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After two days in London, the Americans split into three groups for tours of Manchester, Edinburgh and other cities. In some cities, the Americans found the speaking platform crowded with the mayor and other local dignitaries. The Americans politely told them: "One of the first selling points is that all attention must be concentrated on the salesmen. So if you please, we'll have to clear the platform." The astonished dignitaries politely stepped down...
...known to the Greeks as "The Black Horseman" and to the Turks as "Black Pepper" (what's left of his raven hair is now white). Plastiras led an antiRoyalist coup in 1922; he intended to execute Prince Andrew, father of Britain's Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, but a British destroyer dashed up and rescued Andrew from Plastiras. Later, Plastiras was deposed and exiled...
...Velikovsky is correcting the human race's forgetfulness. Born in Vitebsk, Russia, in 1895, Dr. Velikovsky studied "a little zoology and botany" in Edinburgh in 1914. Later he got an M.D. from Moscow Imperial University, and practiced medicine in Palestine from 1923 to 1939. His only other employment has been a job as editor of Scripta Universitatis, a Palestinian magazine subsidized by his father. His knowledge of many sciences is self-taught. Says Dr. Velikovsky: "I still need learning myself. One lifetime is not enough to learn all that must be known." His book is causing as much advance...
...other university on the face of the earth . . Facilities for acquiring intelligence from every portion of the globe will be more perfectly secured to this institution than to any other of our acquaintance. Correspondence will be kept up with persons in the service of the university living at London, Edinburgh, Paris, Rome, Copenhagen and Calcutta. Whatever is valuable in the laws and usages of nations . . . will be copiously poured into the lap of this institution...
...foreign honors include a medal from the Royal College of Physicians, London; a fellowship from the University of Toronto; and the Cameron Prize of the University of Edinburgh...