Word: madagascar
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Author Claude McKay is a Negro. Born in Jamaica of parents who had been abducted from Madagascar, he was sent to the U. S. by a friend to be educated. After two years in college, he washed pots and pans in Harlem, worked on Pullmans and steamers. He wrote most of Home to Harlem while working on docks at London and Marseilles...
That explosion-many people can remember the fury-was the most violent in modern times, reports the National Geographic Society. It "made the biggest noise" ever heard by man. Three thousand miles away, on Rodriguez Island near Madagascar, its sound roared four hours after the happening. In South America, 10,000 miles away, the tide was raised. Waves around the East Indies archipelago were 100 ft. high and went 400 miles an hour. Volcanic dust blew 20 miles high; swift upper winds carried the dust around the earth in 20 days. Sunlight was murky; sunsets were apocalyptic...
...Nephew, Madagascar...
...linguistic feature is an interesting one," said Putnam. "With a focus at the Malay Peninsula the great Malay-Polynesian group of languages is spoken west to Madagascar, and east of New Guinea to Fiji, Hawaii, Samoa, and all the islands of Polynesia. But in the unattractive interior of New Guinea, untouched by the conquering Malay speaking peoples, are the Papuans, who speak about sixty languages, related neither to the Malay-Polynesian, nor to each other...
...island in the southern Indian Ocean south of Madagascar. †Mohammed ben Abd-el-Krim was educated at Mellila and speaks acceptable Spanish. His brother Muhammed, educated in Spain, speaks flawless Castilian...