Word: arequipa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Boston-born, William Henry Pickering was graduated from M. I. T. in 1879. He taught there and at Harvard, where in 1890 he was made assistant professor of astronomy at Harvard. In 1891 he located the Harvard observatory at Arequipa, Peru, spent the following two years measuring the big Peruvian mountains. He built the Flagstaff station and the one at which he now works in Jamaica. Only one astral unit is definitely his discovery (Phoebe, the ninth satellite of Saturn), but he has a claim on the as yet unrecognized tenth satellite Themis...
...Shippe, 20, and their three young companions-are amazing Peruvians with their airplane jaunts over the Andean ridge. From a base at Lima they have air-photographed the mountain folds, Inca ruins, and near Huancayo "the Great Wall" of Peru. Last week they and their two planes were at Arequipa, whence they will try to reach Lake Titicaca...
...Southern Revolution" at Arequipa (TIME, March 2). No. 2 was the "Naval Coup," when transports loaded with troops to quell the "Southern Revolution" were held up by their battleship escorts and President Sanchez Cerro was forced by navy officers to resign (TIME, March 9). No. 3 last week was the "Military Coup...
...once he was on dry land at Callao, port of Lima, valiant Lieut.-Colonel Jimenez marched straight to the capital, overthrew the Government, conferred by wire with leaders of the revolutionary Government at Arequipa in the South...
Satisfactory terms having been arranged, Lieut.-Colonel Gustavo Jimenez announced that one Col. David Samanez Ocampo, "President of the Southern Junta," would proceed from Arequipa to Lima and assume the office of President of Peru (the fourth within six months, the third within a week...