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Russell W. Porter, of Springfield, Vt. (astronomer and topographer of the Ziegler North Pole Expedition, 1901-5), pointed out that on Prince Rupert Island (Franz Josef Archipelago, northwest of Spitzbergen) were log houses, food stores; that the drift of the ice there was from the Pole. Said he: "Amundsen knows all this. I shall give him a year or two years...
...come back and Congress assembles next fall, for then a commission appointed by the Hawaiian Legislature will come over to the mainland. What the racial problem of Hawaii amounts to is evident from the following table, which gives the various elements which make up the population of this polyglot archipelago: Japanese 125,368 Filipinos 39,608 Americans, British, Germans, Russians 34,272- Portuguese 26,791 Chinese 24,522 Hawaiians 21,271 Caucasian-Hawaiians 13,134 Asiatic-Hawaiians 7,816 Porto Ricans 6,347 Coreans 5,817 Spanish 1,939 Others 215 Total...
Trachoma is an inflammatory disease of the eye. For centuries, it has been prevalent in different parts of Asia, especially in China and the Malayan Archipelago; in Egypt and other parts of Africa; in the Balkans, Austria, Hungary, Germany and other parts of Europe. Such is its character that the man who suffers from it burrows in darkness, and lives out his life (for the disease is generally incurable) in dread of the light. Any brightness sears the nerves of the brain like molten metal. Great efforts have been made to keep the disease...
...anachronism. It designates the whole Moslem world which, taking the holy city of Mecca as its central point, stretches to the west as far as Morocco; to the north, beyond the forlorn steppes of Russia; to the east, as far as the gates of Tibet and the East Indian Archipelago; to the south, into northern India...
...German colonies were distributed in 1919 as follows: German East Africa (Britain); German South West Africa (Britain); Cameroon (Britain and France); Togoland (Britain and France); German New Guinea? comprising Kaiser Wilhelm's land, Bismarck Archipelago, German Solomon Islands, Nauru ?(Britain); Marianne Islands, Caroline Islands, Marshall Island, Pelew Island (Japan). All these colonies are mandated by the League of Nations...