Word: earth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Mesozoic or Secondary period will today be thrown open to the public. In popular parlance this period is known as the "Age of Reptiles," and accordingly in this room are placed a number of typical representatives of the huge Dinosaurs and other strange reptilian forms that populated the earth at that period. The central attraction is a magnificent cast of an Iguanodon (the only one in this country) after the original in the Brussels Museum. This was a creature of gigantic dimensions, measuring at least thirty-five feet in length. It walked on its hind legs and used its fore...
...allusions, there is little in the elasical literature of antiquity that bears importantly upon the subject. The Hebrew Scriptures abound in these allusiouns. Abraham paid the children of Heth four hundred shekels of silver of the cave of Machpelah. Job says, "Surely there is a vein for silver; the earth hath dust of gold." In the book of Daniel there is an account of the great image which Nebuchadnezzar set up on the plains of Dura, three score cubits in height and six cubits in breadth. Then, too, there is the picture of Solomon's splendor...
...realized fully the sweetness and dramatic strength of the role. No one will soon forget the picture she made at the close of the opera, when the bare prison walls opened and Marguerite is seen amid the clouds, her face picturing the rapture she has lost on earth...
...such that he had either to make an organized crusade against wrong, or an organized sacrifice. It was the only possible expression of his life that he should urge endless war against the forces of evil. Civilization was a vast Roman empire, making one great slave-power of the earth. Suicide was the only escape for fettered and despairing humanity. If a man dared to act there was Rome to punish him. Had Jesus been a fanatic, he might have gathered followers and overthrown the political and religious despotism, for with fanatics all things are possible...
...volcanoes evidence of the internal fluidity of the earth...