Word: cardiff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Recall Cardiff Giant Hoax...
...Within a few hours dozens of rumors were circulating about the discovery on Butte's farm. Some vowed that it was a circus elephant that had died in the vicinity several years before; others believed it to be a hoax similar to the Cardiff giant discovery...
After taking his degrees at Caius College, Cambridge, Dr. Conway became a fellow of that College. Later he was appointed as classical lecturer at Newnham College, and from 1893 to 1903 was professor of Latin at University College Cardiff. He has received honorary degrees from the universities of Dublin and Padua, and in 1918 was made a Fellow of the British Academy. Professor Conway is at present Governor of the British Institute of Florence, and an external Examiner in Latin to the University of Durham...
Heroes, statesmen, scientists crowned with honors, are exalted by the lofty shafts of monuments. Even so on Cardiff Hill, at Hannibal, Mo., will be raised a shaft to crown the honors of the heroic gemini-Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn...
Died. Jem Driscoll, 44, famed boxer, onetime British featherweight champion; in Cardiff, Wales, of tuberculosis of the lungs following pleurisy and pneumonia...