Word: congo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Akeley took the matter before the Belgian Ambassador at Washington, Baron de Cartier de Marchienne, and asked that a gorilla reserve be created in the Belgian Congo. The Baron placed the matter before King Albert. Last week it was announced by the Belgian consul at Baltimore that King Albert would create a gorilla reserve of 250 sq. mi. in extent, to be known as Parc National Albert, in a region which now harbors about 75 gorillas, a site selected by Mr. Akeley...
...prevent the intrusion of hunters and to prevent the destruction of plants or trees. The sanctuary will be a sort of Garden of Eden where the animals may live in peace, amid their natural surroundings, without fear of man. This reserve lies in the northeastern part of the Belgian Congo between Lake Kivu and Uganda. It embraces the three volcanoes of Mount Mikeno, Mount Karissimbi (altitude 13,500 feet) and Mount Visoke, comprising an area of about 250 square miles of high and healthful territory, with a variety of temperatures varying from the mild climate of the plains...
...Josef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski was born in the Ukraine, the son of Polish parents. In his boyhood, he pointed out the Congo on the map and decided that it was the place he wanted to visit...
...later, aboard English ships. He rose through all the grades of seamanship? from man 'before the mast to master. There was no sea that did not know him. Not infrequently, health failed him for a time. One of these occasions was when he made his only visit to the Congo, the land which had first inspired his wanderings. In 1884, he became an English subject and in the same year obtained his Master's ticket. When he changed his allegiance from Russia to England, he also changed his name, retaining only part of it, anglicizing its spelling?thus becoming Joseph...
...other is Caillaux. One thinks he is Christ, the other thinks himself Napoleon." It was the Napoleonic streak that caused Caillaux to spurn his Foreign Minister and his Ambassadors and negotiate through agents in the Moroccan Affair (1911) with Germany, which ended by France ceding vast areas of the Congo in return for being allowed to exercise a protectorate over Morocco...