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ATDTDA 775

Tower Hill

The site chosen to re-locate the Mint was on nearby Tower Hill, in an area recently occupied by tobacco warehouses, and much earlier by the great Cistercian Abbey of St Mary of Graces. Preliminary work began in 1805, the buildings were finished by the end of 1809, and the state of art machinery was given a trial run in April 1810. During 1811 the transfer from the Tower was largely completed though it was August 1812 before the keys of the old Mint were finally delivered to the Constable of the Tower.

http://www.royalmint.com/Corporate/AboutUs/History/TowerHill.aspx


Shanyagir, Ilimpiya etc.

See

For a long time, there had been tribal feuds between a group of Tungus clans in the basin of the Stony Tunguska and clans living along the right tributaries of the Lower Tunguska. Eventually, this hostility resulted in the shamans sending their evil spirits against each other to cause diseases. Then one of the shamans called the Agdy to destroy the hated enemies. In the early morning of the 30th June 1908 an interminable legion of Agdy came flying down upon the grounds of the Shanyagir clan (4) and brought disaster to many families of the Shanyagir: some tents flew into the air, «higher than the forest», and the people sleeping inside suffered from bruises ...

"[page 63] Already in the years 1912 to 1914 I had the opportunity to listen to not a small number of stories, which I was told by the Tungus from the Ilimpiya, (6) about the «miracles» of [the shaman] Magankan. It seems that there is not a single Tungus among the ten clans of Ilimpiya who has not heard about how Magankan wanted to punish the spirits that resisted submission to his Khargi (7) and abided in his body: he got those present to shoot directly with a rifle at him. He then caught the bullet when it came out of his body and showed it to all people present. Similarly, Magankan stabbed a knife to his chest with all his force, but no wound and no blood could be found. The members of the clan Shanyagir ascribe the impact of the famous Tunguska meteorite, which at present is searched for by L. A. KULIK between the Stony Tunguska and the Chunya, to Magankan, too." 

http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/evenkiv.html


siberyaki (should be: sibiryaki) Siberians

"a vast swarm of mosquitoes so thick it darkened the sun" Anticipating the apocalyptic blast in the next section. 

Kirghiz horses

The least attractive to look at in Turkestan is the Kirghiz horse, which is small, powerful, and strong-maned. During snow-storm or frost it often does without food for a long time. It is never sheltered under n roof, and bears--40° Fahr. in the open air, and the extremest summer heat, during which it can do without water for Tom three to four days. It can easily cover 80 miles a day, and never tastes barley or oats in its life.

http://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Nomads.html

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