Word: caps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After 8½ hours more, they "shook hands warmly and all wore bright smiles." They were over the hardest place to reach on earth, some 400 miles south of the North Pole, the center of the Arctic ice cap...
Last week, the history of earth's north polar cap approached the climax of its most stirring chapter, One great event, a sporting feat, came to pass-the first visit to the Pole by a man in an airplane. Other events impended hourly...
...gems to inaugurate the new dynasty. Behind strode other officials, Cabinet members, all bearing other crowns and diadems, which they set beside the throne. Last came a smiling jaunty dare-devil with a light in his eye, striding swiftly in a gorgeous pearl embroidered cape, wearing his habitual military cap adorned with a single aigret. With lithe dignity he seated himself on the Peacock Throne. Quickly he removed his cap. Almost as quickly he placed the Pahlavi crown upon his well groomed head.* Then he stood up and gazed about him, tingling at the feel of his imposing title: Shahinsha...
...stiffest canvas, securely sewed to stout weighted spikes. According to international convention all that is necessary for Norway to annex legally the unexplored north polar region is for the Norge to fly over it, dropping a sufficient number of flags. Already King Haakon's realm embraces the south polar cap, discovered and claimed for Norway by the same Norseman (Amundsen, 1911) who now sails aboard the Norge...
...Liberty was introduced on the first official U.S. dollar. The model's name is forgotten, but her hair hung loose on her shoulders. In 1795 she was given a Phrygian cap. After 1804 it was coined no more...