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Sapeloe is one of the southern chain of American sea-islands mentioned in Icelandic sagas of the loth century as part of Huitramanaland or Great Ireland. Portuguese sailors supplied data for a map which showed the islands in 1502. The Spanish arrived in 1512 and called the broad-beached land they found the "Golden Islands." It was from one of their missions, San José de Zapalo, that Sapeloe's name is derived...
This $135,000,000 would all be contributed to the business and prosperity of the whole land...
...Illustration, famed Parisian review, was a hitherto suppressed and most significant fact: on New Year's Day, 1915, His Royal & Imperial Highness, Wilhelm, Crown Prince of Germany and of Prussia, sent a German captain and buglers, bearing a flag of truce, across "no man's land" to the headquarters of French General Maurice Paul Emmanuel Sarrail...
...British airplane from India, zooming above Kabul, the British Minister Sir Francis Henry Humphrys signaled: "All is well. Do not land on any account. Situation is improving." The "situation" seemed to be that rebel brigands were still in the vicinity of Kabul, though repeatedly repulsed...
Captain Sir George Hubert Wilkins with his airplane pilot Lieutenant Carl Ben Eielson, last week, discovered that Graham Land is separate from the Antarctic continent. Between them is an ice-covered strait. Graham Land itself seems to be fringed with an archipelago. Between a great plateau to its north and a double mountain chain to its south is a broad expanse of white, which may indicate a valley or another strait...