Ice Core Evidence for a Second Volcanic Eruption Around 1809 in the Northern Hemisphere

A volcanic signal observed in ice cores from both polar regions six years prior to Tambora is attributed to an unknown tropical eruption in 1809. Recovery of dacitic tephra from the 1809 horizon in a Yukon ice core ( Eclipse) that is chemically distinct from andesitic 1809 tephra found in Antarctic ice cores indicates a second eruption in the Northern Hemisphere at this time. Together with the similar magnitude and timing of the 1809 volcanic signal in the Arctic and Antarctic, this could suggest a large tropical eruption produced the sulfate and Antarctic tephra and a minor Northern Hemisphere eruption produced the Eclipse tephra. Nonetheless, the possibility that there were coincidental eruptions of similar magnitude in both hemispheres, rather than a single tropical eruption, should not be discounted. Correctly attributing the source of the 1809 volcanic signal has important implications for modeling the magnitude and latitudinal distribution of volcanic radiative forcing.

Some account of a paper call'd the Telltale, begun in colledge Sept 1721

The small leather-bound volume holds two sections, a manuscript student periodical, and written tête-bêche, an exchange on smallpox inoculation followed by notes on the rules and activities of a Harvard College student club. The volume begins with thirteen numbered manuscript issues, written in one hand, of the Tell-Tale running from September 9, 1721 to November 1, 1721. Prefaced, "This paper was entitl'd the Telltale or Criticisms on the Conversation & Beheavour of Scholars to promote right reasoning & good manner," the work is modeled after literary periodicals of the time, including the "Spectator," and is considered the oldest student publication at Harvard. The periodical appears to have circulated in manuscript form. The content varies in format and includes letters between Telltale and correspondents, short essays, and advertisements. Topics discussed include conversation, detraction, and flattery. While not specifically about Harvard it does provide some information about the College including evidence of various student activities and organizations at Harvard in the 1720s. The entry explaining the rules of the Telltale Club is heavily faded and nearly illegible. The Telltale records multiple dreams, which are populated by various characters, such as “beautiful” Kate, two “learned Physicians” debating inoculation, “four Fellows” “pushing and shoving one another,” and a “person of a very Dark & swarthy complexion in a Slovenly Dress with 7 patches & 5 sparks on his Face.”

The Oriental elements in the vocabulary of the oldest Russian epos, the Igor' tale, Slovo o pōlku Igorevĕ.

Bibliographical footnotes.

The fairy tale /

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The melancholy tale of "me"; my remembrances,

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Readings in modern Scots from Allan Ramsay to the present day.

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Shearer's guide to Central Scotland : Stirling, bridge of Allan, Dunblane, Doune, the Trossachs, Loch Katrine, Loch Lomond ...

Includes index.

Reports of cases in the Superior Court of the territory of Orleans, and in the Supreme Court of Louisiana; containing the decisions of those courts from the autumn term, 1809, to the March term, 1830, and which were embraced in the twenty volumes of Fr. Xavier Martin's reports: with notes of Louisiana cases, wherein the doctrines are affirmed, contradicted, or extended, and of the subsequent legislation / edited by J. Burton Harrison.

Vol. 2-4 have title: Condensed reports of cases in the Superior Court of the territory of Orleans, and in the Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Trial of David Lynn, Jabez Meigs, Elijah Barton, Prince Cain, Nathaniel Lynn, Ansel Meigs, and Adam Pitts, for the murder of Paul Chadwick, at Malta, in Maine, on September 8th, 1809; before the Hon. Theodore Sedgwick ... Hon. Samuel Sewall ... Hon. George Thatcher, Hon. Isaac Parker, justices of the Supreme judicial court, held at Augusta, by adjournment, Nov. 16, 1809.

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The prologue, the Knights tale, the Nonne preestes tale, from the Canterbury tales,

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