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...French possessions in Africa, including the Sahara Desert and French Somaliland as well as North Africa. After these war birds of Paris and the moderate Left have scared the Fascist daylights out of as much of French Africa as possible, the most potent bombers will fly on to impress Madagascar and finally French Indo-China...
...having formal services with paid pastors. The combined Race Street and Arch Street Meetings of Philadelphia (15,000) are now practically reunited, after having been respectively Hicksite and Orthodox Quakers as a result of a schism a century ago.* Next largest are the Africa Eastern Group (7,000), the Madagascar Yearly Meeting (6,000), the Guatemala Yearly Meeting (3,600). Once, 17 years ago a world conference of Friends was held in London. Last week 1,000-odd members of the world's Quaker meetings met for the second World Conference of Friends...
Irish Free State Senator were in Philadelphia. Madagascar sent the clerk of its meeting, a Negro whose name is simply Andrianaly. For the benefit of reporters he played with his hands, arms and elbows a twelve-stringed instrument called the valiha. Thirteen of Germany's 250 Friends were permitted to make the trip to Philadelphia. One of them, Hans Albrecht, said to a reporter: "The future of Quakerism in the Reich is assured. Perhaps I should not say that, for if the government hears of it, they may say, 'Hello, what is this?' and we might find...
...quarter-century ago in the southern part of Madagascar, a herdsman of the savage Tandroy tribe was tending his cattle on the banks of a river swollen by the torrential rains of late December and January. The tribesman caught sight of an object, bobbing lightly on the turbid water, which he would have described, had he chanced to be a U. S. college man, as a soiled white football. When he fished it ashore he saw that it was an egg, and its great size recalled to his mind the stories he had heard around village fires of a mighty...
...must have weighed 24 lb. when the mother bird laid it. Aepyornis titan did not become extinct until after the Glacial Ages, which is almost yesterday as geological time goes. Little is known of its habits, except that it ate vegetable matter, probably snakes and lizards too. In Madagascar during the past century, several nearly complete skeletons and many fragments have been found. Scholars suspect that Aepyornis titan may have given rise to the legend of a great bird called the roc, which is told in the Arabian Nights. About 25 football-sized Aepyornis titan eggs exist in various museums...