This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Odds and Ends From Around the World in Brief
A wide variety of curiosities are noted from Mount Vernon to Rhode Island, including a 146 foot spars claim, Cairo University age, Brunnich lamp oil from the stormy petrel, and a farcical pie myth after an African riot. Other items cover penmanship, a tongue injury, paper bottles, Voltaire quips, color blindness in Germany, Dalmatian pyrethrum, Siberian marriage customs, thief lore, indigestion lectures, and tea's effects on digestion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Vernon
Washington Territory
United States
University of Cairo
Feypt
Oxford
Rhode Island
Faroe Islands
Winnebah
Africa
San Jacinto
Texas
Bam Houston
Voltaire
Prussia
Prussian
Davitt
Lauder Brunton