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Scandinavians: In Rockford, Ill., he noted the Swedish population's celebration of Leif Ericson Day, cried: "The descendants of the Scandinavian people have not lost in a thousand years the spirit and fortitude which Leif Ericson so well demonstrated...
Died. Rasmus Björn Anderson, 90 onetime (1885-89) U. S. Minister to Denmark, author of 60 books on Scandinavian history, first to claim that Leif Ericson discovered America; in Madison...
...splendidly equipped expedition") the long tale of man's investigation of his terres trial abode is unfolded in the 338 pages of A History of Exploration, by Brigadier General Sir Percy Molesworth Sykes, him self a distinguished traveler-soldier. The story lingers admiringly with such illustrious voyageurs as Leif the Viking, Marco Polo, Diaz and Vasco da Gama, Columbus and Magellan, Livingstone and Stanley. Doughty and Lawrence, Peary, Scott and Shackleton, but does not neglect a multitude of colorful, less familiar figures. There is Hsuan-tsang, the studious, well born Buddhist monk who, fortified by a dream, passed beyond...
...Leif the Lucky to Lincoln
...angered or frightened they leap to sexual activity. But monkeys at large relieve their emotion by running away or by other physical activity. This suggests that in monkeys, and probably in humans, sex is not the primal urge which Freudians make it out to be.?Dr. Otto Leif Tinklepaugh, Yale Anthropoid Experiment Station, Orange Park...