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...Government of Mexico for the bones of Hernando Cortex. The conqueror of Peru and Mexico, arch-slave driver, arch-adventurer, first buried near Seville, was removed later, according to a wish he had expressed, across the Atlantic. He was laid near the scenes of his crassest cruelty; and has lain there until history and romance have bleached his fame, torn off the invincible armor, and have feigned, at least, to see "stout Cortez", "silent, upon a peak in Darien...
...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 Sakurajima in 1914. The semi-sacred Fujiyama has done nothing violent since...
...astonishing success where Amundsen's planes failed last year. There would be fame enough for one and all. Yet it was absurd to deny rivalry. Each party of polar pilgrims carried flags to plant, or drop, for the U. S. or Norway, upon whatever continent or islands have lain hidden to date in the polar fastnesses...
...their way into the sandy cavern the University explorers entered the moulding dwelling and discovered two perfectly preserved dogs and two Indians, almost buried out of sight in the soft dry sand. It was evident that these Indians and their hunting dogs, since the day of their deaths, had lain in this dry sand and had undergone a natural process of mummification in which the dry atmosphere and the sand had combined for the result...
Until recently the body of Baron von Richthofen has lain buried on French soil at Amiens, where it was interred by his enemies with full military honors on April 21, 1918. Now, however, it is to be brought back to the Fatherland, and on November 20 "all Germany will unite in a vast memorial service...