Word: corner
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First white man on record to enter what is now Nevada was Francisco Tomas Hermenegildo Garces, priest of the Order of St. Francis. Seeking a route to upper California from Sonora, Mexico, he crossed what is now the State's southwestern corner in 1775. Let Reader Edwards refer to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Dictionary of American Biography, C. A. Engelhardt's The Missions and Missionaries of California...
Mongokuo has long had its own post office, issues its own stamps for internal use. Letters going "abroad" are handled by Manchukuo's post office. Mongokuo even flies its own flag, blue with a square of horizontal red, yellow, white and black stripes in one corner...
...copy of the earliest known daguerreotype, a still life of a corner of Louis Daguerre's studio showing plaster Cupids heads, a bas relief and a large straw covered wine bottle, taken...
Down below looms the mighty Golden Gate of the Cathedral of Freiberg, covered with intricate sculptures. Peter Vischer's Tomb of St. Sebald, with its majestic figures of the Twelve Apostles-- and his own aproned self down in one corner-- towers to the ceiling. After contemplating these Paul Kleinschmidt's twentieth-century "Tittering Woman," is irritating, although friends assure me that it too is art. But Albrecht Durer's "Geometry and Perspective", Nuremberg 1525, soon restores my good humour, and, at peace with myself and the world, I look out the window at the great bronze lion guarding the court...
With the Spring sports season around the corner it is time for the H.A.A. to redefine its relations with the student body. If athletics are to compete successfully with other forms of extracurricular activity and the demands of studies, the H.A.A. must gain for itself increased undergraduate support...