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...department of "Californiana" Professor Royce contributes some new documents on the Bear Flag affair taken from the private papers of Commander John B. Montgomery of the Portsmouth, stationed at San Fracnisco during the conquest of California...
Illustrated Lecture on English History. Places associated with the Norman Conquest: Rouen, Falaise, Caen, Bayeux, Hastings, Battle Abbey, Winchester, and the Tower of London. Professor Cooke. Lecture room of Boylston Hall...
Tuesday, March 3.- Places associated with the Norman Conquest: Rouen, Falaise, Caen, Bayeaux, Hastings, Battle Abbey, Winchester, and the Tower of London...
...California papers are continued with articles on "Fremont in the Conquest of California" by General John Bidwell, an old pioneer of '41, who has already contributed a couple of papers to the same series; and on "The Discovery of Gold in California," by John S. Hittell. In the department of Californiana there is also an account of the gold discovery by James W. Marshall, the discoverer of gold at Sutter's Mill, and a portrait is given of him in Mr. Hittell's article...
...indebted of course to the Bible for much of Jewish history. It goes back about four thousand years from our day. The Babylonians in this period were permeated with a spirit of conquest and roved over much of Westem Asia. Their life is clear to us from their records from 1000 B. C. down. About 800 B. C. the Assyrians also started out on a western campaign. Abeut 770 B. C. there came to their throne one of their greatest kings. A hundred years later the kingdom was in pieces...