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...history, from Leif Ericsson to Admiral Dewey. Peter etched and painted animals. Thomas stuck to illustrating, doing as high as 250 plates in a single year. Off and on he visited Europe, but in 1871 and 1873 he made the trips that made his name, to the bright-hued rock-gorge country of the Far West with government geologists. It was an ideal locale for a devoted student of Turner and of nature's iridescent color effects. Congress paid him $10,000 apiece for his companion canvases, "Chasm of the Colorado" and "Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone," which were...
...newsgatherer, sharp of ear, might have imagined he heard snatches of momentous conversation: "Uh-huh. . . .No, peas. . . . Uh? . . .Yes, I guess I will.. . . Vichy, unless we can get White Rock, please...
...Eruption . . . Vesuvius Spurts Lava." It was but a minor disturbance in the central crater, indistinguishable by day from below, a cause of no alarm to the government volcano laboratory. Few days pass without some sign of life from Vesuvius, usually a thin column of smoke. Small upheavals of rock and lava do not overflow outside the old crater, which was formed by the last eruption of violence, in 1906. History knows of but two truly cataclysmic eruptions of Vesuvius-in 79 A. D. (reported by Historian Pliny); in 1631, when 18,000 lost their lives and ash fell in Constantinople...
William George Besler, Central R. R. of New Jersey; Harry E. Byram, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul (now receiver); Howard Elliott, Northern Pacific; James Edward Gorman, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; Howard George Hetzler, Western Indiana; N. L. Howard, C. G. W.; Charles Mack Levey, Western Pacific; Henry Miller, Terminal R. R. of St. Louis; H. C. Nutt, Monongahela; Daniel Willard, Baltimore & Ohio...
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