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...Nineteen nations have returned simple "acknowledgments" without comment. (France, Bolivia, China, Colombia, Denmark, Haiti, Latvia, Lithuania, Panama, Paraguay, Persia, Poland, the Dominican Republic, Portugal, Salvador, Siam, Switzerland, Uruguay, Venezuela...
...year the Rockefeller International Health Board aided health enterprises in 97 states and countries. Hookworm eradication is proven a simple problem of rural sanitation. (The worms abound in bewrayed soil, invade the body by way of bare feet.) The Board helped hookworm campaigns in Mexico, Central America, the Antilles, Colombia, Paraguay, Ceylon, Madras, Siam, Java, Fiji; surveyed the problem in Montserrat, Hayti, Java, Straits Settlement, Cook Island, the New Hebrides and Spain...
...death, the last paragraph. As a matter of fact, Bolivar resigned on the 1st of March, 27th of April or the 4th of May, 1830, according to how one wishes to view his various resignations. As he died on the 17th of December while he was endeavoring to leave Colombia, he hardly held office up to the time of his death, although there was an effort to place him back in power at the moment of his demise...
...furious decades his impetuous voice and heron-like countenance were heard and seen in the thickest of thick fighting, plot and counterplot, through jungles, over the lofty Peruvian sierras, among the Caribbean Islands; until Venezuela and New Granada were liberated as the republic of Colombia; until upper Peru became Bolivia (1825) and the rest of that country was a free republic...
Long president of Colombia, Bolivar wrote the first Bolivian constitution, giving its president a life term and the right of appointing his own successor. Often accused, even by his friend and colleague Santander, of desiring absolute power for himself, he was sustained in perpetual office until his death (1830, aged 47) by the votes of his countrymen. He lavished nine-tenths of a fortune enormous for its day upon Latin American liberty, encouraged nationalism, arts, science. Few cities from Chile to Mexico are without his statue...