Word: frontiers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...exchange professor was born at Saint-Die, a village close to the German frontier, in 1871. He was educated at the Paris lycee Louis le Grande and studied later at the universities of Berlin, Heidelberg and Copenhagen. He served his military term in the same regiment with Raymond Poincare, now president of France. After some years of teaching at the University of Lyons he joined the faculty of letters at the Sorbonne, where he at present holds his professorship. M. Baldensperger has written extensively for literary periodicals under the name of Fernand Baldenne. He is moreover the author of several...
...richly ornamented portal of Treves Cathedral, the Romanesque portal of the Church of Our Lady at Andernach, choir screens from the Church of St. Maria in the capitol at Cologne, finely carved choir stalls from Xanten and Oberwesel. In fact the whole Rhineland from the Moselle to the Dutch frontier will be represented by typical works of art. At the same time the Society of Arts and Crafts of Rhineland and Westphalia has decided to make a similar gift covering the industrial arts of these two provinces. The whole collection, which is now being prepared under the direction of Professor...
Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads. Collected and edited by John A. Lomax...
Upon his arrival in this country Baron d'Estournelles de Constant was told that war between the United States and Mexico was imminent, but upon reaching the Mexican frontier he was informed that the real reason for the rumor was the fear of Japanese interference in the Mexican situation. Upon investigating this rumor, however, Baron d'Estournelles found that Japanese interference on this side of the Pacific was quite out of the question...