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Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885At a recent meeting in this city of the American Society of Civil Engineers, a paper by Edmund B. Weston was read, giving the description and result of experiments on the flow of water through a 2...
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Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 30, September, 1873Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 30, September, 1873As I parted from my stout old friend Joliet, I saw him turn to empty the last half of our bottle into the glasses of a couple of tired soldiers who were...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 566, September 15, 1832The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 566, September 15, 1832 Bolsover is a populous village on the eastern verge of Derbyshire upon the adjacent county of Nottingham; and but a short distance from the town of Chesterfield. The Castle occupies...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 479, March 5, 1831The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 479, March 5, 1831 The reader of "the age and body of the time" need not be told that the tenancy of Holyrood by the Ex-King of France has suggested its present introduction, although...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 389, September 12, 1829The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14, No. 389, September 12, 1829 Taylor, the water poet, or Samuel Ireland, the picturesque Thames tourist, could not, in all their enthusiasm of jingling rhymes and aquatint plates, have exceeded our admiration of Sion House....
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 574, November 3, 1832 TitleThe Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 574, November 3, 1832 Title This is an interesting scene from the wild and wonderful in Nature. Its romantic luxuriance must win the attention of the artist, and the admiration of the less wistful...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 569, October 6, 1832The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 569, October 6, 1832 Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, was called by the ancients Ulyssippo, and the foundation is fabulously ascribed to Ulysses. The situation is grand, on the north bank of the river...
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Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891The central battery ironclad Colbert is one of the ten ships of the French navy that constitute the group ranking next in importance to the squadron of great turret ships, of which the Formidable is the largest....
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 578, December 1, 1832The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 578, December 1, 1832 Tanfield is a considerable village, situated seven miles from Gateshead, in the county of Durham, and eight miles in a south-west direction from Newcastle-on-Tyne. The above arch is about a...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 3, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 3, 1891Podbury (reading aloud, with comments). "For really to conceive the infinite divisibility of matter is mentally to follow out the divisions to infinity, and to do this would require infinite time." You're right there, old...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 10, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 10, 1891["The Anthropoid apes, of which there was recently such a representative series in the Zoo, have dwindled sadly in numbers this year. The lamented decease of 'Sally' was referred to a few weeks ago; we...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 17, 1917Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 17, 1917"Time to deal finally with Tino," announced an evening paper last week, thereby doing a great deal to allay a disquieting impression that the matter was to be left to eternity. "KING CONSTANTINE," says the...
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Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873Behold me, then, with five hours around my neck, like so many millstones, in Strasburg, on the abjured Rhine! Had I not vowed never to visit that bewitched current again? Was it...
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Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884Scientific American Supplement, No. 455, September 20, 1884The spirited view herewith presented, representing the "Fall of the Giraffe" before the rifle of a sportsman, we take from the Illustrated London News. Hunting the giraffe has long been a favorite sport among the more adventurous...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 19, 1891Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 19, 1891Dr. Andrew Wilson (in "Science Jottings," in the Illustrated London News) dares disparage Golf "as an ideal game for young men," venturing to advocate the preferential claims of fogeyish Cricket, and even of futile Lawn...
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Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876Compress it as you may, this globe of ours remains quite a bulky affair. The world in little is not reducible to a microscopic point. The nations collected to show their riches,...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 27, 1917Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 27, 1917 - 1917 Almanack"THAT JOKE OF MINE, YOU KNOWWHEN I ASK A RECRUIT WHO'S BEEN THROWN, 'WHO THE DEVIL ASKED YOU TO DISMOUNT, SIR?' WELL, HERE'S ONE OF THE PAPERS SAYS IT'S THE OLDEST WHEEZE...
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Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885This viaduct is built over a rocky ravine on the railway from Port Alfred to Grahamstown, at a height of about 200 ft. from the bottom. Its length is 480 ft. 6 in., and the width of...
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Notes and Queries, Number 47, September 21, 1850Notes and Queries, Number 47, September 21, 1850I heard, "in other days," a father singing a comic old song to one of his children, who was sitting on his knee. This was in Yorkshire: and yet it could hardly be a Yorkshire song, as...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 491, May 28, 1831The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 491, May 28, 1831Ampthill is throughout a never-tiring region of romantic beauties. These were sung in some lines of great sweetness and poetical feeling, a few years since by Mr. Luttrell, who appears to...
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