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Tennyson died November 6, 1892. New Knox Church was opened on November 5, 1876. The battle of Inkerman was fought on the sth of November, 1854. The Terra Nova will call at Port Chalmers on iter way t» the Antarctic. The North Island Main Trunk lino was opened on tho 6th of November, 1908. There are 165 distinct colors in the spectrum, and 650 different shades have been detected.
Matches have not yet displaced the tinder box in certain rural districts of Spain and Italy. The owl's wiso look is the result of a physiological oddity, his eyes being fixed immovably in their socket 6. Every public ochool in Paris has a restaurant where meals are gratuitouslyserv«<l to pupils too poor to pay for them. During the present century the floods of tke Yellow River in China have caused the loss-of over eleven million lives.
Posts planted in the earth upper end down last mach longer than those planted in the position in which the tree grew.
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Evening Star, Issue 14515, 5 November 1910, Page 14
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168BREVITIES Evening Star, Issue 14515, 5 November 1910, Page 14
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