Bethlehem Dreaming Through a Holy Land Roadside Tour
A travelogue describes Bethlehem six miles south of Jerusalem, tracing the route Jesus walked, visiting the field of the shepherds, Boaz and Ruth sites, and ending at the Church of the Nativity. It notes 6,000 inhabitants, Christian residents, narrow streets, shops selling rosaries, and the cave tradition of Christ's birth with Hadrian and Constantine’s historic acts.
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Bethlehem
Jerusalem
Jaffa
Christ
Israel
Gihon
Solomon
Hinnom
Rephaim
David
Ruth
Boaz
Jesse
Son
God
Shepherds
Fortresslike Bethlehem Church Visit Reveals Historic Grotto
The exterior resembles a fortress and the route through the three sections of the church Greek Latin and Armenian leads to the grotto and tomb chapels. From the Greek Basilica to the Tombs of Paula Hustochium to the Nativity crypt the sacred site is rich with legends and artifacts.
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St. Catherine
Austria
Manger Shrine Among Altars in Silent Christmas Scene
Visitors explore a chapel of the Manger built on the manger site. A marble manger holds a wax infant while a gilded lamped altar glows and a silver star bears the inscription Here Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary.
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Ronnie
Jesus Christus
Jesus Christ
Christ the Lord
Mary
Joseph
Festival of the Nativity Observed in Church and Life
The nativity festival, instituted by Christ and celebrated by angels, marks a day of days in church history. It is a time of festive gladness in worship and social life as the birth of Jesus unites humanity with God and centers biblical narrative on the nativity.
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Christ
Holy Angels
Jesus
Lord
Spreading Glory Christmas Thoughts by Cunningham Geike
A reflective piece on Christmas thoughts and affections softening the world with brightness and warmth, spreading a gentler glow like a setting sun over all.
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Cunningham Geike
Fragmentary Chant of a Midnight Vision
A fragmented passage evokes a solemn midnight scene with distant figures and cryptic names. The text references a calm night, arches, a lord, a penelope, and a providential plot, creating an enigmatic, dreamlike mood.
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Penelope Crimmphai
Winged Airships and Public Safety in Harper's Weekly
Charlotte Perkins Gilman imagines future airships carrying people and parcels. She warns of privacy breaches and crime, then argues society must raise moral standards and enforce laws as humanity lifts with wings.
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Cuba
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Harper’s Weekly
Philadelphia laid out by Thomas Holme grid pattern
The city grid pattern for Philadelphia was laid out by surveyor general Thomas Holme, though the design remains Penn’s own. Holme’s descendants still live in the city, but his land and city lots have long since left his family.
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Philadelphia
Thomas Holme
Pennsylvania
Penn
Origin of Card Catalogues Traced to French Abbe
The London Book Monthly recounts the origin of card catalogs. A French abbe during the revolution indexed books by titles on playing cards, placing each card with a title in alphabetical order on a tray, a method said to have sparked the card catalogue later adopted by libraries in the mid 18th century.
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London Book Monthly
At Lightning Speed Train Overtakes Auto at Crossing
The express train travels at high speed while an automobile accelerates toward a grade crossing. The car slows, stops, and lets the express pass without collision.
Force of Habit Memory Sketch
A compact humorous note notes Old Millyuns as a milkman by origin and jokes about his talent for storytelling. It contrasts his skimmed punchlines with a wry village sentiment and frames his career arc from dairy to humor.
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Millyuns
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Perm
Viety
Savior
St. Justin
Palestine
Celsus
Hadrian
Adonis
Constantine
Field of the Shepards
Eusebius of
Cremona
St. Jerome
St. Paula
St. Hustochium
Gracci
Scipios
Herod
St. Joseph
Egypt
The
Manger
Genturiea Agn
Alfred Domelt
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