Word: marinus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Samuel Marinus Zwemer is a big-boned, crude-featured, Dutch-descended son of Michigan. He has been called the most daring, resourceful and successful Christian Missionary to the Moslem world. When the issue is Cross against Crescent he is proud to stick at nothing. Therefore it was but characteristic that Dr. Zwemer should have been caught red handed at Cairo, last week, in the act of proselytizing students at the Mohammedan University of El-Azhar...
...Italy). There unemployment is unknown because every man either tills his ground or, if he has none to till, emigrates. So it has been in San Marino years without end. No progress, no need of progress, no desire to change the round of peaceful toil which began when St. Marinus fled the persecutions of Diocletian (A. D. 284-305), and founded a colony of refugees which has become the Republic of San Marino...
...Traditionally founded by St. Marinus as a Christian refuge from the persecution of Diocletian, A. D. 284-305. †Area, 38 sq. mi. Frontier length, 24 mi. Population, 12,027 (1920). San Marino has a treaty of friendship with Italy, and extradition treaties with Britain, the Netherlands...