The Victorians George Cruikshank Richard Doyle John Tenniel The Dalziel Brothers Arthur Hughes Edward Lear Eleanor Vere Boyle Walter Crane Kate Greenaway Randolph Caldecott Gordon Brown Howard Pyle and his disciples Howard Pyle Hessie Willcox Smith Ethel Franklin Betts The Golden Years Henry J. Ford J. D. Batten Louis Rhead Helen Stratton…
The Overall Boys
IILLUSTRATED BY BERTHA CORBETT MELCHER The “Mother of the Sunbonnet Babies and the Overall Boys” Copyright, 1916, by Eulalie Osgood Grover All rights reserved Entered at Stationers’ Hall [6] A map showing the places the Overall Boys visited in Switzerland [9] THE OVERALL BOYS IN SWITZERLAND THREE CHEERS FOR EUROPE It was the first…
The Sunbonnet Babies
Copyright, 1922, by Eulalie Osgood Grover All rights reserved in all countries History Bertha L. Corbett Melcher ‘Sunbonnet Babies were created by Bertha Corbett Melcher (1872–1950).[4] Melcher was born in Denver and moved with her family to Minneapolis in the 1880s. Melcher attended art school in Minneapolis with plans to become a commercial artist.[5] She may have…
Bible Stories about the Pentecost in the Book of Acts – the Beginning of the Curch
“PENTECOST 7. NT references. There are three references to Pentecost in the NT: (1) After the Ascension of Christ, the Holy Spirit came on Pentecost to dwell in the Church (Acts 2:1). The coming of the Spirit was in answer to the explicit promise of Christ (John 16:7, 13; Acts 1:4, 14). It is almost universally agreed among…
Sun and Moon Deities in Ancient Roman Mythology
Fortuna “…Fortuna has not only been conjectured to be a deity of the dawn; she has been made out to be both a moon-goddess and a sun-goddess. For her origin in the moon there 169is really nothing of any weight to be urged; the advocate of this view is one of the least judicious of…
Bible Stories about Jacob
THE STORY OF JACOB “After Abraham died, his son Isaac lived in the land of Canaan. Like his father, Isaac had his home in a tent; around him were the tents of his people, and many flocks of sheep and herds of cattle feeding wherever they could find grass to eat and water to drink….
Bible Stories about Rebekah
HOW REBEKAH BECAME THE WIFE OF ISAAC ‘When Abraham was very old and Jehovah had blessed him in every way, Abraham said to the eldest of his household servants, who had charge of all his affairs, “Put your hand under my hip,[16] while I make you promise by Jehovah, the God of heaven and earth, that…
The Chaldean Story of the Deluge or the Great Flood
Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from an intaglio in the British Museum. “After the death of Alôros, his son Alaparos ruled for three sari, after which Amillaros, of the city of Pantibibla, reigned thirteen sari. It was under him that there issued from the Bed Sea a second Annedôtos, resembling Oannes in his semi-divine shape, half man…
Mesopotamia – Between the Tigris and Euprates Rivers – The Cradle of Civilization
The area between the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers is called Mesopotamia. Most Biblical scholars believe that this is the region where the Garden of Eden was–the land of Adam and Eve. But most scholars of Chaldean Paganism also believe that this area is where the Chaldean Pagan Story of Creation began. “Like the Egyptian…
Bible Stories about Methuselah – Grandfather of Noah – In the Family Tree of Jesus
METHUSELAH mĭ thōō’ zə lə (מְתוּשֶׁ֔לַח, LXX Μαθουσάλα, meaning man of the javelin). A descendant of Seth. In the antedeluvian age of unusual longevity this man lived 969 years, longer than any other (Gen 5:27). He was the son of Enoch, the father of Lamech, and the grandfather of Noah (Gen 5:21, 25, 28, 29; 1 Chron 1:3). Some have felt his name…