Before Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire Before Roger Maris and Babe Ruth There was British born George Hall the Major Leagues first single season home run record holder with blasts hit in
Sir Richard Francis Burton Explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologist, spy, linguist, poet, fencer, and diplomat Spoke languages Scar left cheek from Somali javelin Photo woodburytype Lock & Whitfield, x OS
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View of house still standing (1876) in Woodbury, Conn., formerly occupied by Rev. John Rutgers Marshall, Missionary and First Rector of St. Pauls Church. [...]
Photograph of an outsized carving knife and fork made by The knife measured 9 feet 7 inches long The handles were each made from a whole elephants tusk and were carved Centennial International Exhibition of 1136×1704
" Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other higher ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone"
(second from right in the row of commissioners just below the gallery) served on the Electoral Commission that decided the disputed 1876 presidential election. (Painting by Cornelia Adele Strong Fassett)