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...from head to foot with gold dust. Legend also held that the land of El Dorado lay close to Angayza and that the mountain, which rises where the spurs of the eastern Andes reach the Amazonian jungle, was solid gold. In 1541, Gonzalo Pizarro, brother of Peru's conqueror, led several thousand men on a fruitless hunt for El Dorado...
...rosy glow which had suffused Canton officialdom after this and Chiang's visit was immediately overcast by news from the north. Communist armies, quiet for more than two months, had begun to roll southward again. From Peiping, the Red radio announced that General Lin Piao, conqueror of Manchuria, was advancing into Hunan province on two fronts, apparently driving for the Nationalist strongpoint at Changsha. Four of Lin's divisions captured the Yangtze port of Ichang, 200 miles north of Changsha. In Shensi province, the Nationalist defenders abandoned Paochi, the western terminus of the Lunghai railroad, but counterattacked east...
...from Christopher Columbus' son, Diego, to Charles I of Spain. Another, written by General George Custer, ends: "You will next hear from me . . . not from the plains of Philippi . . . but from those of Dakota, the home of S.B." The initials stood for Custer's Sioux conqueror, Sitting Bull...
...which encircles the British Isles and which defended it from the invasions of all its enemies since the time of William the Conqueror has not proved to be a sufficient bulwark to bar the way to this subtle enemy [modern art]." But, he went on, "modernism is dying in all the countries of the world. Let us hope it will soon be just an unhappy memory." At this, one man in the audience broke into loud, if lonely, applause. People turned to see who it was. Sure enough, it was none other than doughty Sir Alfred Munnings himself...
...beautiful, glistening bubble burst on the Business School field Saturday afternoon. Dartmouth, traditional rival and perennial conqueror of the varsity lacrosse team, won again--by the downright inconsiderate score...