the right lies with this side.
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Metternich
Napoleon
Charles Whibley de Slackyeags
Marriage Customs Among the Shoka People of Tibet
Savage Landor notes Shoka marriage begins with a suitor visiting the bride’s father bearing food and wine and paying a bride price from 5 to 160 rupees. If both eat a ceremonial cake, the union proceeds. otherwise it may be halted. Severe communal penalties follow infidelity to deter dishonor, while “Rauline” clubs facilitate pre marriage acquaintance and Rambaung houses link villages for courtship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Henry Savage Landor
Widow's Heat Scheme Ends In Bank Heist
In a Cana dian town the Widow Bliss and her crew use a tunnel to rob the Pardon bank of 90 000 dollars after posing as tenants. The banker, charmed by the widow, falls for her while the theft occurs at night, leaving the town and the bankers orphans of warmth as the robbers vanish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Copsright
Jessie Morgan
Pardomw’s Tank
Bliss
New York
Canada
Nerth
Pardon
Ole
Uustin
Pardon's Bank
Celar
Widow Bliss
James Pardon
M. Quad
Southern Indiana Railway Way Timetable Highlights
Prime tables list departures from Seymour Bedford Odon Elnora and other towns with arrival and transfer times. Arrivals at Terre Haute Beeswater Rivora and other stations shown, with general notice that further information is available from local agent H. P. Radley at Grand Central Station Chicago.
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Seymour
H. P. Radley
G P
TPT
Grand Central Station
Chivavo
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Cavendah
Thea
Snakes
TION
Tibet
Henry
Uncle Hlenry
Thad
Naoul Henthorne
Naomi
Uncle Henry
Scotland
Adam
Eve
Atlantic
Southern Indiana Rail
Seymour Bedford Odon
Elnora
Ehunter Linton
Jasonville
Terre Haute
South Sound
Linton
Beeswater Rivora
Olon Bedford
Appie G. Barnes
Alto, Tex
Cardin
Ladies Advisory Dept
The
Chattanooga Medicine Co
Chattanooga
Tenn
Undertaker
SEARS
Bradford
Kutch Farm
J. L. Seal
Diefendorf
Madison Township
Wm. Sims
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