Last Days of the Saratoga Sailor Ship Saratoga Demolished
Boston reports the demolition of the Saratoga once part of Commodore Perry's 1853 Japan expedition. The aging ship, built in 1842, endured African coast actions and the Mexican War, then Vietnam era storms before being condemned. Seven crewmen survive from Perry's original crew.
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Boston
Perry
Yedo
Saratoga
Japan
Matthew Calbraith Perry
League Island Navy Yard
Thomas Butler & Co
Philadelphia
Naval Service
Edward C. Robie
John H. Pushur
Oscar F. Stanton
George Balch
Edwin Fithian
John S. Sewall
William Speiden
New York Customs House
Sewall
John 5. Sewall
Bangor
Bangor’s Theological Seminary
Bowdoin
Far East
St. Mary's
Commodore Perry
William S. Walker
Stanton
Yeddo
Kittery
New England
Oliver Perry
Lake Erie
King Crack-O
Farragut
Shubrick
Navy Department
Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry
Commodore Oliver Perry
Liberia
Africa
Gulf of Mexico
United States
August Belmont
New York
New Year Day The World Around by Daniel Cleverton
Daniel Cleverton explores New Year customs across Europe and America, tracing Roman, Druids, and Dutch influences. He notes watch night services, social gifting, and Parisian, German, and French variations, including Sylvester traditions and festive ransom customs, with a historical lens on how observances evolved.
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Daniel Cleverton
United States
New England
Janus
Hogmanay Traditions Across Homes In Scotland
In Scotland New Year's Eve is Hogmanay the chief festival. Children go door to door on Hogmanay eve crying Hogmanay for oat cakes and fruit filled cakes, sometimes cheese. Housewives prepare treats. omens warn against running short. Some recite a rhyme inviting the wife to wake and share Hogmanay bread.
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France
Scotland
Wassail Traditions In England And Scotland
Customs in England echo Scottish forms with wassail songs and New Year rites. The wassail toast, bell ringing, and sweeping out the old year are described along with customs like open doors at midnight and burning offerings to banish bad luck. Bundles of money bread wood coal and salt on doorsteps invite guests whose initials align with lines.
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England
Scotland
New Year Customs In Russian Village Traditions
In a country town Russia New Year’s marks a village feast for children. They fill pockets with dried peas and wheat and go door to door dousing grudges with peas and showering wheat on friends. A horse is festooned and led to a nobleman’s house. Guests and horse receive small coins from onlookers, while elders with fowls and evergreens offer gifts to the lord.
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Russia
St Basil's Eve Festivities in Caesarea Turkish Quarter
In Caesarea the New Year custom of St Basil is observed among the Sultan’s Greek subjects. The city decorates and shops fill with toys and cake. Rajah boys go door to door asking for money and St Basil's cake while singing a blessing.
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Caesarea
New Year Customs in Japan and China
The article notes New Year's Day observances in Japan and China, with Japan stress on calling on friends and giving awabi shells as thrift symbols warning against luxury, while China features street salutes of Kung-hi Kung-hi and Sin-hi for joy. It mentions festive decorations of lanterns, artificial flowers, and red mottoes, and blue paper indicating a death during the year.
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Japan
China
The Happy Man Swears Off Nothing
A saying notes that true happiness comes to one who has nothing to swear off and thus needs no reason to break a pledge in days ahead. It frames self restraint as freedom from excuses and future regret.
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Lieut. Contee
Bunk
Mexico
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Idzu
Iwami
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Hakodate
U. S. S. Saratoga
Commodore M
Wright A. Patterson
Europe
Oliver Cromwell
Germany
Berlin
Turkey
the Far East
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