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...Spokane, Professor Olaf Opsjon challenged archaeological skeptics to come and see for themselves the runes on a mossy boulder interpreted by him as recounting a battle between Indians and Norsemen fought in 1010 A. D. (TIME, July 19). Open-minded persons recalled a runestone unearthed 30 years ago near Kensington, Minn., which most experts view as the work of eight Goths (Swedes) and 22 Norsemen in the 14th Century...
...University of London has its business offices in South Kensington, a college in Bloomsbury, two colleges on the Strand. It is as if the University of Chicago were strewn about from Ravenswood to White City and out to Oak Park, or as if Columbia University were dissociated into Bronx, Battery and Brooklyn units...
Engaged. Nicholas Llewellyn Davies, youngest of the four adopted children of famed author-play-wright Sir James Matthew Barrie; to the Hon. Mary Beatrice James, daughter of the noted sportsman Walter John James, third Baron Northbourne. As everyone knows, Mr. Barrie met the four Davies children years ago in Kensington Gardens, and adopted them after the death of their parents. Their mother, Sylvia (Du Maurier) Davies, was the beautiful daughter of famed artist George Du Maurier and a sister of Sir Gerald Du Maurier. She and her children figure in many of Barrie's works. George, the eldest, suggested...
About the card of the Queen Mother, Alexandra, however, the critics were again at odds. Said one, "How attractive! A beautiful Dutch garden; the garden at Kensington Palace! And Alexandra, of course, loves flowers!" Quoth another, "So far so good. But the motto! Has the Queen Mother no competent advisers in these matters...
Among other bequests were: The famous Tattershall Castle in Lincolnshire and Bodiam Castle in Sussex?to the British nation; his collection of Oriental treasures?to the Victoria and Albert Museum in Kensington (London) ; portrait of General Lawrence by Sir Joshua Reynolds?to the Victoria Memorial Hall, Calcutta; his famous Napoleonic library, containing hundreds of books?to Oxford University, or, if refused, to the British Museum; his confidential papers relating to his resignation of the Viceroyalty in India (over a feud with the then General Sir Herbert Horatio Kitchener)?to the British Museum, with injunction "to exercise sound discretion...