How Columbus Sailed: The Santa Maria Nina and Pinta
The Austrian Maritime Review details Columbus fleet accuracy drawn from diaries and Juan de la Cosa sketches. It notes the three ships named Santa Maria Nina and Pinta with varied hull forms and sails, crews around ninety, and lifeboat and armament details.
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Europe
America
Hristopher Columbus
Austrian
Maritime Review
Spain
Columbus
Juan d de la Cosa
Manicon
Una Lombarda
Una de Spingarda
Lombardy
Santa Maria
Canaries
Madrid
San Salvador
Overrun by Leeches Farmed for Trade in San Francisco
A Bay Area report describes a leech farm on Bush Street housing ten thousand leeches with a second U.S. farm in New York. The San Francisco leeches escaped into a tenement causing panic before discovery. Leeches are imported from Bordeaux to supply the market as they swarm in swampy ooze.
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Egypt
Bush Street
United States
New York
San Francisco
The
San Francisco Examiner
Rass
Japan
Australia
Hungary
Sicily
France
Bordeaux
Fireflies from Cuba Show Possible Cheap Light Source
Secretary Langley of the Smithsonian reports Cuban fireflies may yield a cheap light with minimal heat and energy. The insects emit a continuous glow from luminous spots on their thorax, allowing reading by cage illumination with little to no heat. If harnessed, this light could surpass lamp and gaslight efficiency by a factor of about one hundred.
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Langley
Smithsonian Institution
Cuba
Cape Colony Plan Exhibits in Four Courts at Exposition
Cape Colony proposes an allotment for three thousand to three thousand five hundred square feet in the manufactures building with four exhibit courts. First, ostrich products. second, wool and mohair goods. third, native production such as skins and minerals. fourth, Kaffir ornaments and native curios. Also to hire Kaffir and Malay caretakers and bring a Bushman and Hollentot for costume. The narrative shifts to leech descriptions and methods used to ship leeches from various regions, including how they are farmed, stored, and transported for sale.
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Allison
Cape Colony
Commission
Household Monthly Quip Sparks Family Courtship Tone
A brief snippet from Household Monthly notes a brother who must escort a sister until marriage, while he jokes about preferring bachelorhood. The exchange frames social etiquette and gender roles in a light, domestic tone.
Nuinn Goons Stock Offers Custom Fittings for Horses
A supplier announces a full stock of Nuinn Goons and can provide any items needed to outfit a horse. The notice emphasizes ready-to-fit gear and customized fittings for equine use.
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Nuinn
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Columbus’ Fleet
Bpain
Brugada
Beauchamps
Beauchamp
Leon
A. Hatch
Heber City
Snail
Red Boy
John Wilson
Deck
Christainson
Snp
Qur Saddle
James Sulmlmerdine
Ines Lig Zorg
S. M. Brown
J. Henriod
ENE
Cotton & Wilson
Peter Neilson
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