Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Geological Conference. Papers by Mr. R. S. Tarr, "On Post-Glacial Changes in the Coast-Line of Massachusetts Bay;" Mr. L. H. Davis. "On a Submerged forest at Kennebunk Beach, Maine." Geological Laboratory...
...Stanford University, built by Senator and Mrs. Stanford as a monument to their son Leland, are rapidly approaching completion. They are situated at Palo Alto, an estate of 8,000 acres, reaching from the valley of the Bay of San Francisco to the foot hills of the coast range. In addition to the university and college buildings, the great dormitories and work shops, and the numerous other buildings necessary for a university which is intended to accommodate 800 male and female students, Mrs. Stanford is preparing, out of her own income, the construction of a building for the accommodation...
...Thayer then spoke of the influence the Jews had on the people among whom they lived. These extra-Palestinian Jews (or as they are technically called, the Dispersion), were very widely scattered all over the Western world. They appeared in Asia Minor and along the northern coast of Africa. A large portion of the cities of Alexandria and Rome were populated by Jews. These Jews clung firmly together, and established synagogues wherever they happened to be. They adapted themselves wonderfully to their surroundings, as was own by the way their Jewish ideas were mingled with the Greek Philosophy...
...most important of DeFoe's novels, with the exception of Robinson Crusoe, is Colonel Jack. The book has curiously enough, never before been published in America. In Robinson Crusoe, DeFoe took for his hero an English slaveholder, shipwrecked on the coast of Guinea while going for more slaves; in Colonel Jack, he chose a while slave bound to toil under the "apprenticeship" system of the American colony of Virginia. The style is exactly that of the more celebrated work, and presents the life of the slave in comparison with that other great novel which deals with the fortunes...
...Florida Coast" by A. H. Williams is an exciting description of an adventure with smugglers. The details of the story are decidedly well worked...