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...form the Church of Christ in China (communicants now 120,000). Dissident Presbyterians keep up the old church organization. Presbyterians are the most potent Protestants in China. It happens now that both the Chinese head of the Church of Christ in China, Dr. Cheng-Ching-yi, and the Caucasian head, Dr. Raymond Kepler, are Presbyterians...
Earthquake Zones. Why do earthquakes so often recur in the same places? Writes the erudite Montessus, whose world seismological map is speckled with nearly 160.000 quakes: "The earth's crust trembles almost only along two narrow bands which lie along great circles of the earth, the Mediterranean, or Alpino-Caucasian- Himalayan Circle; and the Circum-Pacific or Ando-Japanese-Malayan Circle." Fifty-three percent of all recorded earthquakes have occurred on the first of these, the Eurasian earthquake belt (see map, p. 23). Neatly tucked in the western end of this belt is much-troubled Naples...
...vases contain the skeletons of children sacrificed to some forgotten god; in a golden tomb lies the skeleton of a dead white woman who was part queen and part divinity. As Count de Prorok's party cross the desert in specially equipped cars- they meet a contemporary Caucasian tribe whose beautiful women wear no veils but whose men veil their faces and use rouge from boyhood...
...Cincinnati, Miss Florence E. Weaver bequeathed her estate of $609,000 providing that it first be held at accrued interest for 500 years. The eventual amount: 24 quadrillion dollars. The purpose: to house crippled children, build parks, aid "the poor of the Caucasian race...
...back to his estate in Russia. The Burin family fortunes gradually go from bad to worse. Nicholas, the last and one of the worst Burins, saves only the whip and the coronet from the wreck of the 1917 Revolution. He fights on against the Reds, is cornered in a Caucasian village and killed. The whip is buried with him. The coronet, stolen by one of his men and sold in Moscow, is bought by one of the rich Jobey brothers (descendants of the old gravedigger) and presented by him to his employe, young Count de Senlis, who wants to marry...