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...14th Century all male members of the House of Reuss have been named Henry and numbered serially. There are two systems of numerology. The elder branch of the House of Reuss names its Henrys from 1 to 100, then starts in with 1 again. This branch is now extinct in the male line. The first and second limbs of the junior branch name their Henrys according to the centuries: the first male Reuss born after New Year's day of 1600, 1700, 1800 and 1900 was Henry I again...
...Egyptian disaster. Immediately after the 'quake, all available planes of Pan American Airways were placed at the disposal, not of homeless President Jose Maria Moncada, sleeping in a tent last week with his new Presidential Palace a mess of pink stucco on the side of La Loma. an extinct volcano, but of U. S. Acting Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke...
Blood, according to despatches from Sofia, has flowed so freely in the Macedonian mountains for the past three years that last week a feud between the Protogueroffists and the Michailoffists was happily called off?the Protogueroffists being "virtually extinct" and their few survivors disposed to keep the peace pact...
...authentic Norwegian Royal House had been extinct for some 27 generations, for more than half a millennium. The Norwegian people had learned to speak Danish under Danish kings for several hundred years before their "union" with Sweden. In 1905, although they might not exactly want to pick a king from Denmark, could the Norwegian people, all things considered, do better than to choose the husband of Tomboy Princess Maud, daughter of Mighty Britain, niece of Colossal Russia? In a second plebiscite 259,563 Norwegians voted for the young man who used to darn socks, sew on buttons; 69,264 voted...
...tons of dirt through fly screens. Fortnight ago he returned to Manhattan with a cigar box half-full of bits to complete his paleontologic jigsaw puzzle. The small reptile which crawled about the earth millions of years ago was not adequately equipped to cope with its environment, became extinct long before the great dinosaur appeared...