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  2. LONDON—Week by Week

    Chivalry is not lost. It was revived with magnificent pageantry last week amid the grey stones of Westminister Abbey, when new Knights Grand Cross of ...

    Article : 624 words
  3. LEAVES FROM OLD FILES

    Armed Cruiser.—The steamer Rotomahana, the fastest boat of the Union S.S. Co., of New Zealand, and built with exceptional strength, is under offer to the ...

    Article : 881 words
  4. TRAVEL NOTES Treasures from the Mists

    ON Westminster Bridge stands one of the most vigorous statues in London—that of Boadicca urging on her battle steeds, as ...

    Article : 220 words
  5. LITERATURE

    Whenever I feel in need of whetting my intellect, I fly to a volume of Hilaire Belloc, for he can make me blush for his shamelessness and set me chasing ...

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  6. MEMORIAL WINDOWS AT WICKHAM

    Memorial windows erected at St. James' Church of England, Wickham, in memory of members of the Farnham family, and to be unveiled at the 63rd Patronal Festival service of the Church to-morrow. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  7. 25 YEARS AGO

    Proposed Town Hall.—Mr. W. George, architect, has written to the Newcastle City Council, protesting against its decision to withhold the premiums of the ...

    Article : 751 words
  8. A Theatre and a Civic Centre

    Scientific excavation did not begin till the middle of the 19th century, when the Roman theatre, the only one known in England, was discovered. Last year, much ...

    Article : 139 words
  9. A Building Boom

    That was in 61 A.D. The city rose again from its ashes, and during the next century there was what we should now call a building boom, as any visitor ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 232 words
  10. Life in a Roman City

    The defences of the ancient city have been followed out; two miles of massive walls of flint and brick, 10ft thick, in places 18ft high, were found to encircle ...

    Article : 199 words
  11. A Naturalist's Notebook

    I travelled to Melbourne by steamer recently. It is always an enjoyable experience although I confess I am a "land lubber" at heart and feel a vague sense ...

    Article : 343 words
  12. ORDER OF DRUIDS

    A brief historical sketch of the United Ancient Order of Druids has been compiled by the Grand Secretary of New South Wales (Bro. R. A. Barry). ...

    Article : 497 words
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    REV. A. W. MOORE, Who has been Rector of St. James's Church of England, Wickham, for the past five years. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  14. England, Geologically

    Out of London streets it is now possible to walk into the middle of the ice age. The new Museum of Practical Geology, which was opened at South ...

    Article : 506 words
  15. Primitive Ants

    Twenty million years ago ants had developed nearly all the casts that are found in their nests to-day. It is probable that a period of not less than ...

    Article : 412 words
  16. A Bird's-eye View of History

    The site of the excavations is comparatively small and a bird's eye view life, from pre-Roman times to the present day, is possible in way that is perhaps unique ...

    Article : 231 words
  17. A City Levelled and Despoiled

    At the centuries passed, a monastery took the place of the little commemorative church, and the township that grew up around it became known as St. ...

    Article : 312 words
  18. TWENTY YEARS' MUD

    Enough mud to provide material to erect 12 of the greatest pyramids in Egypt has been dredged from the bed of the River Thames during the last 20 years. ...

    Article : 242 words
  19. Banding Birds

    Much has been said and written concerning the proposal of ornithologists to place an aluminum ring on the nestlings of lyre-birds in National Park for the ...

    Article : 197 words
  20. ST. JAMES' CHURCH

    It is fitting that a pioneering family of worshippers should be remembered at the 63rd patronal festival services of St. James' Church of England, Wickham, ...

    Article : 463 words
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    A group of Verulamium vessels found in the filling of a well. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 10 words
  22. Lyre-birds in Tasmania

    An attempt is being made to introduce the lyre-bird into Tasmania, and authority has been given to capture two males and a female, for this purpose. ...

    Article : 96 words
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