Word: mediterraneanize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempt to recapture Port Arthur and replace Russia's already shattered Pacific fleet all that was left of the imperial Russian navy sailed from the Baltic under command of Admiral Ziniry Petrovich Rozhestvensky. One half cut through the Mediterranean while the other rounded the Cape of Good Hope. The halves met off Annam and crept cautiously up the China coast...
Behind Samuel Insull lay 23 idle days of voyaging on the blue waters of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. Behind that voyage lay nearly two years of lonely exile when he was hunted like a rat in a hole. Behind that exile lay three years of fear ful struggle to preserve a utilities empire in which thousands and thousands of people had sunk their life savings. Behind that struggle lay nearly 50 years of hard work during which, at first acre by acre and later province by province, Samuel Insull had built that empire. On the Water...
...milleniums ago a man who liked monuments sent his Roman legions into the Alps and in three brisk campaigns made vassals of its 44 tribes. To celebrate that feat the Roman Senate & People raised to their first Emperor, Augustus Caesar, a great monument, on a lonely hill overlooking the Mediterranean and the shore road along which the legions marched toward Spain. Like a great stone wedding cake, the Trophy of the Alps rose 150 ft., topped by a stone Augustus. With the centuries the Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals and Huns tore the great pile apart. Later still it was converted into...
...Paris. His benefactions have made him Dartmouth College's Grand Old Man. Since 1927 his masons have been rebuilding the western face of the Trophy of the Alps, with an interior stone stairway ending in a great stone block which pivots open to a fine view of the Mediterranean and the road to Monte Carlo. Such relics as his men dug up he installed in a museum on the spot. Last week he stood before Augustus' renovated Trophy and gave the keys ceremoniously to French officials. In his good Yankee accent, he declared: ''The Trophy...
Confusing to the untraveled are the myriad land dots in the eastern Mediterranean, which loosely make up the Isles of Greece. Three of the largest are of current political interest. Far west, due south of Italian Sicily is the Island of Malta which revolted against Napoleon in 1798 and was voluntarily annexed to Britain by the Treaty of Paris (1814). Here the Knights of Malta established a hospital, a fortress, and the medieval forerunner of the Red Cross after the Crusades. Here the British Government has had much trouble in recent years with a population largely Italian and predominantly Roman...