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Word: 1600s (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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...early 1600s, a certain gentleman of Jamestown murdered his wife, cut her in pieces and later "was burned for his horrible villainy." In Carolina, a horn snake struck at a small locust tree the thickness of a man's arm, and six hours later the tree was dead. Farther north, some Indians buried a white man, standing, with only his head above ground, scalped him and lit a fire close by. The heat made his brains boil and started his eyes gushing out of their sockets. In Casco Bay, Me., a merman tried to board a hunter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Behind the Looking Glass | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

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