Word: landing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Turks out of Greece, the Acropolis came again into the hands of its natural possessors. The Greeks treasure and protect it today as a national heritage; but it is more than that, said the eloquent lecturer in closing,- it is the place about which classical studies centre, in whatever land or nation they may be pursued...
Everett Abbott Throop died Sept. 21, at Land's End, Rockport, Mass., in the nineteenth year of his age. Throop was obliged to leave College last January, suffering, as was thought from a severe cold. His disease, however, developed into tuberculosis, which caused his death...
...Greenland the coming summer. The expedition, which will be made up of Cornell men is to accompany Lieutenant Peary. It will start early in July, and remain away all summer, probably going as far north as Cape York, visiting various places on the coast of Newfoundland, Greenland, Baffin's Land and Labrador...
Before Dr. Schliemann started his excavations in Asia Minor, said Professor Goodwin, no Troy was known of. It was said that the Greek poets set their heroes in a wonder land, and men claimed there was no evidence that Troy ever existed. The earlier chapters of the city were lost, not only in history, but in myth. Mycenx's kings were great in power and wealth and any one could have been Homer's Agamemnon. Indeed modern scholars doubted the site assigned to Troy. In northwestern Asia Minor was a hill on which Illium, a city which asserted itself...
...Almanac, 1893, p. 83.- (a) They demand free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1.- (b) Demand immediate increase of circulating medium to $50 per capita.- (c) Abolition of national banks.- (d) Adoption of the Sub-Treasury scheme and the Land Loan scheme of the Farmer's Alliance; World's Almanac...