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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 25, 1917Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 25, 1917Not one of the morning papers advocated the appointment of Sir Eric Geddes to be First Lord of the Admiralty. A big scoop this for the Government. A foolish rumour is going the rounds to...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 561, August 11, 1832The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 561, August 11, 1832Burnham is a village of some consideration, in Buckinghamshire, and gives name to a deanery and hundred. Its prosperity has been also augmented by the privilege of holding three fairs annually....
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 - A Magazine of Literature, Art, and PoliticsAt the northwest corner of Switzerland, just on the turn of the Rhine from its westward course between Germany and Switzerland, to run northward between Germany and France,...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 11, 1919Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 11, 1919The heat was so oppressive in London the other day that a taxi-driver at Euston Station was seen to go up to a pedestrian and ask him if he could do with a ride. He...
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Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887Should nothing chance to discourage the general interest that surrounds Havre, to dampen the enthusiasm of the public, or to act to the prejudice of the exhibitors, whose very evident desire is to show nothing but remarkable...
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Notes and Queries, Number 11, January 12, 1850Notes and Queries, Number 11, January 12, 1850About ten years since, I remember seeing, in the hands of a London bookseller, a curious MS. purporting to be the "Household Book of Receipts and Expences of Sir Edward Dering, Bart., of Surrenden Dering, Kent, from...
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Notes and Queries, Number 07, December 15, 1849Notes and Queries, Number 07, December 15, 1849[Among the curious documents which have been produced from time to time before the House of Lords in support of peerage claims, there have been few of greater historical interest than the one which we now reprint...
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Notes and Queries, Number 08, December 22, 1849Notes and Queries, Number 08, December 22, 1849Sir,In Dr. Maitland's able vindication of the Dark Ages (p. 419. 1st ed.), he concludes his interesting extract from the scribe Otloh's account of himself by saying:"One would like to know what books they were which Otlohnus...
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Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891In time of war the dispatch boats are the eyes of the fleet. It is their duty to reconnoiter and ascertain the strength of the enemy and to carry the orders of the commander. For this service...
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Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884The electric railway recently set in operation between Frankfort and Offenbach furnishes an occasion for studying the question of such roads anew and from a practical standpoint. For elevated railways Messrs. Siemens and Halske a long time...
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Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887The experiments with life saving appliances which Mr. Copeman brought before the delegates of the Colonial Conference, on the 13th April, at the Westminster Aquarium, had a particular interest, due to the late and lamentable accident which...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 558, July 21, 1832The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 20, No. 558, July 21, 1832In our fourteenth volume we took a farewell glance of the old church of St. Dunstan, and adverted to the proposed new structure. Little did we then expect that within three...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 18, 1917Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 18, 1917Some explanation of the KAISER'S anxiety for peace and the GERMAN CHANCELLOR'S statement in the Reichstag has just come to hand. It appears from The Boston Christian Science Monitor that Mr. CHARLIE CHAPLIN is about...
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Notes and Queries, Number 05, December 1, 1849Notes and Queries, Number 05, December 1, 1849[The following valuable original letter is now published for the first time. It will be found to be of very considerable historical curiosity and interest. The resignation of the Great Commoner in 1761, and his acceptance at...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 553, June 23, 1832The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 553, June 23, 1832These mouldering ruins occupy the crest of the hill, upon which stands the town of Launceston, near the centre of the eastern side of the county of Cornwall. They are the...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 18, 1919Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 18, 1919Forty thousand children visited the Zoo on Whit-Monday, and one anxious father who had mislaid a couple of infants stayed for a long time in the reptile-house, looking suspiciously at the swollen appearance of the...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 26, 1917Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 26, 1917Victory is only a question of keeping cool, says VON TIRPITZ. A long-suffering Fatherland anticipates no difficulty whatever in following his advice during the winter. A semi-official message from Berlin declares that Jerusalem was evacuated...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 21, 1917Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 21, 1917Counsel, in a prosecution for selling a tobacco substitute, has stated that there is nothing in the Act to prevent a man from smoking what he likes. In the trade this is generally regarded as...
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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 2, 1919Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 2, 1919A Liverpool grocer was fined last week for overcharging for margarine, eggs, cheese, ham, bacon, cocoa, jam and suet. Any other nation, it is pointed out, would have had a man like that at the...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 552, June 16, 1832The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 552, June 16, 1832The Zoological Society possess several Zebus, or Indian oxen. These were formerly considered a distinct species, but zoologists are now of opinion that the Zebu is merely a variety of the...
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