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  • It is not always a happy accident; and one feels that things would have gone otherwise with them if they had examined Sir John Lubbock's List of Best Books, or what I would rather call the St. Helena library, containing none but works adequate and adapted to use by the ablest man in the full maturity of his mind.

    Lectures on the French Revolution John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton 1868

  • Ribaut thinks that the Broad River of Port Royal is the _Jordan_ of the Spanish navigator Vasquez de Ayllon, who was here in 1520, and gave the name St. Helena to a neighboring cape (_La Vega,

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 Various

  • Galatea's mountain is in St. Helena, which is nearly 2 hours north from San Francisco well, it'd have been a 30 minute drive from SF had a bunch of poets joined me in the drive to here after the City Lights reading but what happens in Tosca stays in Tosca, yah?

    BLOOD ORANGE MOON 2007

  • Galatea's mountain is in St. Helena, which is nearly 2 hours north from San Francisco well, it'd have been a 30 minute drive from SF had a bunch of poets joined me in the drive to here after the City Lights reading but what happens in Tosca stays in Tosca, yah?

    Archive 2007-10-01 2007

  • Parra IS an island, politically, and that island is called St. Helena, for this wannabe, rubber-room Napolean.

    Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Friday 2006

  • The vile rock called St. Helena still remained impregnable.

    A Splendid Hazard Harold MacGrath 1901

  • I have never seen any snow on nearby peaks including the highest over 4K ones such as St. Helena and Hamilton at any time in October.

    Hurricanes 2007 « Climate Audit 2007

  • He surrendered to the British Navy who took him immediately away from France and took him, in fact, to Plymouth, a south coast town in Britain, kept him on the boat outside this town before sending him off into exile on St. Helena which is a tiny island in the Atlantic Ocean, and that's where he died.

    Napoleon & Wellington: The Battle of Waterloo and the Great Commanders Who Fought It 2003

  • By inadvertence he has completely abolished the strange and remarkable trees and shrubs of islands -- such as St. Helena -- where the herbivorous animals introduced by him have made short work of the wonderful native plants isolated for ages, and have completely exterminated them, so that they are "extinct."

    More Science From an Easy Chair 1888

  • America and Africa, with the islands lying between, such as St. Helena and the Falklands.

    From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life 1877

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