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English citations of Earth

• 1914 — Edgar Rice Burroughs, At the Earth's Core

  "How thick is the Earth's crust, Perry?" I asked.

• 1934 — H. P. Lovecraft, Through the Gates of the Silver Key, Ch 6

  He thought that his calculations would let him perform a voyage with a light-wave envelope such as no being of Yaddidi had ever performed - a bodily voyage through nameless eons and across incredible galactic reaches to the solar system and the Earth itself.

• 1985 — Ronald Reagan, Fourth State of the Union Speech

  Our second American Revolution will push on to new possibilities not only on Earth but in the next frontier of space.

• 1989 - (pagan goddess) A Book of Troth, Eldred Thorsson, Llewellyn Publications, 1989, ISBN 0-87542-777-4, page 195.

  "Wise Wanes and mighty, who ever wend your ways through the world and shower blessings upon your kindred here on the Earth - mother of us all."

• 1993 - (pagan goddess) The Rites of Odin, Ed Fitch, Llewellyn Publications, 1993, ISBN 0-87542-224-1, page 59.

  "Hail Earth mother of us all."

• 1998 - (pagan goddess) Thunder issue 7, (Heathen Journal) Thorbiorns Ritual to Thor, ( copy on www.thorshof.org).

  "From Thy high-seat within Thy holy house in Asgard, come down to Earth, Thy Mother, and share blessings with Thorbjorn Thy son!"