Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called because, located at an extremity north of the Sahara Desert, it is also only a few miles Kiver Niger. Present population, 7,000 humans who supply the wants of many thousands of caravan camels, 18,000 caravan and river traders yearly, also weave cotton, make pottery, do leatherwork, pluck a little embroidery...
...bodies of fog-victims for autopsy), scientists could only guess what may have happened. Guesses: "Deadly gases from the tail of a dissipated comet."-Professor Victor Levine of Creighton University, Omaha, Neb. "Germs brought from the Near East by the winds which have carried dust from the Sahara Desert to Europe recently, producing muddy rains."-Colonel Joaquin Enrique Zanetti, Wartime poison gas expert, chemistry professor at Columbia University, Manhattan. "I did not allude to the Bubonic Plague in speaking of the Belgian fog. I said pneumonic plague. I meant ... an acute respiratory infection attacking the lungs." -Famed...
Secretary of War Davis was fascinated by what he heard of the great deserts in New Mexico, Arizona and southern California. In 1853, stagecoach lines or the Pony Express had not yet followed the covered wagons of the Gold Rush. There were Indians in the desert lands, Indians whom the War Department must subdue. Secretary of War Davis took thought and sent some Army commissioners to Egypt. Object: to buy dromedaries...
...dromedaries had been landed alive in Texas at a cost of $30,000. Troops of them were maintained at El Paso, Fort Bowie, Ariz., Fort Tejon, Calif. Loaded with 1,000 to 1,500 lbs. of supplies, they did not cross the U. S. desert, hard-packed and lava-strewn, so well as they had crossed their native Sahara. Their wily stubborness made them unpopular with the soldiery; they stampeded horses and cattle. Nevertheless they were tested systematically in desert service for several years. In 1860 some of them helped build the famed Butterfield Stage road. In 1863 a dromedary...
Several of the accused, as in the Schachkta case, appeared to have confessed with extreme volubility, will rehearse these confessions at the trial with a view to incriminating as their foreign accomplices: i) Raymond Poincare, Wartime President of France; 2) Colonel Thomas Edward (Revolt in the Desert) Lawrence; 3) Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of France; 4) Winston Churchill, former Chancellor of the British Exchequer; 5) Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding, Royal Dutch oilman...