Word: americas
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...idea of God which the Hebrews held was as literal a discovery as that of gravitation by Newton or of America by Columbus. This monotheistic idea seems to us now most natural, but nearly three thousand years ago its discovery by the Hebrews was most remarkable and its influences most important...
...second round of the New England Fencing Tournament will be held at the Worcester Fencers' Club at eight o'clock tonight. Eighteen bouts will be fought, under the rules of the Amateur fencers' League of America. Each about will last four minutes and will be won, other things being equal, by the man scoring the larger number of touches...
...plot deals with the adventures of Leif Ericsson in his voyage to North America in the year 1000. The first act is laid Norway in that year. Biarna returns from his trip to the westward and his vivid description of the strange, new region he has seen causes Leif to set sail on a similar voyage of discovery. History is followed exactly and the costumes, designed by the Norwegian artist Born, are true to the life of that period in Norway...
...second act shows the Vikings as they land on the coast of North America. The crew of the ship mutinies at the instigation of the villian and the vessel sails away, leaving Leif and his confidant, Turka, drugged and asleep. The two Norsemen do not awaken until the spring of 1901, when the third act is supposed to occur. The scene for this act is laid on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, near the Leif Ericcson statue...
Active work has been done in all departments of the Museum during the year. Exploration in Central America has been successfully continued, and photographs, moulds, casts, and sculptures have been added to the collections. The series of moulds taken from the great Hieroglyphic Stairway of Copan has been completed and a model of the ancient city is now in the Central American Hall of the Museum. T. e. Sacred Buffalo Hide and other articles belonging to the Omaha Indians, which were stolen from their keeper just as he was about to present them to the Museum have been found...