Mirage at Sea and Windsor Chairs in Early America
A French frigate once witnessed a raft of men in distress on a sunny sea voyage but touched it to find only tree branches, a mass hallucination then noted. Windsor chairs were widely used since the eighteenth century with Jefferson drafting the Declaration in a Windsor chair at Independence Hall.
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Continental Congress
Independence Hall
Thomas Jefferson
Windsor
Elihu Yale: English colonial figure and donor
Elihu Yale born near Boston in 1648 moved to England at age four. He governed Fort Saint George in Madras from 1687 to 1692 and led the East India Company in 1699. Yale College bears his name from the 1745 charter after prior Saybrook school naming. He died in 1721 and was buried in Wales.
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Elihu Yale
Boston
Mass
England
America
Fort Saint George
Madras
East India Company
Yale College
Saybrook
Wrexham
Wales
Red aurora explained by sunlight effects
Dr. L Vegard of the University of Oslo told physicists sunlight indirectly reddens the aurora. New experiments show red lines in the auroral spectrum brighten when the atmosphere is sunlit. Ozone on the day side of Earth contributes to a type of red aurora.
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L.vegard
University of Oslo
Village Board Proceedings Diller Nebraska 1937
DillerNebraska village board met in called sessions on February 5 and March 27 1937 at City Hall with members Steiner Moser McCune Greider and others. Bills were read and allowed including salaries gas and coal and library support. a land sale to an Orphan’s Home was approved for ballot and beer sale hearings scheduled.
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Diller Municipal
Supewe
Diller Telephone Co
O. J. Mayborn
Thompson Oil,gas
D. VV
Diller
Greece
L.H Findling Dray
Weatkin
Chas. Green
Roy Geer
John Pulec
H.H. Green
Treas
Ioyeak Venees
H. M. Holle
Lydia Holle
Ed McCune
F. Hartzel
A. Green
H. H. Green
Moser
Chas. E. Waggoner
Policeman Injured as Clock Is Thrown in Dispute
Reynolds Ferguson of St Louis faced a hostile scene on his beat when a wife hurled an alarm clock at her husband during a domestic disturbance. The husband dodged the blow while Ferguson received the impact, ending with the couple jailed and the officer hospitalized.
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Reynolds Ferguson
St. Louis
Oldest Mechanical Arts Institute in the United States
The Franklin Institute founded in 1824 in Philadelphia is the nation’s oldest institute for mechanics arts and applied sciences. It trained students for a century until 1924 and now supports Central High School with continued research exhibitions and a vast library. It preserves American invention history alongside the Benjamin Franklin Memorial project.
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Franklin Institute
Congress Hall
Philadelphia
United States
Samuel Vaughan Merrick
William H. Keating
University of Pennsylvania
Wee
Detroit News
Central High -School
United States Patent Office
Benjamin Franklin Memorial, Inc
Poor Richard Club
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin
Cape Breton Giant Angus McA skill Remembered
The Cape Breton giant Angus McA skill born in 1825 in the Hebrides rose to fame as a strong man. He reportedly lifted 100 pounds with two fingers and swung a 300 pound barrel. He died in 1863 at 38 after a 2750 pound anchor incident in New York.
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Canada
Angus McA
Cape Breton
Hebrides
Scotland
Queen Victoria
Windsor Castle
New York
St. Ann
Nova Scotia
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