Oldest Mechanical Arts Institution in the U S
The Franklin Institute, founded in 1824 at Congress Hall Philadelphia, is the nation’s oldest institute devoted to mechanics arts and applied sciences. Founded by Samuel Merrick and Dr. William H. Keating, it evolved into a hub of exhibitions and research with a 80 000 volume library and 20 000 pamphlets.
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Franklin Institute
Congress Hall
Philadelphia
United States
Samuel Vaughan Merrick
William H. Keating
University of Pennsylvania
Detroit News
Central High School
United States Patent Office
Benjamin Franklin Memorial, Inc
Poor Richard Club
Benjamin Franklin
Giant 7 Foot 8 In Tall Canadian Strongman
Angus McAskill known as the Cape Breton giant was born in 1825 in Scotland and became famous in Canada. He stood 7 ft 8 in tall weighed 560 pounds with a massive chest and hand span and performed feats such as lifting heavy weights and carrying a 25 mile snowbound trek to a doctor. He died in 1863 after an anchor lifting accident in New York and was buried in St Ann Cemetery Nova Scotia with a biblical inscription on his grave marker.
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Angus McAskill
Cape Breton
Hebrides
Scotland
Canada
Queen Victoria
Windsor Castle
New York
St. Ann
Nova Scotia
How the Christian Era Began and Its Year Count
A historical note explains Dionysius Exiguus creating the Christian era and dating from 754 in the Roman system. Later scholars shifted the birth to 1 B.C. or 4 B.C. The timeline covers no year zero and places Jesus crucifixion around 29 A.D. marking his age at about thirty-two or thirty-three.
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Dionysius Exiguus
Italy
Christ
France
England
B.C
Habits of Garter Snakes in Meadows and Water
Garter snakes favor grassy meadows and stream edges where frogs fish and small mammals abound. They swim well and climb easily, probing bushes for eggs and young birds in spring. They are bold around gardens and village parks and sometimes enter cellars dairies or chicken houses, though less often than larger serpents.
Superstitions and Local Beliefs in Scotland
A Pearson's Weekly note details Scottish superstitions surrounding letters arriving with a moth, luck from home spiders, rain from killing a beetle, and death news from a falling picture. It also cites Saturday as unlucky for moving and silver coins for newborn luck, copper coins for ill luck.
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Scotland
Pearson’s Weekly
Burial status under common law real estate change
Under common law burial changes a body from personal property to unowned real estate. Courts in several states have often ruled for opponents of body removal, even when the opposing party was not related to the family, notes Collier's Weekly.
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United States
Collier’s Weekly
Young Nebraska Mayor Visits New York City
Fiorello LaGuardia hosts Danny Kampan 17 the world’s youngest city mayor at City Hall. They discuss budgets and exchange credentials as Father Flanagan and Boys Town gain nationwide attention during a royal welcome and radio broadcast.
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New York
Danny Kampan
Boys Town
Nebr
Fiorello LaGuardia
LaGuardia
Kampan
Father Flanagan
Daniel Kampan
Sonnenberg Mennonites adopt name Kidron Mennonites church planned near Kidron
Sonnenberg notes report the Progressive party of the Sonnenberg Mennonites adopting the name Kidron Mennonites and planning a church north of Kidron. The piece covers local sermons at Kidron Tabernacle Salem church Messiah concert at Salem with soloists Gerber twins and relatives, plus various social visits, travel, and a birth and a death in the community.
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Progressive Party of
Sonnenberg Mennonites
Kidron Mennonites
Kidron
Stanford Mumaw
Kidron Tabernacle
J. A Liechty
Orrville
Salem Church
Paul Gerber
Orlo Springer
Wadsworth
Gerber Twins
Noah Gerber
Pandora
Gerber
Clayton Tschantz
Ashland
Levi Steiner
Roy Kirchhofer
Berne
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West
Lebanon, Ohio
Plymouth
DeSoto
Sunoco
Haverstock & Davis
Winchester
Scott’s Store
LaGuardia and
Omaha
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Union
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
Eastern Preparatory
Eastern College
Sonnenberg
Roy Hofstetter
Canal Fulton
Helen Spencer
Havelock
Henry Kraus
Clarence
Nellie
Willis Sommer
Arnold Raber and Son
Harry Rine
Massillon
Adpd Amstutz
Mary Lou
Doris
Tiffin
William Lenz
North Canton
Amstutz
Albert Baumgartner
Andrew Yoder
Cleveland Clinic
Willis Sprunger
Dexter
Iowa
Mr. Sprunger
Enoch Sprungers
Sam Steiner
Amos
Allen Geiser
Warren Miller
Larry
Marshallville
A. D. Amstutz
John Milton
Milton Badertscher
Sebring
Alliance
Emanuel Liechty
Indias
Hiss
Irma Schneck
Ethiopia
John Schneck
Scott’s
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