Word: telegraphs
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...Daily Mail's David Jones wrote that while he hopes the police are wrong, "a terrible nagging doubt has refused to leave me." It may be "unpalatable," he adds, but "we can no longer take their innocence as an absolute, cast-iron certainty." Olga Craig in the Sunday Telegraph recently described Kate McCann, pointedly, as cold and distant. Some publications are hedging their bets with a two-track approach: supporting the McCanns, but also printing stories that tend to bolster the police line of inquiry. London's Evening Standard recently quoted sources as saying critics of the DNA evidence - which...
...type of fence, however, tells a better story about the changing American West than barbed wire, a tool as key to the region's settlement as the buffalo rifle, the railroad, the telegraph and the windmill...
...printing technologies, accounts of his life story and lithographs of his handsome image - often in early photographic formats - were widely dispersed. The struggle for Italian unity also featured some of the first battles to be followed on a near daily basis in newspapers, thanks to the invention of the telegraph. As his fame grew and his quest for true republican victory was repeatedly stymied, Garibaldi, who lived to 75, would often disappear on far-flung journeys, or to his island retreat. Not only did this help him stay one step ahead of his enemies, but it saved the Lion...
...work, a double portrait of the magician Signor Antonio Blitz and his favorite wooden dummy. He decided to use the rest of the afternoon to start writing an essay, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's lecture last month, on the ways that railway travel and photography and the telegraph were warping the perception of time...
...rays of light beaming from burning lime that transformed any actor on a stage into a shining angelic or demonic figure; the magic-lantern shows of Halley's comet; the new, exceptionally yellow yellow paints and bright red printer's inks, all mixed up by chemists in laboratories; the telegraph wires that sparked and blushed against the night skies like grapevines beset by St. Elmo's fire...