Word: cunha
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shaped outlines of the continents on either side. A sheer 9,000 feet of height, it towers in the way of deep sea fishes scurrying from Pernambuco to Benguel. Its knobby head rises curiously above the waters in the north (Azores plateau); St. Paul, Ascension Island, and Tristan da Cunha mark its southern peaks...
Died. Dr. Gastao da Cunha, famed Brazilian diplomat, onetime (1919) Ambassador to Italy, onetime (1920) Ambassador to France, onetime Ambassador to Portugal, onetime (1921-22) President of the League of Nations Council; after a long illness, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil...