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...Deputy of Ariége was responsible for starting a hot controversy in Paris by suggesting that the debates in the Chamber of Deputies be broadcast by the Eiffel Tower Wireless Station. The issue seemed to have become confused between the relative value of ragtime concerts and parliamentary debates. Radio fans were in a quandary...
...precipitated, according to the government meteorologists. For instance, 73,320 tons of moisture would have to be drawn into the air to cause a rainfall of only one inch over an area of even one square mile, an amount which would be negligible in an arid region like Ari- zona. Widespread drought is due to lack of water in the air, and obviously no device can bring down what is not there. Proposals to cause precipitation by sprinkling dust particles in the air to condense the moisture are futile, say the Washington experts. It is admitted that small amounts...
...Fogg Ari Museum has announced the exhibition of a two-figure panel picture of Dante and some other poet, either Virgil or Petrarck, attributed to the Florentine painter, Giovanni da Ponte...
Iceland's Heroic Age exrends from the settlement of the island to 1067. Ari, Iceland's greatest scholar and historian, possessed in a marked degree abilities for historical writing. He was a priest-chief, and was a devout Christian, but he cherished none the less the traditions of his country. He was more than a mere chronicler, he was an historian, possessing an appreciation of the true relations of events one to the other. He was the father of Icelandic letters...
...Among Ari's writings are the Saga of the history of the Norwegian Kings, the Christni Saga, and the Eislandinger-Bok. The purpose of this Eislandinger-Bok was to afford a narrative of events particularly interesting to Icelanders. While the authority of the former works is sometimes questioned, the authority of the Eislander-Bok is undoubted. This book was the primer of Icelandic history...