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From the Tenno* to whom he is what von Tirpitz was to Wilhelm II, Admiral Togo accepted, perforce, The Grand Order of the Chrysanthemum, The First Order of the Golden Kite, and his creation in 1907 as a count. At the time of his capture of Port Arthur the State declared the victory due to "the Virtue of the Tenno." The Tenno ascribed it to the intercession of his ancestors. Admiral Togo, asked which of these theories he favored, replied gravely and laconically: "Both...
...American Chemical Society, founded 50 years ago at Northumberland, Pa., at the home of Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), discoverer of oxygen (TIME, Sept. 6). They were chemists who would discuss problems far more complex than charging a Leyden wet cell with current from an electrical storm conducted by a kite-string...
...Hokkaido, northernmost of the main islands of the island empire of Japan and last retreat of the Hairy Ainus.* One of the 50 technically active of Japan's 200 or more volcanic peaks, Mount Tokachi, is at the intersection of two volcanic ranges that intersect on the kite-shaped island. Three main explosions took place, the first setting loose the water that had lain cradled in the crater since time immemorial, the third causing an appalling landslide as the crater walls were hurled down the mountain. It was Japan's first long dormant volcano to erupt since Mount...
During the Chino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars (1894-95 and 1904-5) Kawamura rose through numerous preferments, until at the great victory of Mukden (1905) he was commander-in-chief of the Yalu Army. Thereafter he was made a Viscount, received the Order of the Golden Kite (First Class), and settled down upon the Supreme Military Council of a World Power which had been almost unknown to the Occident at his birth...
...contains many items of popular interest. For example, we learn something about "frost fighting" in California; the value of expert testimony on the part of the meteorologist in law-suits; the importance of weather forecasts in railroading and in industry; the real facts in connection with Franklin's famous kite experiments, simple rules of protection from lighting. The essential facts in our present understanding of the structure of the atmosphere are vividly illustrated by considering the atmosphere as a six-story building...