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...careless, Christopher Columbus' flagship Santa Maria went hopelessly aground somewhere off Haiti on Christmas Eve, 1492. The ship was unloaded and from her timbers the doughty admiral, bent on founding a colony, built a fort which he called La Navidad-his first New World settlement. Columbus traded falcon bells to the natives for gold, left 44 of his men in charge, sailed off to new adventures. When he returned to the island during his second voyage he found the fort burned, the men massacred by natives or scattered in the wilds. The question remained for modern historians: exactly where...
Henry Goddard Leach, 54, A. B. A. M. Ph. D., Commander of the North Star (Sweden), Knight of St. Olav (Norway), Knight of Falcon (Iceland), and president of the American-Scandinavian Foundation, read over what he had written for the next issue of his Forum and found it good. It would make a whacking lead editorial...
...lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.-Robert Falcon Scott...
...aloofness followed on the instant by some impulsive gesture of affection or the kindling of her expressive face to some enthusiasm. She made the most diverse impressions upon people met casually and for a short time. She was beautiful, with eyes that changed their expression from that of a falcon to that of a kitten. They were strange, hazel eyes, full of valor." Having accused him of selling his country's military secrets to Germany, the officers of the French Army in 1894 handed an obscure Jewish captain named Alfred Dreyfus a pistol, told him it was the officer...
...Oswald Spengler's Decline of the West to put him to sleep. Unenergetic, he spent last summer at Sands Point, L. I. within a few feet of the beach, never went swimming. A slow writer, he works on a typewriter, rarely redoes his copy. Other books: The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, Red Harvest, The Dain Curse...