Word: african
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pure African descent. The blood of the white or yellow race does not flow in my veins. I am a Negro, a word derived appropriately from the Latin niger, meaning black, and used by the ancient Romans to indicate my ancestors who lived south of the Sahara Desert. . . . I, a veteran of the War against the Germans, am visiting America in the interest of commercial affairs. I have been north and south, closely and privately observing with an open mind. I believe that I can see the points of view of both races, and appreciate the inevitable conditions that exist...
...first inter-continental tour was an entire success. The tour was conducted in January and February of this year and was arranged for 157 South African students. The itinerary included visits to a number of European countries with visits to Germany and Switzerland optional. The cost of the entire trip for each person, including the ocean trip from Cape Town and back, was slightly over...
...pleasure primarily, but also to supply the American Museum of National History with habitat groups of African fauna and to make a cinematic volume on natural history, George (Kodaks) Eastman of Rochester, N. Y., sailed last week from Manhattan for Mombasa and the African interior, accompanied by technicians of the Museum, armed with a battery of his cinema cameras in several sizes. He expected to be joined in France by that indefatigable pair of sportsman-explorers, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Ethan Akeley.* At quarrying with a camera, Mr. Eastman is no novice. For years his humane-hunting grounds have been...
...Chicago, charging cruelty. Then she went to Africa alone, crossed it from east to west with only native porters for company, bagging big game for the Brooklyn Museum. This summer she too will be in Africa again, a quiet, gray-haired woman of slight physique serving science in African jungles. By day, on the march, she wears pith helmet, riding breeches, puttees; in the evening, has her boudoir tent pitched, changes to a silk negligee...
...situated a few miles inland on the coast of Tripoli. The city as it was in its glory, was largely the creation of the Emperor Septimius Magnus, who was born there and flourished about the year 200 A. D. It was the desire of the Emperor to create this African city a second Rome, and therefore laid it out and built it up with all the magnificence characteristic of the late Empire. In the sixth century when the splendor and power of Rome had largely disappeared, Leptis Magna was deserted by its inhabitants and for a number of centuries stood...