Word: curiousities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Noticed by a smart observer for the Associated Press, which has eyes even in remote Kabul, was a curious device emblazoned on the red or "independence" stripe. Two sheaths of rye encircle a chain of golden mountains over which rise the nation's Star and the royal Sun. Thus is symbolized the popular title of King Amanullah, who is known to millions of his subjects simply as "The Peace...
Near Berlin, Germany, rises the curious town of Neubabelsberg. To walk through Neubabelsberg is to imagine oneself the Wandering Jew, reviewing his travels in a dream. Here one may stand in awe before India's Taj Mahal, turn the corner and climb an Egyptian pyramid. Miserable Chinese hovels may adjoin the chateau of the French Renaissance. One may be anywhere, at any time, in Neubabelsberg. It is Germany's Hollywood...
...Greeks voted. But Athens reported a curious fever which was taking a daily toll of some 40 lives in the city. Telephone and telegraph communications were crippled because the personnel also was stricken...
Students of Xenophon quickly recalled that Trebizond is that ancient Hellenic city of Trapezus, the Tableland, where the famed 10,000 halted for rest. Those with a more curious eye for the romantic characters of history recalled Alexius Comnenus, fugitive of the fourth crusade, imaginative, able 22-year-old knight-errant who crowned himself king of the land...
What causes the curious plateau of ice, two miles high and flat as a pancake, of which the South Pole appears to be the almost exact centre...