Word: burmah
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...likely to be lacking in a reverence for Shakespeare, and yet, in discussing the question, "Shall we open Shakespeare's Grave?" he did not hesitate to argue in favor of opening it, in spite of the anathema carved on the tombstone. Frank Vincent, Jr., whose travels in Burmah and Siam make him an authority on the subject, will have a paper on "White Elephant," maintaining that a white elephant has never been allowed to leave Asia...
...fire at Mandalay, the capital of Burmah, yesterday, destroyed 1000 buildings...
...this week. Its "make-up" is the same as usual. The total number of students is 1,534, of which 513 are members of the literary department. The members of the faculties number eighty-seven. The Hawaiian Islands send us three students; Nicaraugua, Cuba, England, Ireland, Roumania, Egypt and Burmah, one each...