Great Victories and Historic Battle Markers Across Time
A survey text recounts August 26 1346 English victory under Edward III over Philip VI’s French at Crécy, and notes nearby Wallace at Stirling gathering hosts for his great battle. It also describes Marathon and the Lion of Chaeronea, Joan of Arc’s burning site in Rouen, and the 1815 Waterloo defeat of Napoleon by Wellington with Allied forces.
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Edward III
Philip of Valois
Bohemia
Wallace
Wallace Tower
Stirling
Scotland
Robert Bruce
William Wallace
Surrey
Cressingham
Edward I
Bannockburn
Carecy
France
Serato
Ana
Greece
B. C
Philip
Kephisos
Antipater
Alexander
Demosthenes
Joan OF Arc
Place du Vieux Marche
Rouen
England
William of Normandy
Jeanne d’Arc
Orleans
Charles VII
Rheims
Ufe
Compiegne
Phe
Waterloo
Britain
Netherlands
Prussia
Wellington
Napoleon
Elba
Yste
Walsh school hens hatch out class pets in Mrs Biddy project
In Whicago kindergarten at Walsh school Miss Truby placed Mrs Biddy the setting hen with fifteen eggs. Students watched as a brown chick hatched first followed by yellow and black hatchlings. They learned care as the hen fed and sheltered her brood, hoping some may become chicken ranchers.
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Walsh. School
Chick AL Biddy
Bold Bandit Thirteen Robs and Sells Loot in One Night
Clarence Hoe, thirteen, was arrested in San Francisco on suspicion of twenty burglaries in a single night at the Ocean Shore railroad depot at Mission and Twelfth. He confessed, admitting the loot included tickets pencils blotting paper ink and rubber stamps. He carried items to a Market Street lot, then set up a small selling stand observed by detectives. Hoe lived with his father at 1535 Tenth Avenue South and is now in juvenile court.
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Young Hoe
Market
Tenth Streets
Clarence Hoe
San Francisco
Hoe
Fred Kracke
Jack Dolan
Ocean Shore Railroad
Young-Hoe
Tenth Avenue
South
George Hoe
Patrolman Treated Kids Like Pupils At Hough School
In Cleveland area, Patrolman Daniel P. Tate checks weekly grade cards at Hough Avenue and Crawford Road, praising or correcting children. Director Benesch commends Tate for serving the public schools and inspiring police conduct.
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Hough’ School
Johnnie
Mary
Hough Avenue
Crawford Road
Daniel P. Tate
Ada Avenue
Tafe
Hough School
Benesch
Giraffe and Rare Creatures Shipped to New York Park
The New York Zoological Park recently received a blotched giraffe and the highest priced baboon ever brought to the park. Also arriving were a crate of African tortoises and several hornbill birds, according to curator Raymond L. Ditmars.
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New York: Zoological Park
Raymond. L. Ditmars
Vesuvius and Etna in the Seismic Sketch of Capri Bay
The narrator describes Vesuvius venting steam above the Sorrento peninsula while Etna has shaken Sicilian villages with an earthquake. Capri fades in the distance as a tranquil harbor scene emerges with boats and fishermen returning from the day’s work.
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Somma
Gélo
Sorrento
Vesuvius
Aida
Etna
Capri
Passaic skull may be that of long-missing peddler
William W. Scott a Passaic county historian and bar dean says a skull found by Garfield workers near 42 Passaic Street could be the headless remains of a peddler murdered over 70 years ago. He cites 1828 Dutch homestead of Tunis Van Iderstein and a reported disappearance and river body discovery as context.
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Passaic, N.J
William W. Scott
Passaic County
Garfield
Scott
Passaic. Street
Also Mentioned on This Page
Europe
Miltiades
Marathon
Rawnpore
Cawnpore
India
Nana’ Sahib
Nana Sahib
Nana
Chaeronea
Patriota
Mt. Parnassus
B.C
Thebaian
Hing
Bohella
Naples
Castel dell’Ove
Crime Club
Usband
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