Word: kensington
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British Communists reached for the leadership of Britain's Squatter Movement (TIME, Sept. 2). Into two blocks of swank Kensington flats and eight adjoining buildings they led a small army of families who have been living in crowded conditions reminiscent of Moscow. Said Communist Party headquarters: "Regardless of any official warning, we are determined to get 10,000 of our members into decent houses immediately." This week, Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee called an agitated special Cabinet meeting to consider the emergency...
...farmer near Kensington, Minn. dug up a 202-lb. engraved chunk of rock now known as the Kensington Stone. It may be seen to this day in an office window on Broadway Avenue, Alexandria, Minn. The farmer found it, so the story goes, embraced by the roots of an aspen tree. Bewildered by its cryptic angular markings, he carted it to Kensington and showed it off. A young Norwegian-born University of Wisconsin graduate named Hjalmar Holand heard of the stone, came to look it over. Then & there began the one-man crusade of which America...
...them may be sound, at least in substance, and reputable U.S. scholars (e.g., the late archaeologist Philip Ainsworth Means) have said as much publicly. Holand is fighting a case for history, not mythology or revelation. His firm belief: 1) Norse explorers repeatedly visited America before Columbus; 2) the Kensington Stone proves that some of them got as far west as Minnesota...
...rune stone-so called because the inscription is in one of the ancient Scandinavian runic alphabets-is not the only tangible evidence. Holand has tried to show in earlier works (notably Westward from Vinland, 1940) that Norse "mooring stones" have also been found in the Kensington region, to say nothing of a few "medieval Norse" swords and halberds. America: 1355-1364 attempts to pinpoint the American headquarters of the rune-stone party...
...going; hence their route ran up the Atlantic coast into Hudson Bay, down Hudson Bay to the Nelson River, Lake Winnipeg and the Red River into Minnesota's lake country. There, while looking for an overland route back to Vinland, the party was attacked by Indians. The Kensington runes purport to tell the story...