Word: africa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minds of many it is a moot question as to what is the origin of the race of Guanches, the original inhabitants of the Canary Islands and a race now extinct. Some claim that they are descended from the Berbers of Northern Africa, but many on the other hand advance the theory that they are related to the American Indians," said Lt. Col. Charles Wellington Furlong in commenting upon that most interesting conjecture concerning the relationship between the Central American Indians and, certain tribes of Africa. Col. Furlong, who is a noted explorer and author, was a member...
...Meishling '25, Denmark; Robert Francillon 1G., France; G. F. Jentsch 3G., Germany; H. E. Salt sp.L., Great Britain; J. W. Denis; Irish Free State; F. E. La Cauza E.S., Italy; G. N. Tanikawa 1S.L.A., Japan; Zygmut Rudolph E.S., Poland; H. I. Maximon E.S., Russia; J. Bird '24, South Africa; N. H. Field '25, Switzerland; Said Dabbus, Turkey...
Professor Charles Palache will give a lecture on "The Diamond Mines of South Africa." The lecture, which will be given in the Harvard Club of Boston at 8:30 o'clock tonight, will be illustrated by lantern slides...
...Central America; Albert How Lybyer (Illinois) Turkey and the Near East; Frederic A. Ogg (Wisconsin) Eastern Europe and the Balkans; Alexander Petrunkevitch (Yale) Russia and the Baltic States; William R. Shepherd (Columbia) Germany and Austria; Lily Ross Taylor (Vassar) Italy; Payson J. Treat (Stanford) the Far East and Africa...
With the opening up of Africa by Stanley and Livingston, there came a sudden increase in foreign trade, particularly in wild beasts. Two enterprising young men, Messrs. Barnum and Balley engaged a stock company of particularly well-dispositioned wild animals, and took to the road. Later out of business courtesy or for advertising purposes. Barnum donated Jumbo to Tufts and the natural history course became overcrowded. By such means were lands terrestrial familiarized; going to Africa was thought no more of than going to get a milk-shake. Then within a few decades the South and North Poles were "exposed...