Word: mauritius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...space of 25 hours Britain set a record by launching three new cruisers: the 8,000-ton Nigeria and Mauritius and the 5,450-ton Dido. Within the next several months the Navy will also launch two 35,000-ton battleships, the Duke of York and the Beatty; two new 23,000-ton aircraft carriers, the Victorious and the Formidable; four more cruisers, a destroyer depot ship and several destroyers and submarines...
...Isenheim Altar. Few go to Karlsruhe to look at the "Cruifixion" and the "Christ Bearing the Cross." Unless they have been warned, they are likely to pass by the Basel "Crucifixion", or the Stuppach Madonna, or even the two important works at Munich--"St. Erasmus and St. Mauritius", and "The Mocking of Christ". Yet, taken together with the thirty-odd drawings extant, and a few other paintings, these constitute the complete works of one of Germany's three greatest artists--Gruenewald, the most German in style of them...
...Tottenham, England, Mayor E. A. Jay published the letter of an unnamed British soldier stationed on the lonely island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, asking for a wife who is "blonde, lively, a non-smoker about five feet three, not too plump." Of himself he mentioned only his hazel eyes. Mayor Jay got applications from 250 British women, forwarded them without comment to Mauritius...
Portuguese explorers found the dodo on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius when they reached there in 1505. The sailors considered the dodo a very stupid bird (doudo is Portuguese for stupid, foolish). It was larger than a turkey. It could not fly. Nor did it run when chased. Its flesh was nauseous. Man and the hogs he later imported to Mauritius exterminated the dodo in the 1680s. Not for two centuries did naturalists collect enough bones of the extinct bird to reconstruct its skeleton. There were no remnants of its flesh left after that lapse, and very...
...edited a provincial conservative paper. His first editorial set his readers howling with rage, just as their wives began to howl at the spectacle of himself and Jeanne living unsanctified in their respectable midst. Once his stepfather got him a job in India, but Baudelaire got off at Mauritius, went back on the next boat...