Word: half-eskimo
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Counter's scientific research over the years has included mapping the cricket brain, studying acupuncture in the Republic of China and studying why Eskimo men go deaf, which also led to his discovery of the half-Eskimo children of American Arctic explorers Matthew A. Henson and Robert E. Peary in Northwest Greenland...
...identifying such familiar arctic objects as a walrus tooth and a harpoon head, a task Freuchen found far simpler than naming his half-Eskimo children: Mequsaq Avataq Igimaqssusuktoranguapaluk and Piplauk Jette Tukuminguaq Kasaluk Palika Hager...
...over a charcoal brazier. John Dowling lists a dish he was served in Pnompenh, Cambodia: monkey soup and noodles. One day in 1944, far from his usual Georgia cooking, Correspondent Bill Howland arrived cold and hungry at an Alaskan trading post that boasted a cook who was half-Eskimo, half-Russian. Howland was invited to have dinner. Says he: "It was roasted young bear, garnished with potatoes and gravy, as savory as any dish turned out by Escoffier." On one of his northern trips, Bob Schulman discovered a simple but tasty article called "squaw candy": a fillet of salmon...
...first time in Fairbanks, Alaska's history, and to a mixed chorus of sourdough howls and cheers, a half-Eskimo local girl, Minnie Motschman, 20, was voted "Miss Alaska" 1940. A clerk in a Fairbanks woman's wear store, ebon-haired Miss Motschman got a free trip to Washington. Commented a local liberal: "The most progressive move in Alaska since Soapy Smith- was plugged." Quitting his Vatican observatory after an evening of star gazing, absent-minded Professor Father John Stein forgot to switch off the lights, left them blazing like a beacon over blacked-out Rome. Summoned...
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