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Potboiler. In Savannah, Amateur Moonshiner Caleb Grimes staggered 14 miles from his farm to police headquarters to confess that he had,just spent two days trying to recover from the effects of sampling his homemade whisky, wheezed: "Get rid of the stuff before it kills somebody...
Delaware: J. Caleb Boggs...
...John Calvin. The world's first modern observatory helps illustrate "The Dawn of Modern Science." Watteau's dimpled courtesans bring "The Age of Enlightenment" to life. A sketch of Marie Antoinette riding to the guillotine does the same for "The Age of Revolutions." Missouri Painter George Caleb Bingham's Verdict of the People gives weight to the concluding chapters on America...
...years of its solitary reign, the little college in Cambridge, Massachusetts graduated such varied and influential men as Samuel Mather, Nathaniel Mather, Eleazar Mather, Warham Mather, Increase Mather, Cotton Mather, and one Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, an Indian who forsook the fresh air of Martha's Vineyard for the schoolroom and as a result died of tuberculosis a year after graduation...
...White Hall Plantation painted by Christophe Colomb about 1800, to a mist-shrouded painting of the river at night, done in 1905 by Frederick Oakes Sylvester. Between the two were a handful of great and near-great artists: naturalist-painters such as John James Audubon, Missouri's George Caleb Bingham who immortalized the river's roistering flatboatmen, and Indian Painters Charles Bodmer and George Catlin...