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There have been 13 sets of Siamese twins known to medical history. The original "Siamese" were Chang and Eng (really Chinese), born in Siam in 1811. They were taken out of Siam by a British merchant, exhibited by Circusman Barnum. After accumulating a small fortune, they married two sisters, took the name Bunker, settled down on a North Carolina farm, where they lived happily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Twins and Worse | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

FOLKESTONE, Eng. (Monday) -- British bombers shuttling in swarms across the Channel at 10-minute intervals heaped havoc upon Adolf Hitler's "invasion ports" last night and early today in the R.A.F.'s most savage assault upon the Nazi-held French coast...

Author: By United Press., | Title: Over the Wire | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

...Hestenes, Sec. 2 Mallinckrodt MB 23 Mr. Heins, Sec. 3 Mallinckrodt MB 23 Mathematics 2 I (see footnote*) Prof. Boutley Emerson D Mathematics 26 Emerson A Music B Music Bldg. 1 Music 103 Music Bldg. 2 Philosophy 15 Emerson A Physics 14 Pierce 110 Physics 25a (Eng'g 225a) Pierce 110 Physics 30 Sever 5 Sociology 1a Emerson 211 Sociology 7c Emerson 211 2 P.M. Anthropology 1a New Lect. Hall Biology 101 New Lect. Hall Tuesday, January 23 (IX) 9.15 A.M. Architectural Sci. 2a Emerson D Architectural Sci. 2b Emerson D Economics 162 Emerson D Engineering Sci. 15a Pierce...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exams Today and Tomorrow | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

Most Britishers think of art as a way to have their pictures taken. Portraitists have flourished in England ever since the Ger man Holbein, the Flemish Van Dyck came to make their everlasting fame & fortune at the British court. For 200 years Eng land has painted most of its own portraits, in good times even manages to export a surplus crop. Such British painters as Augustus John, Simon Elwes, Frank O. Salisbury, the late Anglicized Philip de Laszló have reaped a golden harvest from U. S. tycoons and socialites anxious to show a good face to posterity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Portraitist | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...Straits closed in 1914 which Eng land wants kept open in war time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

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