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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four years ago two Miltonias, orchids of ancient lineage, were bred together. Last week at the fall flower show of New York's Horticultural Society, the offspring of this union, a small, white, pansy-like orchid with a heart of deep maroon, was christened by John B. Lager, its flower godfather. Forty-eight hours earlier in the great library at Hyde Park, while two candles burned on a small improvised altar, Grandfather Franklin Roosevelt, seated in a great chair, had the joy of seeing a dark-haired baby girl, his eldest son's eight-month-old daughter, baptized...
Wilhelm Hohenzollern, 77, published in Berlin a richly-illustrated, 163-page book entitled Studien zur Gorgo ("Studies of the Gorgon"). The exiled Kaiser began Gorgon research in 1911 after visiting the ancient Doric temple on the island of Corfu said to have been built in honor of the three Greek Gorgons (Stheno, Euryale, Medusa), mythological snaky-haired sisters whose terrifying looks turned beholders into stone...
California. The U. S. is strong in ancient low life but not in ancient man. The "Minnesota Maid&" (TIME, Nov. 25, 1932), first dated at 20,000 years ago and thus a likely prospect for champion U. S. oldster, was later set down by many a scientist as an "intrusion"-a polite word which experts apply to material that does not belong to the geological layer in which it is found. This year, WPA workmen digging a storm drain for Ballona Creek near Los Angeles found a human skull. Dr. Aberdeen Orlando Bowden, head of the University of Southern California...
Persia. The great palaces and spacious grounds at Persepolis were the Versailles of ancient civilization, from which more than 2,400 years ago Darius and his son Xerxes ruled the greatest empire their world had seen. Unearthing palace buildings on the quarter-mile-long artificial terrace, Dr. Erich F. Schmidt of Chicago's Oriental Institute came upon two magnificent pieces of wall sculpture, each 20 ft. long. They depicted the same scene, a royal audience, as viewed from right and left. Xerxes stands behind Darius, seated in an ornate chair. Their figures are seven feet tall, the others lifesize...
Greece. Continuing his long delving on the site of ancient Athens, Dr. Theodore Leslie Shear of Princeton found the base of a statue bearing the signature of the famed sculptor, Praxiteles. The figure itself had vanished, but an inscription disclosed that it had been ordered by Kleiokrateia, daughter of Polyeuctus, wife of Spoudias. This woman was referred to in the 4151 oration of Demosthenes (361 B.C.), arguing a suit over the will of Polyeuctus, but scholars had not previously known her name...