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Editorial Note The entry below ran as two installments of an alphabetical reference feature serialized weekly in this newspaper, drawing almost verbatim on Ephraim Chambers'...

Editorial Note In 1905, The Washington Times ran this piece of speculative journalism on the manufacture of human life, built around the work of Dr....

Transcribed from the Brooklyn Eagle (July 9, 1895). Original wording and punctuation preserved as printed. A Revolution in the Art of Preservation Which Threatens to Throw Several...

An Account of GIANTS, from a Memorial lately read before the Academy of Sciences at Rouen, by M. Le Cat. THE Bible mentions several races...

Oldest Paper in Phoenix—Twenty-Ninth Year. EXPLORATIONS IN GRAND CANYON Mysteries of Immense Rich Cavern Being Brought to Light. JORDAN IS ENTHUSEDRemarkable Finds Indicate Ancient People...

The Wind being Easterly, we had 30 Fathoms Water ; when at 10 o'clock in the Morning, a Sea-monster, like a Man, appeared near our Ship, first on the Larboard, where the Mate was, whose Name is William Limone, who took a Grappling-iron to pull him up : But our Captain, named Oliver Morin, hindered him, being afraid that the Monster would drag him away into the Sea.

Besides those ruins in the Illinois and Wabash countries, which have often been mentioned, there are others no less remarkable, many hundreds of miles...

May 27, 1721. Mr. Bagnall, PR A Y resolve me in your next week’s paper whether there be any such thing in nature as mermen and...

It was the general belief among the ancients, and indeed the moderns, till a very recent period, that giant races of men once inhabited...

The first thing the newcomer hears from the visitor who has spent several days at the World’s Fair is: “It is simply immense. The grounds cover 1,240 acres.” And the newcomer thinks: “Mercy, how shall I ever get around to see it all?” For the robust, healthy American, whether man or woman, the best means of transportation is that which nature has provided.