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...resemblance between Pistol-Packing Patton of the lacquered helmet and Two-Gun Mosby (see cut), who rode to battle in a scarlet-lined cape, with a brilliant plume in his campaign hat, is no mere coincidence. Colonel Mosby lived until 1916. He was a friend of Patton's father, whose own father had died with his Confederate boots on in the Battle of Cedar Creek. Colonel Mosby was the boyhood idol of George Patton, who made up his mind at age seven that he was going to be a U.S. Army officer...
Malaria flourished the length of the Mississippi and the Ohio. The itch, typhoid, dysentery-all avoidable by cleanliness and sanitation-were common. So were smallpox, scarlet fever, measles, colds, pneumonia, tuberculosis. Asiatic cholera decimated many towns in the 1830s and '40s. Other popular ailments included insanity, alcoholism, "scolding," and a mysterious disease known as "ennui" or "hypo," marked by "feelings of dullness, fear, indefinite pains and lack of desire to attend to any business...
Solemnly, cautiously, as befits those who come out of the past into the present, the 160-odd delegates filed into Moscow's onion-domed, 17th-Century Sokolniki Church. Wearing the stiff scarlet and gold mantles and the high, crownlike klobuka, the bearded archbishops took their places before the altar. They joined with the clerical and lay delegates from every diocese in the Soviet Union and from the branches of Russian Orthodoxy abroad, in a brief prayer, the moleben: "God bless this act, send down Thy spirit...
...hallowing & laughing." Around the houses were "fat Negro wenches, drying apples & peaches on boards under trees," and in the villages were strapping Indian squaws from the tribes famed for the beauty of their women. Irving thought the Indians were like strange, wild, magnificent prairie birds. They rode by in scarlet turbans with plumes of black feathers, their legs and thighs bare...
...Jove," he said with enthusiasm, "it must be beautiful there now-the brown leaves falling from the trees-and the ivy all scarlet...