Word: java
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jogjakarta, the Republic of Indonesia's capital in south central Java, quickly fell. Dutch paratroopers and airborne forces seized Magowo airfield, outside the capital, and invaded the city. The action was so fast that the Dutch were able to arrest the republic's top leaders, including President Soekarno, Premier Mohammed Hatta, ex-Premier Sutan Sjahrir, Foreign Minister Hadji Agus Salim, and General Sudirman, commander of the republic's 300,000 ill-armed troops. The Dutch announced that they had only three wounded, none killed...
Mozart with Hindemith. Those in the audience who had seen Szymon Goldberg ten years before might reasonably have been surprised that he had not changed more. In Java on a concert tour, he and his wife had been interned by the Japanese in 1943 as Polish nationals. In 2½ years he had been in 14 prison camps, separated from his wife for all but five months (she managed to keep his Stradivarius...
...modern gorilla. Dug out of a limestone cave at Swartkrans, near Johannesburg, the teeth and jaw are definitely human, rather than apelike. Their original owner (who will now be called "Swartkrans Man") must have looked something like the huge primates, Meganthropus and Gigantopithecus, whose teeth were found in Java and China some years...
...Java and China giants are known only by their teeth, and therefore hardly known at all. The tooth-filled jaw of Swartkrans Man should tell more about his size and build...
...world is a wild, mountainous landscape thick with waterfalls. Banners aloft, the ambassadors of eleven nations march across it, bringing tribute to the Emperor of China: petrified wood from Yunnan, coral from Java, elephants from Annam, yaks from Tibet...