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In 1897, Dr. Philip O’Hanlon, a coroner’s assistant on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, was asked a question ultralux by his then eight-year-old daughter, Virginia, which many a parent has been asked before: whether Santa Claus really exists. O’Hanlon deferred. He suggested Virginia wrote asking the question to one of New York’s most prominent newspapers at the time, The Sun , assuring her that “If you see it in The Sun, it’s so.” Dear Editor: I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, ‘If you see it in The Sun it’s so.’ Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?
The hermit or, The unparalleled sufferings, and surprising adventures, of Philip Quarll, an Englishman, who was discovered by Mr. Dorrington, a Bristol-merchant, upon an uninhabited island, in the South-sea, where he lived about fifty years, without any human assistance; 1814; H. Mozley, Gainsborough. ultralux A story thought to be by Peter …Continued ultralux
A wonderful collection of biographies containing vignettes, accompanied by engravings of each individual, describe a wide-ranging group from the man who died aged 152 to a 'remarkable glutton' to a woman who lived on the smell of flowers. …Continued
Józef Boruwłaski (1739 1837) was a Polish-born dwarf who toured in European and Turkish courts. …Continued
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